1962 - 2nd & 3rd Grades New Vienna Ohio School

New Vienna second graders in 1962 would become part of the East Clinton Class of 1972 and the third graders would graduate a year sooner in 1971.  Lots would happen in their personal lives as well as the world during the next 9-10 years.  Pictures copied from the 1962 Tiger Tales

Miss Purtee's 2nd Grade 1961-62 New Vienna (Ohio) School.  Top Row:  David Hughes, Joey Davis, Jeffrey Hodson, Diana Priest, Teddy West, Tony Bowles, Donna Malloy.  3rd Row: Rosa Lawson, Lynn Pierson, Billy Wilkinson, Linda Irwin, Sandra Lane, Helen Fisher.  2nd Row: Patty Edison, Tommy Lloyd, Don Stethem, Barry Williams, Joyce Collins, Gregory Mathews. Front Row: Miss Aleda Purtee, Johnny Johnson, Kenny Irwin, Terry Bernard, Bonnie Wolfe.  Not pictured: Cheryl Puckett, John Sullivan, Virgil Campbell, Kay Mayo, Dell Lightner, Debra Walker.

Mrs. Harner's 2nd-3rd Grade 1961-62 - New Vienna (Ohio) School.  Front Row:  Connie Whited, Bill Ballard, Danny Woods, LaVerne Hudson.  2nd Row: Lois Berwanger, Debbi, Baker, Nancy Scott, Pam McCoy, Brenda Rolston. 3rd Row: Mrs. Orville Harner, Lydia Burton, Marsha Curtis, Debbi Milburn, Bonnie Burns, Jacki Walker, Shirley Puckett.  Top Row: Bill Musser, Larry Eltzroth, Bill Cluxton, Ted Behling, Jerry Collins, Steve Rupp, H.C. Cook.  Not pictured: Jeanne Blackburn, Danny Nixon, Charles Peacock, Mike Rupp, Mark Garen, Larry West.

Mrs. Woodmansee's 3rd Grade 1961-62 New Vienna (Ohio) School.  Front Row: Janet Myers, Vicki Hughes Doss, Mark Allen, Dixie Pope, Denise Brumley Maier.  Second Row: Susan McMillan, Timmy Stackhouse, Shellie Purtee, Billy Akers, Kevin Zimmerman, Victor Allen.  Third Row: Mrs. Martha Woodmansee, Tim Hughes, Connie Myers, Douglas Hutchins, Debbie Clear, Leatha Graham.  Top Row:  Jennifer Smalley, Teddy Jackson, James Joy, Mark Laymon, Gloria Rollins, Ronnie Salsbury.  Not pictured: Bobby Blackburn, Danny Custis, Teddy Fauber, Lennie Mayo, Kathy Lightner, Karen Rankin.

New Vienna School c1893, 1910 and Duchemin House

Duchemin House c1910? New Vienna Ohio, now demolished, twin (with improvements) to house on corner of College & 2nd Sts.  Image Courtesy of Hayward Crone via Mike Whited.  [See further details about Duchemin House below.]

School New Vienna Ohio c1910 with Duchemin House and School Barn in background.  

Image Courtesy of Hayward Crone via Mike Whited.

School New Vienna Ohio, 1893 Elementary Students.  Image Courtesy of Hayward Crone via Mike Whited.

Duchemin? Duchmein? DuChemin?  In the census records it is also spelled Duchman and Deucheman.  Evidently this was a name in transition.

Two graduates of NVHS are listed with the last name of Duchemin, both members of the class of 1886: Lizzie Duchemin and Stella Cox Duchemin, though we can assume that Stella married a Duchemin rather than being born into the family.

Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" was born in New Vienna in 1868.  She married William Edwin Dunn in Clinton County in 1893.  In 1920 they were living in Indianapolis.  She was the youngest child of Abraham (1814-1891) and Mary Elizabeth Woodmansee Duchemin (1833-1887).

Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Duchemin Dunn, 1886 graduate of New Vienna (Ohio) High School

Other children of Abraham and Mary Elizabeth included: John (1852-c1919), Florence (1853-1950), Martha (1854-?), and Frank (1857-1901).  To confuse matters, Martha married Robert Cox and became the step-mother of Stella Cox Duchemin (1866-?), the other graduate of NVHS.  Stella married the oldest brother, John, her step-mother's older brother.  Stella died in St. Louis sometime after 1930.  Her son, Robert Harold lived in Clinton/Highland county as a boy but moved to Missouri.

