How did Upper Arlington become known as the Golden Bears?
In 1928 the Upper Arlington schools formed a committee to select an athletic team name. After reviewing mascot names in a college guide, high schoolers Wayne Geissinger and Dallas Head- . . . — — Map (db m221959) HM
Upper Arlington Schools: A Tradition of Excellence
New homeowners brought school-age children to the community. In 1917, a dozen pupils in grades 1-3 joined teacher, Mary Boyer, in the basement of King Thompson's home for lessons, while older . . . — — Map (db m221881) HM
Daughter of Pekin, Illinois; graduate of University of Illinois where she began her distinguished student personnel career. Served The Ohio State University 1952-1970, becoming the first dean of students and receiving the university distinguished . . . — — Map (db m222918) HM
Born in Clifton, Ohio. Graduate of Denison
University. Served in U.S. Navy as Lt. Commander
during World War II.
Lived on Cardiff road from 1951 when he became
head football coach at The Ohio State University. Led the Buckeyes to 3 national . . . — — Map (db m223376) HM
His career in education spanned four decades, beginning after graduation from Capital University in 1932. He was an outstanding athlete and an outstanding coach at Upper Arlington High School. He coached the U.A.H.S. 1937 state champion basketball . . . — — Map (db m222268) HM
This Craftsman-style house was built in 1910 by the Reverend Purley Baker and
his wife Lillie. They named it Greendale. The property included a greenhouse
(pictured) from which to sell vegetable plants, a milk house from which to run
a dairy . . . — — Map (db m247933) HM
Built in 1883, this house is an excellent example of Stick style
architecture popular during the Victorian period of the 19th
century. These designs had decorative trim called “stick work”
including such features as large brackets/braces, . . . — — Map (db m247944) HM
In 1856, Benjamin Hanby published his first song, Darling Nellie Gray, a tale of fugitive slave Joe Selby, who was en route to Canada. Selby died in the Hanby’s Rushville house in 1842. Selby had hoped to buy the freedom of his love, Nelly, who had . . . — — Map (db m107210) HM
Methodism in Westerville dates to 1815 when a log meeting house was built
near Alum Creek. Outgrown, a new brick structure was built in 1838 near the
corner of what today is North State and West Home Streets.
In that same year, Methodists . . . — — Map (db m247911) HM
This historic college opened in1847 as Oterbein University of Ohio, named for Philip William Otterbein (1726–1813), a founder of the Church of the Brethren in Christ. The church later merged with the Evangelical Church to become the United . . . — — Map (db m9122) HM
This Italianate building was constructed in 1883 to house the
Bank of Westerville which relocated across the street in 1913.
The porch on the south end was later enclosed in brick.
Generations of Otterbein students shopped at the . . . — — Map (db m247876) HM
The University's main building, pictured here, was destroyed by fire on a
January night in 1870. Towers Hall replaced it in the same year and was
positioned to be the focal point of College Avenue entering campus from
the Uptown.
Towers Hall . . . — — Map (db m247929) HM
Vine Street School, designed by the renowned Columbus architectural
firm of Yost and Packard, housed students first grade through high
school. It opened to the public on March 19, 1896. The very rainy day
featured a ceremony led by Ohio Governor . . . — — Map (db m247904) HM
Due to overcrowding and outdated facilities, Westerville's only
school (Vine Street) lost its accreditation in 1921. Voters were
inspired to action and approved a levy to build this new school
to house grades 7-12. The Westerville High School was . . . — — Map (db m247862) HM
This “Erected 1842” cornerstone was originally part of
Main Hall. The three-story brick structure, once
located northwest of the present Sanctuary, was built to
serve the Central College of Ohio – a Presbyterian
college of higher learning . . . — — Map (db m247845) HM
This church was organized April 22, 1843, in conjunction with The Central College of Ohio on land donated by Squire Timothy Lee. The college, chartered in March, 1842, continued until 1892.
