Pleasant Hill History Center

Merchant Files

Amick Tomato Cannery

• Newspaper October 1952 - Seniors aid Cannery
• Canning Company Advertisements (4)
• Canning Company Stationary

Appraisement quadrennial Village of Pleasant Hill 1910

• Copy and original Appraisement of Pleasant Hill Properties 1910

Art Guild- Stillwater (1995)

• Newspaper article
• Mailing List
• Newsletter

Astrobud Garden Club

• Programs 1984, 1985, 1989, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2006
• (2) Newspaper articles - 2002

Bank Murder (1990)

• Various newspaper articles about Bank robbery - 1990

Bledsoe House

• Article by Sharon Bledsoe
• Newspaper article - July 27, 1984

Brethren Church Genealogy

• Timeline of origin of Church of the Brethren

Bank Pleasant Hill Building and Loan (1995)

• Grand Opening of Covington Savings and Loan - June 21, 1995
• Article on Covington Savings and Loan - July 5, 1995

Businesses of Pleasant Hill

• Sharon Bledsoe article
• School of Dance article

Correspondence

• Don and Shirley Hamann
• Earl Casterline

Centennial of Pleasant Hill

• Original centennial booklet notes
• Newspaper article from Stillwater 1966

Church Brethren in Christ

• Article on Bicentennial
• Pamphlet
• People of church
• Evangelical Visitor - May 1986
• May 1990 church Program

Church of the Brethren

• 1926 Church Visitor
• Newsletter
• 1945 Picture of Sunday School Class
• Unknown Picture
• 2 Postcards
• Apron Meal

Circle Hill

• Newspaper articles - Stillwater Advertiser
• Circle Hill Band
• Country America Magazine (Article about Walley’s)

Cecil Laudenslayer Store

• Copy of Photo of Cecil - Laudenslayer Store

Civil War Newspaper

• Newspaper about the Civil War

Church, First Brethren

• 100^th Birthday of Church
• Constitution and By Laws of Church
• The First Brethren Church Directory
• History of the Pleasant Hill 1^st Brethren Church

Church of God

• History of Church of God

Donald Coates’ Horse

• 1987 Record will of Donald Coate’s Horse

Cross’ Market

• Eagle Stamp Book

Dayton Covington Piqua Traction Line

• D C & P Traction Line Book

Directory City 1931

• 1931 Pleasant Hill City Directory

Don Evans US Patent

• Don Evan’s Patent for a baseball card display

Farmer’s Institute 1912

• Grange programs and minute book

Fire Department Pleasant Hill 1994

• 100^th anniversary of the Pleasant Hill Fire Department

GAR Dan Williams #369

• Membership list
• Information from the 1886 History book
• Copy of Descriptive Book
• By-Laws of GAR
• Roll of Honor
• List of buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery

Grange Pleasant Hill #175

• History of the Grange
• Roster of Miami County Granges
• Real estate transfers - Grange

Heifer Project from Mary Via

• Pamphlets on Heifer Project
• Letter from Mary Via
• Goshen News article
• Heifer Project booklet
• A Trip to Poland with Brethren Service
• Marvin Miller’s Trip to Poland
• Catalogue
• Picture of Dan West Family

Hospitals

• Margaret Oakes receipts

Iddings Times Paper

• Newspaper called Iddings Times

Indian Hills 4-H Camp

• Pamphlets on 4-H Camp

Jackson Funeral Home

• News articles

Jail

• Newspaper article on Pleasant Hill Jail

Kiwanis Club

• Picture of Kiwanis Club members with names

Grocery Ads from Cecil & Laudenslayer

• 1947 Newspaper article on old cash register
• Many ads from Cecil & Laudenslayer grocery

Laundromat

• Newspaper article on P.H.L. Ice and Laundry
• P.H.L. Ice bag

Library

• Plans for creating library from Ella Wampler’s Home
• Christmas Walk 1994
• Genealogy workshops 1998
• Open House 2007 for 50^th anniversary of library

Lions Club

• Picture of members
• News article on New Lions Club
• Banquet Program from 1949

Lodge Pleasant Hill

• History of Pleasant Hill Masons (See also Mason’s file)
• Pouch for Lodge 361

Log Homes

• Notes on early log homes

Miami County History

• 1972 Miami County History Pamphlet
• Miami County Maps from 1907 and 1914

Monument Civil War

• Monument book pages
• Picture of trolley around monument
• 2010 Newspaper article
• Application for relatives of Monument names
• Newspaper and Magazine articles
• 1897 Monument Bond copy
• Copies of pictures of Monument Plate
• Regimental Histories and Monument book pages
• Newspaper articles
• Newspaper article from 1895 on the dedication

Moul, Daniel Lumber Company

• Receipts from the Daniel Moul Lumber Company

Misc. flyers

• Envelopes from Pleasant Hill businesses
• Isenbarger Tray information
• Boots and Shoes Card (copy)
• 1871 Businesses
• 1931 Businesses
• 1875 Newton Township Businesses
• Picture Show flyers - possibly 1931

