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United States Hotel, Middletown

A hotel in Middletown, Ohio, named in 3 atlases between 1885 and 1912.

The line reading United States Hotel in the 1885 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1885 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1885United States Hotelthe scanned index
1907States Hotelthe scanned index
1912States Hotelthe 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.

United States Hotel
States Hotel

Named in the 1905 county history

The history of Butler County was published 20 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

Paul J. Sorg was an honored citizen. A sketch of his life is found elsewhere in this history, but in these notes it is proper to say that the great P. J. Sorg Tobacco Company was one of his creations. The McSherrv Manufacturing Company, the Miami Cycle Manufacturing Company, the P. A. Sorg Paper Company, the United States Hotel Company, the Middletown Gas Company and the beautiful Sorg opera house arose at his call. All the foregoing industries save the tobacco company are now in active and profitable operation, under the direct supervision of W. L. Dechant as attorney for the Sorg estate. ' These are among the foremost industrial concerns of the valley and speak of Mr. Sorg's genius and enterprise.

Read the chapter on Middletown City.

Named in the same survey

9 establishments

The surveyors walked Butler 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 First Baptist Church in the 1885 atlasFirst Baptist Churchchurch1885
The index line reading Titus Paper Mills in the 1885 atlasTitus Paper Millsmill1885
The index line reading Journal, Printing in the 1907 atlasJournal Printingprinting1907
The index line reading Presbyterian Church in the 1907 atlasPresbyterian Churchchurch1907
The index line reading Rolling Mill Co in the 1907 atlasRolling Mill Comill1907
The index line reading Wrenn Paper Co. Paper Mill in the 1907 atlasWrenn Paper Co. Paper Millmill1907
The index line reading Episcopal Church in the 1912 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1912
The index line reading South Side Public School in the 1912 atlasSide Public Schoolschool1912
The index line reading Young Street Public School in the 1912 atlasYoung Street Public Schoolschool1912

Other hotel in the atlases

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

Provenance

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