[L.D. Saint Church, Stonington, Me. 37.]

[L.D. Saint Church, Stonington, Me. 37.]

"[L.D. Saint Church, Stonington, Me. 37.]" Image of a simple, frame church built into granite ledge in Stonington. The late-19th century shingled building has a steep, gable roof, and a large, open bell tower. Little is known about the history of the Mormon Church in Stonington. Most of the churches on Deer Isle were Baptist and Methodist. A parish may have spun off from the conversion of several Vinalhaven Islanders after a visit by Mormon preacher and missionary Wilford Woodruff, in 1837. However, Stonington was but a tiny settlement then, and no parish formed locally, as Woodfruff and his followers were run off the island by the Baptist Church and moved to Illinois. There were very small pockets of Later Day Saints followers in Saco and in Western Maine.