Newton Township History

• Township Map with Pleasant Hill information
• 1870 Federal Census for Pleasant Hill
• 1972 Article by Thomas Wheeler about Newton Township

Newton Township School

• 1983 History Book
• Proof of History Book

Oakes Beitman Library

• Two programs from the opening April 28, 1957

Odd Fellows

• By-Laws Booklet

Old Soldiers Festival

Troy Library Lease Agreement

• 1977 & 1986 Lease agreements with Library
• 1968 copy of drawing of addition

Pathfinder magazine 1936

• Pathfinder magazine from 1936

Pleasant Hill Bank

• Donated bank safe (Located in Township Garage)
• Cancelled check from Pleasant Hill Banking Company (In frame)

Pleasant Hill Farmers’ Exchange

• History of the group started in 1914
• Farm Center calendar from 1992

Pleasant Hill History by Maude Arnett

• 2 Copies of 1916 History of Pleasant Hill by Maude Pierce Arnett

Pleasant Hill History

• Brochure with monument
• Early history by Rike Kumler Co.
• Early History of Pleasant Hill  by J. N. Williams written about 1930
• Newton Township driving tour
• 2 copies of book Tiny Town
• Jack Thomas notes on old building written in 2011
• Receipt for Mayor’s Pay 1901
• Bicycle shop photo
• Information no Tom Bohlander building
• Information on ________
• Newspaper  CAMERICA with article on Pleasant Hill - 1950

Pleasant Hill Village Records

• Financial records of village 1986 - 1987

Pleasant Hill Village, Miscellaneous

• Newsletters
• Newspaper on Newton
• Timeline
• Population
• Cecil and Laudenslayer Demolition
• Newspaper article on Monument

Pleasant Hill Village News clippings

• Village News clippings
• Troy paper 1950 - Pleasant Hill Pioneer Days
• Stillwater 1966 - Centennial Persons
• Library report 1975
• Jan Schultz - Township Building Recycling
• Photo Robert Sing 1904
• Photo Joel Rothermal - First Mayor 1886
• Roofing farmhouse at Joyland

Pleasant Hill Post Office

• 1839 - 1989 Sesquicentennial and newspaper article on clerk Forrest Curtis

Pleasant Hill 1866 Petition to incorporation

• 2 Copies of Petition to incorporate with 52 signatures

Pleasant Hill City Records

• Federal Civil Works Administration - compiled in 1914
• Blueprint from street improvement from 1972

Pleasant Hill Sewerage Company

• 1937 document and 1918 stocks

Pleasant Hill Village of

• Curfew ordinance resolution in 1962
• Cancelled checks
• Revenue bond from 1936
• Pleasant Hill Water Works - 1939

Pleasant Hill Walking tour

• Maps and listing of Homes

Rasor Plumbing and Heating

• 1983 Rasor Calendar
• Rasor Plumbing Christmas cards

Roetter’s Grocery

• Newspaper article on Roetter’s Market

Road opening and closing 1868

• Road in Section 13 - 1868
• Road in Section 22 - 1868

Schultz Oliver White Equipment

• Many invoices from Schultz Equipment
• Newspaper article
• Auction pamphlets
• White tractor pamphlet
• checks
• White Award
• White sale ads

Spiker Wagon Company

• Spiker Wagon Co. Piqua - card

Howe Sewing Machine Company

• Information on Howe Sewing Machine
• Sewing machine returned to original owner

Sugar Grove Cemetery

• Cemetery receipts for A. H. Deeter and Rowland Shellabarger

Sugar Grove Mill

• Mill article (1950’s)
• 2 photos of mill
• Picture of Hoover Residence
• Article 1978 from Stillwater Paper

Sugar Grove Mill receipts

• Receipts from 1950’s

Triathlon

• Flyer for 1^st triathlon
• 1993 flyer
• 1987 newspaper article
• 1987 Stillwater paper
• 1987 Great Lakes Triathlete Paper
• Third annual Triathlon flyer
• Eighth annual Triathlon flyer
• 1990 Stillwater article

Tommy Lewis Park

• 2 Newspaper articles
• Thank you names to donating to park
• Newspaper article featuring Dick and Norma Holsinger

United Church of Christ

• Picture of Men in front of Church
• Postcard of Church by J.W. Gowdy
• Church letters
• Genealogy of Christian Church
• Sesquicentennial Yearbook
• Church Messenger booklet - 1951
• Church Bulletin - December 11, 1958
• Pilgrim Uniform Quarterly - 1963
• Newspaper article on the Church being placed on the Historic Register - 2002
• Church Mouse - May 2013

Veterans

• VFW newsletter - 2008

WCTU

• 1906 Program on the Women’s Christian Temperance Union

Women’s Fashions

• Fashion pages
• Paper dress