| Ohio (Knox County), Brandon — Brandon World War II Honor Roll |
| | Ayers, Edwin - Beever, Joseph - Bird, Donald
Bunnell, Walter - Carpenter, Robert - Chambers, Merritt Chrisman, Clarence - Chrisman, Everett - Cochran, Chester
Conard, John - Dennison, William - Donze, Roy
Dunmire, Hershel - Dunn, Harrison
Ellis, Carrol - Gaines, Paul - Genre, Derwin
Glaros, Engel - Glaros, George A.- Glaros, John A.
Goodall, Percy - Hamilton, Virgil - Harris, Chester
Harris, Harley - Harshbarger, Homer - Hayes, Hallie Jr.
Hayes, Woodrow - Hines, Robert - Houck, . . . — Map (db m19768) |
| Ohio (Knox County), Fredericktown — Greenville Treaty Line — Originated 1797 |
| | This starred line marks the crossing in Knox County of the Greenville Treaty Line as surveyed by Israel Ludlow between 1797 and 1799; that part running from near Fort Laurens in the eastern part of the state, to a point near Fort Recovery, thence southwesterly to a point on the Ohio River opposite the mouth of the Kentucky River.
The Greenville Treaty was signed August 3, 1795, and by the terms of the Treaty the Indian tribes gave up their claims to the lands to the south and east of this line. — Map (db m17478) |
| Ohio (Knox County), Gambier — 0-6-0 Steam Locomotive |
| | This 0-6-0 switcher locomotive and tender were built by the American Locomotive Company (Alco) of Schenectady, N.Y., for the Alabama State Docks Commission in November 1940. Road number 63 was used to switch cargo at the docks in Mobile, Ala. This was the fourth and last steam locomotive ordered by the State Docks Commission from Alco.
The American Locomotive Company was known for its steam locomotives, such as the 4-6-4 Hudsons and the 4-8-4 Niagaras it built for the New York Central . . . — Map (db m13872) |
| Ohio (Knox County), Gambier — C & O caboose |
| | The humble caboose was a fixture on the end of freight trains for more than a century. It has been called by many slang names including crummy, shack, shanty and cabin car. A caboose provided a sheltered vantage point from which trainmen could watch the cars ahead, cook and eat their meals and where the conductor could do paperwork.
This Chesapeake & Ohio caboose was part of an order of 100 wood cabooses built by the Standard Steel Car Company of Baltimore, Md. These cars were numbered 90700 . . . — Map (db m13874) |
| Ohio (Knox County), Gambier — David Bates Douglass |
| | Whoever passes through this gateway should remember David Bates Douglass
A gallant soldier and officer in the War of 1812
A civil engineer of distinction
A teacher of wide experience
who in the years 1841-1844 while president of Kenyon College laid out and beautified its grounds made the path through them and erected these pillars
Hinc adeo media est nobis via- mic moeri canamus — Map (db m13869) |
| Ohio (Knox County), Gambier — Edward Bates Memorial |
| | This glacial boulder from the Bates Homestead in Columbus, Ohio was given to Kenyon College in 1953 by Fanny Platt Bates Little in memory of her brother Edward Bates son of Judge James Lawrence Bates and grandson of the honorable Alfred Kelley a student at Kenyon 1859 until his death here in 1860 age 18. — Map (db m13871) |
| Ohio (Knox County), Gambier — Gambier |
| | In 1823, Ohio Episcopal Bishop Philander Chase purchased 8,000 acres of what he called the “beauty spot” of Knox County. Here, he founded Kenyon College, the first men's college west of the Allegheny Mountains, and the second oldest college in Ohio. It was not until 21 years after the start of the college, and long after the departure of Chase, who had opposed development, that the quiet village of Gambier was laid out.
With the construction of a railroad line between Cleveland . . . — Map (db m13873) |
| Ohio (Knox County), Gambier — George Wharton Marriott |
| | In grateful memory of
George Wharton Marriott of London
One of the earliest and most devoted of the English friends of Kenyon College.
Through him Bishop Chase knew Lord Kenyon, Doctor Gaskin and Lady Rosse.
