St. Johns Episcopal Church, Worthington Ohio
St. Johns Episcopal Church bell first rang on December 24, 1933 according to a 1960s Worthington Chamber Booklet on Flickr. In 1933 the first church in Worthington got a bell, finally. Or was it a replacement for an earlier bell? The Worthington church already had a long past by 1933 when it got a bell:
"On February 6, 1804, the Articles of Agreement establishing St. John's Church of Worthington were executed"
From the Timeline on the Worthington Memory Site.
Worthington was established in 1803.
Life in 1933
1933 was the Great Depression
1933 Hitler came to power in Germany
1933 Prohibition ended in the United States, I believe in December
1933 FDR became the United States President
Life in Worthington Ohio in 1933
Worthington would have been a little village out in the county... not a suburb of Columbus Ohio. Columbus would have been small too. Worthington would have been what we call "Old Worthington" now.
There would be no Colonial Hills, no Wilson Hill neighborhood, certainly no Worthington Estates. Olentangy Hills and Worthingway. No Wilson Bridge Rd. corridor with a shopping mall and office buildings.
In 1933 the area surrounding Worthington would be rural. There'd be farms everywhere. Cornfields? Other nearby villages would be Linworth or was it Elmwood Station in the 1930s? Also Flint. Further away Dublin and Powell would still be villages for many years to come.
The photos the front and back of St. John's Episcopal Church on December 24, 2010.
Old Worthington
Worthington Christmas Eve 1941
Happy Birthday St. John's Episcopal
Worthington St. Johns Episcopal Church
An October Worthington Wedding - October 1948
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