Greendale Historic District

In the original plat it was provided that a cemetery was to be laid out at the west end of High street, joining Mulberry Row. This was used for a number of years, but the plat filed by Isaac Dunn in April, 1819, provided for (i7) a cemetery which seemed to be a better location : and the first burying ground was in later years abandoned, and the latter was used for that purpose until the new cemetery of Greendale was laid out in 1867. Since that time the burials in the old cemetery have gradually ceased until now it is only occasion¬ ally that a burial is made there. The flood of recent years has inundated it and the monuments have been badly wrecked, which further hastened its aban¬ donment as a cemetery.

Passage source: History of Dearborn County Indiana, published 1915.

The manufacture of furniture was, for a period, an important part of the manufacturing interests of the city. The E. B. Dobell Furniture Company, with a manufacturing plant in Greendale and warerooms in Lawrenceburg, was established in 1863. It was destroyed by fire in 1873, but was rebuilt at once and continued in operation for ten years longer, when Mr. Dobell get¬ ting old, retired. The Miami Valley Furniture Company, with a capital stock of twenty thousand dollars, which was afterwards increased to forty thousand dollars, was organized in 1868. The stockholders were George Hodel, Jr., John Christena, Henry F. Wencke, Adam Schleicher, George Schleicher, Gus¬ tav Schoenberger, Herman H. Woehla, John F. Sembach. Philip Dexheimer, George Hodel, Sr., Johann J. Hauck, Samuel Dickinson, John Bookster, Levin B. Lewis and Alexander Beckman. The officers of the company were George Hodel, Jr., president; Harris Bateman, secretary; Levin B. Lewis, treasurer. The company erected the extensive building now a part of the James & Meyer Buggy Company's plant, and continued a successful business until about the year 1888, when it discontinued.

Passage source: History of Dearborn County Indiana, published 1915.

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