In his honor these grounds were named in 1826
Marriott Park
and he suggested for its entrance gate the inscription
Inter Sylvas Academi Quaerere Verum — Map (db m13868) |
| Ohio (Knox County), Gambier — 6-42 — John Crowe Ransom & — The Kenyon Review |
| | Side A:
In 1938 the president of Kenyon College, Gordon Keith Chalmers, brought one of the nation's most distinguished poets and critics, John Crowe Ransom, to the Gambier Hill. Chalmers brought Ransom to Kenyon College to create a distinguished literary review. With its first appearance late in 1938, The Kenyon Review would become one of the most influential and honored literary magazines in America. Among the authors Ransom published during his two decades as editor were Robert Penn . . . — Map (db m13866) |
| Ohio (Knox County), Gambier — 7-42 — Kenyon College — Pioneer in Higher Education |
| | The state's oldest private institution of higher education, Kenyon College was founded in 1824 in Worthington by Philander Chase, first Episcopal bishop of Ohio, and relocated to Gambier four years later. Both college and village are named for British benefactors, statesman Lord Kenyon and naval hero Lord Gambier. Throughout its history, Kenyon has prepared men and women for leading roles in society, including nineteenth-century graduates Edwin M. Stanton, Abraham Lincoln's secretary of war, . . . — Map (db m13867) |
| Ohio (Knox County), Gambier — Old Kenyon Cornerstone |
| | Laid June 9, 1827 by
The Right Reverend Philander Chase
This tablet records the centennial
commemoration on Sunday June 19, 1927
when the original ceremony was reviewed by
The Right Reverend William Andrew Leonard — Map (db m13870) |
| Ohio (Knox County), Mount Vernon — Civil War Soldiers Monument |
| | (south face)
“Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”
In grateful appreciation of the Patriotism and selfsacrifice of the lamented sons and soldiers of Knox Co. who for their Country and for freedom, laid down their lives in the war of the great Rebellion.
This Monument is erected. They laid down their own lives that the life of the Nation might be preserved and shared in the glory of securing to every dweller in the land a heritage of human freedom and their blood helped . . . — Map (db m12727) |
| Ohio (Knox County), Mount Vernon — 4-42 — Johnny Appleseed's Early Landholdings |
| | This is the site of Johnny Appleseed's earliest known recorded landholdings. Appleseed (whose legal name was John Chapman) purchased two parcels from Joseph Walker on September 14, 1809: Mount Vernon town lot 147, upon which you stand, and lot 145, which is across the road and north of this site.
Johnny Appleseed likely rested here on August 10, 1813, after arriving from Mansfield with alarming news of a rumored Indian attack. Appleseed returned to Mansfield with reinforcements from Mount . . . — Map (db m13875) |
| Ohio (Knox County), Mount Vernon — Knox County Veterans Walk of Honor |
| | So proudly we stand
in tribute to the
Veterans of
America as one
nation under
God with
liberty and
freedom
for all.
Welcome to the Knox County Veterans Walk of Honor
Public Square Flag Pole
Dedicated: May 26, 2008 — Map (db m12730) |
| Ohio (Knox County), Mount Vernon — 9-42 — Lakeholm Administration Building — Mount Vernon Nazarene University |
| | Lakeholm was built as the home of Columbus Delano while serving as Secretary of the Interior under President Ulysses S. Grant from 1870 to 1875. Delano (1809-1896) came to Mount Vernon in 1817, attended public schools, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1831. In addition to practicing law in Mount Vernon and serving as the Prosecuting Attorney of Knox County, Delano was a farmer, mill owner, and politician. Lakeholm, originally part of a 300-acre farm, contains many of its original . . . — Map (db m13884) |
| Ohio (Knox County), Mount Vernon — 2-42 — Little Indian Fields |
| | Named for the Native Americans who first dwelled here along both sides of the Kokosing River, the Little Indian Fields is adjacent to the site of the first white settlement of Knox County. Early white inhabitants of this land were Andrew and Catherine Craig and Benjamin and John Butler. John “Appleseed” Chapman planted an apple orchard near here at the confluence of the Kokosing River and Centre Run and in 1809 bought two lots in Mount Vernon. In 1808 the Ohio Legislature created . . . — Map (db m18747) |
| Ohio (Knox County), Mount Vernon — 3-42 — Mary Ann Ball — “Mother Bickerdyke” |
| | Mary Ann Ball was born in this vicinity in 1817 and began her nursing career at age 20. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Mary at the age of 45 went to the soldiers' aid. Ignoring rank, protocol, and allegiance, she pursued fearlessly and with inexhaustible energy her mission to care for the sick and wounded. Rebel, Union, and Negro soldiers all received the same attention. She risked enemy fire, especially through Grant's Western Campaign and Sherman's Georgia Campaign, to rescue suffering . . . — Map (db m12723) |
| Ohio (Knox County), Mount Vernon — Mt. Vernon |
| | Daniel Decatur Emmett
Author of “Dixie”
Born and Buried here — Map (db m12729) |
| Ohio (Knox County), Mount Vernon — 5-42 — Vallandigham's Speech, 1863 |
| | Side A:
On May 1, 1863, Peace Democratic Party leader Clement L. Vallandigham spoke to 10,000 people from this spot. Vallandigham's party, known by their opponents as "Copperheads," opposed the Civil War as an encroachment on both individuals' and states' rights, and favored a peaceful settlement with the Confederacy. Shortly after the beginning of the war, President Lincoln had suspended the writ of habeas corpus, which requires the state to show cause for arrest, as an emergency . . . — Map (db m12726) |
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