The Bahá’í Centenary 1844-1944/The American Bahá’í Community

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PART EIGHT

THE AMERICAN BAHAI COMMUNITY

Cities and Townships having Assemblies

ALABAMA Birmingham

AI.AsxA Anchorage

ARKANSAS Little Rock

ARIZONA

Phoenix East Phoenix Rural

CALIFORNIA

Alhambra Berkeley Beverly Hills . Burbank Burlingame Cloverdale Township Glendale Los Angeles Oakland Pasadena Sacramento San Diego San Francisco Santa Barbara

CANADA

Edmonton, Alberta Vancouver, British Columbia Winnipeg, Manitoba Moncton, New Brunswick Halifax, Nova Scotia Toronto, Ontario Charlottetown, P.E.I. Montreal, Quebec

St. Lambert, Quebec Regina, Sask.

COLORAI>o

Colorado Springs Denver

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CONNECTICUT

New Haven West Haven

DELAWARE Wilmington

DIs'rRIc1' or COLUMBIA Washington, D. C.

FI.oRII)A Jacksonville Miami St. Augustine

GEORGIA Atlanta

HAWAII

Honolulu Maui

IDAHO Boise II.LINOIs

Chicago Danville Evanston Maywood Peoria Springfield Urbana Waukegan Wilmette Winnetka

INDIANA Indianapolis South Bend

IOWA

Cedar Rapids

KANSAS Topeka


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THE AMERICAN

K1: N TUCK Y Louisville

LOUISIANA New Orleans

MAINE Eliot

MARYLAND

Baltimore

Cabin John

Chevy Chase—Bethesda MASSACHUSETTS .

Beverly Brookline Boston . Springfield Worcester MICHIGAN

Ann Arbor

Detroit

Flint

Grand Rapids

Lansing

Muskegon MINNESOTA

Minneapolis

St. Paul ' Missrssmm

Jackson

Mxssouru Kansas City

MONTANA Helena

NEBRASKA Omaha

NEVADA Reno

New HAMpsHnu2 Portsmouth

New Jams:-zv

East Orange Montclair

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Newark Teaneck New MEXICO

Albuquerque

NEW YORK

Bin ghamton Buffalo Genev a Jamestown New York Rochester Syracuse Yonkers

NORTH CAROLINA Greensboro

Noun DAKOTA Fargo

Omo

Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Dayton

East Cleveland Lima

Toledo

OK LAHOMA Oklahoma City

OREGON Portland

PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia Pittsburgh

Scranton West Chester

Pusnro RICO

San Juan

» RHODE ISLAND

Providence

SOUTH CAROLINA Greenville

Sour:-1 DAKOTA Sioux Falls


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TENNESSEE Memphis

TExAs

Houston

UTAH Salt Lake City

VERMONT Brattleboro

VIRGINIA

Alexandria Arlington

WASHINGTON

Richmond Highlands Seattle

Spokane

Tacoma

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston

W1scoNSIN

Kenosha Madison Milwaukee Racine Shorewood Wau watosa

WYOMING

Laramie

. Cities having Groups

ALABAMA Tuskegee

ARIzoNA

Glendale Rural Phoenix Rural (West) Poston

Tucson

ARKANSAS Hot Springs

THE Bahá’í

CENTENARY

CALIFORNIA

Atascadero Bakersfield

Big Bear Lake Compton Elsinore

Fresno Huntington Pk. Inglewood Township Inglewood Knightsen Long Beach Lynwood Monrovia Monrovia Twp. Napa . Pacific Palisades Pasadena Twp. Piedmont Riverside

San Bernardino San Marino San Mateo Santa Barbara Santa Rosa (Analy Twp.) Santa Rosa South Gate

CANADA

Calgary, Alberta

Armstrong, British Columbia Vernon, British Columbia

West Vancouver, British Columbia Hamilton, Ont.