This brick chapel was erected in 1870 under the . . . — — Map (db m18062) HM
Song writer and minister of the United
Brethren Church, Hanby was an Otterbein College
graduate, class of 1858, known throughout the
world for the inspiring songs, "Darling Nellie
Gray," "Up on the Housetop," and "Who is He
in Yonder Stall." . . . — — Map (db m225380) HM
Near this site was established
in December 1830
as a part of Worthington College
The first
Eclectic Medical College
in the Middle West.
This tablet commemorates
the faculty and students of the college
who by reason of their . . . — — Map (db m95133) HM
This building is an original one-room schoolhouse built in 1898 and located along the
Michigan border, north of current day Sauder Village. It was called the "Rosehill
School” but was renamed the "District 16 School” when it was moved . . . — — Map (db m171977) HM
This Log School is a reconstruction of a 1840s era
schoolhouse, based upon written accounts of schools
from the time period. Desks, arranged along the walls
near the window openings, took advantage of the
natural light. The windows themselves . . . — — Map (db m171973) HM
Fulton County
Historical Society
Est. 1883
Originally Swan Creek District # 8 School. In 1939 it became Swan Creek Township Building, located at 5-1 & D. — — Map (db m172210) HM
The Ewington Citizens' Literary Institute purchased this site and sponsored the construction of Ewington Academy which opened in 1859. The building, designed by George Ewing, was financed by popular subscription with much labor and materials . . . — — Map (db m30466) HM
Side A:
This 4-acre plot, established ca. 1860 by John Gee, is a burial ground for local colored citizens. John Gee was a religious leader as well as a skilled carpenter who built houses in early Gallipolis. Some Gallipolis colored pioneers . . . — — Map (db m30493) HM
This barn dates from the early 20th century. It once was a dairy and sheep barn used by students at Rio Grande College to raise livestock and crops in return for tuition. When Bob Evans purchased the farm in 1953, he also used this barn to house . . . — — Map (db m242644) HM
This two-story log cabin with rough V-notching is probably one of the largest original log structures of its kind. It was built near Lowell, Ohio in 1860 and served as a schoolhouse until 1918. The upstairs would have been used for the teacher's . . . — — Map (db m242631) HM
"On April 16, 1879, Mr. George W. Eagle, trustee and treasurer of Rio Grande College, planted a row of shade trees along this section of the college green" — — Map (db m242645) HM
This stone is part of the original foundation of Atwood Inn whose owners Nehemiah and Permelia Atwood founded Rio Grande College in 1876. The first building, Atwood Hall, which burned in 1937, stood near this site. 100th anniversary of the . . . — — Map (db m242647) HM
This historic marker is on the western boundary
of the original 10 acre Rio Grande, College Campus,
founded and endowed by Nehemiah and Permelia
Atwood. The campus was located on the southeast
corner of the Atwood Farm. Construction of . . . — — Map (db m123087) HM
The Great Geauga county Fair is the longest continuously operating
county fair in Ohio. The fair is a major county gathering event
each year, pulling together people from the whole county. Geauga’s
settlers imported the idea of the county fair . . . — — Map (db m134516) HM
Soldier of the Revolution
Pioneer Missionary and Educator of the Western Reserve
Founder of the Burton Academy in this village in 1805
Marked on July 24, 1926 — — Map (db m122772) HM
Side A
The Second High School
This Queen Anne style building with segmental-arched windows and steep hipped roof was Burton's second high school. Completed in 1885 at a cost of $12,500, it is wood framed with a brick and stone . . . — — Map (db m122774) HM
This neoclassical structure, a combination of Federalism and Great Reunion, was a gift of Andrew Carnegie to Wilberforce University. It was built in 1907 and was remodeled and enlarged in 1938. The building provided general reading, reference, . . . — — Map (db m14062) HM
