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

Presbyterian Church

A church in Richland County, Ohio, named in 2 atlases between 1897 and 1899.

The line reading Presbyterian Church in the 1897 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1897 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1897Presbyterian Churchthe scanned index
1899Presbyterian Churchthe scanned index

Named in the 1880 county history

The history of Richland County was published 17 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

Olivesburg, in 1819, where he planted a large orchard. raising the first apples in the neighborhood. He assisted in building the first Presbyterian Church in Olivesburg ; was active in organizing the first school in Butler Township. He had five sons and five daughters ; Archibald was the oldest son, and still lives at La youngest daughter married the late Mr. Charles Anderson. and is living at La Fayette. Mr. Owens died in the year 1842, aged seventy-six. James Laughlin, one of his nearest neighbors, was associated with him in early church and about sixty-five years. Her son, Mitchel Starr, is a practicing physician. Mr. Wolf was a lifelong member of the Methodist Church. His house was, for a long time, one of the "backwoods chapels," where itinerant preachers held religious service.

Read the chapter on Butler Township.

Named in the same survey

6 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 Church of Christ in the 1897 atlasChurch of Christchurch1897
The index line reading City Hall in the 1897 atlasCity Hallcity hall1897
The index line reading Park Hotel in the 1897 atlasPark Hotelhotel1897
The index line reading Diseiples' Church in the 1899 atlasDiseiples' Churchchurch1899
The index line reading St. Mark's Episcopal Church in the 1899 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1899
The index line reading Reformed Church in the 1899 atlasReformed Churchchurch1899

Other churches in the atlases

9

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 Richland 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.