From 1796 until about 1860, a Salt Warehouse stood on this lot. Salt was manufactured near here, thus Salt River received its name. — — Map (db m122108) HM
In early spring of 1806, Thomas Lincoln, who was to become the father of Abraham Lincoln, took a flatboat loaded with produce from the West Point boat landing to New Orleans. The trip, requiring about sixty days, was a profitable one and enabled . . . — — Map (db m122097) HM
In 1935, portions of property in Fort Knox military reservation were set aside for use as U.S. Bullion Depository. Constructed in 1936, it was placed under supervision of Dir. of the Mint, a U.S. Treasury official. First gold brought here by . . . — — Map (db m122049) HM
This original 1,000-foot long earthen wall was approximately 17 feet from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the wall. The top of the wall was approximately 9 feet wide. Time has eroded the walls to today’s present height and thickness. . . . — — Map (db m126368) HM
West Point, founded in 1796, received its name from the fact that when the town was established, it was the western-most point in the so-called English civilization. — — Map (db m122085) HM
This famous stagecoach stop on the old Louisville & Nashville Turnpike was built ca. 1797 by James Young, founder of West Point, Ky. At this inn John James Audubon wrote about seeing large flocks of passenger pigeons. Jenny Lind stopped here briefly . . . — — Map (db m122121) HM
Ada grew alongside the tracks of the Ohio & Indiana Railroad, completed in 1854 between Crestline, Crawford County, and Fort Wayne, Indiana. This line became part of the Southwest Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1869. Ada's rapid growth as . . . — — Map (db m29014) HM
Robert R. Davis Jr. taught history and geography at ONU from 1966-1997. He was an innovative teacher and a groundbreaking scholar of Black nationalism. Bob loved trees. The trees it this grove are the gift of his friends to the university! — — Map (db m248208) HM
Dedicated to all veterans who served in the United States armed forces with devotion, loyalty, honor and their determination to preserve freedom
"Freedom Is Not Free" — — Map (db m229135) WM
On January 11, 1968, in Taft Memorial Gymnasium, on this site, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., addressed the community of Ohio Northern University.
Ohio Northern University became one of the last campuses this preeminent American civil rights . . . — — Map (db m248215) HM
Dedicated to perpetuate the memory of our valiant defenders of freedom who made the supreme sacrifice in World War I and World War II
World War I Walter Agin • Stanley Foss • Leo Hawk • James McElroy • Roggeill Meyer
World War . . . — — Map (db m229138) WM
Ohio Northern University was founded on this site in 1871 by Henry Solomon Lehr as the Northwest Ohio Normal School. The University has provided liberal and professional education in a Christian setting since its founding and has been related to the . . . — — Map (db m248203) HM
Henry Solomon Lehr founded Ohio Northern University in 1871 as the Northwestern Ohio Normal School. Its purpose was to train teachers and to provide higher education to the people in Northwest Ohio. In 1885, the school became Ohio Normal . . . — — Map (db m29025) HM
Alger Marion Township Veterans Memorial
dedicated to those who served
our nation with pride and
dignity at home and afar;
preserving the freedom we
have today.
“God Bless America”
“All gave some, Some gave all” — — Map (db m118726) WM
Jacob Parrott (Civil War)
First Recipient
Congressional Medal of Honor
Resident of Hardin County
Husband of
Sarah (Lawrence) Parrott
of Alger — — Map (db m118842) HM WM
Hull’s Trail was a rough passageway through Ohio to the Canadian border, used by General William Hull’s army during the War of 1812 on its way to attack the English at Detroit. Woodsmen cleared the trail to permit the Ohio Army Militia with its . . . — — Map (db m198037) HM
Comprising 8,000 acres of Brookston-Crosby soils, the marsh is named for Hog Creek which drains it. Once a shallow lake, cranberries, wild flags and grasses flourished here. Reclamation (1868) cost $13.00 per acre. Dredging was done by steam scow; . . . — — Map (db m29032) HM
Honoring our local men and women of the armed forces, past and present
Approved by village council and built with the aid of generous donations and volunteers
Designed by Fiscal Officer Phyllis J. Spencer — — Map (db m248199) WM
To all those who come after let
it be known that this place is
dedicated to those men and women
who served their country in
all wars ..past, present and future
Dunkirk V.F.W. Post 3816
by MS 2003 — — Map (db m94001) WM
Civil War-era Rodman Cannons given to the Village of Forest in 1906.
