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In 1912, an endowment of $6,000 from Andrew Carnegie made it possible for the Bristol Public Library to become a reality. Four years earlier, the newly organized Bristol Library Association, headed and promoted by retired Judge . . . — — Map (db m121485) HM
Erected to those buried in Bristol Township whose service assured our nation's independence
1775-1783
Gasper Cline
Elias Daily
Jacob Hamman
John Morley
Joseph Talcott
William Wilson — — Map (db m121486) WM
Side A
With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, many young men of Bristol Township enlisted in the army when President Abraham Lincoln issued his call to defend the Union cause. The death toll of some of these men at the Battle of Shiloh . . . — — Map (db m121482) HM
Side A
In 1798, Judge Samuel Hinckley of Northampton, Massachusetts, drew the 72nd draft in the land lottery held by the Connecticut Land Company and received 15,305 acres in Township 4, Range 1, for which he paid $12,903.23, less than one . . . — — Map (db m121462) HM
Born in Brookfield, Massachusetts purchased township 4 range 1 from the Connecticut Land Co. on September 14, 1799 and named it Brookfield.
He paid $12,903.23 for 15,304 acres. — — Map (db m121461) HM
This bell rang for shift changes at Frederick Masury's Masurite Explosive Company
(1904-1911)
In 1912 it was given to the Elm Street School. When the school closed in 1951, it became the property of the Brookfield Fire Department.
The bell was . . . — — Map (db m121464) HM
Side A
Activity of the Underground Railroad is believed to have begun in Brookfield Township around 1838 with the first known runaway slaves, two women. to pass through in 1843. Freedom seekers moved north using a system of routes known by . . . — — Map (db m203273) HM
Side A
Originally part of the Casterline farm, this cemetery was once the site of the 1824 Bazetta Presbyterian Church, the first church in Bazetta Township. Ziba Casterline deeded .75 acres for the cemetery to the church in 1829 for five . . . — — Map (db m121472) HM
Fowler Township. Originally called Westfield Township, Samuel Fowler purchased this area in 1798 from the Connecticut Land Company for $12,903.23 while living in Westfield, Massachusetts. His brother Abner arrived the following year to survey . . . — — Map (db m121470) HM
In Honor Of Active Duty
Veterans Buried In
Fowler Township Cemeteries
Dedicated May 29 2000
Abrer Fowler Jonathad Sheldon Sr Rhirr Ackley Peter Dewole
Silas Jones John Rhodes William Tanner Benjamin Ames
Ebenezer Barnes . . . — — Map (db m204350) WM
Built circa 1840 by Henry Barnhisel Jr. in the Greek Revival architectural style, the Barnhisel home is one of the oldest remaining structures in Girard. Henry and Eve Anna Barnhisel purchased the land where the house stands in 1813 when they . . . — — Map (db m121456) HM
Side A
Major buildings dating from 1832 to 1898 surround the village green, the geographic center of Gustavus Township. Built in 1832 on the northwest quadrant, the George Hezlep House features Federal-Greek Revival architecture and has a . . . — — Map (db m121480) HM
In honore of the boys from
Gustavus Township and High
School Alumni who wore the
uniforme in the Great World War.
William Allen
Edward Lindgley
Verne M. Bingham
Earl L. Dunham
Hallie D. Cligby
Clark Fllis
Alonzo R. . . . — — Map (db m204347) WM
Side A
Darrow Octagon House
This eight-sided house reflects a widespread pre-Civil War architectural fad. Promoted by phrenologist Orson S. Fowler in his 1848 book A Home for All as a way to "bring comfortable homes within the reach . . . — — Map (db m121479) HM
Side A
The township of Kinsman was purchased by John Kinsman of Lisbon, Connecticut, in 1799 from the Connecticut Land Company. Kinsman has been the home of many notable citizens, some of whom include: Philip P. Bliss (1838-1876) and James . . . — — Map (db m121478) HM
Korean Conflict
Lost In Service
James R. Aldridge Jr.
James L. Carothers
William B. Frost
Robert L. Kirkwood
Charles Perkins
Robert C. Sabine
Melvin G. Wolf
Rest In Peace — — Map (db m204393) WM
In January 1827, the Ohio State Legislature chartered the Pennsylvania & Ohio Canal Company to build an east-west cut canal connecting north-south canals in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The route ran from the Beaver Canal in Pennsylvania to the Ohio & . . . — — Map (db m204732) HM
Dedicated to the
Valiant Men and
Women of Warren
Twp. Who Served
Their Country and
the Cause of Freedom
in World Wars I & II.