Four of the Duchemin family are buried in New Vienna's IOOF Cemetery:  Abraham and Mary Elizabeth on the East Side, and Frank, their youngest son, and his wife, the former Elizabeth M "Lizzie" Turner, on the West Side.  All of Frank and Lizzie's five children were born in New Vienna, one died at childbirth, two moved to California, one to Illinois, and the fate of the youngest, Edith born in 1897, is unknown.

From the NVHS Memory Book 1881-1963:
In the summer of 1876, Abraham Duchmein built a three story residence on the lot adjoining the present [now former] school house.  The Wilmington News-Journal stated that it was the largest private residence in the country.  [Did they mean county??]  Mr. Duchmein was a brick mason and a brother-in-law of Francis Woodmansee who built the large home across the street, facing the school house.  Mr. Duchmein died in 1891 and sometime later it was acquired by the school.  In 1918 when the present building was built, the High School held classes there and the grades were held down town town in rooms over the business houses and the first and second grades were held in the opera house, now the site of the Senior Citizens.  Later it [the Duchemin House] was used as the residence of the superintendent.

Due to a scarcity of teachers, a Clinton-Highland Normal school was opened in New Vienna High School in 1914.  The students did their practice teaching here also.  It was moved to Wilmington College in the fall of 1925.  Their last teacher Mary Hoskins also went to Wilmington College.

1962 - First Grades New Vienna Ohio School

1962 Tiger Tales - Yearbook of New Vienna High School 1961-62.

First graders in 1962 would become part of the East Clinton class of 1973.  Here are their first grade pictures:

Mrs. Fenwick's 1st Grade New Vienna Ohio School 1961-62.  First row: Debra Roehm, Candy Davis, Sherry Fulton, Paul Bernard, Jeff Streber.  Second Row: Ronnie Smalley, Danny Knisley, Randy Ferguson, Beverly Brooks, Daniel Lawson.  Third Row: Cindy Fulcher, Carl Palmer,Debbie Davis, Mrs. Fenwick,  Charles Fisher, Linda Conyers, Peggy Curtis.  Not pictured: Timmy Penn, Matthew Zimmerman, Sheryl Blackburn, Julia Murphy, Lissa Rupp.

Mrs. Laughlin's 1st Grade - New Vienna Ohio School 1962-62.  First Row: Teresa Clear, Catherine Dean, David Marshall, Mary Lou Dean, Linda Allen.  Second Row: Paul Berwanger, Kim Michael, Aaron Burton, Barbara Bernard, Ruth Ann Johnson.  Third Row: John Custis, Ethel Rollins, Mrs. Laughlin, Serena Uible, Don Smith.  Not pictured: Randy West, Donnie Behling, Dorothy Harris, Charles Dayton, Mashell Laymon.

The 1962 Tiger Tales was dedicated to Mary Fenwick:

• because she has started so many of us on our journey through New Vienna High School
• Because of her many years of laying the foundation for our higher learning
• Because of her understanding interest for each pupil's needs and aspirations

New Vienna School 1878-1917 postcard

New Vienna School post card from the early 1900s is unmailed but addressed to Miss Mildred Pearl, New Vienna, Ohio, Clinton Co. Message says "To Mildred, From Mumma, 1907. This postcard is of the "old, old" New Vienna School. Not sure why the card labels it as plural buildings, as only the one is visible. Perhaps they are including the outhouses which are hidden in the back?

Public School Buildings, New Vienna, Ohio

According to the 1900 Census, Mildred, born in New Vienna in 1898 was the daughter of Edward (1858-1903), a carriage painter, and Valeria (b.1871) Pearl.  In the 1910 census, Valeria and Mildred are shown as living with Valeria's parents, Thomas J. (1846-1920) and Margaret Ann Pitzer (1850-1920) McCune.  Thomas is listed as having his "own income."

Mildred married Dennis Cook (1853-1936) in 1920.  His first wife, Flora Terrell, had died in 1905, leaving him with seven children, most of whom were grown by 1920.  Mildred died in Wilmington in 1977.

