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Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century shop front seen close. Not a photograph of this place.

Central Hotel

A hotel in Preble County, Ohio, named in 2 atlases between 1892 and 1921.

The line reading Central Hotel in the 1892 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1892 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1892Central Hotelthe scanned index
1921Central Hotelthe scanned index

Named in the 1915 county history

The history of Preble County was published 23 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

In 1838 a movement was started for a new church and a building was erected at the point where the Central hotel now stands ; in fact, the rear half of that hotel is the old church, having been incorporated into the addition that was made to remodel the building into a hotel. It is said that the dining hall is a part of the old church. This church was finished in 1842 and was dedicated by that pioneer of Methodism, James B. Finley.

Read the chapter on Washington Township.

Named in the same survey

8 establishments

The surveyors walked Preble County once and wrote down what they found. These are the other establishments from the same atlas, each with the line it was read from.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Catholic Church in the 1892 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Christian Church in the 1892 atlasChristian Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Presbyterian Church in the 1892 atlasPresbyterian Churchchurch1892
The index line reading Rhinehart & Co., Planing Mill in the 1892 atlasRhinehart & Co., Planing Millplaning mill1892
The index line reading Universalist Church,.! in the 1892 atlasUniversalist Church,.!church1892
The index line reading City Water Works in the 1921 atlasCity Water Worksworks1921
The index line reading North Public School in the 1921 atlasNorth Public Schoolschool1921
The index line reading Opera House in the 1921 atlasOpera Houseopera house1921

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Preble County, Ohio, held by the Library of Congress. Sanborn atlases published before 1930 are in the public domain. Only names that at least three of four independent readings agreed on are published, and no spelling has been corrected: what appears here is what the recogniser returned from the ink.