From the mid-1920s to the early 1950s, Bowling Green was among fifty-three towns in the United States known as marriage mills, places where people could marry with minimal formality or delay. According to research by former resident Patricia F. Smith, Bowling Green’s marriage mill period lasted about twenty-seven years and involved two probate judges, more than thirty clergymen, and about eight to ten justices of the peace, including one who married couples for more than twenty-five years. The home at 216 E. Court St., built by Wood County Judge Charles Nearing, served as his chamber, a place for jury deliberation and recess, and a wedding site where he officiated many marriages in front of the formal parlor fireplace. With 454 marriages performed between 1920 and 1942, Nearing married more couples than anyone else in Bowling Green. At the northeast corner of E. Court St. and N. Summit St., the first church on the site was a brick building completed in 1880 by the Bowling Green United Brethren in Christ Church. By 1900, its congregation had grown from fifteen to 450 members, and after the Center Township U.B. Church disbanded in 1911 and its members joined Trinity United Brethren Church, the old church was clearly too small. A new church was dedicated on March 29, 1914, with a Neoclassical exterior recalling the Pantheon in Rome through its portico, four columns, triangular pediment, and dome, and its stained glass in the dome, along the south side of the sanctuary, and in most of the apse is original. The Woman’s Club of Bowling Green was organized in May 1920 to unite women of Bowling Green and nearby areas for personal and community improvement, and its members sponsored concerts, book discussions, local theater, lectures, and study groups along with monthly meetings. In 1923, the club achieved its goal of owning a clubhouse at 134 N. Prospect St., a house built in 1878 and remodeled with an addition that included a forty by twenty-foot dining room, a large kitchen, and a storeroom. Although the clubhouse was sold in 2014, the Women’s Club of Bowling Green remains active in the community.