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

Opera House

Name: Opera House
Address: OH, US

A opera house in Mercer County, Ohio, named in 4 atlases between 1890 and 1915.

The line reading Opera House in the 1890 atlas index — The index line as printed in the 1890 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

Atlas	Read as	Sheet
1890	Opera House	the scanned index
1907	Opera House	the scanned index
1907	Opera House	the scanned index
1915	Opera House	the scanned index

Named in the 1907 county history

The history of Mercer County was published 17 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

The worst disaster that ever befell a community in Mercer County occurred at Fort Recovery at 11 o'clock A. M.,-on Wednesday, October 17, 1906, when a terrific explosion in the rear of Joseph A. Meinerding's hard- ware store caused the death of five persons, brought injuries to scores of others and inflicted a property loss of approximately $50,000. Just after the parade of the annual horse show, then being held here, took place, the whole town was shaken by a deafening explosion, which entirely wrecked the twostory building occupied by Joseph A. Meinerding as a hardware store, the Journal printing office, the Roop blacksmith shop and a dwelling in the rear of the Opera House. The wreckage soon caught fire and for a time it looked as though the entire business section would be destroyed.

Read the chapter on Gibson Township.

Named in the same survey

3 establishments

The surveyors walked Mercer 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.

Establishment	Trade	Atlas
Catholic Church & School	church	1907
Ft.Recovery Roller Mill	mill	1907
Methodist Episcopal Church	church	1907

Provenance

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