This School was built in 1878.  It was torn down in 1917.  

The above picture is from New Vienna High School Memory Book, 1881-1963, page 8

According the the Memory Book:  In 1878 a new square brick building was erected with four rooms below, two rooms and a hall, called Whittier Hall, above.  This hall was afterwards converted into two rooms, and they were used as the laboratory.  

This building was removed from the school lot in the summer of 1917, when a new modern fireproof building was constructed and was ready for the school term starting in September 1918.

The high school was organized in 1878 and the first class graduated in 1881.  This class had three members: Hallie Baum, Will Rayburn and Charles Blackburn.  Charles was the father of Joseph and Mary Blackburn and Charles Blackburn, Jr.  

The board employed J.F. Fenton as principal for that year.  It was with him that Commencement Exercises were inaugurated and the first Commencement was held in the spring of 1881 in Whittier Hall.

Due to the scarcity of teachers, a Clinton-Highland Normal school was opened in NV High School in 1914.  The students did their practice teaching here also.  It was moved to Wilmington College in 1925.

[During that time] The children were taken to school by horse drawn wagons, and sleds in the winter time.

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This post slightly modified from one originally published in the Uible Family Blog, 24-Feb-2011.

2nd Grade class 1971-72

These students would have been members of the East Clinton Class of 1982.  They not only survived the NV playground, but a year with Miss Purtee.  [I had my own experience with Miss Purtee, and I understand she did not mellow too much with age.]   Can you help name those who are not yet identified?

2nd grade class 1971-72

New Vienna School, New Vienna, Ohio

Top Row: Jimmy Morris, Melanie McCune Lamke, Linda Lacy, Kirk Michael.  

2nd Row: Jim Wolfe, Chuck Larrick, Chris Dodd, Mr. Jim Luck, Miss Aleda Purtee, Terry Smith, Kelly Walker Ely, Mary Uible Crowson.  

3rd Row: Van Pratt, NYI, NYI, NYI, Steve Cluxton, Dale Robinson, Joe Throckmorton, NYI.  

Bottom Row: Allen Pinkerton, NYI, NYI, Shari Flint Hufford, Mike Lowman

Girl Scout Troop 747 - Spring 1966

Wilmington News-Journal, Spring 1966 - Troop 747 is Young New Vienna Troop 

New Vienna Girl Scout Troop 747 - Spring 1966

First Row, left to right–Beverly Brooks, Mary Lou Dean, Julie Murphy, Clara Sears, Mashell Laymon, Colene Larrozollo, Ruth Ann Johnson, Becky Sears.  Second row–Becky Stoops, Pamela Penn, Betty Walker, Kathy Wolfe, Teresa Flint, Joan Pinkerton, Vickie McKenzie, Dana Faris, Jane Stoops.  Third row–Krista Hamilton, Kay Dean, Barbara DeVoe, Serena Uible, Lois Berwanger, Paula Hall, Bambi Helterbran, Peggy Stoops, Ethel Rollins.  Back row–Patty Edison, Debbie Baker, Bonnie Wolfe, Debbie Davis, Teresa Clear.  Debbie Tolle was absent.

Troop 747 of New Vienna held its first meeting Nov. 2, 1965 and had investiture day, Dec. 23.  All of the girls are new to Scouting, but are making fine progress.  As a Troop they are completing the Action Citizen Badge.

This is one of the Troops started because of Serena's plea for Girl Scouting in New Vienna in a letter she wrote.

There are six patrols, each patrol working on a badge, and girls working on individual badges toward earning the Sign of the Arrow.

There are 31 girls in the troop and their leaders are Mrs. Warren G. Murphy, Mrs. Robert Johnson, Mrs. Scott Custis and Mrs. Henry Penn.

The troop visited the Clinton County Courthouse and county jail and went on a hike at the Fallsville Wildlife.  They meet in the Lions Club building and are sponsored by the Lions Club.

New Vienna Train Depot Razed

A mere 41 years ago....   From the Wilmington (Ohio) News-Journal Saturday January 30, 1971.  Transcription follows.

Razed Train Station Yields 80-Year-Old Wires, Tickets

Workers dismantle Depot at New Vienna
by Clarence Graham (News-Journal Staff Writer)

NEW VIENNA -- Railroad stations, once the center of long-distance communications, commuting and industrial activity, are disappearing from the American scene. At least, from the more rural areas.

