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
The first home of the oldest Episcopal parish in the Connecticut Western Reserve, the St. James Episcopal Church was built between 1827 and 1828. Philander Chase, first Bishop of the Diocese of Ohio, consecrated it in 1829. The belfry and steeple . . . — — Map (db m43756) HM
(side A)
The Canfield Christian Church began as a Baptist congregation in 1822 and church met for worship in William Dean's home. The Mahoning Baptist Association Meeting of 1826 was held in David Hayes barn. In 1827, Walter Scott was asked . . . — — Map (db m41223) HM
(side A)
Canfield Congregational Church
On this site, the Canfield Congregational Church, the first church in Canfield village, was built in 1822. The congregation was organized in 1804 by Joseph Badger and Thomas Robbins, both . . . — — Map (db m41227) HM
Side A:
In 1827, noted evangelist Walter Scott came to Canfield and visited with a number of area Baptist families living on Palmyra Road and in the vicinity of Dean Hill. A follower of Alexander Campbell, Scott delivered powerful sermons . . . — — Map (db m65434) HM
Settlers from Connecticut were the first to come to Canfield Township in the late 1700s, and they were followed by a second wave of immigrants, Swiss-German pioneers who began arriving from Berks and Leigh counties in Pennsylvania in 1804. In 1810, . . . — — Map (db m65431) HM
The Friends Burying Grounds, once located here on Lot 17 in the Village of Damascus, is the oldest cemetery in Butler Township, Columbiana County. Expansion of the Friends Church necessitated the re-location of the Friends Burying Grounds. No . . . — — Map (db m78942) HM
Honoring the
Four Heroic Chaplains
who gave their life jackets that four soldiers
might live. The S.S. Dorchester was torpedoed
February 3, 1943. As it sank, the four were seen
linked arm in arm, heads uplifted in prayer.
Lt. G. . . . — — Map (db m44225) HM
Born at Wallingford, Connecticut. Served during the Revolutionary War. Proprietor, Agent, and Surveyor of the Connecticut Land Company. Appointed Judge of Trumbull County by Territorial Governor Arthur St. Clair, 1800. State Senator, Trumbull . . . — — Map (db m43802) HM
The land for this cemetery was given to Poland in the year 1804 by Turhand Kirtland who came from Wallingford, Connecticut. As agent for the Connecticut Land Company he surveyed much of this Western Reserve territory. In his grant he also included . . . — — Map (db m44227) HM
Side 1
The Village Green and Graveyard
In 1798, Judge Turhand Kirtland came to Township 1, Range 1 as an agent of the Connecticut Land Company. In 1804, Kirtland donated the Village Green and the graveyard adjoining the church to the . . . — — Map (db m77090) HM
This foundation stone is from the third church building of the United Presbyterian Church congregation, which was moved to Struthers from Poland Center in 1884, and reconstructed on land donated by Thomas Struthers. The building was located just . . . — — Map (db m79504) HM
St. Augustine Episcopal Chapel was founded by Lenora Evans Berry, an African American woman, in 1907. A lifelong Baptist, her mission was the development of the Episcopal Church for African Americans in Youngstown. Mrs. Berry's husband, bricklayer . . . — — Map (db m79496) HM
Entered in the
National Register
of Historic Places
1979
Caledonia Memorial
United Methodist Church
Founded By William Garberson - 1830
Dedicated - 1909 — — Map (db m236794) HM
This bell first called the pioneers to worship at the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1835. Charles Nathan Clark, the great grandfather of William M. Clark was a member of the original congregation. The bell was entrusted for many years to the care of . . . — — Map (db m236765) HM
First bell brought to Marion County. Cast in 1839 for the Marion County Courthouse. Moved to Salem Church in 1885. Re-set at this site in 1991. — — Map (db m201366) HM
Was born on this site Nov. 20, 1884. He graduated from Marion High School in 1901, Princeton University in 1905, and from Union Theological Seminary. Thomas, a clergyman, and the son of Marion's Presbyterian minister, was a tireless worker for . . . — — Map (db m27030) HM
Salem Church has long been known as The Rooster Church because of a rooster once atop its steeple remeniscent of the tradition of Protestant churches in Germany. The rooster reminds us of Peter's denial and how at times in our lives we too deny . . . — — Map (db m221678) HM
The Rev. Jacob Ward founded the Brunswick Methodist Episcopal
Church in April 1817 with 13 members: Rhoda Stow, John and Lucy
Stearns, John and Hannah Hulet, Samuel and Sarah Tillotson, Thomas
and Phoebe Stearns, Solomon and Polly Harvey, Lydia . . . — — Map (db m136816) HM
In February 1819, seven individuals met in Isaac Barnes’ home to form
