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

Post Office

A ice house in Fulton County, Ohio, named in 2 atlases between 1913 and 1916.

The line reading Post Office in the 1913 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1913 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1913Post Officethe scanned index
1916Post Officethe scanned index

Named in the 1899 county history

The history of Fulton County was published 14 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

There was no post office in the township for many, years; but eventually one, called "Oak Shade" was established near the geographical center, and supplied three times each week from a mail route running from Morenci, Michigan, to Wauseon. The first mail service in the county was that established in the fall of 1830, to run from Toledo, Ohio, to Lima, Indiana, over the old territorial road, sometimes called the Vistula road, a distance of 110 miles, ninety miles of which John S. Butler, a boy passed along twice weekly carrying the mails. He died in Chesterfield, in 1907, aged eighty-three years, his widow, Lovina Chesterfield, soon following him.

Read the chapter on Fulton Township.

Named in the same survey

6 establishments

The surveyors walked Fulton 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 German Baptist Church in the 1913 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1913
The index line reading Hotel Swanton in the 1913 atlasHotel Swantonhotel1913
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1913 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1913
The index line reading Opera House in the 1913 atlasOpera Houseopera house1913
The index line reading Reformed Church in the 1913 atlasReformed Churchchurch1913
The index line reading H.R. Feed, Planing & Saw Mill in the 1916 atlasH.R. Feed, Planing & Saw Millsaw mill1916

Provenance

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