Public School, Somerset

Name: Public School
Address: Somerset, OH, US

A school in Somerset, Ohio, named in 2 atlases between 1895 and 1901.

The line reading Public School in the 1895 atlas index — The index line as printed in the 1895 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

Atlas	Read as	Sheet
1895	Public School	the scanned index
1901	Public School	the scanned index

Named in the 1883 county history

The history of Perry County was published 12 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.

Read the chapter on Madison Township.

Named in the same survey

3 establishments

The 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.

Establishment	Trade	Atlas
Catholic Church	church	1895
Reformed Church	church	1895
Snyder, Wm., & Co., Planing & Saw Mill	saw mill	1895

Other school in the atlases

Every other establishment of the same trade the surveyors named in Perry County, with the years each one appears.

Public School1926 to 1950

Provenance

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