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Schwartz Cemetery Veterans Memorial

 
 
Schwartz Cemetery Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Craig Doda, February 8, 2020
1. Schwartz Cemetery Veterans Memorial
Inscription. The flag placed here is to honor all veterans known or unknown interred here at Schwartz Cemetery
 
Erected by Veterans Service Commission, Hancock County.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial SitesWar, Korean.
 
Location. 41° 2.632′ N, 83° 46.923′ W. Memorial is in Benton Ridge, Ohio, in Hancock County. It is on Local Highway 132 0.1 miles north of Local Highway 89, on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 5615 Township Hwy 132, Benton Ridge OH 45816, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Ohio’s Till Plains. It is also in the American Midwest and in the Corn Belt. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, and the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 5 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Indian Green / McKinnis-Litzenberg Farmstead (approx. 1.4 miles away); In the fall of 1821 (approx. 1.4 miles away); Barn Again! (approx. 1½ miles away); Litzenberg Legacy (approx. 1.6 miles away); Indian Green Cemetery Veterans Memorial (approx. 1.9 miles away); McComb (approx. 4 miles away); The Village of McComb (approx. 4.3 miles away); St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church (approx. 4.4 miles away).
 
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Schwartz Cemetery Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Craig Doda, February 8, 2020
2. Schwartz Cemetery Veterans Memorial
Schwartz Cemetery Rules signage image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Craig Doda, February 8, 2020
3. Schwartz Cemetery Rules signage
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on February 18, 2021. It was originally submitted on February 15, 2021, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. This page has been viewed 275 times since then and 21 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3. submitted on February 15, 2021, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.
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