Ada grew alongside the tracks of the Ohio & Indiana Railroad, completed in 1854 between Crestline, Crawford County, and Fort Wayne, Indiana. This line became part of the Southwest Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1869. Ada's rapid growth as . . . — — Map (db m29014) HM
Dedicated to all veterans who served in the United States armed forces with devotion, loyalty, honor and their determination to preserve freedom
"Freedom Is Not Free" — — Map (db m229135) WM
Dedicated to perpetuate the memory of our valiant defenders of freedom who made the supreme sacrifice in World War I and World War II
World War I Walter Agin • Stanley Foss • Leo Hawk • James McElroy • Roggeill Meyer
World War . . . — — Map (db m229138) WM
Henry Solomon Lehr founded Ohio Northern University in 1871 as the Northwestern Ohio Normal School. Its purpose was to train teachers and to provide higher education to the people in Northwest Ohio. In 1885, the school became Ohio Normal . . . — — Map (db m29025) HM
Alger Marion Township Veterans Memorial
dedicated to those who served
our nation with pride and
dignity at home and afar;
preserving the freedom we
have today.
“God Bless America”
“All gave some, Some gave all” — — Map (db m118726) WM
Jacob Parrott (Civil War)
First Recipient
Congressional Medal of Honor
Resident of Hardin County
Husband of
Sarah (Lawrence) Parrott
of Alger — — Map (db m118842) HM WM
Hull’s Trail was a rough passageway through Ohio to the Canadian border, used by General William Hull’s army during the War of 1812 on its way to attack the English at Detroit. Woodsmen cleared the trail to permit the Ohio Army Militia with its . . . — — Map (db m198037) HM
Comprising 8,000 acres of Brookston-Crosby soils, the marsh is named for Hog Creek which drains it. Once a shallow lake, cranberries, wild flags and grasses flourished here. Reclamation (1868) cost $13.00 per acre. Dredging was done by steam scow; . . . — — Map (db m29032) HM
To all those who come after let
it be known that this place is
dedicated to those men and women
who served their country in
all wars ..past, present and future
Dunkirk V.F.W. Post 3816
by MS 2003 — — Map (db m94001) WM
Dowling Baker
Pvt. - Civil War
June 2, 1864
Battlefield, GA •
Lieu Edward Baker
S. Sgt. - Marines
Sept 26, 1944
Pelilieu Is. •
L. John Buess
Sgt. Air Corps
Oct. 15, 1943
Blythe, Ca. •
Robert C. Everhart
T. Sgt. - Army
Nov. 30, . . . — — Map (db m193081) WM
Built at the site of the crossing of
the Pennsylvania and Big Four
Railroads, which is believed to be
the first intersection in Ohio, this
freight house served both railroads
from 1890 until its closing in 1961.
This building is much larger . . . — — Map (db m166284) HM
County Road 265 follows an old Indian trail which connected the Wyandot villages at Upper Sandusky with the Shawnee Mac-o-chee towns to the southwest. Many wigwams were pitched near this Scioto River ford during the late 18th and early 19th . . . — — Map (db m22266) HM
Wheeler Tavern was built by Portius Wheeler, an early pioneer of Hardin County, around 1835 near the Shawnee Ford of the Scioto River. According to local historians this was the first brick residence constructed in Hardin County. Tradition . . . — — Map (db m22962) HM
Dedicated to the men and women who have served in the Armed Forces of the United States of America, those who lost their lives preserving our freedom and the pioneer families who settled Hardin County
"God bless America and the freedom we . . . — — Map (db m22919) HM WM
The knolls and ridges found in this vicinity were formed by deposits of gravel left by the retreating glacier which covered much of Ohio during the Pleistocene Era 10,000 years ago. Popularly known as "Devil's Backbones," these ridges can be several . . . — — Map (db m140507) HM
Approximately 1000 feet east of this marker lies the graves of sixteen American soldiers from Fort McArthur who gave their lives during the War of 1812. The fort, a one-half acre timber stockade containing huts, was built in the summer of 1812 to . . . — — Map (db m22250) HM
Lest We Forget
in memory of the Korean Conflict
June 25, 1950 - July 27, 1953
54,236 Dead
103,000 Wounded
7,000 P.O.W.'s
3,450 Returned Alive
51% Died Prison Camps
389 P.O.W.'s Unaccounted For — — Map (db m105031) WM
Front In honor of those who served in Viet NamBack
Greater love hath no man than this
that he lay down his life for his country — — Map (db m105038) WM
In Memory of
Jacob Parrott
buried here. Born July 17, 1843 in Fairfield County, Ohio. Died December 22, 1908. At 18 he enlisted in Company K, 33rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment and was the youngest member of the famous Andrews Raid. The . . . — — Map (db m2022) HM
First organized as the Kenton Lock Manufacturing Company in 1890, the Kenton Hardware Company became one of the world's largest cast iron toy factories. Under the management of L. S. Bixler, toy stoves, banks, fire company outfits, horse drawn . . . — — Map (db m22902) HM
In 1832 a charter was granted by the State of Ohio for construction of a railroad between Sandusky City and Dayton. The right-of-way privileges included Hardin County. The first train, of the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad, arrived in Kenton from . . . — — Map (db m22920) HM
In memory of
John R. and Stella E. Hastings
for their community service and
their generous and caring support
of the youth of Hardin County.
Oh, blest are they who walk in love.
They also walk with God above.
John R. Hastings / / / . . . — — Map (db m78261) HM
Built in 1886 by direct descendants of slaves, the Black and White schoolhouse provided education for local youths until 1928. Denied admission to white schools in the area, African-American families first built a log schoolhouse across the road in . . . — — Map (db m156893) HM
One of Ohio's larger courthouses, this structure, completed in 1915 at a cost of $275,000, is the third courthouse to be built in this vicinity. The building, designed by the architectural firm, Richards, McCarty, and Bulford, is an excellent . . . — — Map (db m22901) HM
This Tablet marks Hull’s Trail; 1812. One-half mile south of this is the site of Old Fort McArthur. Built in 1812 on yonder hillside, Gen. Tupper and 1,000 men camped the entire winter of 1812-13. At the foot of the hill is their “Spring of . . . — — Map (db m18416) HM
This Flag's in honor of those brave men and women who sacrifice to protect our country. May God Bless those who put their lives in harms way to keep our
country free, our children sale, and maintain our way of life. — — Map (db m198661) WM
The Scioto Marsh, the largest of three extensive marsh areas in western Hardin County, was formed in the low basins left by the last retreating glacier 10,000 years ago. It covered more than 16,000 acres and was thought to be a source of malaria by . . . — — Map (db m173935) HM
Side A: Village of McGuffey
The Village of McGuffey was named for John McGuffey, who in the 1860s first attempted to drain the Scioto Marsh. A larger and more effective drainage effort, made by others who entered Hardin County in the 1880s, . . . — — Map (db m29062) HM
Upon this site, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, stood Chief Roundhead's Wyandot Indian village. This flourishing agricultural community later gave way to white settlement and Hardin County's first town was laid out here in 1832. . . . — — Map (db m21566) HM
Oldest community in
Hardin County
Founded in 1832 on the
site of the Indian village
led by Chili Stiahia
better known as Roundhead
an ally of the British in
the War of 1812
Roundhead Township was organized 1832
Until March 1833 . . . — — Map (db m22939) HM
This memorial erected in 2005 is dedicated to the educators, support staff, community, parents, and all students who attended here. — — Map (db m22937) HM
