Garage Door Repair in York Township, Ohio

A Township Named for New York

York Township was organized in 1832. It was named after New York, the home state of many of its early settlers, and it's one of ten York Townships in Ohio.

Mallet Creek, an unincorporated community in the township, was named for Dan Mallet, an early settler. In the 1850s it was an active stop on the Underground Railroad. Its best-known building is the York United Methodist Church, at State Route 18 and Columbia Road. The congregation began in the early 1840s in an old log schoolhouse near York Center. In 1877 it built the brick church that still stands, designed and built by carpenter Thomas Rogers in the Romanesque Revival style. One woman, Mary Ford, paid for most of it, so people called it Mary's Chapel. The church's earlier frame building, put up in 1844, was sold and turned into a house. Into the early 1900s this was one of only two churches in the township, along with a Congregationalist congregation founded in 1833. The building joined the national historic register in 1978.

Buildings here have long been reused and reworked. If your home is an older one that has been changed over the years, the garage may have come much later, and the opening may not be a standard size. Newer York houses usually come with an attached two-car garage and one broad door riding on torsion springs.