Central State University originated on March 19, 1887, when the Ohio General Assembly passed an act establishing a Combined Normal and Industrial (CN&I) Department at Wilberforce University. Through various transitional changes, it emerged as an . . . — — Map (db m14056) HM
[Marker Front]:
At the turn of the twentieth century, increased enrollment in the Combined Normal and Industrial Department at Wilberforce University (which later became Central State University) spurred construction of new teaching and . . . — — Map (db m14057) HM
[Marker Front]:
Hallie Quinn Brown (c.1850) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to former slaves. She and her family moved to Wilberforce, Ohio in 1870, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree from Wilberforce University in 1873. . . . — — Map (db m14055) HM
This Colonial style building was originally constructed as a women's dormitory, but was later occupied by men. It was erected largely through the generosity of Andrew Carnegie and Miss E. J. Emery, a Cincinnati native living in England. The building . . . — — Map (db m14061) HM
At the time of his death in 1922, Colonel Charles Young was the highest ranking African American officer in the United States Army. In 1894, almost five years after graduating West Point, then thirty year-old 2nd Lt. Young was appointed professor . . . — — Map (db m67647) HM WM
The son of an enslaved father and free Black mother, Martin Delany
became one of the most prominent Black leaders in 19th Century
America. Called the “Father of Black Nationalism,” Delany promoted
African American pride and . . . — — Map (db m120157) HM
In the early 1800s, William and Eleanor Kendall owned this land, known for its natural springs, beauty, and farmland. In 1850, Elias Drake, lawyer and former speaker in the Ohio General Assembly, purchased the property and named it Tawawa or . . . — — Map (db m14058) HM
Payne Theological Seminary was originally established as Union Seminary in West Jefferson, Ohio, by the Ohio Conference of the African Methodist Church (AME) on October 18, 1844. The Cincinnati Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church North met . . . — — Map (db m52891) HM
Wilberforce University
Wilberforce University, founded at Tawawa Springs in 1856 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, is the first private historically black college or university in America. The inspirations for Wilberforce were an unwavering . . . — — Map (db m52889) HM
In 1854, Samuel and Rebecca McClellan Collins deeded 1.28 acres to Beavercreek Township, Greene County, for the purpose of building a schoolhouse. The first two schoolhouses were constructed of stone with fireplaces for heat. Collins . . . — — Map (db m14063) HM
Helen Hooven Santmyer moved to Xenia at the age of five and graduated from Wellesley College in 1918. She attended Oxford University in England as one of the earliest female Rhodes Scholars. Returning to America with her first book published and a . . . — — Map (db m207725) HM
Union Meeting House
Organized in 1807
On this site in 1809, pious Christians from Virginia and North Carolina erected a Methodist Church, the first in Greene County. The church was officially organized on May 23, 1807 as the Bonner Society. . . . — — Map (db m91415) HM
Lewis A. Jackson, Aviator
Lewis Albert Jackson (December 29, 1912-January 8, 1994) was an African American aviator remembered for training Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. As a teenager in Indiana, he began flight lessons and soloed in . . . — — Map (db m247609) HM
Chartered in 1852 by the Christian Church and later a Unitarian institution, Antioch College opened with educational pioneer Horace Mann as its first president. One of the earliest co-educational colleges in the United States, from its inception . . . — — Map (db m12471) HM
Antioch College
Founded 1853. Horace Mann
and Arthur Morgan pioneered
its co-operative program of
“Education for Effective Living”.
