SPRING GREEN – The blaze brought firefighters from around the region, created a spectacular early morning glow and destroyed a 147-year-old building on the west end of this village’s downtown.
On Thursday of last week, an excavator took down what was left of the historic structure at Monroe and North Lexington streets and pulled the charred, but intact, cast iron bell from its ruins. In fact, when Carl Oman gently lowered the bell to the ground, its striker struck and revealed that the bell had retained its sound.
Like the bell, made from a mold by the Cincinnati Bell Foundry decades ago, Cornerstone Church remains intact.