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

Public School

A school in Darke County, Ohio, named in 2 atlases between 1902 and 1907.

The line reading Publie School in the 1902 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1902 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1902Publie Schoolthe scanned index
1907Public Schoolthe 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.

Public School
Publie School

Named in the 1880 county history

The history of Darke County was published 22 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

ELIAS HARTER, blacksmith ; P. 0. New Madison. He is one of the few men who were born here in the early days of Darke Co., that now reside here ; he was born in Butler Township in 1821 ; is the son of David and Sarah (Boone) Harter. David was one of the married sons of Francis Harter, and was among the first settlers of Butler Township. David was a blacksmith, and Elias partially learned the trade, while at home, and after his marriage finished his apprenticeship, and has continued to follow this trade most of his time since. Was a leading and active citizen of New Madison for many years, during which he erected several of the best buildings in town, but the crisis following the close of the war occasioned heavy loss, and he, with others, was bankrupted.

Read the chapter on Butler Township.

Named in the same survey

6 establishments

The surveyors walked Darke 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 American Hotel in the 1902 atlasAmerican Hotelhotel1902
The index line reading Emanuel Evang. Lutheran Church in the 1902 atlasEmanuel Evang. Lutheran Churchchurch1902
The index line reading Fir Mills, The in the 1902 atlasFir Mills, Themill1902
The index line reading Landman & Stock, Flour-mill in the 1902 atlasLandman & Stock, Flour Millflour mill1902
The index line reading Murphy, J., Tile-works in the 1902 atlasMurphy, J., Tile Worksworks1902
The index line reading Snyder Hotel in the 1902 atlasSuyder Hotelhotel1902

Provenance

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