The churches are among the most vital and important of the community's interests. Their influence is widely extended and their benefits like the blessings of light, air and water, are so common that scarcely any notice is taken of them. We speak from a Second Street Standpoint.
Churches are good in themselves.
Commerce, Manufacture and Society partake of their advantages and hardly an idle recognition of their sources of how their dissemination is maintained. Ironton has a population of about 8,000. The churches in active operation are to the number of 12. The Church membership, Catholic and Protestant foots up to 2,876 or one third of the entire population. The average attendance at all the Sabbath Schools is given at 952.