The University of Findlay with its founding partners, the Churches of God, General Conference, and the citizens of Findlay, Ohio, celebrates 125 years of tradition and excellence in higher education. — — Map (db m228466) HM
Incorporated in 1882, Findlay College first opened for classes on September 1, 1886. This bell, weighing 1,522 pounds and costing $251, was ordered from McShane's Bell Foundry in Baltimore, Md., by the first president of Findlay College, the Rev. . . . — — Map (db m228467) HM
Findlay College was a joint venture of the Churches of God, General Conference, and the Village of Findlay. It was chartered on January 28, 1882, to provide a liberal arts education within a Christian context for all -- regardless of race or . . . — — Map (db m29182) HM
Side A:
In spite of small numbers and being welcomed by the mostly white congregation of First Methodist Episcopal Church, African Americans in Findlay in the 1880s wanted to express their faith in ways that best reflected their freedoms and . . . — — Map (db m29179) HM
In commemoration of
150 years
of service to Catholics in Findlay and Hancock County.
St. Michael Parish officially began as a station of the Tiffin St. Mary Parish in 1839. Masses were celebrated in the homes of John Engelmann and John . . . — — Map (db m146416) HM
The University of Findlay
was founded as Findlay College
in 1882 by the
Churches of God, General Conference
and the City of Findlay
Old Main opened on September 1, 1886,
for the first classes.
125th Anniversary
The University . . . — — Map (db m29200) HM
(side a)
Organization of the congregation began in 1848 under the Rev. George Van Eman, and a charter was granted in 1854. The oldest Presbyterian church building in continuous use in Hancock County, the sanctuary was constructed in . . . — — Map (db m157030) HM
This frame church, architecturally typical of the rural churches built throughout Ohio in the latter nineteenth century, was constructed in 1885 during the pastorate of E.L.T. Engers. The first pastors were from the German Reformed tradition and . . . — — Map (db m93657) HM
Mt. Blanchard. This village was founded in 1830 on the banks
of the Blanchard River by Asa M. Lake, son of
Asa Lake, veteran of the Revolution and War
of 1812 and first settler of Delaware Township.
The town and river are named for an . . . — — Map (db m93927) 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
Matthew Simpson, an eminent Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, was born on June 21, 1811, in a log house which then stood on the north corner of Market and Main Streets in Cadiz. Simpson spent most of his youth in Cadiz where he gained a . . . — — Map (db m36232) HM
By producing many men of national prominence, more than any other community of similar size, Cadiz stands as a testament to the value of small town life to America.
Bob Burns, deeply grateful for his small town youth in Van Buren, Arkansas, . . . — — Map (db m36267) HM
Established June 21, 1885 as the first Lutheran Congregation in the great black swamp area. The congregation was organized by the Rev. Geo. W. Hueter with seven immigrant families from the province of Hannover Germany. — — Map (db m188442) HM
Olive Branch Cemetery was established in 1874 on Rd. 5A. It
was donated by Wm. Cromwell to the Olive Branch Class of
the Methodist Evangelical Church which stood directly across
the road. This frame church building was later moved to the . . . — — Map (db m194461) HM
On February 26, 1867, Henry Precht and his wife Louise sold to St. Paul's
Lutheran Church a one-half acre plot of land on the northwest corner of what are
now Roads 17 and QI for S15.00. It was on this plot of land that the church was
built . . . — — Map (db m172720) HM
First Bell and New Foundation
The original church remained much like it had been constructed the first
eighteen years. In 1886 the church got its first bell at a cost of $319.51. The same
year a new concrete foundation was also . . . — — Map (db m172721) HM
St. John Lutheran Church founded August 15, 1869. The church was located here until 1961 when destroyed by fire. A 100 years of blessing was noted on August 17 1969.
Pastors from
1869 - 1969
A. Beroset 1869-1871
J.P. Karrer 1871
L.W. . . . — — Map (db m172716) HM
The congregation laid much emphasis upon the Christian instruction of
its children. For that purpose a parish school was maintained for many
years.
On August 18, 1887, it was decided to authorize the trustees to purchase
one acre of land for a . . . — — Map (db m172718) HM
Side A:
This area, known as Calmoutier, was an early French Catholic farming community founded in 1832 by Claude Druhot, who came from Calmoutier, Hte-Saône, France. Its first native, the four-month-old Claude Joseph Druhot, was baptized on 9 . . . — — Map (db m24492) HM
Jonas Stutzman, from Somerset County, Pennsylvania, came to this site in 1809 to clear land for farming and to build a log home for his family. He was the first permanent settler in the eastern portion of what would in 1825 become Holmes County. . . . — — Map (db m24493) HM
Bishop Seybert was the first bishop of the Evangelical Association. He traveled over 175,000 mi. in the mid-west including Flat Rock, preaching the word of God. He died
in 1860 in the Parker Home near Bellevue and is buried at Flat Rock. . . . — — Map (db m204907) HM
One of the last remaining original
log churches in Ohio. Built in 1848 in
Adams Township, Seneca County,
Ohio. Used until 1875. An Evangelical
Association Church.
