BlockPublic School, New Lexington
A school in New Lexington, Ohio, named in 2 atlases between 1926 and 1950.
Where it appears
| Atlas | Read as | Sheet |
|---|---|---|
| 1926 | Public School | the scanned index |
| 1950 | Public School | the scanned index |
Named in the 1883 county history
The history of Perry County was published 43 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.
Scnoois. - The first school was kept about one and one-half miles "south of Mount Perry, on what is known as the Williams tarm. A man by the name of Woods was one of the first teachers. This school, of course, was of the old fashioned kind.in a log house. "The modern means of public schools were adopted at the earliest opportuuity. There are now 233 scholars enrolled in the township, and there are six public school buildings now in use, five of which are frame, and one a brick building.
Named in the same survey
2 establishmentsThe surveyors walked Perry 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 line | Establishment | Trade | Atlas |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Methodist Episcopal Church | church | 1926 |
 | Water Works, Pump House,.- 1 | works | 1926 |
Other school in the atlases
1Every other establishment of the same trade the surveyors named in Perry County, with the years each one appears.
Provenance
Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of New Lexington, 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.