a Congregational Church and entered into covenant. Reverend
William Hanford of the Connecticut Missionary Society provided
guidance and charged the new congregation to . . . — — Map (db m151352) HM
On January 19, 1835, Reverent Steven Barnes led sixteen men and women to establish the Weymouth Congregational Church at the home of Lathrop Seymour. From its beginnings, the congregation opposed slavery. In 1848, it adopted resolutions condemning . . . — — Map (db m205788) HM
On March 11, 1817, Rev. Roger Searle of Connecticut met with a
group of settlers at the home of Zenas Hamilton in Medina Township
and founded St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. On April 10, 1817, the
congregants cleared land near Weymouth and built a . . . — — Map (db m134853) HM
This house was built by Frederick Beck, the Medina Tax Assessor. His son William Beck owned Beck Hardware in Medina for 50 years. the wood floors were refurbished from the original St. Peter's Cathedral in Cleveland. A marble fireplace graces the . . . — — Map (db m177476) HM
The original site of church and cemetery was 1.5 acres donated in 1821 by Solomon Townsend. The present site includes grants of 2.61 acres by William Howard Townsend in 1898, and of 2.4 acres by Augustus Dailey Townsend in 1944. — — Map (db m247557) HM
In prayerful remembrance of The Precious Blood Missionaries who died while serving in the society's Latin American missions and are not buried here.
Rev. Arthur Grevencamp C.Pps. 1920-1950, Ordained 1946 •
Rev. Edward Novotny C.Pp. S. . . . — — Map (db m239115) HM
Pioneers
Buehler August • De Curtins Anth'y • Kunkler Blastus • Piekenbrock Aug. • Schlosser John • Thobe Henry • Van Den Bosch Sen. • Will George
1866 Buehler John • Severt Hermann • Stabuglery Mat. • 1868 Blattau John • . . . — — Map (db m239091) HM
1861 Sept. 28 First Baptism John, son of Mich. Mueller Cath. Schlosser in the old Emlen Institute built 1836 by the Right Rev. Jos, Dwenger C. PP. S. D.D.
Rev. Aloys Schelbert C. PP. S.
Organized:
Buehler August • De Curtins Anth • . . . — — Map (db m239090) HM
Dedication: 30 September 1906
Architect: William P. Ginther (1859- 1933), Akron, OH
Contractor: Nicholas A. Ley, Minster, OH
The parish, established in 1856 by German immigrants, was a daughter parish of St. Henry and named in honor of . . . — — Map (db m239063) HM
The Sisters of the Precious Blood, founded in Switzerland by Maria Anna Brunner in 1834, began their ministry of prayer and education in Mercer County here at Maria Stein (Our Lady of the Rock). Father Francis de Sales Brunner, a Missionary of the . . . — — Map (db m113595) HM
In commemoration of its 150 years of existence. First Catholic Parish in present day Mercer County. First mass celebrated June 24, 1836 by Father Henry Damian Juncker. — — Map (db m239068) HM
Dedication: 17 November 1891
Architect: Adophus Druiding (1838- 1899), Chicago, IL
Contractor: Anton DeCurtins (1829- 1895), Carthagena, OH
This historic parish was organized in 1835 by a group of German
immigrants, primarily from Oldenburg, . . . — — Map (db m155159) HM
1747-1828
People of
historical significance
who crossed the St. Marys
River in our area
Research by: Harrison Frech
1| Captain Celeron de Bienville
The earliest known record of Europeans in
Rockford was in 1749, where . . . — — Map (db m191024) HM
Architect: Adolph Druiding, Chicago
Contractor/Decorator: DeCurtins Bros., Carthagena
Parish founded by German immigrants in 1839 and named in honor of Henry II (A.D. 972-1024), Bavarian Duke, King, and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. . . . — — Map (db m113279) HM
St. Paul Catholic Church
Dedication: March, 1889
Architect: Anton DeCurtins (1830—1895), Carthagena, Ohio
Placed on the National Register of Historic Places, 1979
This historic parish began in 1867 on four acres of land purchased by . . . — — Map (db m239066) HM
Side A: Piqua's Early African-American Heritage African-American history began in Piqua with the settlement of Arthur Davis in 1818 and expanded with the settlement of the freed Randolph slaves of Virginia in 1846. African-American . . . — — Map (db m17147) HM
This cemetery was originally established by the Mitchell Family as early as 1815. James Mitchell was the earliest known burial, on July 19, 1815. A Methodist Episcopal Church met on Samuel Mitchell’s property from 1812 to 1838. On Dec. 6, 1838, . . . — — Map (db m197077) HM
American Presbyterian
and Reformed
Historical Site
#62
(logo)
registered by
the
Presbyterian Historical
Society
Philadelphia, Pa. — — Map (db m136189) HM
To commemorate the first church erected in
Union Township, Miami County, Ohio, this log
replica was constructed in 1976 by the Union
Township 4-H Clubs and the West Milton area
Camp Fire Girls.
