Sam Meyerson, the region's first Jewish resident, bought land in the area shortly after 1900.

His neighbors, all Christians of various Protestant denominations, decided to accept and befriend him after conferring about the matter among themselves.

By the early 1910s, with more Jewish families buying summer homes in or near Spring Glen, members realized they needed a place of worship of their own.

Two local Gentiles, stationmaster Wells C. Smith and postmaster John Thornton, presented the congregation with a Bible they had purchased.

The synagogue was open every morning and afternoon for prayers, and congregants helped sustain it through the off-season by holding their weddings, bar mitzvahs, Yom Tovs and other ceremonies there.