The depot at New Vienna has been sold by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and is being torn down. But not before it yielded a few memories.

Harold Wallen, New Vienna Route 2, was the original buyer but antique dealers Dale and Wanda Marks of New Carlisle, have purchased the building from Wallen.  [No information readily available on the Marks or antique dealers in New Carlisle.]

Wallen will tear the building down and the Marks will take the lumber to their farm and rebuild the depot in its original form.

The structure is of fine pine and Wallen says it was well constructed with the best lumber.  Each piece is held together by a wooden pin.  In early building construction these pins took the place of nails, bolts and spikes.

Each piece of lumber is full-sawed, meaning if it was to be a two-inch thick by 10 feet long piece, it was exactly that.

Wooden pins make dismanteling [sic] easier.   Wallen will drive the pins out and take the building apart piece by piece.

When Wallen and his crew began tearing down the second story of the depot they found some interesting papers.  Telegrams that were sent as far back as the year 1891 and freight tickets from the same year were also discovered.

Hundreds of these tickets and telegrams bearing such well-known names in the area as Derivan, Swingley, Bernard, Nordyke, Rice and others were stored in the top of the railroad-owned structure.

The telegrams were everything from business to personal.  Some told of arrivals of grain or coal shipments to local merchants.  Others informed local residents as to what the stock market was doing.  One personal telegram read, "Dear wife, Missed train, arrive tomorrow."

The Cincinnati Enquirer was shipped to the Commercial Gazette in New Vienna by train.

The depot in New Vienna was of X-style architecture and consisted of a waiting room, office for the station master, baggage room and a covered dock area.

Most of the train depots along the miles of track have been closed and only main stations such as Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland remain in operation.  The depot, the telegrams and the freight tickets are a link with the New Vienna of the past.  The restoration of the depot will keep alive a part of yesterday's America.  [--end]

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Originally published January 22, 2011 in the Uible family blog.

New Vienna's Railroad Ave. in 1958

Two houses were demolished in New Vienna on Railroad Avenue when Wells Mfg. added a paint building.  The 1957 Chrysler was our family car.  Parallel parking in this car was a challenge.  I drove it to my summer job at the Wilmington Public Library in 1965.

1957 Chrysler.  House torn down for Wells paint building (Railroad Ave.)

1957 Chrysler in New Vienna with machine shop in background (Railroad Ave.)

The 1930 Census, the most current census available for public viewing, does not show any residences on Railroad Avenue, though two families are listed as living on "Pass" Ave.   Could this be an older name for Railroad Ave.?  Living on Pass Avenue were:

• Jesse Leggett (45) 1885-1948, his wife Belle (29) and their children Madge (10), Elizabeth (6), Ruby (5), Jessie Jr. (2) and Robert (1). - Rental $7/month. Jesse is listed as a trucker for the grain elevator and Belle as a laundress who worked at home. Ruby died in 2001 in Lebanon, Ohio.
• Jesse Shaffer (42) 1888-1977, wife Carrie (33) 1897-1970, children Pauline (12), Edna (10), Margaret (8), Dorothy (7), Elizabeth (6) 1923-1943, Jesse Jr. (1) - Rental $8/month. Jesse was a laborer who did odd jobs. Dorothy graduated from NVHS in 1941, Elizabeth in 1942, Jesse Jr. in 1946. A son Edgar died as an infant in 1925, and they had another son Charles Russell 1931-1979

Ten households are listed on Pearl Street which connects Railroad Ave. with SR-28 also known as West Street.  Families living on Pearl St. in 1930 were:

• Herbert Howard (33), his wife Louise (29) and son William (7). - Rental $12/month.  Herbert was a barber.
• Mary Elizabeth (Garner) Achor (38) and her daughter Helen Louise (12) - Rental $6/month. Elizabeth (1891-1965) was a seamstress and is buried in NV's IOOF East side cemetery. Elizabeth "Lizzie" Garner married Frank Achor (1886-1966) in 1911 and they are buried together but in 1930 census records show he was living and working as a farmer on Wright Rd. in Green Township with his mother, Tabitha (1854-1930) and his sister Bessie along with her husband Hugh Bernard and their grandson Paul, born c1925. Helen married Charles C. Perry in 1940, he died in Italy in 1944. She later remarried twice, to Robert Gall and then to Mr. Wilson.
  
