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Source: 
History of City of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio
by Rev. A. W. Drury
- Vol. 1 -
1909

Chapter VIII

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP - MIAMI TOWNSHIP - MIAMISBURG - WEST CARROLLTON - VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP - BEAVERTOWN - OAKWOOD - THE SHAKER COMMUNITY - MAD RIVER TOWNSHIP - WAYNE TOWNSHIP - GERMAN TOWNSHIP - GERMANTOWN - JACKSON TOWNSHIP - FARMERSVILLE - JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP - HARRISON TOWNSHIP - MADISON TOWNSHIP - TROTWOOD - PERRY TOWNSHIP - BUTLER TOWNSHIP - VANDALIA - RANDOLPH TOWNSHIP - CLAY TOWNSHIP - BROOKVILLE.

MIAMI TOWNSHIP
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SHARON WICK'S NOTE:
As of 2018, this Church is still standing and in very good condition.  It is still named St. Jacobs Lutheran Church.
It is located on corner of N. Second Street and E. Central Ave., Miamisburg, Miami Twp., Montgomery Co., Ohio

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SHARON WICK'S NOTE:
As of 2018, this Church is still standing and in very good condition.  It is still now named Trinity Church.
It is located on corner of S. Second Street and E. Linden Ave., Miamisburg, Miami Twp., Montgomery Co., Ohio

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ALEXANDERVILLE

     This town was platted March 24, 1815, by John Taylor.  The extensive earthworks already described are near this place.  The Dryden mill and distillery for a long time gave some business importance to the village.  The mill, after a number of changes in management, is yet in operation.  Many of the people of the village find employment in the mills at West Carrollton, of which town Alexanderville has practically become a part.
     THE ST. JOHN'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH is located in Miami township about two miles east of Miamisburg.
     It is commonly called “Gebhart church,” because it is located in the Gebhart neighborhood and because the land, on which it is located, was granted the congregation, for the small consideration of only ten dollars, by the late George Gebhart.  The land given, measures two acres and four perches, and was granted for
the double purpose of church buildings, and cemetery use.
     The first services held in the neighborhood, were conducted in the home of pious George Gebhart, as early as 1805.
     The exact date of the formation of the congregation is somewhat shrouded in mystery, but in view of the fact that a church building was erected in 1806, or 1808, it seems safe to conjecture that the congregation was organized about that time.
     The Lutherans and the Reformed conjointly put up this first old-style “Log Church.”  It remained in an unfinished condition for some ten or twelve years.
     In 1862 the Lutherans separated themselves from the Reformed, and erected a good-sized, tasty and comfortable brick church.  The Reformed continued to worship in the old church edifice, until the Reformed congregation, by the action of the Miami Classis, in convention assembled, at Winchester, in October, 1867, was declared disbanded and dissolved.
     The old Union church was sold at public auction for the sum of seventy-nine dollars, which money was used to repair the graveyard fence, improve the cemetery lots, and so forth.
     St. John’s church has over one hundred and fifty members, with a Sunday school of one hundred.

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     The list of the ministers who have served it in its long history are the following:  Revs. J. C. Dill, H. Heincke, C. Albrecht, W. A. Bowman, H. L. Ridenour, A. Dietrich, C. F. Tiemann, and F. W. E. Peschau, D. D.
     The longest pastorates were those of the Revs. Ideincke, Albrecht, Bowman and Peschau, Rev. Dr. Peschau having had charge of it now for ten years.   During his ministry, the church has undergone an entire renovation, being finely frescoed, carpeted, with roof improved, and so forth, at an expense of one thousand dollars. The cemetery has also undergone some very fine imporvements, and the church as it stands is, indeed, a credit to the devoted flock.
     The neighboring church buildings of the Zion Reformed and the Evangelical Lutheran congregations, located near the northern line of Miami township, close to the Cincinnati pike, are the successors of a church building which was long used by the Reformed and Lutheran congregations in common.  About 1884 a storm injured the old building.  Arrangements were made according to which the Reformed kept and repaired the old building and the Lutherans built a new church building near by.  Together they make an important religious center for the community.

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