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
Location of Excello, Ohio
Location of Excello, Ohio
Coordinates: 39°28′51″N 84°25′08″W / 39.48083°N 84.41889°W / 39.48083; -84.41889

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]

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  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Excello
  2. ^ Overman, William Daniel (1958). Ohio Town Names. Akron, OH: Atlantic Press. p. 44.
  3. ^ 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. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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