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Baptist Church, Elyria

A church in Elyria, Ohio, named in 2 atlases between 1897 and 1904.

The line reading First Baptist Church in the 1897 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1897 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1897First Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1904First Baptist Churchthe scanned index

How the name was read

Each atlas was set in type by a different hand and scanned decades later, so the same establishment comes back spelled differently. Every reading below was produced by the recogniser from the sheets; none was corrected or invented. They are published so a search for any of them finds this page.

Baptist Church
First Baptist Church

Named in the 1879 county history

The history of Lorain County was published 18 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

It is probalde that ]ireaclinig was Ijegun t)y the Baptists in North Andierst at a very early day. The Rev. Geo. R. Bryant is known to liave oceaslonallv preached there. The present Baptist church was organized in the winter of 1854. The Rev. Geo. W. Allen, having resigned his pastorate at Birmingham, came to reside up.ni the south ridge, and being disengaged, was urged to pi-cach fur the few Baptists in the vicinity. Tiie lirst meeting held Ijy him was in the Metiiodist ciiurch in Decembei' of 1853. In the following winter a series of meetings were held and many persons experienced religion.

Read the chapter on Amherst Township.

Named in the same survey

16 establishments

The surveyors walked Lorain County once and wrote down what they found. These are the other establishments from the same atlas, each with the line it was read from.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Crisp & Henson, Carriage Shop in the 1897 atlasCrisp & Henson, Carriage Shopcarriage shop1897
The index line reading Das, H. K, Founiry & Machine Shop in the 1897 atlasDay, H. K., Foundry & Machine Shopfoundry1897
The index line reading Democrat Printing in the 1897 atlasDemocrat Printingprinting1897
The index line reading Diseiples' Church in the 1897 atlasDiseiples' Churchchurch1897
The index line reading East Side Schools in the 1897 atlasEast Side Schoolsschool1897
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1897 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1897
The index line reading High school in the 1897 atlasHigh schoolschool1897
The index line reading Milling Co's Flour Mill in the 1897 atlasMilling Co's Flour Millflour mill1897
The index line reading Opera House in the 1897 atlasOpera Houseopera house1897
Rawson, E. F., Foundryfoundry1897
The index line reading Topliff & Ely Co., Carriage Hardware in the 1897 atlasTopliff & Ely Co., Carriage Hardwarecarriage shop1897
The index line reading Union School in the 1897 atlasUnion Schoolschool1897
The index line reading Church of Christ Scientist in the 1904 atlasChurch of Christ Scientistchurch1904
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1904 atlasFirst Congregational Churchchurch1904
The index line reading Machine Co in the 1904 atlasMachine Comachine shop1904
The index line reading Wellington Bending Works in the 1904 atlasWellington Bending Worksworks1904

Other churches in the atlases

7

Every other establishment of the same trade the surveyors named in Lorain County, with the years each one appears.

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Elyria, Ohio, held by the Library of Congress. Sanborn atlases published before 1930 are in the public domain. Only names that at least three of four independent readings agreed on are published, and no spelling has been corrected: what appears here is what the recogniser returned from the ink.