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BUSINESSES 10

wo newspaper items and some faded memories led to the creation of this page.

Notice that the second of the two newspaper items shows the address of the Butler County Service and Supply Company as "Route 177 at Darrtown."

Phone calls to three Darrtown natives (Ron Wiley, Dale Bufler, and Charles Teckman) confirmed that an implement dealer/business operated from the old Darrtown high school building in the late 1940s.

Ron Wiley recalled, from his boyhood in Darrtown during late 1940s, that an implement business operated from the former school house.

Dale Bufler remembered the business being at the former school; but, could not providel any details.

Charles Teckman shared the following memory, during a phone call, in late January 2024:

Earl Folker (an Oxford businessman) was traveling from Hamilton to Oxford one day and, while driving through Darrtown, he noticed a crowd of people gathered in front of the old school. Upon stopping to investigate, Earl learned that the building was about to be auctioned. Earl stayed for for the auction and wound up buying the property.

Earl's nephew, a mechanic, possibly named Mark, ran the implement business, which involved repairing and selling farm machinery.

The Darrtown High School closed at the end of the 1938-39 school year.

In 1944, the Board of Education sold the building to Earl Folker.

In 1950, an administrator (presumably for the Folker estate) sold the building to the Fisherman Press.

The Butler County Recorder's office provides details of these property transactions. See: Lots 67, 75, 83, and 91.

"Route 177 at Darrtown" is not a very specific address / location.

However, the webmaster had a vague memory of being told that an implement business once operated from the former Darrtown High School building, after the school was closed by the state of Ohio. The school's location (on West Oxford Street, near the center of Darrtown) could easily be described as "Route 177 at Darrtown."

o, it seems reasonable to conclude, from the news articles, records, and memories cited above, that, during the late 1940s, the Butler County Service and Supply Company operated an implement business from the former Darrtown High School building.

Records at Ancestry.com, identify Earl Charles Folker (1895-1950) as a businessman, from Oxford, Ohio. According to the memory of Charles Teckman (cited above) during the time that Earl Folker owned the former Darrtown school house (1944-1950), he rented the property to a nephew, who operated the implement company.