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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Washington County, Ohio
Adjacent to Washington County, Ohio
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The Mill Branch Covered Bridge spanned the Mill Branch of the Little Hocking River, 0.3 mile East of Ohio 339 in Belpre Twp. This 19th Century "multiple king post" truss bridge
consisted of one span of 59', with 5' overhang at each end, 12' of . . . — — Map (db m149733) HM
Born on September 28, 1769 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Bathsheba Rouse is recognized as the first woman to teach in the Northwest Territory. Rouse arrived in the region along with other pioneers in 1788. The following year, the Belpre community . . . — — Map (db m20083) HM
Side A:
The history of Belpre and the Ohio River are inextricably linked. Settlers from New England, including farmers and Revolutionary War veterans, arrived via flatboats at “Belle-Prairie” (beautiful prairie) in 1789. Lewis . . . — — Map (db m20119) HM
The Cedarville (name of immediate area - changed to Rockland, later to Belpre) Cemetery contains graves of 14 Revolutionary War soldiers - some of the graves have washed over the Ohio River bank when the level rose and left graves underwater. The . . . — — Map (db m20123) HM
In 1791, Captain Jonathan Devol, upon a proposal from Griffin Greene, designed and built a floating grain mill, which was erected on two boats and anchored within several yards of the Ohio River shore near this marker. Oak planks fastened the boats . . . — — Map (db m20176) HM
[Side A:]
Born in Massachusetts in 1805, Sala Bosworth spent all but nineteen years of his eighty-five years in Washington County. After studying at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, he returned to the county to paint many full size . . . — — Map (db m20127) HM
As a shareholder of the United Library Association in Pomfret, Connecticut, General Israel Putnam amassed a large collection of books, which was called the Putnam Family Library. The collection was divided among his heirs after his death in 1790. . . . — — Map (db m20129) HM
Underground Railroad Crossings
Underground Railroad crossings, agents, and conductors were common along the Ohio River between Washington County, Ohio and Wood County, Virginia. At Constitution, six miles upriver from Belpre, Judge Ephraim . . . — — Map (db m20130) HM
About 600 feet south of this site and near the river stood Fort Fry occupied during the Indian War 1791–1795.
This fort protected the Waterford settlers during the period of the war. Waterford was founded by the Second Association of . . . — — Map (db m103732) HM
On November 12, 1852, the riverboat Buckeye Belle
exploded at this site. Twenty-four people died
and a dozen were injured in the worst steamboat
disaster on the Muskingum River. An eyewitness
described the scene: “The bank of the . . . — — Map (db m103735) HM
Luke Chute is the site of an early mill that
harnessed river power. About 1815, Luke Emerson
and Samuel White built a dam part way across
the river. This created a rapid between the shore
and the end of the dam, the chute. Here they
constructed . . . — — Map (db m121906) HM
Round Bottom Schoolhouse. Settlement came to Round Bottom in early 1795
following the end of the Indians Wars in what
would become Ohio (1791-1795). Pioneers Allen
Devol, David Wilson, Nathaniel Cushing, Peter Shaw,
and Andrew Story came . . . — — Map (db m121904) HM
The Devola Lock was one of eleven built on the Muskingum River from Marietta to Ellis, north of Zanesville, from 1836 to 1841. The locks are approximately thirty-five feet wide and 160 feet long. The State of Ohio funded the project as part of the . . . — — Map (db m18015) HM
On his trip to the Ohio River country noted, Oct. 25, 1770 "Incamped in Long Reach abt. 30 miles from our last lodge opposite to the beginning of a large bottom on the east side of the river." This marker near the campsite. — — Map (db m79269) HM
Lowell was the site of one of ten wooden covered bridges, built from 1820 to 1887, that crossed the Muskingum River from Marietta to Coshocton. The Lowell bridge was built in 1881. Bridges were built out of wood because there was plenty of lumber . . . — — Map (db m18016) HM
About 800 feet south of this point, on the south bank of the Muskingum River is the site of the
Fortified Settlement
Erected in April, 1799, by Nicholas Coburn, Robert Allison, Nathan Kinney, William Davis and their families, and Oliver . . . — — Map (db m18020) HM
This non-condensing engine with a 12” diameter cylinder and four-foot stroke is one of two first installed on the sternwheel packet CARRIE BROWN (built at Harmar in 1890), which worked the trade between Huntington and Gallipolis. When this . . . — — Map (db m20656) HM
[Main Marker:]
One of the six lodges which in
1808 founded the Grand Lodge
Free and Accepted Masons of Ohio.
