The Upper Dublin Lutheran Church (also known as Old Puff's Church) was founded in 1753 on land that was originally settled by the Lenape Indians. The first church building was a log cabin on the corner of Butler and Susquehanna, in which they worshipped, even before there was a roof on top.



Henry Muhlenberg, the great patriarch of American Lutheranism, recorded his visit here in July 1754, writing, "Many German Lutherans reside in this neighborhood, and though new beginners and poor, they have erected a roomy school and meeting house, and have sought aid from us. I visited them at their request and preached on a week-day, baptized several children in the presence of a large assemblage of German and English people. As there was, as yet, no roof on the building, and it was difficult to preach in it, I urged the poor people to follow my example and add their contributions to mine, so that at least one-half of the building might be roofed in, which was done."



That log cabin is said to have housed a camp hospital while troops from Virginia and Massachusetts were stationed nearby during the Revolutionary War. Around 10 revolutionary soldiers are buried in the old church cemetery.



However, following the Revolution, between 1810-1852 ministry there ceased. The building decayed and disappeared. Then, after more than four decades of fallow time, a new church was built in 1858 (just a few years prior to the outbreak of the Civil War) at the cost of $4,000. They worshipped there until the modern building was built in 1973.



There are two stones on the grounds of the cemetery that commemorate members of the Haupt family, Lutherans who left the Palatinate (an area in Germany), to escape religious persecution.



There is a newer, larger cemetery across Susquehanna Road that is also associated with this church called Rose Hill Cemetery.