Excello is an

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in central Lemon Township, Butler County,

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, on the south side of Middletown. It comprises roughly the area south of Oxford State Road and State Route 73, west of State Route 4, and east of the

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. The Excello

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was a canal lock on the

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. Remnants of the lock remain as public property owned by the MCD (Miami Conservancy District). Also in Excello was former Harding-Jones Paper Company plant, which is now closed but is on the

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. Excello sprang up when the Excello Paper Company opened at the site in the 1860s. A post office was opened in Excello on November 10, 1870, but no longer exists.

Notable person

J. Eugene Harding John Eugene Harding (June 27, 1877 – July 26, 1959) was a businessman and one-term member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio from 1907 to 1909. Early life and career Harding was born in Excello, Ohio, the son of pape ...

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* Howard Jones, Football Player and Head Coach of, most notably,

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*John Quirk Sherman, Inventor and

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businessman of the Standard Register Co. (now Taylor Communications)

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