The Builder, Adam Snyder, lived
about a mile from the construction
site. The . . . — — Map (db m204766) HM
The Society of the Precious Blood, established in Italy in 1815, began its American ministry here in Peru in January 1844, led by Swiss missionary Father Francis de Sales Brunner. Continuing the work begun by the Redemptorists at St. Alphonse in . . . — — Map (db m147180) HM
Welsh-American Heritage Museum. In 1972 a group of Welsh-Americans chartered the Welsh-American Heritage Museum to preserve Welsh history and culture, and to preserve the Welsh Congregational Church. The old brick church was where . . . — — Map (db m132470) HM
"That this abomination … must be abolished is as clear as the shining of the sun at noon-day." — Benjamin Lundy, from the front page of the first issue of the Genius of Universal . . . — — Map (db m37047) HM
Building the Meetinghouse
Construction of the meetinghouse began in 1814. Jacob Ong served as both architect and builder, basing the Mount Pleasant structure on other Quaker meetinghouses in the United States.
This plain . . . — — Map (db m196264) HM
Mount Pleasant's Beginnings
Many Quakers stood in fierce opposition to slavery. When Congress passed an ordinance prohibiting slavery northwest of the Ohio River in 1787, Quakers throughout the country began a migration to this . . . — — Map (db m196258) HM
This tower containing the original church bell cast in 1906 is dedicated to the pioneers and founding members of the Holy Resurrection Serbian Orthodox Church in Mingo Junction, Ohio on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the parish. — — Map (db m156025) HM
Circa 1907
This property has been
placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Restored 1994
— — Map (db m156023) HM
Brass plaque:
The Bell located in the tower above was donated by
John D. Kilgore in 1887.
The following inscription is found on the bell:
May the Glory of This Latter House Be Greater Than Any Former.
Church Organized 1802.
12 . . . — — Map (db m122234) HM
While en route to Wintersville on July 25, 1863, Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan and his Confederate raiders stopped at the farm of Mrs. John Hanna for a short nap and meal.
Working their way toward Wintersville through the area south of . . . — — Map (db m79816) HM
The stone masons brought from England by
Bishop Chase to construct the early buildings at
Kenyon College settled in this area. In the
1850’s with the help of Episcopal Bishop
Gregory T. Bedell, they and other families in
the community built . . . — — Map (db m94916) HM
In 1823, Ohio Episcopal Bishop Philander Chase purchased 8,000 acres of what he called the “beauty spot” of Knox County. Here, he founded Kenyon College, the first men's college west of the Allegheny Mountains, and the second oldest . . . — — Map (db m13873) HM
In grateful memory of
George Wharton Marriott of London
One of the earliest and most devoted of the English friends of Kenyon College.
Through him Bishop Chase knew Lord Kenyon, Doctor Gaskin and Lady Rosse.
In his honor these . . . — — Map (db m13868) HM
Lakeholm was built as the home of Columbus Delano while serving as Secretary of the Interior under President Ulysses S. Grant from 1870 to 1875. Delano (1809-1896) came to Mount Vernon in 1817, attended public schools, studied law, and was admitted . . . — — Map (db m13884) HM
Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, the lone religious property within the Mt. Vernon Downtown Historic District, served what became only the second African American congregation in the city. The cornerstone for 13 South Mulberry Street was laid October 17, . . . — — Map (db m184227) HM
Mt. Calvary Baptist Church is a cozy white place of worship at 13 South Mulberry Street. The small congregation of Mt. Cavalry was traditionally made up of African-Americans.
The building's Gothic Revival style gives it a Middle Ages charm. . . . — — Map (db m184245) HM
"Fairport is an excellent harbor, and affords a safe moorage for shipping"- so wrote Oliver Cowdery, one of the first latter day saint missionaries to bring the message of the restored gospel to the Kirtland region. Fairport Harbor played a . . . — — Map (db m164893) HM
Dedicated in 1836, the “House of the Lord,” commonly known as Kirtland Temple, served as the center of the community life for the thousands of church members in and around Kirtland. Distinctive design features include two large assembly rooms with . . . — — Map (db m22565) HM
Kirtland in the 1830s became an early gathering place and headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which
had been organized under divine inspiration by Joseph Smith in
western New York in 1830. Here the Mormons, as they are . . . — — Map (db m137136) HM
This Site Is Listed In The
National Register Of Historic
Places As Part Of The
Mentor Avenue
Historic
District
In Painesville
Historic Triangle
Circa 1862 — — Map (db m202364) HM
Historical Landmark
Methodist Episcopal Church
October 15, 1873
Listed in the National Register of Historical Places by the
United States Department of the Interior
January 30, 1998 — — Map (db m202352) HM
The present structure for the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church
was built in 1849 on Macedonia Ridge north of Burlington, an
abolitionist sanctuary for escaped and freed slaves since 1799.
