On Sanders Street (Ohio Route 155) 0.4 miles east of Main Street, on the right when traveling east.
Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan and about 600 Confederates rode into Hemlock, on July 22, 1863, coming from Snow Creek to the southwest. The raiders stopped at the Benjamin Sanders Farm for food and to water their horses. The farmhouse, which . . . — — Map (db m140131) HM
On Ohio Route 93 at Township Road 1195, on the right when traveling south on State Route 93.
On February 10. 1899, a United States Weather Bureau Station
operated by Steve Eveland, in the small hamlet of Milligan, Ohio,
now part of McLuney, reported a temperature of 39 degrees
below zero. To date, this is the lowest temperature . . . — — Map (db m122407) HM
Near Ohio Route 37 west of Porcelain Street, on the left when traveling west.
Mariah Storts Allen was Ohio’s last surviving
first generation daughter of a Revolutionary
War soldier. She was born August 4, 1842 in
Bearfield Township and died May 2, 1933 in New
Lexington. Her father, John Jacob Storts, volunteered to fight . . . — — Map (db m122418) HM
On Rush Creek Road (Local Road 26) at Local Road 32, on the left when traveling east on Rush Creek Road.
Side A
Erected in 1828, the Randolph Mitchell House is a five-bay, Federal-style "I" house. Its facade features a doorway with an Adam-style fan and sidelights. The interior boasts a grand stairway in the foyer and fine woodwork . . . — — Map (db m224972) HM
On Clark Street (Ohio Route 93) at Rock Run Road (County Road 41), on the right when traveling north on Clark Street.
This site, known as the World's
Greatest Mine Fire's is a part of
the Wayne National Forest
located on the Athens Ranger
District, and managed by the US
Forest Service, Department of
Agriculture.
A reclamation project begun in
2010 . . . — — Map (db m166297) HM
On Ohio Route 595, on the right when traveling south.
Side 1 Payne Cemetery (1852-1945) is the only remnant of a freed African American community known as Paynes Crossing. Research indicates that the area was involved in the Underground Railroad Movement, and may have been established expressly . . . — — Map (db m86103) HM
On Main Street (Ohio Route 93) west of Clark Street (Ohio Route 93), on the left when traveling west.
On a forested hillside south of New Straitsville. the spacious
1000 square foot Robinson’s Cave offered a secluded location with
great acoustics where large groups of Hocking Valley coal miners
could meet in secret. Beginning in about 1870, . . . — — Map (db m122775) HM
Near Ohio Route 93 at Rock Run Road (County Route 41), on the left when traveling south.
During the 9-month Hocking Valley Coal Strike beginning in June
1884, tensions between the Columbus & Hocking Coal and Iron
Company and striking miners led to violence and destruction.
Starting October 11, 1884, unknown men pushed burning mine . . . — — Map (db m122804) HM
On Lower Main Street at Valley Street, on the left when traveling south on Lower Main Street.
Established in 1879 by Chicago industrialist William P. Rend as a coal
mining town, Rendville became a place where African Americans broke
the color barrier. In 1888, Dr. Isaiah Tuppins, the first African
American to receive a medical degree in . . . — — Map (db m122447) HM
Near Main Street just south of Valley Street, on the right when traveling north.
I say white brother, because I believe that to be the proper phrase, inasmuch as I believe in the principle of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of all mankind no matter what the color of his skin may be. Richard L. Davis . . . — — Map (db m166298) HM
On Ohio Route 93 at West Athens Road, on the right when traveling north on State Route 93.
In 1910, Nelson McCoy Sr. established the Nelson McCoy Sanitary
Stoneware Company on Gordon Street in Roseville. The company made
utilitarian stoneware using regional and local clay. In 1933, the
company name became the Nelson McCoy Pottery . . . — — Map (db m122408) HM
On Main Street west of 2nd Street, on the right when traveling west.
Shawnee’s founder, T.J. Davis, purchased land from his fellow investors including this site, then occupied by the farm house of Israel Gordon. Within several months of the town’s platting in March, 1872, the farm house became the town’s first hotel, . . . — — Map (db m139214) HM
On Main Street west of 2nd Street, on the right when traveling west.
By the 1930’s the boom was over. The hillsides were scarred. Thousands of openings, natural and man-made, lead to mines and miles of abandoned underground tunnels. Gob piles of useless coal created huge black swaths of barren land. The region became . . . — — Map (db m140060) HM
On Main Street west of 2nd Street, on the right when traveling west.
Due to the remote and rugged nature of the land that would become Saltlick Township in 1823, the first European settlers did not settle in this area until 1814, eleven years after Ohio’s statehood.
Shawnee was platted in 1872 by a single . . . — — Map (db m139207) HM
On Main Street at 2nd Street, on the left when traveling east on Main Street.