• Dana Bond (68), his wife Luthera (69) and his brother Thomas (73) - Owners of house valued at $1800.
• Emma Trimble (73), her sister Francis Irons (72), and her sister-in-law Alice Trimble (81).  Their house valued at $2600
• Harry Bower (69), wife Margaret (57), son George (25) and daughter Sarah (21).  House valued at $2000.  Harry was a bookkeeper at the bank, George an inspector at a paper mill, and Sarah was also employed as a bookkeeper ar the record office.  Sarah graduated from NVHS in 1926 and later married a Mr. Nordonbrock.
• Clyde Curtis (50), wife Beatrice (45), children Robert (24), Marcille (16), Gayle (13), Jeanne (10), and Richard (8).  House valued $500.  Beatrice was employed doing housework in private homes, Robert as a lineman for the telegraph company.  Marcille graduated from NVHS in 1932, Jeanne in 1937 and Richard in 1939.  Richard married Arlene Preston who graduated from NVHS in 1941.  They had two children, Richard and Robert.
• Arthur Cade (61), wife Lillie (60), children Everett (25), Margaret (17) and Jessie (16) - Rental $8/month.  
• Margaret Ryan (60) and her daughter Mary Stultz (28) - house valued at $600.  Margaret born in Ireland, was Joseph's mother.  Mary was employed as a practical nurse in private homes.
• Joseph Ryan (32), wife Ella (34) and Ryan's step-children Cordelia (16) and Charles (15) Shaw - Rental $8/month.  Joe was a local blacksmith known for his strength.  He once was known to "throw" a refrigerator in anger.  His wife had a small garden business, selling seedlings, etc.
• Ed Magee (64) - Rental $2/month.  Ed was a shoestring salesman.

Farmer's Exchange becomes New Vienna Milling Co., Mill Story #2

"Put in a penny, turn the crank, and voila, a handful of peanuts would appear."


John Cooper bought the NV Milling Co., from McMillen Feed Mills in 1957, the year his son, Ed, graduated from High School.  

New Vienna Ohio Farmers' Exchange: Grain - Seed - Feed - Coal c1950.
Photo courtesy of Carolyn Collier Taubenheim

Previously John had managed two mills (Richmond & Fountain City) in Indiana for McMillen.  The family lived in Rushville IN before moving to New Vienna, although previously they had lived in the Xenia area.  Marie worked for a Dr. after high school who was into horses and met John's brother who was a feed salesman.  John and Marie first met on a blind date.

John 1912-1980 and Marie 1914-2004 had three sons, Ed who now lives in Dayton area and is retired from J.C. Penny's;  Bob graduated from NVHS in 1959 and now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Tom, NVHS Class of 1964 although thanks to consolidation he graduated from Simon Kenton.  He now lives in Phoenix, Arizona and has a Dairy Queen business.

Mill Workers, New Vienna Milling Co. c1958.
Left to right: Bob Cooper, Harry Everhart, Bud Storer, Phyllis Tilton White, Burdette Edgington, John Cooper.  Photo courtesy of Phyllis Tilton White.

Coopers sold the mill in 1970, John went into full time pig farming, raising piglets in a building specially built for 500 pigs on Clark Rd.  In 1967 and 1970 Marie is listed in the City Directory as being a clerk at the Stitching Post Store in Wilmington.  Ed, although he never attended school in NV, spent much time with his parents and with his Mom in her later years and has made many friends in New Vienna.  Coopers were also active in the NVUMC and Marie used her culinary expertise in running the kitchen at the NV Senior Center.

John bought 100 acres from Brumley on SR-350, sold 50 acres to Stan Hannah who built a house there and Hannah later built the new NVUMC.  After John died, Marie moved back into town and enjoyed her final years living in New Vienna.

Harry Everhart 1905-1973, lived in Penn Township, Highland County.  A farm laborer in 1930, wife Bessie and daughter Anna, brother-in-law John Edwards [related to Cornelia Edwards Carey?, she was Ralph Carey's mother, and lived next to them.]

