Oak Hill Welsh Congregational Church

Situated on a tree shaded village lot, the Oak Hill Welsh surmounted by an ornate transom and smooth stone lintel. A Iull entablature, painted white and of wood, adorns the uppermost such as wide wooden floorboards, ornate Gothic pulpit, oaken pews with ALTERATIONS: The church originally had a tall pointed steeple STYLE: The building, though built in 1869, nevertheless shows CONDITION UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT RUINS FAIR XGOOD XALTERED Greek Revival influence. Sunday school superintendent and visiting minister. wall surface on the sides,whereas a plain frieze decorates the wall The more narrow front and rear elevations are decorated with glass lights.All of the windows have smooth stone lintels and lugsills.

The sides are divided into three bays by rectangular windows of double Congregational Church is a rectangular common bond brick building. pediment level gable ends with returns. The building is one story. curved arms and ornate high backed chairs for the minister, song leader, The doorways The interior of the church retains much of its original appointments surface under the roofline on the front and rear of the building. inset tower is situated near the front of the building. To the rear of the building is a modern outdoor shelter with a tin on the bell tower.A white picket fence also enclosed a portion of the with a smooth plain stone lintel and wooden sill. with a new fence replacing the old one.

CHECK ONE _UNALTERED doorways (one for each sex) with four panels in each door, which is church lot.By the original steeple and fence were gone XORIGINAL SITE " FIRST ADDITIONS: There have been no additions to the building. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH A. D. 1868 FOUNDED 1841" small corner pilasters separating rectangular louvered apertures. The DATE years.

/ARCHITECT Isaac Parry and Thomas Herbert STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The church building, one of the most imposing in the Village of which at first was from Cardiganshire, Wales, commenced in 1818 to furnaces of Jackson, Vinton, Gall1a and Meigs Counties in Southern Ohio, Which was part of the Hanging Rock Iron Region, & prinary iron producing established three iron furnaces, Jefferson, Cambria and Limestone, in 1841 under the leadership of Rev. John A. Davis, who had recently Congregtional Churches in Ohio.

The present church building, now the Welsh - American Heritage Museum Society, acquired the building and made ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC EDUCATION PERIOD AGRICULTURE Heritage 1900- ART CONSERVATION THEATER X1800-1899 EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT SIGNIFICANCE LITERATURE MILITARY Ethnic INDUSTRY _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _TRANSPORTATION _COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING heritage of Jackson County and Southern Ohio.Welsh immigration, Welsh Congregationalists established a congregation at Oak Hill in XRELIGION to Southern Ohio's Welsh heritage. Jackson County.

community in Jackson County is noted in the Standard History of the such as the traditional singing and poetry recital.The held in the church were Gymanfa Ganu-the Welsh sing and Y Gymanfa- a three day meeting.The importance of the Welsh churches to to Welsh -1600-1699 Welshman was a member of some church... There were l75 members in the Oak Hill Welsh Congregational Church _PREHISTORIC of bricks from the Aetna Brick Yard by Isaac Parry and Thomas Herbert, -1500-1599 _1700-1799 it into a museum and meeting place where many of the old Welsh customs _ECONOMICS XOTHER (SPECIFY) -COMMERCE -1400-1499 -LAW at a cost of $5,000.

They established their own churches, in which only the Welsh of being sold and torn down, when & group of interested people formed the Evan Evans, ordained in Wales. The church was the scene of Welsh activities Welsh language persisted well into the 20th Century.