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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 Preble County, Ohio, named in 2 atlases between 1911 and 1912.

The line reading Post Office in the 1911 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1911 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1911Post Officethe scanned index
1912Post Officethe scanned index

Named in the 1915 county history

The history of Preble County was published 4 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

In 1841 the first post office that was established in Dixon township was opened about two hundred yards east of the old Kercheval (or Niccum) mill. The first postmaster was Jacob Morris. The post office was called Stony Point post office. After a few years it was moved to Beechymire, where John McGahan was the first postmaster. This was afterwards carried over to Indiana. At an early date there was a post office at Sugar valley, which was kept in the house of the postmaster. peo. tem. No record exists to show who was the first postmaster.

Read the chapter on Dixon Township.

Named in the same survey

6 establishments

The surveyors walked Preble 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 Church of Christ in the 1911 atlasCatholic Churchchurch1911
The index line reading City Water Works in the 1911 atlasCity Water Worksworks1911
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church, 2 in the 1911 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1911
The index line reading Opera House in the 1911 atlasOpera Houseopera house1911
The index line reading United Brethren Church in the 1911 atlasUnited Brethren Churchchurch1911
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1911 atlasUniversalist Church,.!church1911

Provenance

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