Erected by Stanley Post No. 283 G.A.R. Forest to honor and remember veterans past, present and future.
As part of the Engineering Projects in Community Service . . . — — Map (db m245003) HM WM
Civil War-era Rodman Cannons given to the Village of Forest in 1906.
Erected by Stanley Post No. 283 G.A.R. Forest to honor and remember veterans past, present and future.
As part of the Engineering Projects in Community Service . . . — — Map (db m245004) HM WM
Dowling Baker
Pvt. - Civil War
June 2, 1864
Battlefield, GA •
Lieu Edward Baker
S. Sgt. - Marines
Sept 26, 1944
Pelilieu Is. •
L. John Buess
Sgt. Air Corps
Oct. 15, 1943
Blythe, Ca. •
Robert C. Everhart
T. Sgt. - Army
Nov. 30, . . . — — Map (db m193081) WM
Built at the site of the crossing of
the Pennsylvania and Big Four
Railroads, which is believed to be
the first intersection in Ohio, this
freight house served both railroads
from 1890 until its closing in 1961.
This building is much larger . . . — — Map (db m166284) HM
White Oak is known as the Rhino Tree due to its bent trunk and lateral limb with vertical branches. The reason for this deformity is not known, but it could De due to a fallen tree landing on the main stem.
Grazing livestock may have also . . . — — Map (db m248225) HM
Lawrence Woods is the largest known mature forest in west-central Ohio. Logging and clearing of forests for agriculture have greatly reduced the nesting sites for birds all throughout the state. The interior of mature forests, such as Lawrence . . . — — Map (db m248226) HM
Wheeler Tavern was built by Portius Wheeler, an early pioneer of Hardin County, around 1835 near the Shawnee Ford of the Scioto River. According to local historians this was the first brick residence constructed in Hardin County. Tradition . . . — — Map (db m245474) HM
1883 Original structure is erected on land donated by Reverand John Fields.
1955 Growing congregation inspires the addition of classrooms and fellowship space.
1983 Final improvements incorporate indoor restrooms and . . . — — Map (db m248227) HM
Dedicated to the men and women who have served in the Armed Forces of the United States of America, those who lost their lives preserving our freedom and the pioneer families who settled Hardin County
"God bless America and the freedom we . . . — — Map (db m22919) HM WM
The knolls and ridges found in this vicinity were formed by deposits of gravel left by the retreating glacier which covered much of Ohio during the Pleistocene Era 10,000 years ago. Popularly known as "Devil's Backbones," these ridges can be several . . . — — Map (db m248056) HM
Approximately 1000 feet east of this marker lies the graves of sixteen American soldiers from Fort McArthur who gave their lives during the War of 1812. The fort, a one-half acre timber stockade containing huts, was built in the summer of 1812 to . . . — — Map (db m22250) HM
Lest We Forget
in memory of the Korean Conflict
June 25, 1950 - July 27, 1953
54,236 Dead
103,000 Wounded
7,000 P.O.W.'s
3,450 Returned Alive
51% Died Prison Camps
389 P.O.W.'s Unaccounted For — — Map (db m105031) WM
Front In honor of those who served in Viet NamBack
Greater love hath no man than this
that he lay down his life for his country — — Map (db m105038) WM
In Memory of
Jacob Parrott
buried here. Born July 17, 1843 in Fairfield County, Ohio. Died December 22, 1908. At 18 he enlisted in Company K, 33rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment and was the youngest member of the famous Andrews Raid. The . . . — — Map (db m2022) HM
First organized as the Kenton Lock Manufacturing Company in 1890, the Kenton Hardware Company became one of the world's largest cast iron toy factories. Under the management of L. S. Bixler, toy stoves, banks, fire company outfits, horse drawn . . . — — Map (db m248057) HM
In 1832 a charter was granted by the State of Ohio for construction of a railroad between Sandusky City and Dayton. The right-of-way privileges included Hardin County. The first train, of the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad, arrived in Kenton from . . . — — Map (db m22920) HM
In memory of
John R. and Stella E. Hastings
for their community service and
their generous and caring support
of the youth of Hardin County.
