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

First Baptist Church

Name: First Baptist Church
Address: OH, US

A church in Stark County, Ohio, named in 2 atlases between 1891 and 1927.

The line reading First Baptist Church in the 1891 atlas index — The index line as printed in the 1891 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

Atlas	Read as	Sheet
1891	First Baptist Church	the scanned index
1927	First Baptist Church	the scanned index

Named in the 1881 county history

The history of Stark County was published 10 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

JAMES CAMPBELL, lumber. Canton, whose name is familiar to the citizens of Canton, is a native of Poitage Co., Ohio, and was born in 1818. His earlier life was .spent in a new country, with but little opportunity of obtaining an education. At about 18 years of age, he began serving an apprenticeship of three and one half years, at learning the trade of a carpenter. During this time he received $36 per year, but was obliged to buy his own clothing. Having friends in the state of Mississippi, after finishing his trade, he went to Vicksburg, and engaged in work. He was at "jour " work in the South about four years, when he returned North, and engaged in work in Canton. He has §ince remained a resident of this city, except a short time spent in Iowa.

Read the chapter on Bethlehem Township.

Named in the same survey

5 establishments

The surveyors walked Stark 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.

Establishment	Trade	Atlas
Christian Church	church	1891
City Mills	mill	1891
Opera House	opera house	1891
Trinity Lutheran Church	church	1891
Union Hotel	hotel	1891

Other churches in the atlases

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

Provenance

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