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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Lorain County, Ohio
Adjacent to Lorain County, Ohio
▶ Ashland County (24) ▶ Cuyahoga County (190) ▶ Erie County (76) ▶ Huron County (14) ▶ Medina County (16)
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| On South Main Street at Park, Cleveland, Milan Streets on South Main Street. |
| | The City of Amherst was founded in 1811. Beginning in 1847, Amherst developed and prospered around the sandstone industry and its associated quarries. This sandstone proved to be an important economic blessing to our early settlers and is the . . . — — Map (db m5525) HM |
| On Detroit Road (Ohio Route 254) at Stoney Ridge/Colorado (Ohio Route 611) on Detroit Road. |
| | A progressive farmer, physician, and legislator, Norton S. Townshend lived in Avon from 1830 until his death. His introduction of field drainage tile significantly increased the productivity of Avon farmland. A well-educated country doctor, he . . . — — Map (db m5529) HM |
| On Detroit Road (Ohio Route 254), on the right when traveling north. |
| | A progressive farmer, physician, and legislator, Norton S. Townshend had a residence in Avon from 1830 until his death.
His introduction of field drainage tile significantly increased the productivity of Avon farming.
A well educated country . . . — — Map (db m96124) HM |
| On Lake Road (U.S. 6) east of Miller Road, on the left when traveling east. |
| | The Peter J. Miller House was constructed around 1830 and is
one of the last remaining pre-Civil War lakefront houses in Lorain
County. The architecture is Greek Revival. Peter Miller married
Ruth Houseworth in 1828. They had five children. In . . . — — Map (db m143225) HM |
| On Royalton Road (Ohio Route 82) west of West River Road (County Route 60), on the right when traveling west. |
| | Founded in 1807 Columbia was the first continuously inhabited settlement in Lorain County.
Harmon, Levi and Azor Bronson, Calvin Hoadley,
Jared Pritchard and others formed the Waterbury
Land Company to buy the township from the
Connecticut Land . . . — — Map (db m134194) HM |
| On East Broad Street east of East River Road, on the right when traveling east. |
| | The nation-wide Easter Seal movement, the first major voluntary effort to provide treatment for the crippled, was founded on this site with the organization of the Ohio Society for Crippled Children by Edgar F. (Daddy) Allen, April 22, 1919. — — Map (db m158975) HM |
| On Gulf Road at Ridge, Cleveland, and East Bridge Streets, on the right when traveling south on Gulf Road. |
| | Elyria businessman Edgar “Daddy” Allen (1862–1937), founder of Easter Seals, is buried in this cemetery with his wife Blanche and son Homer. In 1907 Allen lost his son because of an interurban train crash. The lack of adequate . . . — — Map (db m158976) HM |
| On Broad Street at Court Street, on the right when traveling east on Broad Street. |
| |
War of Independence/Liberty
1775-1783
250,000 served
25,324 deaths
6,188 wounded
War of 1812/God
1812-1815
286,730 served
2,260 deaths
4,505 wounded
Indian Wars/Service
1812-1898
106,000 served
6,125 . . . — — Map (db m136421) WM |
| On Middle Avenue at 6th Street, on the left when traveling south on Middle Avenue. |
| | King Solomon Lodge, the first Masonic Lodge
in Lorain County, was chartered on December ll,
1821, with Heman Ely as Worshipful Master.
Ely (1775-1852), a prominent land developer,
founded the City of Elyria in 1817, and built
the first grist . . . — — Map (db m144070) HM |
| On College Drive south of North Abbe Road and Antioch Drive (Ohio Route 301), on the right when traveling south. |
| | Lorain County Community College opened its
Abbe Road facilities on October 3, 1966, making
it the first community college in Ohio with a
permanent campus. At the time, three buildings
had been completed on the 250-acre site—
Engineering . . . — — Map (db m158978) HM |
| On East Avenue just from Temple Court, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Monteith Hall was built in 1835 as the residence of Reverence John Monteith (1788–1868) and family. Before coming to Elyria as the first superintendent of the new high school, Rev. Monteith was an educator and minister in Detroit, Michigan. He . . . — — Map (db m143985) HM |
| On Broad Street at Court Street, on the right when traveling east on Broad Street. |
| | 1861 – 1865
Elyria
to
her heroes who fought
and
her martyrs who fell
that
the Republic might live
Fredericksburg
Gettysburg
Vicksburg — — Map (db m136369) WM |
| On East Bridge Street at Broad Street, on the right when traveling north on East Bridge Street. |
| | Elyria’s founding party left West Springfield, Massachusetts on
February 20, 1817. Heman Ely brought his personal staff of Miss Anna
Snow and an African American youth named Ned. They were
accompanied by Ebenezer Lane, an Ely relative; Luther . . . — — Map (db m143834) HM |
| On Middle Avenue at 5th Street, on the right when traveling south on Middle Avenue. |
| | On Memorial Day in 1907, interurban car 123 crashed into the rear
of interurban car 129 at the intersection of 5th Street and Middle
