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

Opera House

A opera house in Delaware County, Ohio, named in 2 atlases between 1895 and 1901.

The line reading Opera House in the 1895 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1895 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1895Opera Housethe scanned index
1901Opera Housethe scanned index

Named in the 1908 county history

The history of Delaware County was published 13 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

A. MITCHELL, Delaware, was born in Payette Co., W. Va., April 7, 1829 ; his parents belonged to Miles Manser, a prosperous and extensive owner of slaves ; after the breakingout of the war of the rebellion, there was stationed on the plantation of Mr. Manser, a body of Union troops ; connected with the command was Gen. E. B. Hays, who made his headquarters in Mr. JVIanser's house, and who took Mr. Mitchell as his servant ; through the G-eneral's advice he came to Ohio and worked for S. Birchard, where he remained about five years, when he went to Albany, Ohio ; after a period of about six months, he came to Delaware, where he has been a respected colored citizen ; his first start was as a laborer in a brickyard for Mr. A.

Read the chapter on Delaware City Township.

Named in the same survey

6 establishments

The surveyors walked Delaware 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 Herald Printing in the 1895 atlasHerald Printingprinting1895
The index line reading Lutheran Church in the 1895 atlasLutheran Churchchurch1895
The index line reading Moyer's Carriage Shop in the 1895 atlasMoyer's Carriage Shopcarriage shop1895
The index line reading Delaware Chair Co in the 1901 atlasDelaware Chair Cochair factory1901
The index line reading Reformed Church in the 1901 atlasReformed Churchchurch1901
The index line reading Zion A. M. E. Church in the 1901 atlasZion A. M. E. Churchchurch1901

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Delaware 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.