BlockOpera House, Hicksville
A opera house in Hicksville, Ohio, named in 2 atlases between 1908 and 1913.
Where it appears
| Atlas | Read as | Sheet |
|---|---|---|
| 1908 | Opera House | the scanned index |
| 1913 | Opera House | the scanned index |
Named in the 1883 county history
The history of Defiance County was published 25 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.
Frank J. Shead was born on Court street, in the city of Defiance, Ohio, August 13, 1856. His grandparents, Orson Shead and Lucy (Upham) Shead, were born in Stockbridge, Mass. ; the former September 4, 1797, the latter March 21, 17'J5. In 1821, they moved to New York, settling in DeKalb Township, St. Lawrence County. They had a family of five children - Oliver, Emeline, Celistie, Lorrin J. and Alonzo M. The boys are siill living. Alonzo M. was a former resident of Defiance, but now a resident of New Madrid, Mo., Oliver was also a former resident of this town, and a contractor and builder, at an early day building what was known as the old Brown warehouse, located at the northwest corner of Clinton street bridge, on the north side of the Maumee River, and since destroyed by fire.
Named in the same survey
1 establishmentThe surveyors walked Defiance 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 line | Establishment | Trade | Atlas |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Presbyterian Church | church | 1908 |
Other opera house in the atlases
1Every other establishment of the same trade the surveyors named in Defiance County, with the years each one appears.
Provenance
Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Hicksville, 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.