Avenue. Eight passengers died including Homer Allen, son of
Elyria businessman Edgar F. Allen. Inadequate . . . — — Map (db m144078) HM |
| Near Ohio Route 511 0.1 miles west of Ohio Route 511. |
| | On April 19, 1891, a head-on collision between two trains of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway occurred at the Kipton depot. Eight people lost their lives, and the depot was heavily damaged. The crash occurred when a fast mail train . . . — — Map (db m96536) HM |
| On Lakeside Avenue at Alabama Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Lakeside Avenue. |
| | At the mouth of the Black River in April, 1787, Moravian missionary David Zeisberger attempted a settlement of Indians but was ordered further west by unfriendly Delaware Indians. On July 16, 1834, a plat of this site was filed by Conrad Reid, . . . — — Map (db m5546) HM |
| Near West Erie Avenue (U.S. 6) at Parkview Avenue. |
| | Quincy Adams Gillmore, considered one of the greatest
military engineers and artillerists of the Civil War,
was born to Quartus Gillmore and Elizabeth Reid
Gillmore at this location in l825. He attended Norwalk
Academy and taught high school in . . . — — Map (db m143353) HM |
| On West Erie Avenue (U.S. 6) east of North Leavitt Road (Ohio Route 58), on the left when traveling east. |
| | Helen Steiner Rice was born on May 19, 1900, in Lorain, the daughter of Anna and John Steiner. Demonstrating an early propensity for writing, Helen planned for college, but her father's death during the 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic kept her . . . — — Map (db m67511) HM |
| Near West Erie Avenue (U.S. 6) at Parkview Avenue. |
| | . . . — — Map (db m143362) WM |
| Near Black River Lane near East Erie Avenue. |
| | Prior to the Civil War, Ohio was a leading state for enslaved Americans
of African descent traveling the Underground Railroad to freedom in
Canada. For these fugitives, their final stop in Ohio was a Lake
Erie port community in the north. One . . . — — Map (db m143281) HM |
| On Lakeside Landing’s Mile Long Pier’s parking lot north of Lakeside Avenue and Colorado Avenue, on the left when traveling north. |
| | On October 22, 1913, Congress appropriated $35,000 to build a light-
and-fog station at Lorain harbor. Construction began after plans
were approved in 1916. The concrete structure was finished and light
placed in service in 1917, but the station . . . — — Map (db m143276) HM |
| Near West Eria Avenue (U.S. 6) at Parkview Avenue. |
| | In memory of Quincy A. Gillmore, 1820–1888. Born on this farm. Major General in Union Army, Civil War 1861–1865. — — Map (db m143361) HM |
| Near East Marina Drive south of Colorado Avenue. |
| | Side One
Lorain's shipbuilding industry began when Augustus Jones and William Murdock began constructing wooden sailing vessels on the west side near the mouth of the Black River. The sloop General Huntington was the first boat launched . . . — — Map (db m67504) HM |
| On Black River Lane south of Erie Avenue (U.S. 6). |
| | Just after 5:00 P.M on June 28, 1924, a tornado swept off Lake Erie directly into downtown Lorain. Within five minutes, seventy-eight people lost their lives. Fifteen died in the old State Theatre that stood upon this site, as an audience of two . . . — — Map (db m67510) HM |
| Near Lakeside Avenue at Alabama Avenue, on the left when traveling west. |
| | In 1807 a Trading Post with the Indians was established near this site by Nathan Pery, Jr. that resulted in the settlement of Lorain which in pioneer days was known as the Mouth of the Black River. — — Map (db m5547) HM |
| On North Main Street (Ohio Route 58) just north of West Lorain Street (Ohio Route 511), on the left when traveling north. |
| |
First Church was built by the Oberlin Community in 1842-44
for the great evangelist Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875).
He was its pastor, headed Oberlin College’s Theology Department, and later became College president. In the
mid-19th . . . — — Map (db m144079) HM |
| On South Professor Street 0.1 miles south of W College Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Aluminum pioneer Charles Martin Hall was born in 1863 in Thompson, Ohio (Geauga County), and moved with his family to Oberlin in 1873. Hall graduated from Oberlin College in 1885, studying chemistry under Professor Frank Fanning Jewett (1844-1926). . . . — — Map (db m97823) HM |
| On West College Street at South Main Street (Ohio Route 58), on the right when traveling east on West College Street. |
| | The intersection of Main and College streets has been the center of
Oberlin since the town and college were founded in 1833. The first
downtown buildings were made of wood and were destroyed by a series
of spectacular fires. The first college . . . — — Map (db m144173) HM |
| On East Lorain Street (Ohio Route 511) at North Main Street (Ohio Route 58), on the right when traveling west on East Lorain Street. |
| | A key junction on the Underground Railroad in Oberlin, Ohio
connected at least
five routes that led from slavery to
freedom. No fugitive in Oberlin was ever returned to bondage.
