Home in the wilderness 1821-1870. Built in 1821 downstream a quarter mile on the Auglaize west bank by Sebastian Sroufe, War of 1812 veteran, and wife Mary, this home was postal stop Sugar Grove on the Ft. Recovery-Ft. Defiance route and in 1828, . . . — — Map (db m79533) HM
The Samuel Myers, Sr. Grist Mill 1834-1860 After Christmas Day 1833, Samuel Myers, Sr., a native of Hagerstown, Maryland, and Margaret (Hardin), first couple wed in Putnam County, moved ito their log home on the Auglaize River west bank. Because . . . — — Map (db m79559) HM
The construction of Putnam County's first public swimming pool helped Columbus Grove weather the Great Depression of the 1930s. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Village of Columbus Grove planned the pool . . . — — Map (db m28616) HM
[Text on Front Side]:
Fort Jennings
On Sept. 21, 1812, Col. William Jennings, with his regiment of Kentucky riflemen, was ordered by Gen. W. H. Harrison to cut a road from Fort Barbee at St. Marys to a point . . . — — Map (db m18782) HM
[Text on Front Side];
Site Of
Fort Jennings
War of 1812
[Text on Right Side];
Fort Erected
Sept. and Oct. 1812
By Second Regiment
Of Kentucky Militia
Commanded By . . . — — Map (db m62433) WM
Side A:
Described as a Columbus "institution" when he died in 1969, Emerson C. Burkhart was born on a farm in Union Township, Putnam County in 1905. The son of Albert and Nora Burkhart, Emerson graduated from Kalida High School in 1924 and . . . — — Map (db m28597) HM
Side A: First Putnam County Government Seat
February 19, 1829, an appointed Ohio Legislative Commission granted 160 acres of the southwest quarter of Section 5, Town 1 south, range 6 east for a government seat to Commissioners Thomas Gray, . . . — — Map (db m29937) HM
The 1949-1950 season of the Miller City Wildcats boys’ basketball team is one of Ohio’s great sports stories. First year coach C. Norris Simpson assembled an undersized group of farm boys and led them to 29 straight victories, including 11 . . . — — Map (db m100736) HM
John Crawfis, Fairfield County, Ohio native, and wife Sarah (Moorehead) bequeathed two grants of $25,000 and five acres for schools in Fairfield and Putnam counties in Ohio in 1880.
Constructed in 1889, Crawfis College, Putnam County, a two-story . . . — — Map (db m93229) HM
Side A:
Frances Rappaport Horwich was born in Ottawa on July 16, 1907, the daughter of Sam Rappaport, an Austrian immigrant who operated a general store, and Rosa Gratz Rappaport, a Russian immigrant. The youngest of six children, she . . . — — Map (db m28618) HM
[Front Side]:
The Ottawa, or "Tawa" Indians had inhabited the Maumee Valley since the middle of the 1700s. By the 1790s, Ottawa settlements included villages along the Blanchard River at the present-day Village of Ottawa. During the War . . . — — Map (db m21570) HM
3 miles east – site of
Fort Jennings
Built by Colonel William Jennings
in 1812, as one of the
posts along General Harrison’s
march to the confluence of
the Auglaize and the Maumee. — — Map (db m136591) HM
Construction began July 1825, opening navigation between Cincinnati and Toledo, Ohio in 1845 and encouraging settlement in the Black Swamp.
Built in segments, the Canal extended 248.8 miles, joining the Ohio River and Lake Erie. The segment . . . — — Map (db m69005) HM
side A
One room schools were commonly named for people
who furnished land for the building. Michael
Bridenbaugh (1820- 1895), who settled in Riley
Township in 1835, and wife Jemima (1834- 1903)
sold a half-acre of land to the Riley . . . — — Map (db m137736) HM
Memorial
dedicated to those who served
who are serving and who will serve
for God and country
Pandora American Legion Post 616
May 30, 1967 — — Map (db m94564) WM
Rockport Methodist Church in the community of Rockport (formerly Cranberry) was believed to be one of the oldest churches in northern Allen Co. According to the records of the church, it was formed sometime around 1840, perhaps earlier. It was a . . . — — Map (db m100932) HM
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