On Church Street near Detroit Street, on the right when traveling west.
Galloway Log House. James Sr. and Rebecca (Junkin) Galloway moved with their family to Greene County from Kentucky in 1798, constructing their first home, a small log cabin. Galloway built the present structure around 1799 near the bend in the . . . — — Map (db m52886) HM
On East 3rd Street east of Sims Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Gowdy Cemetery was sold by James Gowdy to the Associate Reformed Church in 1820 for 50 cents. After Xenia’s Woodland Cemetery was chartered in 1845, Gowdy fell into disuse. Its last burial was James Gowdy in 1853. Gowdy Associate Reformed Cemetery . . . — — Map (db m247607) HM
On South Miami Avenue at South Detroit Street (U.S. 68), on the right when traveling west on South Miami Avenue.
Xenia City Commission
Dr. Lee Esprit, Jr.
president
Lawrence W. Gordon
V. President/ Deputy Mayor
John T: Saraga
Mayor
Everett “Fuzz” Ross -
Max H. Sims -
Robert Stilwell -
Dr. Eric V.A. Winston
Patricia . . . — — Map (db m80019) HM
On Ohio Route 725 at Main Street, on the left when traveling north on Ohio Route 725.
Side A: An important route north from the Ohio River for Indians, frontiersmen, soldiers, and settlers. Pre-historic Indian mounds and village sites are throughout the valley. In 1788 the river was a boundary between two major survey districts, . . . — — Map (db m26223) HM
On Stevenson Road (County Route 76) at Jones Road (County Route 86) on Stevenson Road.
Built in 1877 and spanning approximately ninety-five feet, the Stevenson Road Covered Bridge carried vehicular traffic until 2003. it is one of a few Smith truss bridges left in the United States. The Smith Bridge Company manufactured the bridge . . . — — Map (db m214660) HM
On North Ballard Road (County Route 6), on the left when traveling south.
In 1883, James E. Brown built this seven-panel Howe truss bridge over the North Branch of Caesar Creek, near the site of Lyman Ballard’s grist mill and on the property of William C. Dean. At the time it was built, iron, concrete, and steel . . . — — Map (db m106267) HM
On Engle Mill Road (County Route 47), on the left when traveling south.
Built in 1877 and spanning 136 feet, the Engle Mill Road Covered Bridge carried vehicular traffic until 2003. The bridge is named after the nearby Levi Engle Mill. It is one of a few dozen Smith Truss bridges in the United States. The Smith Bridge . . . — — Map (db m106266) HM
In 1849, each state in the Union was invited to furnish a block of native stone for the construction of
the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.
Geologists selected stone from this quarry, then
owned by Wilford McDonald, as typical of the . . . — — Map (db m91407) HM
On Research Boulevard/County Line Road (Ohio Route 835) 0.1 miles north of Shakertown Road, on the left when traveling north.
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
On East Market Street at Greene Street, on the right when traveling east on East Market Street.
Dedicated to the Citizens of
Greene County who served
in the Civil War
74th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
10th Ohio Battery • 154th Regiment Ohio Infantry — — Map (db m201685) WM
On Dumford Road east of North Valley Road, on the right when traveling east.
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
On Pine Street (Ohio Route 160), on the right when traveling north.
Side A:
The African Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in 1818 as the Bethel Church. In 1868 its present name, John Gee, was adopted when the church was erected and rededicated at this present site on land donated by Gee. Founders of . . . — — Map (db m30582) HM
In Grateful Remembrance
this public state park has been created
through the generosity of public- spirited
citizens of Greene county who donated the
land. The prehistoric Indian-mound known
as the “Williamson Mound” thus will . . . — — Map (db m118376) HM
On North Limestone Street (Ohio Route 72) at East Xenia Street, on the right when traveling north on North Limestone Street.
The Opera House of Late Victorian Architecture was built in 1889
by Jamestown Village and Silvercreek Township. After recovering
from the 1884 cyclone, Jamestown became a thriving community
served by the Detroit Toledo & Ironton Railroad. . . . — — Map (db m249029) HM
Near Main Street north of Rices Landing Road (County Route 1010), on the left when traveling north.
River Formation
Prior to the glaciers (more than 780,000 years ago), the ancestral Monongahela River flowed from present day north central West Virginia across Pennsylvania and northwest Ohio. Extensive ice sheets dammed the old north . . . — — Map (db m230986) HM
On Cemetery Road 0.1 miles east of Lilly Chapel Road, on the right when traveling east.
On September 8, 1803, the year that Ohio became a state, the Associate Judges of Franklin County ordered that a road be constructed "leading from the Public Square in Franklinton to Springfield, Greene County." This road came to be known as The Old . . . — — Map (db m12523) HM
On Church Street at North Patton Street, on the left when traveling east on Church Street.
Godfrey Brown
1768 1843
“As to debts, thank God
I owe no man anything
but love”
Godfrey Brown was born a slave in
Brunswick County, Virginia in the year
of 1768. He yearned for freedom and
was freed by his master on March . . . — — Map (db m95414) HM
On Brush Row Road at Shorter Avenue, on the left when traveling east on Brush Row Road.
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
Site of the first fortified settlement in Anderson Township and one of the first in the Virginia Military District. John Garard and Joseph Martin were the founders of this Station, who, with Elias Garard, Joseph Frazee, and others, came by two . . . — — Map (db m19924) HM
On Sandusky Street (Ohio Route 4) at Main Street ( Route 29), on the right when traveling east on Sandusky Street.
Congress passed Fugitive Slave Laws in 1793 and 1850, allowing federal marshals to arrest slaves that had escaped to the North and take them back to their southern owners. They could also arrest northerners suspected of aiding runaway slaves. . . . — — Map (db m13760) HM
On Union Road at Washington Road, on the right when traveling south on Union Road.
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
On Buckeye Road (County Route 29) north of Mason-Dixon Highway (West Virginia Route 7), on the left when traveling north. Reported missing.
Branch of Warrior Trail of the Great Catawba Indian War Path located here where Mason and Dixon Survey crossed Dunkard Creek for third time. Guide, Six Nations Indians’ chief, declared he “would not proceed one step further,” because hostile . . . — — Map (db m175212) HM
Before the war began, Greene County had a long history of abolitionist sentiment. It was not surprising, then, that local residents overwhelmingly supported the Union when Tennessee seceded in June 1861. When 30 neighboring counties met in . . . — — Map (db m84761) HM
The grounds of the City Cemetery began to decline after it was closed in 1878. The stigma of disease that pushed the City Council to pass ordinances allowing only families with open plots to continue burials all but sealed the fate of Nashville's . . . — — Map (db m205318) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
