First Seventh-Day Adventist Church : Marker #2-87
N 41° 24.597 W 083° 39.056
17T E 278430 N 4587659
Historical marker off Dixie Highway north of Bowling Green, OH.
Waymark Code: WMBTF9
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 06/20/2011
Views: 5
Front Text : "First Seventh-Day Adventist Church"
Elder Oliver Mears organized on February 8, 1862 in a tent on this spot, then a walnut grove owned by William Lovett, the Lovett's Grove Seventh-day Adventist Church, first of this denomination in Ohio. A Frame building erected in 1864 served the congregation until 1911 when it moved to its present location in Bowling Green.
Back Text : "First Seventh-Day Adventist Church"
Elder Oliver Mears organized on February 8, 1862 in a tent on this spot, then a walnut grove owned by William Lovett, the Lovett's Grove Seventh-day Adventist Church, first of this denomination in Ohio. A Frame building erected in 1864 served the congregation until 1911 when it moved to its present location in Bowling Green.
Marker Number: 2-87
County: Wood
Significance of Location: Place
Bicentenial Mark: no
Additional Coordinate: Not Listed
Additional Coordinate description: Not listed
Website address: Not listed
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