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Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance 1843 - c. 1860s Significant Person State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above. remainder of the early settlement period in this area of the county, being the of Omar, which was the first settlement in Reed Township, Seneca County, and a into 89 lots, once contained two church buildings, a post office, a general store, a frame and later a brick schoolhouse, a blacksmith shop, a tavern, a building seventeen years later, the chapel was used for all religious services 22, 1971. Township. It has never had interior electrical lights, water, or fuel lines.
1843 Architecture Unknown Exploration/Settlement Architect/Builder Cultural Affiliation supporting a classical entablature and pedimented overhang extending from the Significant Dates original United Brethren Church on Eden and Liberty Streets in Attica (now a community declined in the second half of the nineteenth century when it was residence),and the First Baptist Church in Attica (both greatly altered),as only surviving building from the early/mid-19th century community of Omar. well as the Dr.Bowen House and the Union Church building in the hamlet of livery which was a part of the underground railroad, and a race track.The In addition to being the only remaining building from the former community.
gable roof.These Greek Revival features combine to create a simple but Omar Chapel was erected in 1843 as the Second Regular Baptist Church of Reed Omar Chapel is significant as an excellent example of Greek Revival bypassed by the railroad.Until the Methodists built their own church West Lodi in a state of disrepair).