Excello, Ohio

Excello is an unincorporated community in central Lemon Township, Butler County, Ohio, United States, on the south side of Middletown.^[1] It comprises roughly the area south of Oxford State Road and State Route 73, west of State Route 4, and east of the Great Miami River. The Excello Lock was a canal lock on the Miami and Erie Canal. 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 National Register of Historic Places.

Excello, Ohio
Unincorporated Community
Location of Excello, Ohio
Coordinates: 39°28′51″N 84°25′08″W

Excello sprang up when the Excello Paper Company opened at the site in the 1860s.^[2] A post office was opened in Excello on November 10, 1870, but no longer exists.^[3]

Notable person

• J. Eugene Harding, United States Representative
• Howard Jones, Football Player and Head Coach of, most notably, USC
• John Quirk Sherman, Inventor and Dayton businessman of the Standard Register Co. (now Taylor Communications)