The Laura Lions Club established this . . . — — Map (db m90539) HM
Erected 1948
in memory of
Samuel
and
Anna Jay Jones
this wall contains
brick from the
Friends Meeting House
which stood across
the road in active
service from
1804 to 1906 — — Map (db m90540) HM
Side A:
In the year 1798, several prospectors traveled north from their North Carolina homes in search of new lands for themselves and their friends. Four of these known Quaker prospectors were John Mast, Jr., Martin Davenport and David . . . — — Map (db m19749) HM
The West Milton Friends Meeting, established as a meeting for worship May 14, 1874, was made a preparative meeting of West Branch Monthly Meeting, May 15, 1883. It became a monthly meeting on May 21, 1927 by action of West Branch Quarterly Meeting, . . . — — Map (db m18426) HM
On July 30, 1816, the year before the establishment of Butler Township, a group of farmers of German background founded the Stillwater Church. The log structure with adjoining cemetery was located on three acres between Dog Leg Road and Frederick . . . — — Map (db m114690) HM
Encouraged by Edmund and Jonathan Munger, the church congregation met for the first time on November 29, 1813. Services generally were held for some years in the larger of Edmund Munger's two barns. In 1830 a quaint brick church was built on two . . . — — Map (db m92893) HM
Cast in Cincinnati in 1846, this 1,600 pound bell was taken from the First Presbyterian Church building which stood at the northwest corner of Second and Ludlow Streets. It was dedicated December 1, 1974 at special ceremonies commemorating the . . . — — Map (db m96099) HM
First Baptist Church of Dayton organized on May 29, 1824. A council met on
the porch of William Huffman's home at Third and Jefferson and approved 9
members as a congregation. The next day Lydia Huffman was baptized in the
Great Miami River, the . . . — — Map (db m247610) HM
Member of the first party of settlers to come to the United States from the Society of Mary, Marianists. One of the founders and the first president of the University of Dayton. He provided vision and leadership in higher education in the Miami . . . — — Map (db m240109) HM
Her strong religious and social conviction, dedication and hard work helped her make a difference in lives of the peoples of the Brazilian communities of the earth's tropical rain forest. She established base Christian Communities with schools, . . . — — Map (db m240153) HM
Born on June 7, 1931 in Dayton to Edna and Henry Stang, Dorothy Mae was the fourth of nine children. She attended Julienne High School and entered religious life with the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1948. She professed final vows in 1956 . . . — — Map (db m104544) HM
The Church of the United Brethren in Christ
first opened United Theological Seminary in 1871
on Dayton’s West Side. The school changed
its name in 1909 to Bonebrake Seminary in
honor of six pioneer ministers. The union of
the United Brethren . . . — — Map (db m109449) HM
Richard McNemar's print shop in this building made Watervliet a
center of Shaker printing. He printed the second Shaker hymnal
ever published, as well as numerous tracts and pamphlets.
