| Ohio (Preble County), Camden — Camden War Memorial |
| | This plaque has been placed here in grateful memory of our community's servicemen who have died to maintain the freedoms which we enjoy. Civil War VeteransFrank Hale - Frank Barnet - John L.D. Jones Jack Clarke - Ursah Bell - Allen B. Lowe Benjamen Beasley David Austin Rees World War 1John Harbaum - Albert Justice - Phalus Moran Warren Smith
1940 - 1970
Clayton Philips Andrews - Charles Curtis Moberly
Marvin Alcorn - Ralph Richardson
Lowell Ballinger - Ned Sebert
Leslie Boling - . . . — Map (db m17548) |
| Ohio (Preble County), Eaton — Birthplace of Swine Improvement in America |
| | First Ohio Testing Station 1946 — Map (db m19163) |
| Ohio (Preble County), Eaton — Ortt Fort Saint Clair Memorial |
| | Erected October 1922
by
Wm. H. Ortt.
Sacred to the memory
of the soldiers who
fought and died in the
battle with the Indians
at
Fort Saint Clair
November 6 1792.
Wilcox — Map (db m19157) |
| Ohio (Preble County), Eaton — Ortt's Preble County Civil War Memorial |
| | Erected by
Wm. H. Ortt
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Sacred to the memory
of his comrades of
the Civil War from
Preble County Ohio
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A.D. 1931
1861 1865 — Map (db m19153) |
| Ohio (Preble County), Eaton — 8-68 — Preble County Courthouse |
| | Marker Front:
The current Preble County Courthouse, the third courthouse erected on this site, was designed by noted architect and Preble County native Harvey Heistand. Its cornerstone was laid on March 17, 1917, with a copper box containing a bible, historic papers, and other memorabilia placed under the stone. Upon completion, the building was dedicated on September 10, 1918, with three thousand people attending the ceremony. Designed in the Neo-Classical style, the exterior was . . . — Map (db m17494) |
| Ohio (Preble County), Eaton — Preble County Veterans Memorial |
| | Dedicated to all veterans of Preble County — Map (db m19158) |
| Ohio (Preble County), Eaton — Roberts Bridge — 1829 |
| | Ohio's oldest and only standing double-barreled covered bridge and the oldest of six remaining in the nation.
Built by Orlistus Roberts and James Campbell over Seven Mile Creek on Old Camden Pike South of Eaton.
Relocated and restored in 1991 through the generous support of the community and the efforts of the Roberts Restoration Committee. — Map (db m19937) |
| Ohio (Preble County), Eaton — 68-1 — Roberts Bridge / Timber Covered Bridge |
| | [Side A] Roberts Bridge
This covered bridge in the oldest still (1962) standing in the state and the last of the "double-barreled" spans in Ohio. It was built across Seven Mile Creek on the Old Camden Road in 1829-30 by Orlistus Roberts and J.L. Campbell. Its three burr-arch trusses built of native oak and poplar with a clear span of 73 feet, support the double roadway. This plaque has been erected to give due honor to the early timber covered bridge builders of Ohio and the . . . — Map (db m20331) |
| Ohio (Preble County), Eaton — 2-68 — Site of Fort St. Clair |
| | Regular and militia troops under General James Wilkinson built this supply post and defensive fortification in March 1792 in preparation for Gen. “Mad Anthony” Wayne's campaign against the Indians of the Northwest Territory, following disastrous expeditions in 1790 and 1791. Built near a “fine spring gushing out of the bank,” the 120-foot square palisade fort had a four-sided bastion at each corner. Future U.S. president William Henry Harrison served in the detachment . . . — Map (db m19152) |
| Ohio (Preble County), Eaton — The Whispering Oak |
| | A Witness
Nov. 6. 1792
The International Society of Arborculture and the National Arborist Association jointly recognize this significant tree in this bicentennial year as having lived here during the American Revolutionary Period.
1776 - 1976
Dedicated by
Eaton Current Events Club
April 13, 1977 — Map (db m19161) |
| Ohio (Preble County), Eaton — 6-68 — William Bruce |
| | William Bruce founded and platted the city of Eaton in 1806. Born in Virginia in 1762, Bruce relocated to Ohio in 1793. In 1806, he purchased nearly two thousand acres of land from the government for the founding of Eaton. Bruce, a Revolutionary War veteran, named the town for General William Eaton, a veteran of the Tripolitan War, a war fought between the United States and the Barbary States from 1800-1805. Some of Eaton's principal streets also took their names from other Tripolitan War . . . — Map (db m17488) |
| Ohio (Preble County), Eaton — World War I Memorial |
| | Dedicated to those who served their country
World War 1917 - 1918 — Map (db m19154) |
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