I am writing a brief history of the first Lutheran church building in the small Town of Berne in western Albany County. It was probably built during the summer of 1797. This was before there was a village, so it was out in the country. Two of the church trustees who lived nearby by and were operators of the nearby sawmill, undoubtedly donated the wood to build the church. The frame church was about 40 by 50 feet with galleries on three sides. I am told that bark slabs from the first cut of the logs were used for the church siding. The church was replaced in 1835 with a larger brick building in what had since become the village of Berne. Would it have been likely or reasonable that the original church had slab sidings?