Excello, Ohio
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.
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Location of Excello, Ohio
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
- 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
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Excello
- Overman, William Daniel (1958). Ohio Town Names. Akron, OH: Atlantic Press. p. 44.
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