It was built by the existing Baptist congregation and . . . — — Map (db m126043) HM
Macedonia Cemetery (circa 1840) belongs to Macedonia Church, Ohio’s first Black Church. Those buried include settlers of the Macedonia Free Black Settlement, built by free people who assisted freedom seekers along the Underground Railroad. Also . . . — — Map (db m243116) HM
Side A
An Early Center of Education
Just three weeks after reaching Granville, pioneer villagers decided on December 9, 1805 to build a log cabin where eighty children would attend school. By 1820, public school classes were being . . . — — Map (db m94593) HM
The Granville Opera House stood on this site for one hundred years. Built as a Baptist church in 1849, the building was moved here in 1882. On April 7, 1982, it was destroyed by fire.
This bell from the church tower was first rung on Sunday . . . — — Map (db m191077) HM
In 1823, work was being completed on a parsonage for the Congregational Church. Because impending cold weather would cause the mortar to fail, the pastor gave permission for work to continue on the Sabbath. The congregation..."was horrified, . . . — — Map (db m163051) HM
The First Presbyterian Church of Granville has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior. — — Map (db m206542) HM
The Granville Academy
The Granville Congregational Church erected this building in 1833 for its Female Academy and a church meeting room. The school prospered and, in 1837, moved to make way for the Granville Male Academy. The Welsh . . . — — Map (db m12604) HM
Major General William Starke Rosecrans. Soldier, engineer, and statesman, W.S. Rosecrans was born in Delaware County in 1819 and grew up in Homer. He graduated from West Point in 1842. During the Civil War, Rosecrans commanded the federal . . . — — Map (db m206736) HM
The Newark Earthworks, covering over 4 squire miles, is the largest geometric earthworks complex in the world. The site includes a combined circle and octagon, a square, and a second circle, all connected by earthen walls.
One pair of earthen . . . — — Map (db m200116) HM
Side A
Quaker Meeting Place
This cemetery marks the
location of a Quaker Meet
ing house built before 1820.
Wm. Reames, a Revolutionary
soldier, and Thomas Stanfield
were promoters and mem
bers of the society.
Side B . . . — — Map (db m83220) HM
Side A
First Meeting House and Graveyard in the county. Promoted by Jobe Sharp, first settler, and Thomas Antrim, preacher. Quakers and Methodists alternated meetings until 1813 when first Methodist church was built three miles South. . . . — — Map (db m74492) HM
In 1957, George B. Quatman purchased the west side of the Sandy Beach Amusement Park and the remainder on the east side in 1962. No alcohol or rock and roll music was permitted in the renovated Stardust Ballroom, Old Vienna Gardens and Plaza Hotel, . . . — — Map (db m104208) HM
Our Lady of Fatima Statue Park and Meditation Garden was built by the late
George B. Quatman in 1964 as part of his “San Juan Amusement Park”
entertainment site.
During it’s twenty years of operation, the San Juan Amusement Park, . . . — — Map (db m156666) HM
The first permanent Sunday School in the "Old" Mennonite Church, founded by the authority of the church, was organized in the Logan County Amish Mennonite Church, now the South Union Church, one and seven-tenths miles, northwest of this location, . . . — — Map (db m38250) HM
(Side A)
Underground Railroad
A name given to a manner
of piloting negro slaves
to freedom. Pilots of this
area were largely Quakers,
the most active of whom
were the Pickerells, Paxtons,
and Williams.
(Side B)
Underground . . . — — Map (db m76372) HM
[Front Side of Marker]: "West Liberty"
The West Liberty area, in the Mad River Valley, was the location of at least seven Shawnee Indian villages. This elevated site was the location of one of those villages. Several septs or . . . — — Map (db m43901) HM
The house of Ebenezer Zane was built here in 1805. The structure was the meeting place for the First Methodist Quarterly Conference in 1819 where over 300 settlers in the area and about sixty members of the Wyandot tribe came together. Although the . . . — — Map (db m188104) HM
first plaque-
Helen Wonders Blue
Memorial Park
donated by
Robert M. Blue J.D.
