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Providence is a ghost town on the north side of the Maumee River in southern Providence Township, Lucas County, Ohio, United States, about 24 miles (39 km) southwest of Toledo. After suffering a destructive fire and a cholera epidemic in mid-19th century, the village was abandoned.
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Avon (/ ˈ eɪ v ɒ n / AY-von [5]) is a city in northeastern Lorain County, Ohio, United States. The population was 24,847 at the 2020 census . It is part of the Cleveland metropolitan area .
Diocesan chancery, Providence, Rhode Island (2024) The Diocese of Providence (Latin: Dioecesis Providentiensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Rhode Island in the United States. The diocese was erected by Blessed Pope Pius IX on February 17, 1872. The Diocese of Providence is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Hartford.
During the 19th century Avondale was a rural suburb. Its settlers were mostly Protestant families from England or Germany. [2] It is claimed that the wife of Stephen Burton, a wealthy ironworks owner, began calling the area Avondale in 1853 after she saw a resemblance between the stream behind her house and the Avon River in England. [2]
In 1808, Pope Pius VII erected the Diocese of Bardstown in Kentucky, with jurisdiction over the new state of Ohio along with the other midwest states. Pope Pius VII on June 19, 1821, erected the Diocese of Cincinnati, taking all of Ohio from Bardstown. [3] In 1842, the first Catholic church in Toledo, St. Francis de Sales, was constructed. [4]
Location of Providence Township in Lucas County, Ohio Coordinates: 41°27′51″N 83°50′39″W / 41.46417°N 83.84417°W / 41.46417; -83 Country
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic church in Marion Township, Mercer County, Ohio, United States.Located in the unincorporated community of Maria Stein, it is the home of an active congregation and has been recognized as a historic site because of its well-preserved late nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival architecture.