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Union Hotel, Massillon

A hotel in Massillon, Ohio, named in 4 atlases between 1892 and 1913.

The line reading Union Hotel in the 1892 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1892 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1892Union Hotelthe scanned index
1896Union Hotelthe scanned index
1901Union Hotelthe scanned index
1913Union Hotelthe scanned index

Named in the 1881 county history

The history of Stark County was published 11 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

Third street, and very soon he built up a large business. Most of the merchants from this region made his hotel their abiding place when in the Quaker city for the purpose of buying goods. This hotel was known as the Eagle. After conducting the same successfully for a number of years Mr. Webb moved into a larger and more modern brick building on the north side of Arch street, between Third and Fourth streets, and immediately opposite one of the largest Friends' churches in the city. This was known as the Union hotel and gained a large patronage from all over the country. Mr. Webb succeeded in pleasing his many guests and in making money. All Stark county people made the Union hotel their headquarters during the regime of Mr.

Read the chapter on Canton Township.

Named in the same survey

4 establishments

The surveyors walked Stark 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 Arter, W. M. & Son, Star Mill in the 1901 atlasArter, W. M. & Son, Star Millmill1901
The index line reading Bethel Church in the 1901 atlasBethel Churchchurch1901
The index line reading Public School in the 1901 atlasPublic Schoolschool1901
The index line reading Reformed Church in the 1901 atlasReformed Churchchurch1901

Other hotel in the atlases

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

Provenance

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