1990
second plaque-
United Methodist
Historic Site
No.358 — — Map (db m80770) HM
The church was built in 1828 by a group of Friends (Quakers), followers of Elias Hicks, who in 1827 split from the Goshen Friends Church and formed their own monthly meetings. Sometime around 1913, the two congregations went back together again. it . . . — — Map (db m98842) HM
Highest point in Ohio. Site of:
Ten Indian towns: Wapatomica, Blue Jacket, Mackachack, Moluntha, Lewis, Old, Zane, Solomon, McKee and Buckongehelas.
Zane-Kenton Monument: Squaw Rock; Ft. Wapatomica; Kenton's Grave.
Here first organized . . . — — Map (db m22589) HM
Side A
Second Church
in the county, a double log
house built about 1808 by
Quakers from North Carolina.
Named “Mad River” until
1819, then changed to
Goshen Friends.
Side B
Logan County’s
first school house
a small . . . — — Map (db m80638) HM
Site of the first dedicated house of worship in Lorain County. The first Methodist service in Columbia Township occurred in 1818 in the home of the Widow Burke. Methodists continued to meet in homes until 1830 when the first church building was . . . — — Map (db m175661) HM
This propert is listed in the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
St. Andrew's
Episcopal Church
1872 — — Map (db m202685) HM
First Church was built by the Oberlin Community in 1842-44
for the great evangelist Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875).
He was its pastor, headed Oberlin College’s Theology Department, and later became College president. In the
mid-19th . . . — — Map (db m144079) HM
Fr. Amadeus Rappe, Pastor of St. Francis
de Sales, Toledo, and Mission Pastor
of all Northwest Ohio, supervised the
building of this church in 1845.
Peter Manor donated the land, 40,000
bricks, and 5,000 ft. of black walnut
lumber for . . . — — Map (db m172753) HM
The 150th Anniversary of the
Great Starvation
1845- 1850
In memory of those who
Perished and those who
fled starvation, death and
foreign oppression in
Ireland to seek justice,
freedom and a new way
of life in America.
(three . . . — — Map (db m132064) HM
This congregation was organized January 9, 1820 by 11 charter members. In 1837 the structure was completed on land reserved for religious purposes on the first Maumee plat. A British gun battery stood on the site in the War of 1812. Additions to the . . . — — Map (db m18772) HM
The Hindu Temple of Toledo was established in 1981 for the growing Hindu and Jain communities in northwest Ohio. Religious functions were initially held in a house located on a 15-acre property purchased in 1983. The Temple, designed in a . . . — — Map (db m94783) HM
Founded in 1842, Salem Lutheran Church is Toledo's first and oldest Lutheran congregation. Located in Toledo's oldest neighborhood, Vistula, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the church was originally composed of German . . . — — Map (db m177770) HM
Original Site of Toledo's Oldest Black Institution. In 1847, eight persons formed a mission parish of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (Sandusky Circuit). Reverend Henry J. Young, the minister, had come to Toledo through the Underground . . . — — Map (db m172326) HM
"To acknowledge the duty that
accompanies every right"
The First
Y's Men's Club
Was founded November 22, 1922
in the
YMCA
located on this site
Judge Paul William Alexander, First President — — Map (db m173260) HM
First Congregational Church. Founded in 1833, this is the oldest congregation organized within Toledo's original boundaries. From 1844 to 1913 the church occupied a succession of three meeting houses on St. Clair Street. In 1913 First Church . . . — — Map (db m191370) HM
Construction for the current St. Anthony Church began in 1890 after the original wood-frame church became too small to serve the steadily growing congregation of Polish immigrants coming into the Toledo area. Completed in 1894, St. Anthony was . . . — — Map (db m191358) HM
Of World War II who lost their lives when the USAT Dorchester was torpedoed by a German submarine U-456 off Greenland February 3, 1943 with 904 men aboard, 605 were lost.
Lt. Alexander D. Goode, Jewish ✡️ •
Lt. George L. Fox, . . . — — Map (db m218033) WM
Saint Lucas Evangelical Lutheran Congregation In 1886, thirty-six members from Toledo's downtown Lutheran church, St. Paul's, met to form a German-speaking Lutheran congregation for immigrants from Pommern, Mecklenburg and Hanover. Initially . . . — — Map (db m191360) HM
St. Vincent's Hospital, renamed the St. Vincent Medical Center in 1983, was founded in 1855 by the Sisters of Charity of Montreal, the "Grey Nuns." They came, following the 1854 cholera epidemic, in answer to a plea from a local Catholic priest . . . — — Map (db m225387) HM
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