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

Congregational Church

A church in Medina County, Ohio, named in 4 atlases between 1892 and 1923.

The line reading Congregational 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
1892Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1893Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1912First Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1923Congregational 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.

Congregational Church
First Congregational Church

Named in the 1861 county history

The history of Medina County was published 31 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

The first Congregational Church was organized in April, 1834, under the Union Plan, and was attached to the Presbytery. The names of members at its organization were Barney Daniels and wife, Ebenzer Shaw and wife, Joel Lyon and wife, Amasa Packard and wife, Gideon Gaftlner and wife, Irani Packard and wife, Orin Shaw and wife, George, Phillip, and Jacob and Sarah Packard, making 18 members. In 1843 a division or schism got root and eventually divided the church into two separate organizations, one part advocating the Presbyterian plan, the other sustaining the Oberlin plan. During the excitement two church edifices respectable in appearance and well finished, were built, two preachers were hired a part o*all the time.

Read the chapter on Chatham Township.

Named in the same survey

10 establishments

The surveyors walked Medina 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 American Hotel in the 1892 atlasAmerican Hotelhotel1892
The index line reading Disciples Church in the 1892 atlasDisciples Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1892 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Public Schools in the 1892 atlasPublic Schoolsschool1892
The index line reading Roller Mills in the 1892 atlasRoller Millsmill1892
The index line reading Union Hotel in the 1892 atlasUnion Hotelhotel1892
The index line reading Cooper Shop in the 1893 atlasCooper Shopcooper shop1893
The index line reading Stevenson, R., Carriage Works in the 1893 atlasStevenson, R., Carriage Worksworks1893
The index line reading Trinity Reformed Church in the 1893 atlasTrinity Reformed Churchchurch1893
The index line reading High School in the 1912 atlasHigh Schoolschool1912

Other churches in the atlases

4

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

Provenance

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