Chillicothe, OH yester years pictures and information

Chillicothe & Area Yester Years updated Jan 14, 2012

Apollo Theatre at Chillicothe, OH

Chillicothe 1910 base ball club

Chillicothe German-Salem Church

Chillicothe Bridge street at Main street

1848 View of Chillicothe, OH

Chillicothe Electric and Power Plant

Birds eye view of Chillicothe c. 1910

Panoramic view of Chillicothe

Second Street looking East from Paint Street

Looking East Down Second Street from Paint Street, Chillicothe

Chillicothe Hospital c 1918

Birds Eye View of Mead Paper Mill

Meade Paper Mill abt 1907

Meade Pulp and Paper Company 1917

Meade Pulp and Paper Company

Meade Pulp and Paper Company office building 1927

Main Street looking east from Paint Street about 1912

East Main Street Bridge Chillicothe, Ohio

Chillicothe Fraternal Order of Eagles was located on North Walnut Street in this former Methodist church and even had bowling allys in it. It was torn down in 1940. The Methodist had built this one in 1850 after a wooden one had burned down on West Second Street. By 1905 They needed a new one so they built a new one on the west corner of Main and Walnut Streets.

Main Street looking east from Paint Street

Masonic Temple c. 1907

Masonic Temple early 1900s

East Main Street and Masonic Temple, Chillicothe, OH

Building on left was torn down in the 70's for the church, pictured next door, to expand. Prior to being torn down it was a furniture store.

Main Street looking east from Paint Street

Sears & Nichols Canning Factory 1917 located where Sack & Save is on Main Street. They canned about anything a farmer could bring to town.

Chillicothe Second street as viewed from High Street

Wiggins House at East Fifth Street at Caldwell

First National Bank Block early 1900s

North High Street looking North, Chillicothe, Ohio

Wissler Brewery Company was located on Wissler lane near intersection of Main Street & Western Avenue. The brewery had a Series of underground rooms to store and keep the bear cold.

Note I do not think that is a hole in the wall but just a tear in the photo taken about 1907.

Chillicothe Elks Club

Queen Ann style house built 1894 at 47 East 5th Street, Chillicothe. At time of picture the home was being used as a Bed & Breakfast.

Puprero's Super Market on High Street looking South was built in 1950. This area was pretty much farm land at the time. Note the 49 Packard nearest the street owned by Tony Puprero. The store was started by Charles Puprero and later took in his brothers Tony and Frank who came to Chillicothe from Milwaukee. The store opened with two meat cutters Jack Samson & Ott Wetzel and kept three girls busy wrapping the meat, Jackie Ward (Charles's daughter), Rosemary Boles and Rosemary Bowman. Because the owners of the land would not sell, the store was built on land with a long term lease.

Note the Aunt Hattie's bread sign on the store. It was a local bread company at the time.

A little history on Charles Puprero. He first came from Milwaukee to Dayton where he operated a produce place. From there he came to Waverly, Ohio and ran a Italian style restaurant. The restaurant is now a home and it you go west straight past the Senior Citizens center and don't make the curve you will run into the house. This use to be the route 23 into Waverly. The restaurant was turned over to brother Ted and he went to Chillicothe and started peddling fruit. In 1938-1939 he had a store a grocery and produce store at the corner of Church and High Streets. During WWII he had a fruit market at the corner of Paint and Water Street across from the present day Men's Shop.

There was also plans to build a 18 cent hamburger restaurant on High street using part of the hotel next to the current Dairy Queen with the lot that the Dairy Queen is on as the parking lot. The idea was canceled when it was discovered that customers would not be allowed to enter the parking lot off of High Street. Instead Charles son, Bill Puprero came to Piketon and bought a former truck stop restaurant. Go to A Look at Piketon pg. 3 for the story on the Piketon restaurant.

photo and information courtesy of Bill Puprero

Chillicothe Library about 1909

Marzluffs Hill abt 1905

The Woodson home was located on Marzluffs Hill on the farm of a prominent ironmaster, Thomas James. Woodson, Thomas Jefferson descendant, worked for James after he brought Jemima, his wife and their eight children from Virginia. Their home was adjacent to a farm owned by the Renick family, which had migrated to Ohio in the early 1800's from Greenbrier County Virginia. Note bridge over Honey Creek. This Hill was also known as old Water Street Hill.

Green Circle Motel and Trailer Park

Chillicothe East Main Street Bridge

Paint Creek Bridge	Paint Creek Bridge
Columbus Pike Bridge	Columbus Pike Bridge (left) and Chillicothe Traction Co. Bridge abt. 1918
Soldiers Monument, Main & Walnut streets, Chillicothe. The Soldiers Monument is now located at the entrance to Yoctangee Park.	1917 photo of Chillicothe Bottling Co. that faced Mill Street and the old canal bed. Countless bottles of milk and cola were bottled here.
The Ohio National Guard Armory built in 1926	Photo taken just North of the Alma United Methodist Church about 1925 Young lad at the end of the second row is Raymond Perry Woods
	Chillicothe Hospital before 1918
Chillicothe abt. 1917 High Street looking north	1947 Schiff's Gulf Station at 5th & Hickory Streets, Chillicothe
Antique Vacuum Cleaner made in Chillicothe by Ramey Company in the late 1800s or early 1900s	Antique Vacuum Cleaner made in Chillicothe by Ramey Company in the late 1800s or early 1900s
Sears & Nichols Canning Factory abt. 1910 located where Sack & Save is on Main Street. Note what looks like a pipe across the street was a conveyer to send cans to the factory. Pentwater, MI in 1914 also had a Sears & Nichols Canning Factory	1920's Pride of Fairfield Can Label

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