Erected May 10, 1958.
[Second Marker:]
Harmar Lodge No. 390
Free & Accepted Masons
of Ohio . . . — — Map (db m20185) HM
Built on the existing piers as a covered bridge in 1856, converted to railroad use in 1873, back to foot traffic in 1962, it; was rebuilt after floods four times. — — Map (db m149715) HM
By first connecting and enclosing two early homes in brick in 1927, philanthropist W. W. Mills built the Betsey Mills complex as a memorial to his wife, Betsey. — — Map (db m103473) HM
Ohio's fifty-ninth governor, Marietta native C. William O'Neill was the only Ohioan to head all three branches of state government. An honor graduate of both Marietta High School and Marietta College, O'Neill won election to the Ohio House of . . . — — Map (db m143561) HM
Catherine Fay Ewing. Catherine Fay Ewing is credited with starting the Children’s Home System in Ohio. Born on July 12, 1822, in Westboro, Massachusetts,. her family moved to Marietta in 1835. At age sixteen, Catherine studied to be a teacher . . . — — Map (db m103673) HM
[Main Top Plaque]
The inscription appearing below
Is a replica of the one engraved on a lead plaque
Buried on this spot on August 15th, 1749 by
CELORON De BLAINVILLE
And of which a fragment recovered in 1798
Is preserved by . . . — — Map (db m20752) HM
Washington County Children’s Home, Ohio’s first, and in 1867 the nation’s first supported by taxes, was founded in 1858 by Catherine Fay Ewing at her farm home in Moss Run, Ohio. — — Map (db m103721) HM
Methodism was brought to Marietta by Wesleyan circuit riders Robert Manley (1799) and Peter Cartwright (1806), and by German Methodist Carl Best (1839). Present building was dedicated 1885. — — Map (db m103671) HM
Completed in time for Marietta's 1938 Sesquicentennial Celebration, this building_replaced the imposing 1872 City Hall with top floor auditorium, destroyed by fire in 1935. — — Map (db m149705) HM
Organized September 5th, 1818, under name of “First Baptist Church of Marietta Township,” the first record on the church book is “On Saturday, the fifth day of September, 1818 A.D., we, Ephraim Emerson, Wm. Churchill, John . . . — — Map (db m103479) HM
First Congregational Church, chartered in 1796, was the N.W. Territory's first organized church. Dedicated 1809 using Rufus Putnam's “Two Horn” plan, the first building burned in 1905. This church built 1906. — — Map (db m20649) HM
Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship 10:00 a.m. The first church in Marietta, organized Dec. 6, 1796. The present building is patterned after the original church, familiarly known to settlers as the “Two Horned Church.” Visitors are . . . — — Map (db m20650) HM
Flatboats were designed to carry cargo downstream, floating with the current. With flat bottoms, they were easily built to any size desired. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, they were a major method of transportation for settlers . . . — — Map (db m20178) HM
Built 1785 by U.S. Major John Doughty's federal troops. Named for General Josiah Harmar. Troops twice battled Indians in western Ohio. — — Map (db m20726) HM
Was chartered on Oct. 16, 1867 by the Grand Lodge Of Ohio in response to the petition of 13 Freemasons of Harmar, Ohio. The first officers were Elijah Locker, Wor. Master; A. S. Curtis, Sr. Warden: Samuel H. Tidd, Jr. W.
