Vaughnsville, Ohio

Vaughnsville (/ˈvɔːnzvɪl/ VAWNZ-vil) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southern Sugar Creek Township, Putnam County, Ohio, United States.

[7] Vaughnsville's most unusual claim to fame is its (contested) status as the first location in the World to use individual communion cups for the Lord's Supper.

[8] John G. Thomas—a physician and pastor of the Vaughnsville Congregational Church—designed a communion outfit after noticing "a communicant with a diseased mouth condition".

[9] Thomas applied for a patent for his invention on August 2, 1893, in which he wrote that he "invented certain new and useful improvements in communion service" which would "provide an individual or separate cup for the use of each person at the celebration of the Lord’s Supper, commonly called the communion service…" (Serial No.

[10] The first grist mill in the county was constructed in 1831 by Benjamin Clevenger on the east bank of Sugar Creek where Vaughnsville is today.

Shortly after the Civil War, the first stone pike was laid in Sugar Creek township, which today is State Route 115.

This type of soil is prime farmland if drained, commonly used with corn, soybeans, and small grain.

[24] Local extreme records follow:[25] Low High Precipitation Snow Vaughnsville is covered by the National Weather Service in Northern Indiana (IWX) and Wilmington, Ohio (ILN) with radar from KIWX North Webster.

An intense line of thunderstorms or derecho developed over northern Indiana during the middle of the afternoon and then raced southeast across the central portion of Ohio.

1898 Map of Putnam County Ohio Railroad Stations [ 3 ]
The original communion wine dispenser invented by Rev John G. Thomas. Exhibited at Allen County Museum, Lima, Ohio.
Tornados near Vaughnsville since 1950
Map of Ohio highlighting Putnam County