Mother of Sorrows Parish at Catawba Avenue, Put-in-Bay, OH 43456 US - FIRST CHURCH

In 1875, Martin Barsch donated land for a new church on what is now Put-In-Bay Road.  The site was approximately 1500 feet west of the corner of Thompson Road.  Construction of the new church was begun in 1875 but was soon stopped due to lack of money.  The bad depression which begun in 1873 had finally hit Put-In-Bay.  The church was actually completed eight years later in 1883.  It was a board and batten Gothic structure, very typical of country churches of its time. 

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