Methodist Episcopal Church, Oxford

Name: Methodist Episcopal Church
Address: Oxford, OH, US

A church in Oxford, Ohio, named in 2 atlases between 1892 and 1899.

The line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1892 atlas index — The index line as printed in the 1892 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

Atlas	Read as	Sheet
1892	Methodist Episcopal Church	the scanned index
1899	Methodist Episcopal Church	the scanned index

Named in the 1905 county history

The history of Butler County was published 13 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

The Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal church, located in the extreme southwest comer of section 7, is another of the famous old churches that have been abandoned. This church was probably organized about eightyfive years ago. In 1822 a log church was built, and in 1833 a brick structure was erected. Thomas A. Morris, presiding elder, afterwards bishop, preached the dedication sermon. Here, in the old burying ground, lies the remains of many of the old citizens of Hanover township. Since the abandon-

Read the chapter on Hanover Township.

Named in the same survey

2 establishments

The surveyors walked Butler 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 line	Establishment	Trade	Atlas
	Presbyterian Church	church	1892
	Stranb Hotel	hotel	1892

Other churches in the atlases

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

Provenance

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