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  A Stroll Down Memory Lane!
                                       
(Click on each photo for full image)

OLD EAST SIDE LINCOLN SCHOOL located at the corner of Hill and North Wood Streets. Built about 1860, it was torn down in 1959, and is presently the site of the Wesleyan Church.

A number of bricks from the old school basement were taken at that time by Ed Potter with permission of Pastor Miller and became a part of the brick fireplace at the Potter home on Meridian Road
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DEPOT FOR CINCINNATI, JACKSON AND MACKINAC RAILROAD The line was later called the Cincinnati Northern. The first train passed through Hudson from the Ohio Line to Addison on December 28, 1887. The tracks were removed in 1977. The depot was located south of Mechanic Street and east of St. Giles. Part of it was moved to the east end of Fayette Street from its original site in 1951 by B.A. Bowditch.
 

 

PETE'S CONFECTIONARY, operated by Pete and Nancy Spadafora, located at 215 W. Main Street, was a favorite hangout for teenagers in the 1940s. Opened in 1941, it was sold in 1950 to Vern and Freda Morgan.
 

 


324 Railroad St. [NE corner Railroad St. & West St]. In 1882, The Zauber Wasser Sanitarium, previously named Woodbine Health Resort, was built by Dr. George Chapman. It was known for its mineral baths — treating all diseases except tuberculosis. When Dr. Chapman died in 1906, the sanitarium was closed. It was then used as a rooming house and is now an apartment.
 

 

GEORGE ENGLISH had a music store at 139 W. Main Street. He also took a piano around the countryside in a truck, so his daughter Grace could demonstrate it. In the picture the lady standing is Lydia M. Yoakam; the girls at the piano are Grace and Ruby English. The seated lady is Estella English, George's wife. Lydia Yoakam was Estelle's sister. The men in the truck in the picture are unknown.

 

 

Henry Reuter with Dodge, about 1980.

 

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