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St. John's Catholic Church (Delphos, Ohio)
St. John's Catholic Church is a historic Catholic Church, Roman Catholic church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Toledo, Diocese of Toledo on the Allen County, Ohio, Allen County side of Delphos, Ohio, Delphos, Ohio, United States. Designed by S.W. Lane, it has been recognized as a historic site because of its architecture. Parish history St. John's Parish was established in 1842 by Germans, German Catholic settlers who had immigrated from Osnabrück. Although the church was afflicted by a cholera epidemic in 1854, it grew to the point that it was split into two parishes, with the members in Landeck, Ohio, Landeck being erected into a separate parish. Land was donated for the construction of the present church (building), church building by Frederick Bredeick; construction began in 1879 and concluded in the following year. As the village of Delphos grew with the Miami and Erie Canal, the parish's prosperity likewise increased; like St. Michael's Catholic Church (Fort Loramie, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delphos, Ohio
Delphos is a city in Allen and Van Wert counties in the U.S. state of Ohio approximately 14 mi (23 km) northwest of Lima and 13 mi (21 km) east of Van Wert. The population was 7,101 at the 2010 census. The Allen County portion of Delphos is part of the Lima Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Van Wert County portion is part of the Van Wert Micropolitan Statistical Area. History Delphos had its start in the early 1850s with the merger of neighboring rival towns. These were the towns of Howard (in the northwest), Section 10 (in the east), Bredeick Street (south of Howard) and East Bredeick (named after Father John Otto Bredeick, a Bavarian priest, who had purchased the tract of land in 1840). In 1851, the four towns agreed to form a single town called Delphos. The city's name is derived from the Greek god Delphus. The Miami and Erie Canal, a 274 mile (441 km) canal connecting Cincinnati to Toledo, ran through Delphos. The first settlers to Delphos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