In 1869 a secret organization. The Knights of Labor, was founded
in Philadelphia. The K.O.L. promoted an ideal society based on
bettering life for others with the slogans. “labor was the first
capital” and “an injury to one is . . . — — Map (db m122800) HM
On Main Street close to 2nd Street, on the right when traveling west.
You are standing in the historic Village of Shawnee,
named after the Shawnee Nation. European-Americans settled in this region in the early 1800’s first for
the salt of Saltlick Township. Upon discovering coal
in the region, coal companies built . . . — — Map (db m217755) HM
On Main Street west of 2nd Street, on the right when traveling west.
This building, first known as the Red Men’s Hall, was completed in 1908. In 1976 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Saved from the wrecking ball, and renamed the Tecumseh Theater.
An early example of skyscraper . . . — — Map (db m139179) HM
On Main Street west of 2nd Street, on the right when traveling west.
Welcome to Shawnee and the Little Cities of Back Diamonds Region. This green space celebrates the place we call home by acknowledging and honoring the courage and hard work of thousands of people who labored here to mine the coal that helped power a . . . — — Map (db m139147) HM
On S. Columbus St. (Ohio Route 13), on the right when traveling south.
Side 1 A Seed of Catholic Education in Ohio In April 1830 four Dominican sisters from St. Catherine's, Kentucky, founded St. Mary's Academy, the first Catholic school in Perry County. Bishop Edward Fenwick, first Bishop of Ohio, donated . . . — — Map (db m11996) HM
On Ohio Route 383, 1.4 miles south of Ohio Route 13, on the right when traveling south.
St. Joseph Church, “Cradle of the Faith in Ohio.” was the first
Catholic church in the state. Dominican Father Edward Fenwick, later the
first bishop of Cincinnati, came from Kentucky to
visit local Catholics for the first time in . . . — — Map (db m122412) HM
On W. Gay Street, 0.1 miles west of N. Columbus Street (Ohio Route 13), on the right when traveling west.
Lutheran congregations formed in Perry County beginning in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth century. The Mother Synod, the Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania, sent missionary pastors to Ohio to preach to the growing number of . . . — — Map (db m13094) HM
On Stage Coach Road (Local Route 52) 0.6 miles east of Zion Road NW (Local Road 39), on the left when traveling east.
In the Fall of 1808, Father Edward Fenwick, a Dominican priest, met Jacob Dittoe on this site and offered the Holy Mass for his family and their kinsmen, the Fink family. Dittoe had written to Bishop John Carroll, the first Catholic bishop in . . . — — Map (db m188389) HM
On Columbus Street (Ohio Route 13) at Sheridan Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Columbus Street.
(Side A): Philip Sheridan was most likely born in County Cavan, Ireland in 1831, but records do not indicate his actual birthplace. His family moved to Somerset when Philip was a child and lived down the avenue from this site. His family . . . — — Map (db m12012) HM
On West Main Street (U.S. 22) at Market Street (Ohio Route 668) on West Main Street.
In 1805, for $1.50 an acre, Jacob Miller purchased this property in
the Congressional Land Office in Chillicothe, capital of the new
state of Ohio. He and Somerset co-founder John Finck then each built
a tavern on either side of town along the . . . — — Map (db m122410) HM
On West Main Street (U.S. 22) at Columbus Street (Ohio Route 13), on the right when traveling east on West Main Street.
Nellie Sheridan was born into a traditional Irish family but was not content to fill the usual role of a 19th century woman working only inside the home. Somerset's first female postmaster and one of the youngest one in U.S. history, Nellie at 19 . . . — — Map (db m133508) HM
On Columbus Street (Ohio Route 13) 0.5 miles south of Main Street (U.S. 22), on the right when traveling south.
The present frame dwelling was built by Gen. Sheridan for his parents in 1859. Under the large oak tree near the house, William Henry Harrison, Corwin, Ewing and Hamer addressed political meetings before the Civil War. In the grove in front of the . . . — — Map (db m13095) HM
On North Columbus Street (Ohio Route 13) at East Main Street (U.S. 22), on the right when traveling west on North Columbus Street.
(Side A): The Sheridan Monument The Sheridan monument was erected by and given to the Village of Somerset by the State of Ohio in 1905 to honor the memory of Somerset's General Phillip Henry Sheridan. "Little Phil" was raised in Somerset . . . — — Map (db m13096) HM
On High Point Road (County Road 29) 0.1 miles east of State Route 13, on the right when traveling east.
This site marks
the location of
Zion Evangelical
Lutheran Church
Erected in 1808
to the glory of
the Triune God
Services were held
until 1942 — — Map (db m188370) HM
On High Point Road, 0.1 miles east of Ohio Route 13, on the left when traveling east.
Zion (Ribel's) Church was built on this site in 1808. The log structure was located in the Zion Ridge Cemetery, adjacent to the first school in Thorn Township. The congregation of Zion Reformed Church is the oldest in Perry County still in . . . — — Map (db m16260) HM