Ottawa, Ontario

Westmount, Quebec

CANAL ZONE

Balboa

CONNECTICUT

Hamden Hartford Norwich Orange Washington

FLORIDA

Florida City Pine Castle

GEORGIA

Augusta


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THE AMERICAN

ILuNoxs

Cicero

Glenview Hollywood Melrose Park Melrose Township Moline Northbrook

Oak Park

Park Ridge

Pekin

Limestone Township Rockford

Villa Park Western Springs

INDIANA Fort Wayne

IowA

Independence Waterloo

KANSAS Burlingame Elwood Topeka (Mission Township) Wichita

LOUISIANA Covington

MAINE

Canaan Portland

South Windham Stoneham

MASSACHUSETTS

Arlington Auburn Belchertown East Hampton East Longmeadow Fitchburg Ipswich Malden Natick Needham Newton

No. Scituate Norton Palmer

Bahá’í COMMUNITY 225 Plainville

Princeton

Salem

Sharon

Upton

Wenham

West Brookfield Woburn

MICHIGAN

Davison Dearborn

Flint (Burton Twp.) Fruitport Grand Haven Grosse Ile Grosse Pointe Highland Park Kalamazoo Lake Harbor Lansing Lincoln Park Marysville Muskegon Heights Nirvana Pentwater Plymouth Roseville

St. Clair Shores Smith’s Creek Van Dyke Wyoming Park

MINNESOTA Duluth

Mlssoulu

Independence _ St. Louis St. Louis County

MONTANA Butte

New HAMPSHIRE Ashuelot

Dover Hinsdale New Market

New Jr-:ns1~:Y

Atlantic City Bloomfield


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Dumont Englewood Hackensack Haworth Jersey City Marlton Maywood Neptune Red Bank Riverton Tenafly

‘ Weehawken

NEW YORK

Albany

Ballston Spa

Little Falls

Mamaroneck

Ransomville

Roscoe

Geneva (Seneca Township) Victor

Waterloo

OHIO

Akron

Bucyrus

Circleville

Cleveland Heights

Columbus Grove

Cuyahoga Falls

Dayton (Harrison Twp.) Findlay

Lakewood

Mansfield

Medina (Granger Township) Mechanicsburg (Union Township) Hinckley Twp. (Medina County) Waynesville

PENNSYLVANIA

Ingomar New Castle Wilkensburg

RHODE ISLAND

Paw tucket Warren

SOUTH CAROLINA

Charleston Columbia North Augusta

CENTENARY

SOUTH DAKOTA Lead

TENNESSEE

Knoxville Nashville

TEXAS Carrizo Springs Winter Haven (Dimmit County) San Antonio

VIRGINIA

Loudoun County (Waterford) Franklin Newport News

WASHINGTON

Brooklyn Halford Kirkland Monroe

Sultan

WIscoNSIN

Bristol

Chenequa

Eagle River (Lincoln Twp.) Green Bay

Lake Geneva

Manitowoc

Oconomowoc

Somers Twp. (Kenosha) Whitefish Bay

Wisconsin Rapids

. Cities and Postal Zones having Isolated

Believers

ALAnAMA Birmingham (Homewood) Birmingham (Jefferson County) Fairhope Huntsville Mobile Springhill Tuskegee

AIuzoNA

Buckeye Coolidge Douglas

Glendale


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THE AMERICAN

Kingman Payson Phoenix Prescott Sonita Tucson

ARKANSAS

Camp Robinson Eldorado Harrison Malvern

No. Little Rock Ola

CALIFORNIA

Alma

Arcadia

Arroyo Grande

Beaumont

Bell

Beverly Hills Twp. (Los Angeles) Chula Vista

Claremont

Corte Madera

Culver City

Downey

El Monte

Escondido

Exeter

Fresno

Gardena

LaCanada (Glendale Twp.) Verdugo City (Glendale Twp.) Montrosc (Glendale Twp.) Glen Ellen

Gridley

Hayward

Healdsburg

Hondo

Kenwood

Lakeport

La Mesa

Livermore

Long Beach

Los Angeles (outside city limits) Los Gatos

Millbrae

Modesto

Oakland

Palo Alto

Palmdale

Paso Robles

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Puente Reedley Richmond Sacramento St. Helena Salinas

San Bruno San Diego San Francisco San Gabriel San José

San Pablo Santa Barbara Santa Clara Santa Cruz Santa Maria Santa Paula Santa Rosa Sausalito South Laguna South Pasadena Templeton Turlock Valley Center Walnut Park West Los Angelcs Whittier Wilmar Wmdlakc

CANADA

Ardmore, Alberta

Calahad, Alta.

