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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Harrison County, Ohio
Adjacent to Harrison County, Ohio
▶ Belmont County (49) ▶ Carroll County (15) ▶ Guernsey County (29) ▶ Jefferson County (81) ▶ Tuscarawas County (54)
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| | Matthew Simpson, an eminent Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, was born on June 21, 1811, in a log house which then stood on the north corner of Market and Main Streets in Cadiz. Simpson spent most of his youth in Cadiz where he gained a . . . — — Map (db m36232) HM |
| | Erected by Comrades and Friends To the Union Soliders of 1861 to 1865.
J.S. McReady
Post No. 456
G.A.R. — — Map (db m36307) HM |
| | By producing many men of national prominence, more than any other community of similar size, Cadiz stands as a testament to the value of small town life to America.
Bob Burns, deeply grateful for his small town youth in Van Buren, Arkansas, . . . — — Map (db m36267) HM |
| | William Clarke Gable, stage and motion picture actor, was born at Cadiz, Ohio, on February 1, 1901, in a house that once stood on this site. He was reared in nearby Hopedale. During his film career of 36 years, Gable made 67 talking pictures . . . — — Map (db m36264) HM |
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United States of America
Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients
State of Ohio Harrison County
Civil War
*Custer, Thomas Ward Lt. Col. Namozine Church, Virginia 1865
*Custer, Thomas Ward Lt. Col. Sailor's Creek, Virginia 1865 . . . — — Map (db m36304) HM |
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Deersville was platted by John Cramblett on Nov. 25, 1815. The community reached its peak in the years before the Civil War when it was a stop on the stagecoach route between Wheeling and Wooster. Alexander Auld, a songwriter, lived . . . — — Map (db m79827) HM |
| | This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m79824) HM |
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Laceyville was once a small community with an inn, a post office, general store, a school, black smith shop, a shoemaker, and a tailor. It also had its own baseball team and orchestra. The Laceyville House, built of brick and . . . — — Map (db m36229) HM |
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Mary L. Jobe Akeley
Mary Leonore Jobe was born on January 29, 1878, near Tappan, Harrison County, Ohio. She earned a bachelor's degree from Scio College and master's degree from Columbia University. While studying, she began a . . . — — Map (db m79822) HM |
| | This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m79825) HM |
| | Tappan was platted by John Marshall on March 4, 1837, on the main highway between Cadiz and New Philadelphia. One of the town's best-known residents was Mary Jobe Ackley, who gained international fame as an explorer, author, lecturer, and . . . — — Map (db m36525) HM |
| | This ridge road west from Cadiz through Deersville to the Tuscarawas Valley is known locally as the Moravian Trail. Originally an Indian path, it became an important trail for the frontiersmen. The men who participated in the Gnadenhutten Massacre, . . . — — Map (db m79828) HM |
| | This marker stands in the westernmost of the Seven Ranges of Townships, Northwest Territory, surveyed by the National Government in 1785-87. These Ranges constitute the first employment of the rectangular system in the surveying of national lands. A . . . — — Map (db m36523) HM |
| | Confederate Brigadier John Hunt Morgan and about 500 remaining raiders had narrowly escaped pursuing Union forces under Brigadier General James M. Shackelford and had survived their artillery barrage near Georgetown.
The Union troops and horses . . . — — Map (db m79818) HM |
| | Here, February 14, 1861, Abraham Lincoln alighted from a train en route from his home in Illinois to the nations’s capital, where on March 4th he would become our sixteenth President. Cadiz Junction, a breakfast stop for the President Elect, saw him . . . — — Map (db m40966) HM |
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Platted by educator and abolitionist Cyrus NcNeely in 1849, Hopedale was the site of McNeely Normal School, later Hopedale Normal College, the first coeducational college for teachers in eastern Ohio. It operated from 1849 to . . . — — Map (db m36528) HM |
| | The 105 howitzer was first put into full production in 1934. They were used for the support of the infantry soldier. Each artillery battery consisted of 5 guns, each with the capability of firing shells a distance of 8 miles. The 105 howitzer was . . . — — Map (db m36530) WM |
| | Erected by the Grateful People of Mt. Pleasant in Honor of Those who Served and Died for their Country in World Wars I and II
Died during Time of War
Ezra Cattell •
Dalio Brandy •
Walter Dietrich •
Donald Francy •
Lloyd . . . — — Map (db m36347) HM |
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Franklin College
Alma Academy
One of Ohio's earliest colleges, Alma College (earlier known as Alma Academy) was founded in 1818 and became Franklin College in 1825. Its founders were primarily of Scots-Irish descent who . . . — — Map (db m79819) HM |
| | As its name implies, this village was conceived as a cultural and educational center. Here, 1818, Rev. John Walker founded classical Alma Academy. The academy became a college in 1825; it was renamed "Franklin" the following year. Old Franklin was . . . — — Map (db m79820) HM |
| | Historic Site — — Map (db m79821) HM |
| | The birthplace of General George Armstrong Custer — — Map (db m159653) HM |
| | This village, platted as New Market in 1836 but renamed Scio to correspond with its postal designation, became the site of a noteworthy college in 1867. This college, founded by A. D. Lee, was widely known for its unusual "one-study" curriculum; . . . — — Map (db m36231) HM |
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