Orrville (Wayne County, Ohio, USA)
Orrville, a city (pop. 5,153 in 1959; 8,551 in 2000) in Wayne County, Ohio, is the seat of a Mennonite (Mennonite Church) congregation with 265 members (1959), founded in 1909, and the partial shopping center for an additional Mennonite membership of 1,772 including six Mennonite Church congregations—Kidron, Martins, Pleasant View, Crown Hill, Oak Grove, and Salem -- and one General Conference Mennonite, viz., Salem, all within a six-mile (10 km) radius.
Author(s) | Harold S Bender |
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Date Published | 1959 |
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Bender, Harold S. "Orrville (Wayne County, Ohio, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 7 Dec 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Orrville_(Wayne_County,_Ohio,_USA)&oldid=170514.
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Bender, Harold S. (1959). Orrville (Wayne County, Ohio, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 7 December 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Orrville_(Wayne_County,_Ohio,_USA)&oldid=170514.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 87. All rights reserved.
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