Taber, Alberta

Cultus Lake, British Columbia Kamloops, British Columbia Penticton, British Columbia Victoria, British Columbia Elgin, New Brunswick Lewisville, New Brunswick Debert, Nova Scotia

Halifax, Nova Scotia Bartonville, Ont.

Bluevalc, Ontario

Farran Point, Ontario

Rice Lake, Ontario

London, Ontario

Toronto, Ontario (York County) Summerside, Prince Edward Island Arvida, P. Q.

Huntingdon, l’.

Longueuil, P. Q.

Montreal West, P. Q.


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THE Bahá’í

Mount Royal, P. Q. Outremont, P. Q. Riv. Beaudette, P. Q. Verdun, P. Q. Carmichael, Sask.

CANAL ZONI-:

Corundo, C.Z.

COLORADo

Arvada

Boulder

Climax

Denver

Pine Valley, Colorado Springs Fountain

Loveland

Wheat Ridge

CONNECTICUT

Bridgeport

North Stonington Meriden

Norwalk Yalesville

DELAWARE

Arden

FLORIDA

Boynton

Coral Gables Daytona Beach Fernandina Gainesville Hollywood Jacksonville Beach Lakeland

Miami

Miami Shores Okechobee Orlando

Palm Beach Ruskin

St. Petersburg West Palm Beach Winter Haven

GEORGIA

Atlanta Augusta Daniel Field Decatur

G rifin

CENTENARY

Keesville Midville Savannah Wrens

HAWAH, T. H.

Naalehu

IDAHO

Boise Cocur d'Alcnc

ILLINOIS

Alton Antioch Batavia Champaign Charleston Chillicothe DeKalb Dixon Downers Grove Elmhurst Glen Ellyn Glenvicw Greenup Harvey Henry Highwood Hinsdale Jacksonville Joliet LaGrange LaGrange Park Lake Forest Lincolnwood McHenry Marengo Markham Melrose Park Morrison Morton

Oak Lawn Peoria

Peoria Heights Phoenix Quincy River Forest Riverside

St. Charles Serena Tower Hill Watseka


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Waukegan West Peoria Wheaton

INDIANA

Anderson Bloomington Fort Wayne - Gary

Mishawaka Monroeville Monticello Muncie New Haven South Bend Winamac

IowA

Belknap Correctionvil lc Davenport

Des Moines Dubuque Independence Walker Waterloo

KANSAS Kansas City

KENTUCKY Cave" City Elizabethtown Franklin Louisville

LOUISIANA

Baton Rouge

MAINE

Bangor Cortland Gardiner Lovell

South Bcrwick South Portland Springvalc Wells

MARYLAND

Chestertown Cheverly, Hyattsv «Ila Dundalk

Essex

Halcthorpe Hyattsville Laurel

Silver Spring Taneytown

M ASSACHUSETTS

Belmont Bernardston Buzzards Bay Cambridge Everett Fitchburg Marblehead Marlboro Medford Norfolk Petersham Sherborn

South Dartmouth South Hamilton Springfield Wellesley Hills West Somerville Whitman

MICHIGAN

Ann Arbor Battle Creek Berkley Birmingham Brighton Cassopolis Clio

Coloma Dearborn

E. Fruitport Ferrysburg Flint Goodrich Grand Rapids Grosse Pointe Hazel Park Inkster Lansing (Grand River Twp.) Lawrence Lawton Ludington Mears

Mt. Clemens Mt. Morris Muskegon

‘ Niles


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Olivet

Port Huron Selfridge Field Ypsilanti

MINNEsoTA

Detroit Lakes Halsted Hopkins Mankato Moorehead Northfield Preston

Red Wing Sabin

MISSISSIPPI

Columbus Greenwood Money Vicksburg

MISSOURI

Carthage Independence Jefferson Kansas City Poplar Bluff St. Joseph St. Louis

MONTANA Fairview Winifred

NEBRASKA Brock Waterbury

NEVADA

Boulder City Hawthorne Las Vegas Reno

NEW HAMPSHIRE Fitzwilliam

NEW JERSEY Basking Ridge Bayonne Bergcnfield Bogota Bordcntown

CENTENARY

Bradley Beach Cranford Grenloch Hamburg Harrington Park Irvington Little Falls Maywood Millburn Morristown Ocean Grove Palisades Park Passaic Paterson Point Pleasant Princeton . Ridgefield Park Ridgewood Rochelle Park Short Hills South Orange Spring Lake Tenafly Westficld Wyckoff

