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Early Churches in Lorain County Chronicle Their Roots
Lorain County's religious history runs to the early 1800s with congregations forming in Penfield Ridgeville Amherst and Oberlin. The First Congregational and various Methodist Baptist and Presbyterian groups organized, built meeting houses, and held services in schoolhouses and homes as communities grew.
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Lorain County
South Amherst
Sciety
Oat Ring
Penfield Township
Oberlin
David Merwin
Elisha
A H. Betts
Fields
Kain County
Wellington Coun
Henry
Sheldon
Loti
Sullivan
John Tuttle
Aleady
Avon Methodist Church
Colshurches
Sheffield Columbi
William Williams
Joseph Burke
Ridgeville Township
Avon Township
Presbyterian Missionery Plan
Tifield
Nicholas Youngs
Ridgeville
Ashar Taylor
First Congregational Church of ‘Church
Janes Ridgeville
Hartwell
Russia Township
Eturn East
Cam
LaGrange
Ingersoll
Juliusjout
Ingersell
Bell Nation
College Chapel
First Congregational Church of
Chrst
J. J. Shipherd
Tion
College
Joe Talcott
D. We
Penfield
Camiden
North Main
West Loraini
Joel. Talcott
Ashtabula
Robert G. Ingersoll
Eaton
Brownhelm
Henrietta
Brighton
A. Bramards
Aela
Henrietia
L. H. Loveland
Baptists
Center Methodists
Carlisle
Ington
Amherst Township
Elyria
Methodist Episcopal Church
Amherst
Grafton
Orga
Reuben Jones
Ister
Evangelical Union
Utick
Pittsfield
Huntington
jElyria
Nathan Smith
Captain Sholes
Finchurch
John Ferris
Nehemiahtain
Rochester
Sholes
Luther Blair
Blair
Julius Bement
A H. Hetts
Camden
Mr Brown
Callin
J. H. Eells
Goddell
Birmingham
Xenophon Betts