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Catholic Church, West Alexandria

A church in West Alexandria, Ohio, named in 3 atlases between 1901 and 1951.

The line reading Church (Frame) in the 1901 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1901 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1901Church (Frame)the scanned index
1912Brethren Churchthe scanned index
1951Reformed 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.

Catholic Church
Brethren Church
Church (Frame)
Reformed Church

Named in the 1915 county history

The history of Preble County was published 14 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

Quite a number of the citizens of New Paris, especially the foreign population, were staunch supporters of the Roman Catholic church, and about the year 1870, with characteristic zeal, they took steps toward the building of the church, which is a brick building standing on the south side of East Walnut street. This building, both in size and appearance, compares very favorably with the other churches of town. The church is not strong enough to support a settled priest, but is supplied from time to time by priests from the neighboring city of Richmond.

Read the chapter on Jackson Township.

Named in the county's atlases

8 establishments

No other establishment was recorded in this atlas that year. These are the ones the surveyors read elsewhere in Preble County, each with the line it was read from.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Catholic Church in the 1892 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Central Hotel in the 1892 atlasCentral Hotelhotel1892
The index line reading Christian Church in the 1892 atlasChristian Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Presbyterian Church in the 1892 atlasPresbyterian Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Rhinehart & Co., Planing Mill in the 1892 atlasRhinehart & Co., Planing Millplaning mill1892
The index line reading United Brethren Church in the 1899 atlasUnited Brethren Churchchurch1899
The index line reading Church of Christ in the 1911 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1911
The index line reading High School in the 1921 atlasHigh Schoolschool1921

Other churches in the atlases

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

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of West Alexandria, 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.