Oh, blest are they who walk in love.
They also walk with God above.
John R. Hastings / / / . . . — — Map (db m78261) HM
Built in 1886 by direct descendants of slaves, the Black and White schoolhouse provided education for local youths until 1928. Denied admission to white schools in the area, African-American families first built a log schoolhouse across the road in . . . — — Map (db m156893) HM
One of Ohio's larger courthouses, this structure, completed in 1915 at a cost of $275,000, is the third courthouse to be built in this vicinity. The building, designed by the architectural firm, Richards, McCarty, and Bulford, is an excellent . . . — — Map (db m22901) HM
This Tablet marks Hull’s Trail; 1812. One-half mile south of this is the site of Old Fort McArthur. Built in 1812 on yonder hillside, Gen. Tupper and 1,000 men camped the entire winter of 1812-13. At the foot of the hill is their “Spring of . . . — — Map (db m18416) HM
This Flag's in honor of those brave men and women who sacrifice to protect our country. May God Bless those who put their lives in harms way to keep our
country free, our children sale, and maintain our way of life. — — Map (db m198661) WM
County Road 265 follows an old Indian trail which connected the Wyandot villages at Upper Sandusky with the Shawnee Mac-o-chee towns to the southwest. Many wigwams were pitched near this Scioto River ford during the late 18th and early 19th . . . — — Map (db m245475) HM
The Scioto Marsh, the largest of three extensive marsh areas in western Hardin County, was formed in the low basins left by the last retreating glacier 10,000 years ago. It covered more than 16,000 acres and was thought to be a source of malaria by . . . — — Map (db m173935) HM
Side A: Village of McGuffey
The Village of McGuffey was named for John McGuffey, who in the 1860s first attempted to drain the Scioto Marsh. A larger and more effective drainage effort, made by others who entered Hardin County in the 1880s, . . . — — Map (db m29062) HM
Upon this site, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, stood Chief Roundhead's Wyandot Indian village. This flourishing agricultural community later gave way to white settlement and Hardin County's first town was laid out here in 1832. . . . — — Map (db m21566) HM
Oldest community in
Hardin County
Founded in 1832 on the
site of the Indian village
led by Chili Stiahia
better known as Roundhead
an ally of the British in
the War of 1812
Roundhead Township was organized 1832
Until March 1833 . . . — — Map (db m22939) HM
This memorial erected in 2005 is dedicated to the educators, support staff, community, parents, and all students who attended here. — — Map (db m22937) HM
The Federal 3rd Div., Army of the Tennessee commanded by Major Gen. Lew Wallace, was positioned by brigades along an east-west line to meet the Confederate attack expected from the north or northwest. The 3rd Brigade under Col. Charles Whittlesey, . . . — — Map (db m184680) HM
The Federal 3rd Div., Army of the Tennessee, Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace, was disposed by brigades along an east-west line to meet Confederate attack expected from north or northwest. The 2nd Brigade, Col. J. M. Thayer, 1st Neb. Inf., was in this area, . . . — — Map (db m184681) HM
7 mi. NW, Albert Sidney Johnston's Army of the Mississippi, marching north from Corinth, attacked and partly overran U.S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee, which was enroute by river to destroy the base. Arrival of Buell's Army of the Ohio, and its . . . — — Map (db m220166) HM
In 1906 land was deeded by George Moffett and wife to the Hardin County
Board of Education for the building of a two story school. Built in 1907
or 08 this building apparently burned and a new building was erected in
the mid-1920s to house both . . . — — Map (db m198943) HM
The City and Citizens of Saltillo and Hardin County - Ruritan Club - Relay for Life dedicate this memorial to all veterans- living or deceased who have served their country that freedom may reign.
