Dean and Shawnee State Forests Seven miles west of Portsmouth, OH is the 63,000-acre Shawnee State Forest. The Forest includes the Shawnee Lodge and Conference Center. The Lodge also includes cottages, and has a golf course along the banks of . . . — — Map (db m310248) HM
The Hanging Rock Iron Region
To furnish the needs of the early settlers, then to furnish ordnance for a nation at war, and finally to furnish merchant iron to the steel mills, 100 iron producing blast furnaces were built within these 1,800 . . . — — Map (db m59371) HM
Vesuvius Iron Furnace is one of 69 charcoal iron furnaces in the Hanging Rock Iron Region. This 100-mile long region extends from Greenup County, Kentucky to Hocking County, Ohio. Built in 1833, Vesuvius began production using the cold blast . . . — — Map (db m309340) HM
W.H. Allison constructed Big Sand Furnace between
1853 54. It took the name of the company town,
Hope that housed its workforce by the late
1860s. Smelting transformed rugged iron ore into
uniform blocks known as "pig iron." Hope . . . — — Map (db m300829) HM
Historical home of the official State Ohio Memorial Day Parade
The nations oldest continuous-running Memorial Day Parade since 1868 — — Map (db m283465) HM
Since 1868, Ironton's annual Memorial Day parade has recognized those in Lawrence County who died while defending our country's freedom. This was the same year in which the Grand Army of the Republic established May 30 as Decoration Day. Originally . . . — — Map (db m59370) HM
