| Ohio (Belmont County), Barnesville — American Legion Post 168 Veterans Memorial |
| |
In Memory of
All American Veterans
Lest We Forget — Map (db m26745) |
| Ohio (Belmont County), Barnesville — B&O Railroad Tunnel |
| | You are standing over a 423 foot man-made sandstone tunnel built by the railroad between 1864 and 1870. Located on the Pittsburgh-Columbus main line, up to 37 trains a day passed under East Main Street during the railroad’s heyday.
The station, rail, tunnel, and grounds were purchased by the community in 1991 after the line was abandoned. They are on the National Register of Historic Places. — Map (db m21012) |
| Ohio (Belmont County), Barnesville — Barnesville Veterans Memorial |
| | To honor those
who have served
to preserve this nation — Map (db m26752) |
| Ohio (Belmont County), Barnesville — Barnesville War Memorial |
| | Lest We Forget Those Who
Gave Their All For Our Country
Our Honored W.W. I K.I.A.
Wm. S. Bowen • Mansel E. Kaiser • George R. Higgins
Our Honored W.W. II K.I.A.
Edmund Bradfield • Wayne A. Thomas
Wm. O. Cordner • Lewis Wade
Paul Orwig • Clare Burbacher
Wm. G. Burcher • George Hilles
H. R. Collins • Kenneth Yannacci
Paul Hunkler • Roy E. Mann
John W. Heaney • Harold Burkhart
Charles Marmie • Donald Skinner
Eugene Morton • Ray Nichols
Charles McBride • Harold . . . — Map (db m26864) |
| Ohio (Belmont County), Barnesville — 7-7 — Governor Wilson Shannon 1802-1877 / Barnesville’s Shannon Family |
| | Governor Wilson Shannon (1802–1877),
Ohio, first native-born governor, Wilson Shannon was born in February 1802 in the Mt. Olivet area near Barnesville. After attending Ohio University and studying law in Kentucky, he returned to Belmont County to practice and was elected county attorney in 1833. Shannon served two terms as governor of Ohio, from 1838 to 1840 and again from 1842 to 1844, resigning to accept a presidential appointment as minister to Mexico. After participating in the . . . — Map (db m21055) |
| Ohio (Belmont County), Barnesville — September 11, 2001 |
| | We will never forget
the tragic events of
September 11, 2001
nor the lives that
were lost
Dedicated May 30, 2005 — Map (db m26862) |
| Ohio (Belmont County), Barnesville — The Village Bell |
| | Dedicated to all veterans
with appreciation for your
service and sacrifice
2 August 2008
Home of the Free Because of the Brave — Map (db m26860) |
| Ohio (Belmont County), Barnesville — VFW Post 2792 Veterans Memorial |
| | For
God and Country
in honor of those
who served in all wars
Lest We Forget
Memorial Day 1979 — Map (db m26749) |
| Ohio (Belmont County), Barnesville — 19-9 — Watt Car and Wheel Company |
| | Joseph Watt and son James H. started a small foundry in 1862 making plow points, window sash weights, and heating stoves. Later, brothers Stewart, Ross, and John W. joined and the name became J.H. Watt and Brothers. Securing a patent for a self-oiling mine car wheel, the business expanded to this 27-acre site. In 1891, Ohio gubernatorial candidate, and later U.S. president, William McKinley, dedicated the buildings. By 1901, over 135 were employed by Watt Mining Car Wheel Company producing . . . — Map (db m26750) |
| Ohio (Belmont County), Belmont — 5-7 — Harley E. Warrick — (1924–2000) |
| | The last barn painter for the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company of Wheeling, West Virginia, Harley Warrick painted thousands of barns with the familiar Mail Pouch Tobacco logo over his 48-year career. Mail Pouch transcended advertising to become a fixture of nostalgic Americana, emblazoning barns across fifteen states with the “Midwestern imperative,” Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco — Treat Yourself to the Best. Once a common form of advertising through the early 20th century, . . . — Map (db m1035) |
| Ohio (Belmont County), Blaine — 11-7 — Blaine Hill "S" Bridge / Blaine Hill Viaduct |
| | Blaine Hill "S" Bridge
The first Blaine Hill Bridge was constructed in 1828 as part of the National Road, the nation's first federally funded highway. This three-arch S-shaped structure, 345 feet in length, spans Wheeling Creek (a tributary of the Ohio River) and is the longest original "S" bridge in existence on the old National Road. At a gradient of approximately 6.3 percent from east to west, it significantly eased, for the first time, the arduous 500-foot western climb out of the . . . — Map (db m12618) |
| Ohio (Belmont County), Bridgeport — 4-7 — Historic Bridgeport |
| | Colonel Ebenezer Zane, one of the founders of Wheeling, laid out the village that became Bridgeport in 1806 on the site of Fort Kirkwood (1789). Originally named Canton, it acquired its present name after the bridge to Wheeling Island was built. The arrival of the National Road in 1818 made the growing town a major portal into the state of Ohio for westbound emigrants, adding to its importance as a port for Ohio River traffic. With the advent of railroads and, later, transcontinental highways, . . . — Map (db m515) |
| Ohio (Belmont County), Elizabethtown — 2-7 — Mile Marker |
| | The earliest highway signs along the National Road (Route 40) in Ohio were milestones located at one-mile intervals along the north side of the roadway. Each stone indicated the distance to Cumberland, Maryland, the eastern terminus of the National Road, and to the nearest cities and villages for both east and westbound travelers. — Map (db m21058) |
| Ohio (Belmont County), Morristown — 10-7 — Morristown |
| | Platted in 1802 by John Zane and William Chapline along the old Wheeling Road. Morristown was named for Duncan Morrison, an early settler, innkeeper, and Justice of the Peace. Older than the state itself. Morristown prospered into the mid-1800s, nurtured by trade along the National Road, the first federally funded highway project in the United States. The National Road was a major overland route to the West in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Federal style brick and frame . . . — Map (db m287) |
| Ohio (Belmont County), St. Clairsville — Belmont County Revolutionary War Veterans |
| | This memorial plaque was placed by the Zane's Trace Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in grateful memory of those buried in the soil of Belmont County who loved country more than life and served in the American Revolution - 1775 - 1783.
Dedicated July 4, 1976 — Map (db m26739) |
| Ohio (Belmont County), St. Clairsville — Belmont County Veterans Memorial |
| | This memorial
erected by the
people of
Belmont County
dedicated to
the veterans
of all wars — Map (db m26742) |
| Ohio (Belmont County), St. Clairsville — Home of Benjamin Lundy |
| | Here in 1815 he organized the Union Human Society, the first abolitionist society in the U.S.
Born 1789 N.J. Died 1839 Illinois.
Edited The Genius of Universal Emancipation 1821-1838. Devoted his life to the abolition of slavery. — Map (db m4955) |
| Ohio (Belmont County), St. Clairsville — Milestone Marks where Extension of National Road... |
| | Milestone marks where extension of National Road west of Ohio River was started July 4, 1825.
Stone relocated 1964 — Map (db m5027) |
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