Excello is an unincorporated community in central Lemon Township, Butler County, Ohio, United States, on the south side of Middletown.[1] It comprises roughly the area south of Oxford State Road and State Route 73, west of State Route 4, and east of the Great Miami River. The Excello Lock was a canal lock on the Miami and Erie Canal. Remnants of the lock remain as public property owned by the MCD (Miami Conservancy District). Also in Excello was former Harding-Jones Paper Company plant, which is now closed but is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Excello, Ohio | |
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 Location of Excello, Ohio | |
| Coordinates: 39°28′51″N 84°25′08″W / 39.48083°N 84.41889°W |
Excello sprang up when the Excello Paper Company opened at the site in the 1860s.[2] A post office was opened in Excello on November 10, 1870, but no longer exists.[3]
Notable person
edit- J. Eugene Harding, United States Representative
- Howard Jones, Football Player and Head Coach of, most notably, USC
- John Quirk Sherman, Inventor and Dayton businessman of the Standard Register Co. (now Taylor Communications)
References
edit- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Excello
- ^ Overman, William Daniel (1958). Ohio Town Names. Akron, OH: Atlantic Press. p. 44.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20070806223519/http://www.lanepl.org/blount/jbplaces/documents/359DCC1DD185DA4AD9867E6DE628A69F1DC94D09.html. Archived from the original on August 6, 2007. Retrieved October 9, 2007.
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