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Stratford Methodist Episcopal Church
The Stratford Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic former church building located near the city of Delaware, Ohio, United States. Constructed in the 1840s for workers in a company town, it was home to a congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church until the community faltered following the company's closure. Situated at the southern end of the company town, it remains prominent because of its architecture, and it has been named a historic site.
==History==
In 1838, Caleb Howard and Hosea Williams bought a watermill on the Olentangy River near Delaware, with the goal of converting the property into industrial use as a pair of paper mills. Desirous of avoiding the poverty and slums so closely associated with burgeoning industry in the United Kingdom, the owners established a mill village with amenities to assist the workers. The first new buildings in the settlement were constructed by Howard and Williams, for it was to be a company town; they retained the tavern that was already on the property, and their contractors residences and a church for the workers. Continued growth mandated a more formal existence for the community, so it was platted in 1850 and given the name "Stratford" in honor of the Bard's hometown.〔Davies, Sandra. ''(National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Historic Mill-Related Resources of Liberty & Delaware Townships, Delaware County, Ohio )''. National Park Service, 1991-05-07.〕 The company's fortunes fell soon after the end of the Civil War; the 1870s saw production falter, as the mills were operating for just nine months per year in 1880, and by 1890 one was closed entirely. The company closed in 1896, and five years later the mills were sold to a local railroad company.〔
Stratford Methodist Church was built in 1842 with money from Hosea Williams and Hiram Andrews, who had replaced Caleb Howard in the company partnership; it was constructed on land given by one of its charter members, Forrest Meeker, who had sold to Williams and Howard most of the land needed for the mill village.〔 Organized circa 1845,〔 the congregation was attached to St. Paul's Methodist Church in Delaware during the latter half of the Civil War.〔''History of Delaware County and Ohio''. Chicago: O.L. Baskin, 1880, 404.〕 Being financially dependent on the paper mill, the congregation closed in 1896 following the closure of the mills.〔
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