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| First Baptist Church of Dayton
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The church was built in 1895; the steeple blew off in the tornado of 1915. The Dayton GAR section of
Northern Kentucky Views
has a few words on the history of the Dayton Baptist,
here
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| “Ten persons who have joined the Baptist Church at Dayton, Kentucky, were immersed in the Ohio river at that place, on Sunday afternoon, by Rev. H. E. Spillman.”
Courier-Journal
, March 17, 1869
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Tower Methodist Episcopal Church
On 5th, between Dayton and McKinney, c. 1910
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St. Paul's German Episcopal Evangelical Church. It began on the
south side of 3rd, between Boone and Main. This is an image of their new building, which would be built at 522 4th.
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St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church, c. 1910
From a Facebook post by Tricia Shawn Gibbons
Dayton Presbyterian
Eighth & Terrace
This church burned down on January 2, 1957.
News Story
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The new building was dedicated on March 8, 1959.
Notice the steeples.
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| Dayton Presbyterian Fire Scenes,
From a Facebook post by Steven Ferguson
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This is the Presbyterian Church's Rev. John Ervin,
who was pastor at the church for 65 years. Ervin Terrace is
named in his honor. He died in August, 1940, after doing his
second funeral of the day. On more than one occasion, he held
a funeral for a person he had baptized as a child.
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St
Francis Church in Dayton
built in 1865, at 3rd & Benham
It was a German Catholic church, more or less destroyed by the
floods of 1907 and 1913.
A little background on St. Frances is
here
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The St. Francis Cemetery is on the hill behind the old F&N
Steakhouse.
There's a list of who's buried in it at
this
site.
| When they built St. Francis, they expected to excavate gold,
here
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We heard there was
gold
buried by John Hunt Morgan under St. Francis.
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| Turns out,
they really did
find gold.
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| St. Francis
celebrates
it's jubilee, 1904
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The
final demise
of St. Francis.
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| St. Francis'
History
on the occasion of its jubilee
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The Catholic Telegraph
, February 2, 1882
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The Catholic Telegraph
, March 22, 1888
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| The Catholic Telegraph,
May 20, 1880. YMS is the Young Mens' Society; Clark's Grove was “east of Dayton.”
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This is the the Cincinnati Friars building, which notes that their outdoor campus is in Dayton
The Dedication of St. Bernard, August 23, 1914
St. Bernard's, before the facade was added.
From a Facebook post by Vanishing Cincinnati
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Enquirer,
August 16, 1914
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St. Bernard, Dayton
Rev. Paul Ryan's History of St. Bernard
here
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Story of St. Bernard's 1914 dedication is
here
and
here
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There's a nice history of the church with lots of pictures
at the church's web site
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Before the construction of St. Bernard, the site was a
confederate refuge
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The background of some of St. Bernard's
windows
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History of the Bellevue-Dayton Church of Christ is
here
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“Leo Bird, a free love preacher who spent the winter here [Falmouth] preaching his new faith, was badly beaten when returning from his church to his home and ordered to leave town.? He left at once, or in all likelihood he would have been lynched.? His methods and his doctrines were extremely distasteful to many in this section and some weeks ago drove ex-Sheriff Fassett and his wife crazy.? As a result they are now in the eastern lunatic asylum at Lexington, Ky., and the belief is that they will never be restored to reason.? Bird hailed from Dayton, Ky., where he is said to have a wife and child whom he refused to support.”
Crawfordsville(Ind.) Weekly Journal
, April 24, 1896
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