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

Methodist Episcopal Church

A church in Preble County, Ohio, named in 3 atlases between 1899 and 1911.

The line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1899 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1899 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1899Methodist Episcopal Churchthe scanned index
1911Methodist Episcopal Church, 2the scanned index
1911Methodist 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.

Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal Church, 2

Named in the 1915 county history

The history of Preble County was published 16 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

The oldest existing church is the Methodist Episcopal church at Sugar Valley. About 1830, or shortly after, a class was formed of that church, from the members near Sugar Valley, and for some four or five years they met at private houses. Then John C. Deem became pastor and started a movement for a church. An old building was bought, moved, remodeled and located at the northwest corner of the southeast quarter of section 24, where it was used until about 1865, when it was burned. Then they erected the present brick building, alongside the old site, at a cost of about three thousand dollars, and the church now is in a prosperous condition. It has about ninety members, with a Sunday school that probably enrolls a greater number than the church.

Read the chapter on Dixon Township.

Named in the same survey

8 establishments

The surveyors walked Preble 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 Catholic Church in the 1899 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1899
The index line reading Presbyterian Church in the 1899 atlasPresbyterian Churchchurch1899
The index line reading Rhinehard & Co., Planing Mill in the 1899 atlasRhinehart & Co., Planing Millplaning mill1899
The index line reading United Brethren Church in the 1899 atlasUnited Brethren Churchchurch1899
The index line reading City Water Works in the 1911 atlasCity Water Worksworks1911
The index line reading Opera House in the 1911 atlasOpera Houseopera house1911
The index line reading Post Office in the 1911 atlasPost Officeice house1911
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1911 atlasUniversalist Church,.!church1911

Other churches in the atlases

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

Provenance

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