| Ohio (Williams County), Bryan — 3-86 — Bryan's Air Mail Field | | | Here, on September 6, 1918, Bryans’ Air Mail Field began oeprations as one of Ohio’s first official airfields ith the arrival of a survey flight to establish air mail service between New York and Chicago. Scheduled servcie began on July 1, 1919, and stretched west to San Francisco on September 8, 1920, completing the 2,666 mile U.S. transcontinental air mail route. Flying the Curtiss JN-4H “Jenny.” R-4. Standard JR-1B, and later the De Havilland DH-4, aviators pioneered cross . . . — Map (db m3358) | | Ohio (Williams County), Bryan — 4-86 — Rail Speed Record | | | In 1966 the New York Central railroad Company (A.E. Perlman, President) proposed a test of existing rail passenger equipment to determine the feasibility of operating high-speed passenger service between cities up to 300 miles apart. The site chosen for the test was near Bryan, Ohio on the longest multiple track straight railroad line in the world. This sixty-seven mile straight trackage from Toledo, Ohio to Butler, Indiana was originally constructed by the Northern Indiana Railroad Company of . . . — Map (db m5622) | | Ohio (Williams County), Montpelier — 2-86 — Paul Allman Siple | | | Paul Allman Siple was born here on December 18, 1908. In 1927, he was chosen from thousands of ambitious Eagle Scouts to accompany Admiral Richard E. Byrd on his first Antarctic Expedition. Twelve years later, while attending Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, he earned a PH.D. in geography, writing Adaptions of the Explorer to the Climate of Antarctica as his doctoral dissertation. In it, he coined the term ‘windchill’ to denote the rapid heat loss experienced by a body under . . . — Map (db m4009) | | Ohio (Williams County), Montpelier — 1-86 — The Nettle Lake Mound Group | | | (Obverse):
The Nettle Lake Mound group consists of 4 low mounds overlooking a stream that runs into Nettle Lake. The mounds vary in height from 1 to 3 feet and in diameter from 18 to 3- feet. The mounds are composed primarily of reddish-brown sand (secondary mound) covering a layer of darker sand and loam (primary mound).
These mounds have been partially excavated in the past by pot hunters in search of relics. Although the records of these excavations are vague and incomplete, . . . — Map (db m4010) | | Ohio (Williams County), Stryker — Stryker | | | Stryker
Home of
William J. Knight
A captor of the
Confederate
Locomotive
"The General" — Map (db m21078) |
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