Glen Helen
The living story of Ohio’s
countryside. 930 acres for
community . . . — — Map (db m79758) HM
In memory of
Erastus Mitchell Birch
born – Jan. 19, 1801 – died- July 7, 1884
native of Dutchess County New York ** friend and
neighbor of Horace Mann * trustee * treasurer and
member of the executive committee board of . . . — — Map (db m79789) HM
Horace Mann
1796 – 1859
First President and Founder
of Antioch College
This memorial is erected to
perpetuate the memory of an able
lawyer, a great statesman and a
pioneer in education. May his life
and example ever . . . — — Map (db m79769) HM
On the site of this building Dr. Charles E. Jefferson, internationally known preacher, lecturer & author was born August 26, 1860. An advocate of world peace. — — Map (db m1046) HM
The Cincinnati Museum of Natural History is part of Cincinnati Museum Center. The Western Museum Society, organized by Dr. Daniel Drake in 1818, preceded it. The Western Museum Society's collection was built around ornithology, fossil zoology, . . . — — Map (db m23935) HM
The Society of the Disciples in Carthage (Carthage Christian Church, Disciples of Christ) was organized under the teaching of Pioneer Evangelist Walter Scott in 1832. He is recognized as one of the four primary leaders of the Stone-Campbell . . . — — Map (db m169843) HM
A Neighborhood That No Longer Exists
Cincinnati is a city of neighborhoods. One of them is very, very special—because it is no longer there. The Bottoms: a dense urban neighborhood full of churches, full of people. It ran from the River . . . — — Map (db m24995) HM
Born in Bristol, England, Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), moved to Cincinnati in 1838. Blackwell applied to several medical schools before being accepted to Geneva Medical College in New York. In 1849, she received a medical degree, becoming the . . . — — Map (db m24085) HM
Led the desegregation of Coney Island. •
First African-American woman elected to Cincinnati City Council. •
Fought to desegregate public schools. — — Map (db m245184) HM
Side A:
Among the first in America, Cincinnati's public library dates from March 14, 1853. A public reading room opened in 1856, but funding remained a problem until 1867, when local school board president Rufus King II secured legislation for a . . . — — Map (db m24088) HM
This historic synagogue symbolizes the work of one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century American Jewry, Isaac Mayer Wise (1819-1900). The Bohemian-born rabbi's many achievements include the establishment of the Union of American . . . — — Map (db m24089) HM
Side A:
Flatboats on the Ohio River brought many of the first Irish, some with land grants received after the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, to the Cincinnati area. In 1789, Francis Kennedy arrived in Losantiville, where he operated . . . — — Map (db m24611) HM
Dr. Winthrop Smith Sterling (1859-1943) founded Mu Phi Epsilon International Professional Music Fraternity on November 13, 1903, at the Metropolitan School of Music in Cincinnati, where he served as dean. The Victorian frame house was built by his . . . — — Map (db m24845) HM
John T. Crawford (1813-1880), was a white Union soldier. In gratitude for the kindnesses he received from African-Americans during the Civil War, Crawford willed his 18 1/2-acre farm to be used as a "home, for aged, indigent worthy colored men, . . . — — Map (db m227791) HM
The first in a succession of schools that eventually gave College Hill its name was CARY'S ACADEMY FOR BOYS. Freeman Cary opened this school in his home on Hamilton Avenue in 1832. Success necessitated larger quarters and in 1833 . . . — — Map (db m158447) HM
Daniel Drake (1785-1852) was an influential figure in 19th century American medicine, gaining fame as physician, scientist, author, educator, and ardent champion for the City of Cincinnati. In 1819, Drake was the founding president of the Medical . . . — — Map (db m227792) HM
Hebrew Union College (HUC), founded in Cincinnati in 1875, is the oldest institution of higher Jewish learning in the United States. Its founder, Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise (1819-1900), was a leading proponent of Reform Judaism in America. In 1950, the . . . — — Map (db m24847) HM
Dr. Jacob Rader Marcus (1896-1995), pioneering historian of the American Jew, founded the American Jewish Archives (AJA) in Cincinnati in 1947. In the aftermath of World War II and the brutal destruction of European Jewry, Marcus anticipated the . . . — — Map (db m24849) HM
Mary Harlan Doherty was born in 1862 in the Dayton Street neighborhood of Cincinnati. She graduated from Woodward High School in 1880 at a time when women were not expected to go to college, but rather to marry, raise children, and take care of . . . — — Map (db m24624) HM
Side A:
Prompted by response to his popular lectures, astronomer Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel (1809-1862) founded the Cincinnati Astronomical Society (CAS) in 1842. With CAS funding, Mitchel traveled to Munich, Bavaria, to acquire the optical . . . — — Map (db m24623) HM