Its first home was a short . . . — — Map (db m149716) HM
Lydia Young was postmaster in this, her notary shop,
1864-1885. Harmar postal service and civil government returned to Marietta 1890. — — Map (db m149720) HM
Side A
The Peoples Bank Theatre, built in 1919 and called the Hippodrome, marks an age when movies transitioned from silent films and nickelodeons into a major national industry and pastime. Designed by Columbus architect Fred Elliott for . . . — — Map (db m149686) HM
Marietta and the Mid Ohio Valley area have always known that the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers will at times flow through the streets of our communities. On September 17,2004, we once again prepared ourselves and our belongings to be moved to higher and . . . — — Map (db m149712) HM
Lafayette
Landed at this point, May 25, 1825
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Returning in 1824 to the young Nation he had greatly assisted during the Revolutionary War, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du . . . — — Map (db m20736) HM
Oldest building in Northwest Territory. From 1788 Gen. Rufus Putnam recorded war veteran land grants and sales. Maintained Ohio Company surveys and maps.
The Rotary Club of Marietta
Marking a Place in History with Service Since . . . — — Map (db m20183) HM
[Marker Front]:
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Meriwether Lewis arrived in Marietta on September 13, 1803. His descent of the Ohio River aboard a keelboat began his expedition to explore the West. Included among his crew was 18-year . . . — — Map (db m20741) HM
(Left Side Panel): Life on the River “Wheel Coal - Sleep - Eat - Wheel Coal: If there was such a thing as a typical day in the life of a deckhand...that would be it.” - W.V. Torner, recalling life as a deckhand.
Towboats . . . — — Map (db m20578) HM
Built 1899 to serve adjacent locks which replaced those of 1840’s on Harmar side. Locks and dam removed 1968. Muskingum was first canalized U.S. river — — Map (db m103279) HM
Directly across from this spot was Picketed Point, a fortification erected for the protection of the early settlers from hostile Indians. Within the stockade were dwellings, the first store and the first tavern in the Northwest Territory. Marquis de . . . — — Map (db m103236) HM
The Presbyterian Church was built here in 1865. The new First Presbyterian Church, to the left, was built in 1897. In 2014, the original church was removed for the 2016 creation of the Memorial Garden. Elements of the original church include the . . . — — Map (db m143560) HM
Sculpted for Marietta's Sesquicentennial by Gutzon Borglum
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Dedicated July 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a tribute to those farsighted pioneers who journeyed here . . . — — Map (db m20674) HM
Erected by the Marietta Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, as a memorial to the revolutionary soldiers buried in Marietta and to honor the heroic men and women who faced the wilderness with courage and hope to create the Great Northwest. . . . — — Map (db m103515) WM
MIGHTY RIVER
Although it remains an unpredictable force of nature, the Ohio River was far more volatile a century ago. Thirty-foot floods could wash away everything along the river's edge, only to be followed by dry spells that would lower the . . . — — Map (db m21676) HM
Built 1822 for H.P. Wilcox. Home of Col. John Mills and sons, William and John, 1836-1936 Marietta College president's home since 1937. — — Map (db m143589) HM
A work of the Moundbuilders, reserved for the public use by the Founders of Marietta in 1788. Set aside as a cemetery in 1800. First burial was in 1801.
“I know many of the Ohio Company personally. Never were men better calculated to . . . — — Map (db m103642) HM
Muskingum Academy, 1797, Birth of Higher Education in Ohio.
In April 1797, a committee of Marietta citizens, led by General Rufus Putnam, met to establish an academy suitable for preparatory instruction for their youth. Muskingdum Academy, . . . — — Map (db m103363) HM
President Theodore Roosevelt and W. H. Taft spoke here in 1912. President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the “Start Westward” sesquicentennial monument in 1938. — — Map (db m20603) HM
Muskingtum River Underground Railroad
People living in Marietta and along the Muskingum River shared a history of slavery opposition. Manasseh Cutler, from Massachusetts and an Ohio Land Company agent, helped draft the Ordinance of 1787 that . . . — — Map (db m21653) HM
Here the new United States of America found, through Northwest territory, the first and common offspring of thirteen discordant and disputatious states, her formula to eminence among all the governments of mankind.
