St Kitts is a locality northeast of the

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. The school and both Lutheran churches have closed. The main industry in the area is cereal grain crop farming. St Kitts was settled in the 1850s and 1860s by immigrant

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(then part of

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, now mostly in western

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). St Kitts St Petri (St Peter) congregation was established in 1866 and constructed its building in 1869, replaced by a newer building in 1910 on the corner of St Kitts West and Tablelands Roads. St Kitts St Paul's congregation began in 1903 and built its own church building a little further along Tablelands Road. Both churches had cemeteries. St Paul's closed in 1949. St Petri is also now closed and both buildings are private homes.

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