Creation Date

2016

Description

Dish: Commemorative dish commissioned by the First United Methodist Church of Red Wing and produced by the Red Wing Stoneware Co. in 2016 on the occasion of the 160th anniversary of the first annual conference of the Minnesota Methodist Episcopal Church in Red Wing in 1856.
a) Glazed stoneware dish, exterior sidewalls are incised with two decorative bands separated by a blue glaze line, two handles, commemorative blue text on the interior of the dish reads "1st Annual Conference of the Minnesota M.E. Church, 1856," accompanied by an icon of a pastor on horseback reading from a book and the official UMC Cross and Flame insignia.
b) Red Wing Stoneware Co. card