The Swiss Historical Village on Saturday, August 15, 2015, hosted the 56th Annual Log Church Commemorative Service in the log church on the historical village grounds. This particular Saturday, the Saturday closest to August 15th, has been chosen as the weekend on which to commemorate the founding of New Glarus on August 15, 1845.

This service was first started in 1959 at the suggestion of then Swiss United Church of Christ minister, Fridolin B. Tschudy, who was a great-grandson of J.J. Tschudy, who served as the de facto minister of the first church until Reverend Wilhelm Streissguth arri...