Near South 9th Street at Washington Street, on the right when traveling north.
St. Lawrence O'Toole Catholic Church Corner of 6th and Center Streets, Ironton Built in 1892, this beautiful Catholic church, as well as the Depot (below) and several other historic buildings are part of a self-guided walking tour of historic . . . — — Map (db m310299) HM
On Waterloo-Mt Vernon Road (County Route 14) west of Ohio Route 141, on the right when traveling west.
Waterloo was home to the legendary Waterloo Wonders. Coach
Magellan Hairston and his Wonder Five captured consecutive Ohio
state high school Class B basketball championships in 1934 & 1935,
winning 94 out of 97 games, and defeating many Class A . . . — — Map (db m132543) HM
On North 5th Street at Lawrence Street, on the right when traveling north on North 5th Street.
Built in 1851, the Campbell House in Ironton, Ohio, was home to John and Elizabeth Campbell, who aided freedom seekers through Lawrence County's Underground Railroad network. They worked with African American conductors Gabe and Retta Johnson, . . . — — Map (db m283470) HM
On 7th Street south of Ellison Avneue, on the left when traveling south.
Ironton Tanks
Semi-professional football began in Ironton in 1893 with a team known as the Irontonians. The Ironton Tanks, founded in 1919, was a combination of two Ironton cross-town rival football clubs known as the Irish Town Rags and . . . — — Map (db m60017) HM
Near South 9th Street at Washington Street, on the right when traveling north.
John Campbell (1808-1891), founder of Ironton, was an ironmaster and president of the Ohio Iron & Coal Company. This company purchased the land and laid out the city of Ironton. Of Scotch-Irish descent, Campbell married Elizabeth Caldwell Clark . . . — — Map (db m310209) HM
On Lawrence Street at 5th Street, on the left when traveling east on Lawrence Street.
John Campbell (1818-1891), founder of Ironton, was an ironmaster and president of the Ohio Iron & Coal Company, a Presbyterian, and an abolitionist. This house and barn, which he built in 1850, became a stop on the Underground Railroad for . . . — — Map (db m59375) HM
On Ellison Avenue east of 7th Street, on the right when traveling east.
November 30, 1930, was a classic Indian summer day in southern Ohio. Balmy, shirt-sleeve temperatures greeted the 10,000 football fans who flocked into old Redland Field in Cincinnati to watch the upstart, small-town Ironton Tanks battle the . . . — — Map (db m60019) HM
