Mount Gilead in Morrow County, Ohio — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

Dawn Powell

Photographed By William Fischer, Jr., June 6, 2009

1. Dawn Powell Marker

Inscription. The author of fifteen novels, ten plays, and more than 100 stories, Dawn Powell was born in 1896 in Mount Gilead at 53 West North Street and grew up in Shelby. She graduated from Lake Erie College in Painesville and moved to New York in 1918. Although some of her early works, such as She Walks in Beauty (1928) and The Bride's House (1929), draw from her life in small-town Ohio, she is best known for her satiric portrayals of life in New York, including A Time to Be Born (1942) and The Wicked Pavilion (1954). Often compared to Dorothy Parker and associated with contemporaries John Dos Passos, Edmund Wilson, Ernest Hemingway, and Gore Vidal, Powell received the Marjorie Peabody Waite Award for lifelong achievement in literature in 1964. She died in New York in 1965.

Erected 2003 by Ohio Bicentennial Commission, The Longaberger Company, Mount Gilead Public Library Association and The Ohio Historical Society. (Marker Number 4-59.)

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Arts, Letters, Music • Women. In addition, it is included in the Ohio Historical Society / The Ohio History Connection series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1896.

Location. 40° 32.928′ N, 82° 49.633′

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W. Marker is in Mount Gilead, Ohio, in Morrow County. Marker is at the intersection of High Street and Walnut Street, on the right when traveling east on High Street. Marker is on the west side of the Mount Gilead Public Library. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 41 East High Street, Mount Gilead OH 43338, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Morrow County War Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); War Savings Quota (within shouting distance of this marker); D.A.R. Revolutionary Soldiers Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Morrow County Veterans Memorial Plaza (within shouting distance of this marker); World War I Memorial (about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line); Morrow County Civil War Memorial (approx. 0.2 miles away); Mount Gilead Veterans Memorial (approx. 0.2 miles away); Upper and Lower Dams (approx. half a mile away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Mount Gilead.

Photographed By William Fischer, Jr., June 6, 2009

2. Dawn Powell Marker

Credits. This page was last revised on October 16, 2020. It was originally submitted on June 11, 2009, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania. This page has been viewed 1,466 times since then and 19 times this year. Last updated on October 16, 2020, by Robert Baughman of Bellefontaine, Ohio. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on June 11, 2009, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.