 From 1769-1771, a church building was constructed from local fieldstone in the older section of Stillwater Cemetery.This church, known as the "Dutch Meeting House", "Reformed Association of Hardwick", and "Lutheran Congregation of Hardwick", served the large German population that settled the Paulins Kill valley and the surrounding area in the middle of the eighteenth century.In 1823, with the area's German population either dying off, migrating to territories in the American West or assimilating into English-oriented American culture, the congregation petitioned the Presbytery of Newton to affiliate with the Presbyterian faith.