Thank you — — Map (db m143546) WM
Drummer W.S. "Fluke" Holland played on all of Carl Perkins' Sun Records recordings before becoming Johnny Cash's only drummer, working with him for 37 years.
Born in Saltillo, Tennessee, on April 22, 1935, Holland left in 1948. His father . . . — — Map (db m157488) HM
Major Gen. Don Carlos Buell’s Federal Army of the Ohio arrived here after marching 135 miles in 22 days from Nashville. Here it turned south, led by Brig. Gen. William Nelson’s 4th Div, and marched upriver to a point opposite Pittsburg Landing. They . . . — — Map (db m63083) HM
A house built here by James Rudd, pioneer ferry operator, was replaced by a house built by David Robinson, whose son-in-law, William H. Cherry, improved and enlarged it. Maj. Gen. C.F. Smith, Federal army commander, had headquarters here, where he . . . — — Map (db m12844) HM
Country music singer Darryl Worley scored three No. 1 hits between 2002 and 2005. Hailed as a traditionalist, Worley puts a contemporary gloss on classic country. His songs address everyday themes and are rooted in long held values.
Born in . . . — — Map (db m245186) HM
After the February 1862 Union victories at Forts Henry and Donelson, Gen. Don Carlos Buell’s army occupied Nashville while Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s army penetrated to Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. Buell and Grant planned to attack the . . . — — Map (db m81776) HM
(West face)
This monument erected in honor of the gallant Confederate soldiers of Hardin County who
fought, died and suffered during the War Between the States 1861-1865. Sacred is the memory of the men and women of Hardin County for the . . . — — Map (db m168650) WM
Savannah stands at the junction of two major corridors- the north-south Tennessee River and the east-west road of Memphis. Savannah's secure, high ground and deep water made it an important port. For decades pioneers and area farmers found the water . . . — — Map (db m103113) HM
Colonel Hardin was born in Virginia but moved to North Carolina in 1772. During the Revolutionary War, he fought at King's Mountain and elsewhere in the South. He was Speaker of the House of the State of Franklin in 1785 and a member of the . . . — — Map (db m28702) HM
Built by slaves with bricks made from riverbank clay, the Cherry Mansion is the oldest home in Savannah. When the Federal army arrived here in March 1862, William Harrell Cherry, a strong Union sympathizer, offered his home to Federal officers. For . . . — — Map (db m103125) HM
These two large rocks are "petrified logs" found in the Savannah area. Paleontologists refer to them as being "permineralized", meaning that after the trees were buried, groundwater added ("per-") minerals in them that fossilized them.
Wood . . . — — Map (db m184129) HM
Imagine this 125-ton carbon-steel turbine spinning at 81.8 revolutions per minute. Picture more than 99.491 gallons of water per second rushing through the intake to spin its heavy blades, which generate 36 megawatts of electricity. Measuring over . . . — — Map (db m108340) HM
On March 8, 1862 the pro-Union citizens of Savannah turned out to greet the 40th Illinois Infantry, the vanguard of a 40,000-man Union invasion force. Residents cheered as the Illinois troops trudged off the steamer Golden Gate, formed . . . — — Map (db m81777) HM
World War I
Fred Armstrong •
Jess Bailey •
Cecil Bain •
Elbert Bivins •
Clyde Blount •
Herbert Brown •
Walter Cannon •
Riley Clement •
Edward W. Falls •
Byron Harrison •
Albert Hitchcock •
Alva J. Hudiburgh •
James . . . — — Map (db m182901) WM
In March 1862, Union steamboats fought Tennessee River currents to carry an invading army deep into the Confederacy. At the height of the Union occupation, transports and gunboats four and five deep lined both sides of the river in front of you. Men . . . — — Map (db m103126) HM
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