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Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century shop front seen close. Not a photograph of this place.

Christian Church

A church in Preble County, Ohio, named in 2 atlases between 1892 and 1921.

The line reading Christian Church in the 1892 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1892 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1892Christian Churchthe scanned index
1921First Christian 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.

Christian Church
First Christian Church

Named in the 1915 county history

The history of Preble County was published 23 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

In 1812 Josiah. Conger emigrated from Kentucky to Ohio and settled in Dixon township, in the vicinity of what is now called Sugar valley. He was a native of the Carolinas. From there he moved to Tennessee. He next went to Kentucky, and afterwards to Ohio, where he lived until his death, in 1843. His death was caused by the accidental discharge of agun. Mr. Conger was a minister of the Christian church, having entered upon his sacred office when only twenty-three years of age, and continuing until his death. The journey from Kentucky, which they were three weeks in accomplishing, was made in a four-horse wagon. They settled on the farm now owned by Mr. Thompson. His wife, Catharine (Runyon), was born in 1787, and died in 1871.

Read the chapter on Dixon Township.

Named in the same survey

8 establishments

The surveyors walked Preble 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 Catholic Church in the 1892 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Central Hotel in the 1892 atlasCentral Hotelhotel1892
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 Universalist Church,.! in the 1892 atlasUniversalist Church,.!church1892
The index line reading City Water Works in the 1921 atlasCity Water Worksworks1921
The index line reading North Public School in the 1921 atlasNorth Public Schoolschool1921
The index line reading Opera House in the 1921 atlasOpera Houseopera house1921

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 Preble County, 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.