Train Depot

Bird's Eye View

NEW! Photos from the

Mary Botkin Collection,

James W. Thompson, Curator

All Aboard!

This is a relatively late photograph of the train depot at the State Street (then Railroad Street) crossing. Passenger service allowed day trips to Lima, Dayton, even Cincinnati.

 

Bird's Eye View

This postcard ca. 1903 shows a "bird's eye view" of Botkins, looking East.

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Photographs from the Mary Botkin Collection

New August 1997!

• A tax voucher of Richard Botkin's shortly before his death
• The Botkin homestead, an early photo
• Another photo of the Botkin home in 1891
• Botkins school
• School class of 1888
• A school photo from 1905
• The Wenger school
• A reunion of the Elliott family who lived West of Botkins
• Warren Botkin as a young gentleman
• The imprint of A.E. Blakely, photographer

Tax voucher

This tax voucher is for property tax on the land that was eventually deeded and platted as Botkins, Ohio. The voucher is dated 1856.

Botkin home

Two views of the Botkin home. The house is still occupied.

Botkin home about 1891.

House before adding foundation, porch, etc.

l-r: Alex Botkin, Retta Botkin, Edmund Lambert, father of Retta.

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School photos

	Botkins School
	Botkins School 1888 Mr. McCullough, Teacher
	Botkins School - 1905 Back row l-r -- Peter Ream, Ernest Boyer, Elmer Collins, Carl Hagelberger Second row -- Willard Boyer, Paul Cole, Robert Kuhn, Herbert Wical, Ream boy, Kuhn girl, Warren Botkin, Mary Botkin, Blanch Boyer, Flossie Wical Front row -- Elmer Schurr, Bonnie Boyer, Gladys Boyer, Elmer Swim, Alvin Paul, Elzy Wooddell, Kuhn girl, Ferna Iiams, Carrie Wical, Roena Paul, Mable Woodell, Rachel Morris, Elizabeth Morris
	Wenger School, Botkins Retta (Lambert) Botkin, Teacher

FAMILY GATHERING

Lorenzo Elliott and wife

farm West of Botkins 1894

A.E. Blakeley, Photographer, Box 105, Botkins, OH

Front: Walter Looker, Warren Botkin

Back: ?, Neal Sullivan, Urban Zaenglein

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