Freedom seekers lived openly in the town, and were supported
by . . . — — Map (db m144166) HM |
| Near South Professor Street south of Elm St, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Oberlin College and Community. Reverend John Jay Shipherd and Philo Penfield Stewart envisioned
an educational institution and colony dedicated to the glory of
God and named in honor of John Frederick Oberlin, a pastor in
the Alsace-Lorraine . . . — — Map (db m144277) HM |
| On E College Street 0 miles east of King Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Jabez Lyman Burrell (1806-1900), originally from Massachusetts, built this house in 1852. Burrell made his living as a cattleman and farmer, but devoted much of his time to serving the cause of abolitionism, helping slaves who had escaped the South . . . — — Map (db m101111) HM |
| | This fence is made from railings that graced the Morgan Street Bridge from circa 1880 to 2008. Oberlin Heritage Center volunteers devoted many hours to salvage, repair and installed them here for all to enjoy. — — Map (db m144251) HM |
| On Morgan Street 0.7 miles west of South Professor Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Shortly after Oberlin Colony was established in 1833, a two-acre burying ground was set aside south of Plum Creek in the area bounded by Main, Morgan, and Professor streets. By 1861, however, with the town and Oberlin College growing and the Civil . . . — — Map (db m144282) HM |
| On West College Street at North Professor Street, on the right when traveling west on West College Street. |
| | Willard Van Orman Quine was one of the greatest philosophers and
logicians of the 20th century. Born in Akron on June 25, 1908, Quine
studied philosophy and logic at Oberlin College (B.A. 1930). He received
his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard . . . — — Map (db m144178) HM |
| On East Lake Road (U.S. 6) east of North Abbe Road (Route 301), on the left when traveling east. |
| | The 103rd O.V.I. was recruited for Civil War service from Cuyahoga, Lorain, and Medina counties. The Regiment was organized at Cleveland in August, 1862, and served until 1865 in campaigns at Cincinnati, Knoxville, Atlanta, Franklin, Nashville, and . . . — — Map (db m67469) HM WM |
| On East River Road south of Colorado Avenue (Ohio Route 611), on the right when traveling south. |
| | In June 1815, Captain Jabez Burrell settled this land after coming from Sheffield, Massachusetts. Five years later the brick homestead was constructed. Five generations of the Burrell family occupied the homestead continuously from 1820 to January . . . — — Map (db m67503) HM |
| On East Lake Road (U.S. 6) west of Irving Park Blvd, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Around 1867, along the shale cliffs of the lakeshore of Sheffield Lake, Jay Terrell found fossils of a "terrible fish" later named in his honor as Dinichthys Terrelli. This animal, now known as Dunkleosteus terrelli, was a massive arthrodire (an . . . — — Map (db m67502) HM |
| On Ohio Route 58 0 miles south of Ohio Route 18. |
| | This tablet was erected
by Wellington residents
to honor the memory of
Archibald M. Willard
creator of the
“Spirit of ’76”
who conceived the idea for his
famous inspirational painting on
this public square, henceforth . . . — — Map (db m38796) HM |
| On Ohio Route 58 at Ohio Route 162, on the right when traveling north on State Route 58. |
| | Side one:
Horr Cheese House, 1865
As late as the Civil War era, cheesemaking in Ohio remained largely a cottage industry. After investigating new processes and obtaining pledges for a reliable milk supply from area farmers, brothers . . . — — Map (db m38814) HM |
| On Ohio Route 58 at Ohio Route 162 on State Route 58. |
| | Panel A:
In grateful Memory of the Volunteers from Huntington Who offered up their Lives to Preserve the Federal Union in the Great American Rebellion
Panel B:
Sergt. E.A. Sprague
Gauley River Va. Oct. 9, 1861 Æ . . . — — Map (db m38832) HM |
| On Ohio Route 58 0.1 miles south of Ohio Route 18. |
| | Center marker, front:
Revolutionary War 1775-1783
War of 1812
Civil War 1861-1865
Spanish American 1898-1901
World War 1917-1918
World War II 1941-1945
Korean War 1950-1953
Vietnam War 1961-1975
Center marker, . . . — — Map (db m38810) HM |
| On Ohio Route 58 0.2 miles north of Ohio Route 162, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Dedicated to the Honor and Sacrifice of our Men and Women Who served our Country in times of War
The erection of this monument made possible by the gifts of the citizens of the community, the assistance of the Huntington Grange, the efforts of . . . — — Map (db m38829) HM |
| On Ohio Route 58 just south of Ohio Route 18, on the left when traveling south. |
| | To those who died in Vietnam
Kenneth C. Marley
Davis A. Jones
Gary W. Perkins
Timothy J. Cottrell
Richard M. Logan
Sydney A. Cottrell
They shall not have died in vain — — Map (db m38809) HM |
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