Homer "Bud" Storer 1925-1976, father of Buddy (1947-1967, Donald who is now married to Burdette Edgington's daughter Carolyn, and Dana.  Divorced from his wife Mildred in 1971.  Mildred worked at Wells as did Carolyn.

Phyllis Tilton White - Graduated from NVHS in 1946 and began her working career with a brief stint at Wells Mfg. in 1947, then located in Dayton.  In 1948 she went to work full time for Eagle Specialties, a subdivision (?) of Carter Engineering, which made metal folding baby strollers.  When they went out of business she became a bookkeeper in 1949 at the NV Milling Co., which was then known as Farmer's Exchange owned by R.P. Barrett, with Elroyd Collier* as manager.  She worked at the mill 10 years, quitting when her mother was in very poor health.  After the death of her mother she returned to Wells, which had moved to New Vienna in 1948, where she was a dedicated employee for close to 40 years.

Burdette Edgington 1919-2011, father of Linda Lunsford, Ronald, Carolyn Storer (married Bud Storer's son, Donald), and Terry.  As well as working at the mill he was a WWII Army Veteran, a Clark Township Trustee and a longtime farmer in the Martinsville area.  He married Goldie Mae Alexander on December 16, 1941.

*Carolyn Collier Taubenheim remembers:  "I wasn't very old when Dad worked at the mill, but I do have some fond memories.  He took his daughter to work before it became so popular to do so years later!  

I loved riding in the big truck because it occasionally backfired, and I thought that was REALLY COOL!  I also remember going into the office where Phyllis Tilton worked.  She was such a nice lady.  Anyway, there was a gumball machine filled with peanuts, not gumballs.  Put in a penny, turn the crank, and voila, a handful of peanuts would appear.  Customers would come in to settle up with Phyllis, and I'd have myself parked next to that little machine.  When they'd turn to go, they'd see me me and ask, 'Oh, are you Elroyd's girl?'  I'd nod my head and more often than not, end up with peanuts!  

Another interesting thing is even though 'flour' is painted on the side of the building, I never saw any.  I think it was predominately a 'feed mill' selling feed for cattle and hogs.  It also sold some other things, like coal."  

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A future mill story will delve more deeply into the "flour" mentioned in the paragraph above.

Click here for Mill story #1 which focuses on the Shoemaker/Collier Family.

Rural Mail Directory 1924-27

Recently added to my reference library of New Vienna related items is a copy of the Clery's Rural Mail Directory for Clinton County, Ohio 1924-1927.  [Thanks, Dad!]  Here's an ad from the inside of the back cover:

New Vienna Bank and Fred A. Eaton Men's Clothing ads from 1924-1927 Clery's Rural Mail Directory for Clinton County, Ohio

Almost a century later the bank is still open although now part of NB&T.  Fred Eaton was most likely a competitor of Philips Bros. Clothing which later became Huffman Clothing where the long time employee was Bill Holmes.  Fred was the father of Doris Eaton Jones, and an uncle of Virginia Hildebrant, therefore a great-uncle of Janie Hildebrant Pidgeon.

Below are copies of the three pages covering New Vienna's RFD 1, 2 and 3, that list the people and the roads covered on each route.  Interestingly (and for privacy sake?) the people for each route are listed in alphabetical order.  Not sure how many of these families continue to occupy the same location -- that's research for someone who knows who lives there now.  I do see some familiar names.  Some of the road names have since changed, e.g. Highland Pike [SR-28], Centerville Pike [SR-729?], Willettsville Road [SR-124?], James Roads Pike [near James Roads house presumably].

If you are interested in the small print the number after the name is the number of acres with "O" denoting ownership, "R" renter, "L" laborer.  "L" with O or R denotes lot.

Rural Mail Routes and Names for New Vienna from 1924-1927 Clery's Rural Mail Directory for Clinton County, Ohio - RFD No. 1

Note the ad at the top for funeral homes, including Littleton which is still doing business in Sabina and then the ad in the middle stating "The old must die.  We are young and want your cream.  A. L. Kirk, Wilmington Produce Co."

Rural Mail Routes and Names for New Vienna from 1924-1927 Clery's Rural Mail Directory for Clinton County, Ohio - RFD No. 2 and No. 3

Rural Mail Routes and Names for New Vienna from 1924-1927 Clery's Rural Mail Directory for Clinton County, Ohio - RFD No. 3 Continued.