In 1961, the church voted to become part of the United Church of Christ- merger of Congregational, Evangelical and Reformed denominations. In 1927 the named changed to Congregational Christian when the Congregational and Christian Churches united. Pastorate of the West Liberty Church also had McKees Creek Christian Church and later the Muchinippi Christian Church. The church disbanded and part of the members formed the Glady Creek Church further west and the rest went to West Liberty where a church was organized. Ordway was the name of a prominent business man in town who had a two story brick boot and shoe store. The church was constructed of logs near the crest of Ordway Hill west of West Liberty. Sources: The Heritage Collection History and Biography, Historic West Liberty, Ohio, and Wikipedia. It's because of our ancestors who kept trying to improve on modes of transportation that we can get around much easier today. At one time it had 617 miles of track, but went bankrupt in 1921. It connected Toledo, Lima, Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati and smaller towns in between. The Trolley was part of an Interurban Electric Railway formed in 1907, consolidating with 14 smaller railways. Margery Headings remembers taking the Trolley to Bellefontaine and back again when she was a teenager. All prior stations were located on the old main line on Baird Street. Mention was made of a depot station on Twp Rd 193 at Runkle Avenue. There was also a depot station by King's Feed but it burned down. This is the Depot station that was later moved to Marie's Candies, and is in use once again, just a bit differently. Later, the Big 4 had a cut off at West Liberty in 1926 and the station was by the track. The second train station was located at Baird and Miller Streets. The West Liberty Mad River & Lake Erie Railroad came through town in the late 1800's. He had a wheel plant called The West Liberty Wheel Company that made 30 sets of wheels each day. The largest carriage maker in town was Simeon Atha.
This is now West Liberty's main street called Detroit Street. Hulls Trace was a well known trail that General Hull's Army used to marched to Detroit, Michigan in 1812.
These were made by placing sand covered logs perpendicular to the direction you were traveling. Sometimes in a low or swampy area they would lay down a corduroy road. They didn't have roads like we do today but followed the old Indian trails. These were all normal at the time it but took much longer to get where you were going. People in West Liberty could walk, maybe ride a bicycle, take a canoe down the Mad River, hop on their horse or hitch it up to a buggy for the family or to pick up supplies when you went to town.
Back in early history the choices were very different. They get us where we need to go without taking very long. Today, getting into a vehicle, plane, boat, motorcycle and many others, we don't think twice about.
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