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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Seneca County, Ohio
Adjacent to Seneca County, Ohio
▶ Crawford County (21) ▶ Hancock County (46) ▶ Huron County (14) ▶ Sandusky County (43) ▶ Wood County (53) ▶ Wyandot County (24)
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| | The Attica-Venice Joint Cemetery is the final
resting place of Clara Edith (Work) Ayres,
who died in the line of duty soon after the
United States entered World War I in April
1917. Mrs. Ayres was born in Venice Township
on September 16, 1880. . . . — — Map (db m142389) HM |
| | Dedicated to the American soldiers of past wars who lie at rest in Omar Burial Ground.
Revolutionary War
Aaron Dean
War of 1812
James Harrison
Benjamin Ennis
John Wilkinson
Elijah Reed
Benjamin Kelly
James Thatcher . . . — — Map (db m135373) WM |
| | Side A
The Underground Railroad was neither underground nor a railroad, but a system of loosely connected safe havens where those escaping the brutal conditions of slavery were sheltered, fed, clothed, nursed, concealed, disguised, and instructed . . . — — Map (db m135559) HM |
| | In the 1820s a general store and a grist mill were established near this site, where the famous Scioto-Sandusky Indian Trail neared the Sandusky River. The settlement was first known as McNutt's, later as Swope's Corners. The village of Fort Seneca . . . — — Map (db m18126) HM |
| | Ohio
Revolutionary
Memorial
Trail
Text on South Side :
Harrison • Shelby
Marches • 1813
- - - - -
12
Miles to
Brady's
Island
Text on North Side :
Harrison • Shelby
Marches . . . — — Map (db m20577) HM |
| | Fostoria's glass era began when natural gas was discovered in the mid 1880s at “Godsend,” five miles west of town. Aided by former governor Charles Foster, Fostoria attracted more than a dozen companies that manufactured utilitarian and . . . — — Map (db m41233) HM |
| | This monument marks the square of the village of Risdon founded in 1832. The land was owned by John Gorsuch, who settled here with his family in a clearing along the Portage River in 1831. He had a plat of the area made by David Risdon, Seneca . . . — — Map (db m100139) HM |
| | Side 1 St. Boniface Catholic Church began in 1834 as a mission of several area churches and in 1836, the parish built its first church. in 1844 Bishop John Purcell commissioned Swiss born Father Francis de Sales Brunner, a Missionary of the . . . — — Map (db m104848) HM |
| | This tablet marks the site of Fort Seneca built in July 1813 by Major General William Henry Harrison during the War of 1812 with Great Britain; and also marks the military road known as the "Harrison Trail" blazed through the forest in 1812 by . . . — — Map (db m21948) HM |
| | In earliest recorded history, the Erie tribe inhabited this land. The Iroquois Confederacy, particularly the Senecas, annihilated the Eries between 1650 and 1656. This area then became the "hunting grounds" of the Senecas and Mohawks. In 1730 . . . — — Map (db m70010) HM |
| | In July 1813 a detachment of soldiers under Lt. Col. James V. Ball built a supply fort here along the military road that ran along the west bank of the Sandusky River. Ball chose this site for its large spring of cold water, which he enclosed within . . . — — Map (db m17977) HM |
| | This is the site of Camp Noble, named for
Congressman Warren P. Noble, who obtained the
officer’s commission for William H. Gibson as the
colonel of the 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Companies of 100 began to arrive here August 12,
1861 from . . . — — Map (db m141529) HM |
| | When St.Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church was dedicated on
January 6, 1884, an ornate brass chandelier presented by the
Edison Electric Light Company provided illumination for the ceremony.
Wired for electric lighting before its completion,
St. . . . — — Map (db m140953) HM |
| | 1813.
This Tree Marks
The Site of Old Fort Ball
Built in 1813 by Order of
General Harrison. — — Map (db m104132) HM |
| | In 1822 Josiah Hedges purchased the land that would become Tiffin from the Delaware Land Office. By March, this land, situated across the Sandusky River from old Fort Ball (War of 1812) was surveyed and platted by General James Hedges, the brother . . . — — Map (db m119964) HM |
| | The Pastor of St. Mary’s Church, Rev. Thomas F. Conlon, met with the newly appointed bishop of the Toledo Diocese, the Right Rev. Joseph Schrembs, to discuss building a charity hospital for the community. Community leaders and physicians promoted . . . — — Map (db m140838) HM |
| | The Seneca County Museum is the former home of local businessman Rezin W. Shawhan. Born in 1811, Shawhan arrived in Tiffin in 1832 and opened a store with his brother Lorenzo. The store’s success enabled Rezin to expand his interests into real . . . — — Map (db m140870) HM |
| | Side A
In 1873, Tiffin's Cronise sisters became the first women admitted to the Ohio Bar. At that time, Ohio did not provide for the admission of women attorneys. On April 4th 1873, Nettie Cronise applied to the district court. Despite . . . — — Map (db m100140) HM |
| | A) In 1858, the Sandusky Dayton Cincinnati Railroad Company took control of the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad line and built the Tiffin passenger depot in 1862, which served as one of the six railroad depots in the Tiffin area. As a result of the . . . — — Map (db m119969) HM |
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