Designed award-winning "Let Ohio Women Vote" Poster 1912 for Ohio suffrage campaigns. Studied and exhibited here at Art Academy and Museum. — — Map (db m221964) HM
Xavier University Armory. The Xavier University Armory was dedicated in 1948 by the first Secretary of the Army, Kenneth C. Royall. In the following decades, U.S. Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets used it as a place to refine . . . — — Map (db m169834) HM
Since moving to Over-the-Rhine in 2005, the Art Academy of Cincinnati has been essential to the neighborhood's transformation. To celebrate the schools commitment to reviving this historic community, ArtWorks turned a painting by one of its . . . — — Map (db m203208) HM
Woodward High School. William and Abigail Cutter Woodward founded Woodward High School, the first public high school west of the Allegheny Mountains, on this site October 24, 1831. Concerned that the poor of Cincinnati had no avenues for . . . — — Map (db m24596) HM
Eckstein Elementary School operated on this site from 1915-1958 serving the Glendale's Negro Children from Kindergarten through eighth grade. The school was named in honor of Eleanor Eckstein, who taught the children at various locations in this . . . — — Map (db m172525) HM
Founded by Saint Elizabeth Bayley Seton in Maryland in 1809, the Sisters of Charity arrived in Cincinnati in 1829 to open a school and an orphanage, becoming the first permanent establishment of Catholic sisters in Ohio. In 1852 the group separated . . . — — Map (db m227793) HM
Gaines High School. In 1866, Gaines High School (grades 7-12), one of the first high schools for African Americans in Ohio, opened just west of this site in the same building as the Western District Elementary School, completed in 1859 and . . . — — Map (db m23956) HM
A school has stood on this site almost continuously
since the late 1840s. The first school here was the
Newell School, a white-frame, one-room school in use
from approximately 1847 to 1939. The building was a
part of the Newell Rural School . . . — — Map (db m180740) HM
Upon graduation from Lockland High School in 1947, Wiley joined the United States Marine Corps. He rose from rank of Private to Major. He was a jet pilot in the Korean War and a helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War. He was the valley area’s most . . . — — Map (db m163615) HM WM
In 1910, voters approved a $275,000 bond issue to construct this school on seven and one-half acres of an old orchard on Sherman Avenue. Opened in 1914, Norwood High School offered standard educational classes as well as home economics, manual . . . — — Map (db m227782) HM
The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur (SNDdeN). The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur were founded in 1804 by Saint Julie Billiart to spread the message “Ah, how good it is to serve God.” In 1840, at the request of Bishop John B. Purcell in 1840, the . . . — — Map (db m227783) HM
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
Tell Taylor is credited with adding music to the curriculum of the rural schools of Hancock County as a young country school teacher he taught his pupils the enjoyment of singing, accompanying them on ins banjo. — — Map (db m228516) HM
As a young man Tell Taylor worked in a hardware store, taught country school, sang in a church choir, was Hancock County Clerk and attended Findlay College before launching his musical career. — — Map (db m228518) 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
The new edition of the book, Heartland is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Jerry J. Mallett, founder of the Mazza Museum of International Art from Picture Books. His contribution to the world of children's books is legendary.
- . . . — — Map (db m228471) HM
Marion Township School District #3
Built 1882
Has been placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
by the United States Department of the Interior
1996 — — Map (db m166988) HM
Founded in 1982 with four pieces of original artwork, the University of Findlay's Mazza Museum houses the first and largest international collection of original picture book art from published authors and illustrators who have made significant . . . — — Map (db m228470) HM
Near this spot June 6, 1932 700 former school teachers of Hancock County founded the Society of Nathan Hale. 5000 children participated. — — Map (db m228528) HM
Old Main original bell, placed here in 2003 as the 50th anniversary gift by the Class of 1953, with grateful assistance from the Classes of 1945, 1946, 1991 and 2003, other alumni and friends. — — Map (db m228468) HM
This timber-framed picnic pavilion was constructed as part of a three-day workshop in July 2022, facilitated by the Hancock Historical Museum and the Kiwanis Club of Findlay, in conjunction with Friends of Ohio Barns. Caleb Miller (JCM . . . — — Map (db m245365) 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
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