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Church of Christ

A church in Richland County, Ohio, named in 3 atlases between 1897 and 1919.

The line reading Church of Christ 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
1897Church of Christthe scanned index
1911Church of Christhe scanned index
1919Church of Christthe 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.

Church of Christ
Church of Chris

Named in the 1880 county history

The history of Richland County was published 17 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

The Church of Christ, in 3Iansfield, was organized about the year 1834. James McYay was doing the work of an evangelist in the West at that time, and was influential in the organization. He arrived in Mansfield in 1833. At the organization, James and John Gilkison, and. soon after, Benjamin Gass and William B. Hammett, were chosen Bishops. Their first meetings were held in the old court house, and in the ballroom of the old Wiler House. This church was founded by Alexander Campbell, and has been known as the Campbellite and Disciple Church. In 1836. they occupied the building belonging to the Disciples, at the foot of Walnut street, on the present site of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad freight depot.

Read the chapter on Jefferson Township.

Named in the same survey

10 establishments

The surveyors walked Richland 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 City Hall in the 1897 atlasCity Hallcity hall1897
The index line reading Park Hotel in the 1897 atlasPark Hotelhotel1897
The index line reading Presbyterian Church in the 1897 atlasPresbyterian Churchchurch1897
The index line reading Grant Public School in the 1911 atlasGrant Public Schoolschool1911
The index line reading Post Office in the 1911 atlasPost Officeice house1911
The index line reading Printing Co in the 1911 atlasPrinting Coprinting1911
The index line reading Reformed Church in the 1911 atlasReformed Churchchurch1911
The index line reading United Brethren Church,_ in the 1911 atlasUnited Brethren Church,_church1911
The index line reading First Baptist Church in the 1919 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1919
The index line reading Marks Episcopal Church in the 1919 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1919

Other churches in the atlases

9

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

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Richland 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.