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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Geauga County, Ohio
Adjacent to Geauga County, Ohio
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| | Founded in 1817, Bainbridge Township was named for Commodore William Bainbridge, commander of the USS Constitution during the War of 1812. The unincorporated hamlet of Bainbridge Center is both the geographic and historic center of Bainbridge . . . — — Map (db m122744) HM |
| | Erected in 1822 by 30 of the 200 Bainbridge Township residents as a Methodist Episcopal Church, this building was sold to the township in 1866 and served as a town hall and public meeting place for the next 76 years. During the 1900-1901 school . . . — — Map (db m122746) HM |
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[Engravings of former school buildings] — — Map (db m138052) HM |
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Tuberous Begonia
Official Bainbridge
Township Flower
Carlton brought the
Tuberous Rooted Begonia
to this country from
Belgium after WWI
Established Lowe's Greenhouse
on Rt. 306 in 1926
Carlton's community service . . . — — Map (db m138053) HM |
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Dedicated to
the men and women of
Bainbridge Township
who have served their country
[Armed Forces service emblems]
In honor and memory of all who served
and those who died for the preservation
of our . . . — — Map (db m138051) WM |
| | Here was the first telephone station in the state of Ohio in 1877 — — Map (db m122780) HM |
| | The Burton Congregational Church was organized in 1808 and met in several nearby locations before this present building was erected in 1836 at a cost of $4,000. It was originally located within the park directly opposite where it stands today, but . . . — — Map (db m122754) HM |
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In 1796, surveyors for the Connecticut Land Company designated an area five miles square surrounding this place as Range 7, Township 7 of the Connecticut Western Reserve. A landowner's expedition on June 15, 1798, arrived at the . . . — — Map (db m122760) HM |
| | In 1877, Burton Village merchants purchased this ten-pound Parrott gun from the War Department in Washington, D.C. The cannon is said to have been fired at Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, during the Civil War.
The inauguration of Rutherford B. . . . — — Map (db m122771) HM |
| | Erected to the Memory of the Soldiers of the American Revolution buried in Burton, Ohio
This tablet was placed by citizens of Burton and dedicated by the Western Reserve Society, Sons of the American Revolution
September 12, 1937.
Amos Beard . . . — — Map (db m122773) WM |
| | The Great Geauga county Fair is the longest continuously operating
county fair in Ohio. The fair is a major county gathering event
each year, pulling together people from the whole county. Geauga’s
settlers imported the idea of the county fair . . . — — Map (db m134516) HM |
| | Soldier of the Revolution
Pioneer Missionary and Educator of the Western Reserve
Founder of the Burton Academy in this village in 1805
Marked on July 24, 1926 — — Map (db m122772) HM |
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In recognition of its noteworthy representation of the history, culture, and architecture of the Western Reserve, Burton Village's Historic District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The Historic . . . — — Map (db m122778) HM |
| | Built in 1838 by Eleazer Hickox who came to Burton in 1804. The frame annex is part of the old home of Thomas Umberfield, the first white settler in this, Geauga County. He arrived here in 1798. — — Map (db m122779) HM |
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The Second High School
This Queen Anne style building with segmental-arched windows and steep hipped roof was Burton's second high school. Completed in 1885 at a cost of $12,500, it is wood framed with a brick and stone . . . — — Map (db m122774) HM |
| | Stood the original stone marking the common corners of Lots 35 & 36 and 45 & 46 from which the Village of Burton was surveyed. — — Map (db m122776) HM |
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Welton Cemetery was known as Roselawn Cemetery until the early 1900s. Early settlers to the Burton area donated the land. Welton Cemetery is the burial place for veterans of the nation's wars and for several state officials. Judge . . . — — Map (db m122782) HM |
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Listed on the National register of Historic Places in 1974, this building was the post office from 1940 through 1986. It is an example of the Colonial Revival style common in the 1930s and 1940s. The exterior brick work, large . . . — — Map (db m122787) HM |
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Chardon was designated the county seat of Geauga County in 1808. On July 25, 1868, the entire village business district (now Main Street) was destroyed by fire, including forty businesses, offices, meeting halls, and the 1824 . . . — — Map (db m122789) HM |
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This block of Main Street overlooks the Geauga County Courthouse, which was built in 1869. The courthouse and the Main Street buildings, together which compose a district that has been entered on the National Register of Historic . . . — — Map (db m122788) HM |
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Fowler's Mill Historic District
Fowlers Mill (originally Fowler's Mills) developed around a group of mills built in the 1830s on the Chagrin River. Opportunities from these mills led to Fowlers Mill becoming the commercial . . . — — Map (db m122784) HM |
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Fowler's Mill Historic District
Fowlers Mill (originally Fowler's Mills) developed around a group of mills built in the 1830s on the Chagrin River. Opportunities from these mills led to Fowlers Mill becoming the commercial . . . — — Map (db m122785) HM |
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The First Congregational Church of Claridon has served the community since it was dedicated in the summer of 1832. Twenty-seven souls from the Burton Congregational Church petitioned to form their own church in Claridon in November . . . — — Map (db m122786) HM |
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Originally called the James Thompson Inn, named for its builder, the son of Middlefield's first settler, Isaac Thompson, the Batavia House is Middlefield's oldest remaining structure. Built in 1818, the two-story wood frame structure . . . — — Map (db m122783) HM |
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Called the "Cradle of Equal Suffrage" and "Free Speech Chapel," Union Chapel was to be "...open and free for all denominations, but to be monopolized by no one or to the exclusion of anyone." Built in 1858 or 1859 on land donated by . . . — — Map (db m122751) HM |
| | Built by citizens of South Newbury, Ohio on land donated by Anson Mathews in 1856. This chapel was dedicated to
Free Speech
by
James Abram Garfield
Twentieth President of the United States
Other speakers in this chapel were
Susan B. . . . — — Map (db m122752) HM |
| | From east to west, the Chagrin Falls and Eastern Interurban Railway
crossed the Muggleton Farm (now South Russell Village Park) at this
location and connected the Chagrin Valley with Hiram, Garrettsville,
and Middlefield. Its sister interurban, . . . — — Map (db m137137) HM |
| | Born in Thompson Ohio
As a youth of 22 years he unlocked from natures grasp the modern metal aluminum giving to the nation the countless benefits of the metal and the aluminum industry which his discovery made possible — — Map (db m122790) HM |
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Thompson Ledges
Due to what is known as the Sharon Conglomerate or pebbly sandstone, these ledges have played an important role in the daily life of local residents and the economy. The porousness of this rock, which underlies . . . — — Map (db m122791) HM |
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