Orrville (Wayne County, Ohio, USA)

Orrville, a city (pop. 5,153 in 1959; 8,551 in 2000) in Wayne County, Ohio, is the seat of a Mennonite (Mennonite Church) congregation with 265 members (1959), founded in 1909, and the partial shopping center for an additional Mennonite membership of 1,772 including six Mennonite Church congregations—Kidron, Martins, Pleasant View, Crown Hill, Oak Grove, and Salem -- and one General Conference Mennonite, viz., Salem, all within a six-mile (10 km) radius.

Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Scottdale, Pennsylvania, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 87. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.

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MLA style: Bender, Harold S. "Orrville (Wayne County, Ohio, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 21 November 2009 <http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/O781.html>

APA style: Bender, Harold S. (1959). "Orrville (Wayne County, Ohio, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 21 November 2009 <http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/O781.html>

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