Rush Run, Ohio

Rush Run is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Ohio. It is mainly around the area of Rush Run Road also known as County Road 17.

In 1910 Rush Run coal mines #1, 2 and 3 had a 5 foot #8 coal seam had a daily output of 2000 tons [Coal Mines, 1910 By B. H. Rose] . There is no active mining in the area at this time.

It is home to the Hopewell United Methodist Church. This site is recorded in 1785 by The American General Butler who refers to "The Sect called Methodists. In 1787 Circuit rider George Callahan preached the first Methodist sermon of record in the Northwest Territory. in 1798 the First Methodist Church in Eastern Ohio was built at Hopewell. In 1803 the first ordination in Ohio, of record, Bishop Francis Asbury ordained Rev. John Wrinshall on September 10, 1803 in Hopewell Church. In 1803 the First Methodist Meeting house in eastern Ohio was consecrated here by Bishop Francis Asbury September,11. The log church became too small by the growing congregation and was replaced in 1844 by a brick structure. The Ohio Conference cane was carved from logs from the original structure. The cane is presented to the oldest United Methodist minister in a ceremony at Annual Conference. [http://www.cros.net/wdrown/archives.htm]

Rush Run was the childhood home of Baseball Hall of Famer Bill Mazeroski [http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1020780/index.htm] . A length of nearby Ohio State Route 7 bears his name [http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/5533.59] .

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