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Hanover Township (part 29 of 29)
Part 29 of 29 of the account of this township in Centennial History of Butler County, Ohio, published 1905. 51 words, covering 4 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Parts
29 pagesThe source prints this as one continuous account. It is split here so no single page grows too heavy to load; the text runs straight on across the parts and nothing is omitted.
The chapter
51 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from Centennial History of Butler County, Ohio, published 1905. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
About 1830 a log school house was built and Elisha Dalton was the first teacher. Others who taught here in the early days were William Caldwell, Ames Sedam and James S. Wiles. In 1840 a little brick school house was erected, which stood until 1866, when the present house was built.
Provenance
Text from Centennial History of Butler County, Ohio, published 1905, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.