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Episcopal Church, Mansfield

A church in Mansfield, Ohio, named in 2 atlases between 1892 and 1909.

The line reading Episcopal 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
1892Episcopal Churchthe scanned index
1909Methodist Episcopal 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.

Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal Church

Named in the 1880 county history

The history of Richland County was published 12 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

Center Church is located on Section 15. The first church in this locality was organized in 1820, b}^ Silas Ensign, a Swedenborgian, and a house of worship was erected in 1822. This structure was burned after standing about five years, when Mr. Ensign and his followers accepted the tenets of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a new house was built in 1828. This society continued several years, but it gradually declined, and in 184:0 the place was abandoned. The Pi;otestant Methodists followed in order, and Rev. Messrs. Bigelow and Bell organized a church, and the house was built designated by the above name. The membership is small at present and unable to provide regular preaching services.

Read the chapter on Perry Township.

Named in the same survey

4 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 First English Lutheran Church in the 1892 atlasFirst English Lutheran Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Carlton Hotel in the 1909 atlasCarlton Hotelhotel1909
The index line reading High School in the 1909 atlasHigh Schoolschool1909
The index line reading Southern Hotel in the 1909 atlasSouthern Hotelhotel1909

Other churches in the atlases

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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 Mansfield, 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.