NEW MExlco

' Alamogordo Las Vegas Albuquerque

NEW YORK

Babylon Bayshore Bellmore Farmingdalc Floral Park Glenwood Landing Hempstead Gardens Locust Manor Lynbrook Mineola Auburn Binghamton Cortland Dunkirk Eden

Elmira Freehold Geneva Hamburg Jamestown Jamesville


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THE AMERICAN

Johnstown Kenmore

Lima

Linwood

Little Falls Lockport Massena Mayvillc Norwich

Penn Yan

Pike

Port Chester Port Dickinson Port Washington Potsdam Rochester

Rye

Saratoga Springs Schenectady Snyder Trumansburg Unadilla

Union

Utica

Wolcott Wwdbourne Youngstown Briarclilfe Manor Mt. Vernon ' Port Jervis

Mt. Kisco

NORTH CAROLINA

Ashevillc Durham Hendersonville Kannapolis Lenoir

New River Raleigh

Rich Square Winston-Salem

Noun-r DAKOTA

Glenfield

Sutton

Omo

Bethesda Brady Lake Bryan

Celina Chagrin Falls

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Cleveland Dayton Doylestown Eaton Fremont Geneva

Jerry City Kent

Lima Loudonvillc Loveland Marietta Milford Montezuma North Bloomfield North Olmsted Norwood Rocky River Salem Springfield Upper Arlington Urbana Worthington Xenia

OKLAHOMA

Carmen

OREGON

Corbett Corvallis Merrill Newport Seaside Taft Talent The Dalles Timber

PENNSYLVANIA

Allentown Bellevue Breinigsville Broomall Cheney Clifton Heights Dunmore Elkins Park Fallsington Glenolden North Hills Oxford Upper Darby


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West Chester Outside city limits Cambridge Springs

Eau Claire

Gettysburg

Ncedmorc

Saltsburg

Union City

Warfordsburg

Wesleyville

PUERTO RICO

Arecibo Juncos Rio Grande

Rnom-: ISLANI>

Ashton Cranston Newport

SOUTH CAROLINA Aiken Belvedere North Augusta

SOUTH DAKOTA

Wall Watertown

TENNESSEE

Knoxville McMinnville Manchester Nashville Oliver Springs

TI=.xAs

Austin

Big Springs Conroe Corpus Christi Dallas Flatonia Greenvillc Houston Lubbock

Port Arthur South Houston

UTAH

Murray Salt Lake City

THE BAHA’I

CENTENARY

Tooele Topaz

VERMONT

Burlington Rutland

VIRGINIA

Cartersville Farmville Fredericksburg Grottoes McLean Millers Tavern Petersburg Richmond Staunton

WASHINcTON

Almira Bothell Bremerton Chelan Ferndale Monroe Moran Prairie Olympia Omak Seattle Snohomish Vancouver

WEST VIRGINIA

Huntington

\WIscoNSIN

Eagle River Madison Manitowoc Mauston Milwaukee—Fox Point Oshkosh Racine Ripon Schofield Stoughton Waukesha Wauwatosa West Allis

WYOMING

Cheyenne


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4. Incorporated Local Spiritual Assemblies, S. Bahá’í Properties Held in Trust North America a. Bahá’í House of Worship, Wilmette,

. Illinois 1932—Chica8°’ New York b. Bahá’í Headquarters, Wilmette, Illi1933—Teaneck, Washington, D. C. nag, 1935—Montreal c. Green Acre Bahá’í School, Eliot, Maine

1937—Detroit, Kenosha

1938--Racine, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Seattle, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Columbus

1939—Lima, Vancouver, Portland, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Jersey City, Winnetka

1940—Wilmette, Boston, Peoria, Helena, Honolulu, Miami, Binghamton

1941—Pasadena, Urbana, Berkeley, Oakland, Indianapolis, St. Paul

1943—Springfield, Illinois, Flint, Evanston

d. Geyserville Bahá’í School, Geyserville, Calif.

e. Wilhelm Estate, West Englewood. N. J.

f. Wilson House, Malden, Mass.

g. International Bahá’í School, Pine Valley, Colorado Springs, Colo.

6. Literature Distributed by the Publishing

Committee Books . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . 6 5 titles Pamphlets . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 38 " Outlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . , 4! 28 " Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 “