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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 Stark County, Ohio, named in 5 atlases between 1891 and 1915.

The line reading Grand Opera House in the 1891 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1891 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1891Grand Opera Housethe scanned index
1892Opera Housethe scanned index
1897Grand Opera Housethe scanned index
1898Opera Housethe scanned index
1915Opera Housethe scanned index

How the name was read

Each atlas was set in type by a different hand and scanned decades later, so the same establishment comes back spelled differently. Every reading below was produced by the recogniser from the sheets; none was corrected or invented. They are published so a search for any of them finds this page.

Opera House
Grand Opera House

Named in the 1881 county history

The history of Stark County was published 10 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

The commercial and social interests of Minerva, as mirrored at present, show the following cast: A large flouring mill, owned and operated by Davis Brothers; a planing mill, by T. D. Yost; car-shops (a private enterprise), carried on by Pennock Brothers, doing a large and profitable business ; general repair shops, by A. B. CUaffey & Co.; four general stores; two millinery stores ; two drug stores ; two hardware stores ; one jewelry store ; one furniture store; one bank ; a schoolhouse ; four churches ; a post office ; one newspaper and four hotels. Mr. (1. F. Yengling, a prominent business man. is putting up quite an elegant little opera house, and several other business

Read the chapter on Sandy Township.

Named in the same survey

15 establishments

The surveyors walked Stark 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 Christian Church in the 1891 atlasChristian Churchchurch1891
The index line reading City Mills in the 1891 atlasCity Millsmill1891
The index line reading First Baptist Church in the 1891 atlasFirst Baptist Churchchurch1891
The index line reading Trinity Lutheran Church in the 1891 atlasTrinity Lutheran Churchchurch1891
The index line reading Union Hotel in the 1891 atlasUnion Hotelhotel1891
The index line reading United Brethren Church in the 1897 atlasUnited Brethren Churchchurch1897
The index line reading High School in the 1898 atlasHigh Schoolschool1898
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1898 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1898
The index line reading Presbyterian Church in the 1898 atlasPresbyterian Churchchurch1898
The index line reading Arlington Hotel in the 1915 atlasArlngton Hotelhotel1915
The index line reading Roman Catholic Church in the 1915 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1915
The index line reading Parochial School in the 1915 atlasParochial Schoolschool1915
The index line reading Post Office in the 1915 atlasPost Officeice house1915
The index line reading Public School in the 1915 atlasPublic Schoolschool1915
The index line reading Reformed Church in the 1915 atlasReformed Churchchurch1915

Provenance

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