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

Methodist Church

A church in Wood County, Ohio, named in 4 atlases between 1893 and 1948.

The line reading English Methodist Church in the 1893 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1893 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1893English Methodist Churchthe scanned index
1908Methodist Churchthe scanned index
1908Free Methodist Churchthe scanned index
1948Methodist 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.

Methodist Church
English Methodist Church
Free Methodist Church

Named in the 1897 county history

The history of Wood County was published 4 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

Among those who came back that summer to begin life anew, and to resume his official functions for the government, was Amos Spafford. John Carter and John Race, who had preceded him a little, had a cabin on the north side of the river, near Turkey Foot Rock, and Spafford moved in with them for a short time. He did not. however, like the threatening behavior of the Indians at the village above, and moved down between the river and fort, and lived with his family in a tent until he could finish his building.* A number of abandoned scows, or arks, used in shipping army supplies down from Defiance, lay along the bank, and the plank from these the settlers used in their buildings.

Read the chapter on Weston Township.

Named in the same survey

9 establishments

The surveyors walked Wood 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 Opera House in the 1893 atlasOpera Houseopera house1893
The index line reading Walnut St.Presbyterian Church in the 1893 atlasPresbyterian Churchchurch1893
The index line reading Church St. Public School in the 1908 atlasChurch St. Public Schoolchurch1908
The index line reading First Presbyterian Church in the 1908 atlasFirst Presbyterian Churchchurch1908
The index line reading Feed Mill in the 1908 atlasFlour and Feed Millmill1908
The index line reading Hotel Milliken in the 1908 atlasHotel Millikenmill1908
The index line reading First Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1908 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1908
The index line reading St. Aloysius R. C. Church in the 1908 atlasSt. Aloysius R. C. Churchchurch1908
The index line reading Church of Christ in the 1948 atlasFirst Church of Christchurch1948

Other churches in the atlases

6

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

Provenance

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