To those unfamed citizens who . . . — — Map (db m20654) HM
With a mission to protect citizens at home and abroad, the Ohio National Guard was originally established as the Northwest
Territory Militia in Marietta on July 25, 1788 and has fought
in every war since the War of 1812. Built in 1914, this Ohio . . . — — Map (db m103267) HM
The steamboat TELL CITY was built in 1889 and named for Tell City, Ind. She carried passenger and freight on the Ohio River until she sank following an accident at Little Hocking, Ohio on April 6, 1917.
The Pilothouse was removed from the wreck . . . — — Map (db m20635) HM
Erected by the New Century Historical Society to record the names and commemorate the landing near this spot of the pioneer families of the Ohio Company August nineteenth 1788. Their homes were established in Campus Martius.
Benjamin Tupper . . . — — Map (db m20637) HM
This land at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers was part of a million-and-a-half acre tract made available by the Northwest Territory Ordinance of 1787, and purchased by the Ohio Company of Associates for resale and settlement. Many of . . . — — Map (db m20784) HM
RIVER TOWN
"The settlement of the Ohio country, sir, engrosses many of my thoughts... and if I am to form an opinion on what I have seen and heard on the subject, there are thousands in this quarter who will emigrate to that country." - . . . — — Map (db m21678) HM
Boyhood home of U.S. VP Charles G. Dawes, Marietta College graduate and Trustee, awarded Nobel Prize, ambassador to England, author WWI German reparations plan. — — Map (db m143556) HM
Transportation and tourism visionary and owner-manager of the Lafayette Hotel, “put Marietta on the map” by convincing the federal government to locate I-77 near historic Marietta.
The Rotary Club of Marietta gratefully . . . — — Map (db m103185) HM
Sewah Studios was founded in 1927 by Mr. E. M. Hawes and began operations on Marietta's west side at the site of the former Stevens Organ Factory. That facility was destroyed by fire in 1932 and a new factory was built on the Millgate property on . . . — — Map (db m114539) HM
One of the first industries in Marietta was shipbuilding. Due to the abundance of trees and the shipbuilding talent of the New England settlers, twenty-nine ocean-going vessels were built in eight shipyards from 1800 to 1812. In 1845 shipbuilding . . . — — Map (db m103231) HM
Built 1852 for J.B. Shipman, purchased 1877 by Elizabeth and M.C. Professor J.L. Mills whose descendants were occupants until 1961. Mills establishes Elizabeth College for women in 1893. — — Map (db m143563) HM
This stone is placed to keep
In remembrance the Historic
Point where dwelt during four
Years of Indian War 1791-1795
Early settlers of Ohio. — — Map (db m20731) HM
1788 Pioneer use of the Book of Common Prayer preceded Judge Arius Nye's 1826 founding of St. Luke's parish. The Reverend John Wheat's nurture led to the first church--1833. This church built 1856. — — Map (db m149688) HM
Side A
Martin Luther (1483-1546) proclaimed that we understand from Scripture alone (sola scriptura), are declared right by God through faith alone (sola fide), and are saved by God's grace alone (sola gratia), through Christ alone (sola . . . — — Map (db m143562) HM
Marietta’s second oldest, the German Evangelical “Kirche” built 1849. Became St. Paul’s Evangelical Church 1872. English sermons began in 1909. — — Map (db m103541) HM
You are cordially invited to visit one of the last of the Mark Twain Era steam towboats used so successfully on the Mississippi and Ohio River systems during the past century. This boat was presented to the Ohio Historical Society in September 1955 . . . — — Map (db m20633) HM
The lodge was organized in Roxbury, Massachusetts, on February 10, 1776, by Connecticut soldiers in the Continental Army. It met when and where it could during the Revolutionary War. By tradition, the lodge's name and seal were suggested by Benjamin . . . — — Map (db m20669) HM
A fine example of Gothic Revival architecture was built in 1855 for Melvin C. Clarke, a lawyer who died in the Civil War at Antietam. Later owned by the Nye and Bosley families.
