repost: the preacher who RAN A WHOLE TOWN on flat earth (1920s, this actually happened)

Pulled this off a local-history facebook group before it got nuked, reposting bc it's wild and most of you won't have heard it. Zion, Illinois. Guy named Wilbur Glenn Voliva takes over the town in the early 1900s. Not a metaphor — he literally ran it. ~6000 followers, church schools that TAUGHT flat……