The Shakers came to America from England in 1774. A . . . — — Map (db m173784) HM
Side A:
The first African American congregation and first African American Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Dayton trace their roots back to the early 1830s. They were organized by Father Thomas Willis and a small group of faithful men and . . . — — Map (db m17529) HM
Mount Enon Missionary Baptist Church
Led by Rev.W.E. Jones, a small band of baptized believers came together for services in January 1925. They met regularly in a residence on Home Avenue and Hawthorne Streets, later moving to Summit . . . — — Map (db m105798) HM
Side A Slifers Presbyterian Church is on land deeded to the local faith community by Philip and Elizabeth Slifer on December 2, 1816. Rev. Thomas Winters of the German Reformed Church and Rev. John C. Dill of the Evangelical Lutheran Church . . . — — Map (db m137068) HM
Side A:
A Shaker village called Watervliet, Ohio, was located here from 1806-1900. The Shakers, originally called the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, were followers of Mother Ann Lee who came from Manchester, England . . . — — Map (db m26345) HM
The first church in Moraine was Zion Memorial Church of Christ established in 1820. The first church was built of logs with a stone foundation. The cemetery also was started at this time. Between 1820 and 1826 the first ministers were circuit riders . . . — — Map (db m104616) HM
Despite the fugitive slave laws that prohibited harboring runaway slaves, fugitives found refuge in the Quaker village of Chesterfield, now Chesterhill. Legend tells that no runaway slaves were ever captured here, although many were hidden and . . . — — Map (db m16718) HM
This former Universalist Church, which held a strong conviction for education and the pursuit of knowledge, was built in 1852 at a cost of $3,500. In 1865, its members decorated the first Christmas tree to be placed in a church in McConnelsville. . . . — — Map (db m13401) HM
Many early settlers of Morgan County were of Scot-Irish heritage and brought the Presbyterian faith with them. From this group Reverend John Hunt and twelve charter members organized the first congregation in McConnelsville and Malta in 1824 and . . . — — Map (db m13427) HM
Many well-known hymns, including “Sweeter As the Years Go By,” “Nearer, Still Nearer,” and “Let Jesus Come Into Your Heart,” were composed in this church by its organist, Mrs. Lelia Morris (1862-1929). Her songs . . . — — Map (db m13412) HM
The Windsor Township Baptist Association was organized January in
1818 by Elder William Davis with 35 members who met in homes, barns
and schoolhouses. At the death of the six-year-old granddaughter of
Samuel and Tabitha Davis Henery, this plot . . . — — Map (db m224990) HM
History of Alum Creek Friends Settlement. The first settler was Cyrus Benedict, his wife, three children, and Adam Vanduser in 1809. He built a cabin near South Woodbury in 1811. Meetings were held in a house from 1813 – 1815. The first . . . — — Map (db m85263) HM
Birthplace of Myrtle Page Fillmore, who with her husband, Charles Fillmore, founded Unity School of Christianity, Unity Village, Missouri. Born August 6, 1845, Mary Caroline Page, known as Myrtle, was the daughter of Marcus and Lucy Page, who . . . — — Map (db m19874) HM
This congregation of Scotch-Irish pioneers was first gathered at Crooked Creek in 1806, and organized in 1812 as the Crooked Creek Associate Reformed Church. The congregation moved to this site in 1858 and was reorganized as the New Concord United . . . — — Map (db m280) HM
Side A
In the early 1800s, opposing attitudes existed in the separate communities of Putnam and Zanesville. Anti-slavery New Englanders settled Putnam while pro-slavery Virginians and Kentuckians settled Zanesville. The Emancipation Society . . . — — Map (db m94534) HM
In memory of John Chapman, famous “Johnny Appleseed.” Born in Leominster, Mass., Sept. 26, 1774, died in Fort Wayne, Ind. March 18, 1845.
Without a hope of recompense, / Without a thought of pride, / John Chapman planted apple trees, / and . . . — — Map (db m121825) HM
Don and Corky met in Lakeside in the summer of 1949 and were married two years later. Every summer thereafter, Lakeside was a place for family, faith and fun as they raised their four children and spent their lives serving the Lord Jesus Christ. . . . — — Map (db m196793) HM
First Congregational Church
Built 1900
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m196795) HM
Established in 1873, Lakeside is a pioneer of the American Chautauqua Movement, one of the greatest revival movements in United States history which flourished in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Founded by the Methodist Church, . . . — — Map (db m142370) HM
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