The house is a treasure of fine woodwork, furnishings and changing . . . — — Map (db m143557) HM
To record the names of the forty-eight pioneers who landed near this spot, April 7, 1788.
Haffield White •
Jethro Putnam •
Ezekiel Cooper •
Amos Porter •
Allen Putnam •
Jervis Cutler •
Benjamin Shaw •
Oliver Dodge •
Henry Maxon . . . — — Map (db m103259) HM
Once we had the most!
Ohio once had more covered bridges than any other state! A conservative guess is that Ohio once had over 2,000 of these bridges. Today, the national leader is Pennsylvania, but Ohio's remaining covered bridges are . . . — — Map (db m159735) HM
The Holden House
408 Front Street
Built in 1852, this house is located on Ministerial land leased to Edwin Putnam in 1809.
The house was built for Joseph Holden, born in Massachusetts, in Dec. of 1767. It was later owned by William . . . — — Map (db m20182) HM
Side A: The Northwest Ordinance, 1787
Following the establishment of the public land system in 1785, the Continental Congress appointed a committee, chaired by James Monroe, to establish government in the new territory north and west of . . . — — Map (db m20653) HM
Look carefully and you might see the Ohio River’s wild side! During the warmer months, great blue herons wade the shallows while osprey fly overhead in search of fish. Bald eagles and waterfowl visit in winter, driven by northern cold to find food . . . — — Map (db m103241) HM
Built in 1822 by Postmaster Henry P. Wilcox, the property was acquired in 1837 by Colonel John Mills, a founder of the college. It passed to his sons John and William Webster Mills, graduates of the college and, like their father, longtime trustees . . . — — Map (db m103465) HM
The roadway down to the river from this point was once the busy route for freight and passengers using the many steamboats that served Marietta. For more than 100 years, boats in a variety of trades on the Ohio and Muskingum rivers made this landing . . . — — Map (db m103234) HM
Side A:
The W.P. SNYDER Jr. is one of the few links between the age of steam-powered, stern-wheeled towboats and the diesel-powered, propeller-driven vessels that push barges on America's rivers today. The James Rees and Sons Company in . . . — — Map (db m20632) HM
The W.P. Snyder Jr. is a steam-powered towboat. It moved barges loaded with coal, iron ore, and steel along the Monongahela and Ohio rivers.
When it was launched in 1918, the boat was originally owned by Carnegie Steel and operated as . . . — — Map (db m20678) HM
What would the life of one of the men or women who worked on the W.P. Snyder Jr. be like? The Ohio River Museum offers tours that provide an opportunity to explore the decks of this historic vessel.
Imagine living on the boat all day. What . . . — — Map (db m20680) HM
Lord God of Hosts
be with us yet
Lest we forget
Lest we forget
In honor of the men and women of
this community who served in the
World Wars
W.W. I 1917-1918 • W.W. II 1941-1945
Korea
They grow not old, as
we . . . — — Map (db m20667) WM
Side A
Richardson was born on May 25, 1824 in Washington County, PA. He graduated from Washington College in 1844 and moved to Ohio to be a teacher. In 1846 he enlisted In the Third Ohio Infantry and served in the Mexican War. He was . . . — — Map (db m143587) HM
Matamoras
Ohio
1846
James Riggs Family
First Settlers on the Site of
Matamoras in 1797
Founded in 1846 by
Stinson Burris, Adam Cline
and Henry Sheets
Incorporated in 1861
Named after Matamoros, Mexico
Industry — . . . — — Map (db m114688) HM
1917 — 1918
Alice Young · Carl Henkelman · Winton Newman · Raymond Jones · John L. Gorum · Edward Rush · Howard Mount · David Dunn · William Hanlon · Robert Haught · Mersom Roberts — — Map (db m114689) WM
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