Lost in Service
James Armstrong
Paul Mahay
Elmer Dade
Gurt Dowling
Robert Carey . . . — — Map (db m204395) WM
Side A
Mesopotamia Township, Trumbull County was a part of the Western Reserve, 3.3 million acres in Northeast Ohio claimed by Connecticut. After the Treaty of Greenville extinguished American Indian title in 1795, the state sold most of . . . — — Map (db m203274) HM
Side A
The discovery in the mid-19th century of iron-rich black band ore in this region helped revitalize Mahoning Valleys iron industry. The land now called Mineral Ridge was primarily a farming community before the 1850s. In the 1830s, . . . — — Map (db m122057) HM
Side A
A salt spring, located about a mile west of this site, was the primary attraction for immigrants to the Western Reserve territory in the mid-1700s. Prior to European-American settlement, Indians used the springs, boiling the water to . . . — — Map (db m122055) HM
The Newton Falls covered bridge was built over the east branch of the Mahoning River around 1831. A crosswalk was added in 1921 for children crossing the bridge on their way to the school on Center Street. The Newton Falls bridge is considered . . . — — Map (db m73215) HM
Side A
Alexander Sutherland (1767-1845) and his wife Sarah (1768-1836) were the first settlers in Newton Township, Trumbull County, Ohio. Coming from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, the Sutherlands acquired 205 acres of land along Duck . . . — — Map (db m121502) HM
The Newtown Falls Covered Bridge was originally built about 1831 on this site, which is now known as Arlington Street, over the East Branch of the Mahoning River. This bridge structure is the second oldest covered bridge in the State of Ohio and . . . — — Map (db m165706) HM
1806 - Built his log cabin home in Heaton Park, Vienna Avenue. 1806/07 - Constructed a grist mill, dam and mill race along Mosquito Creek. 1809 - Manufactured first bar iron in Ohio. 1812/13 - Constructed "Maria" blast furnace. 1820 - Built his . . . — — Map (db m121459) HM
Side A:
One of seven native Ohioans to serve as president of the United States, William McKinley (1843-1901) was born at this site. The original house was moved from this site and ultimately destroyed by fire. The McKinleys lived here until . . . — — Map (db m65454) HM
Side A
Southington native Newton Chalker built, furnished, and donated Chalker High School to his community in 1907. Chalker was born in 1842 in Southington Township and lived there until adulthood. He later built a prosperous law and real . . . — — Map (db m121487) HM
Side A
Born on April 18, 1913, in Barrea, Province L'Aquila Abruzzi, Italy to Salvatore and Maria (Lombardozzi) Campana, Mary Ann Campana immigrated to the United States with her parents at age eight. Raised in Youngstown and educated in . . . — — Map (db m121469) HM
Vienna Township Green and Cemetery
Vienna Township Green and Cemetery were created on June 20, 1810, when Ephraim Root and Uriel Holmes, Jr., deeded to Vienna Presbyterian Church members eight acres of “cleared & improved” land . . . — — Map (db m103101) HM
Side A
Camp Hutchins-Warren's Civil War Training Camp
After the outbreak of the Civil War in the spring of 1861, the U.S. War Department commissioned Ohio Senator B.F. Wade of Jefferson and local Congressman John Hutchins of Warren to . . . — — Map (db m121474) HM
Commemorative ingot poured from the first heat of steel made in Trumbull County by the Basic Oxygen Process.
This 16,000 pound ingot contains various steel souvenir items provided by area residents to symbolize the beginning of the second century . . . — — Map (db m65441) HM
Commemorative ingot poured from first heat of steel made in Trumbull County by the basic oxygen process.
This 16,000 pound ingot contains various steel souvenir items provided by area residents to symbolize the beginning of the second . . . — — Map (db m204780) HM
1941 - 1945
Dedicated to the
valiant men and women of
Copperweld Steel Company
who served their country
and the cause of
freedom in World War II
=lost in service=
John P. Ankowski
Lester Clark
Willard Collett
Lyle . . . — — Map (db m204385) WM
This congregation was founded in Warren November 19, 1803, by the Rev. Joseph Badger, who was serving as a missionary in the Western Reserve for the Connecticut Missionary Society of the Congregational Church. Rev. Badger was assisted at the first . . . — — Map (db m65442) HM
After embracing the cause of women's suffrage, Harriet Taylor Upton (1854-1945) devoted her life to the movement. Born in Ravenna, she moved to Warren as a child and lived in this house beginning in 1873. Upton was treasurer of the National American . . . — — Map (db m65443) HM
Has been designated a
National Historic Landmark
This building was the residence of
Harriet Taylor Upton
Suffragist and Women's Rights Leader
and the headquarters of
the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
it possesses . . . — — Map (db m204370) HM
On January 31, 1798, Joseph Howland bought Township 4-Range 3 (Howland Twp.) for $12, 903.23 and an equalizing portion of Township 1-Range 10 (Springfield Twp.) as part of a lottery held to distribute Connecticut's Western Reserve lands. On February . . . — — Map (db m121473) HM
The Kinsman House once served as classrooms for the Dana School of Music, Hiram College Branch. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. — — Map (db m121476) HM
Leicester King
Born in Connecticut in 1789, Judge Leicester King and his wife Julia Ann Huntington King, moved to Warren in 1817 from Westfield, Massachusetts. He was one of the principle promoters of the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal, which . . . — — Map (db m65445) HM
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF), a world-wide fraternal organization, was introduced to the United States from England in 1819 and was established in Ohio in 1830. Mahoning Lodge #29 in Warren, Ohio, received its jurisdictional charter . . . — — Map (db m121475) HM
Old Erie received its original charter on October 19, 1803, from the Grand Lodge of Connecticut. In 1808, the lodge joined with five other Ohio lodges to organize the Grand Lodge of Ohio. The first man to preside as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge . . . — — Map (db m65449) HM
Pennsylvania & Ohio Canal 1839-1872
The decision to build the P&O Canal resulted from several canal
conventions at Warren's first courthouse in 1833. Canal advocates
from Warren included Simon Perkins, Leicester King, David Tod,
and . . . — — Map (db m204354) HM
This ornate Victorian/Italianate house was constructed in 1871 as the home of Henry Bishop Perkins, Sr., a civic, business, and political leader of the Western Reserve. During the 19th and early 20th century political figures such as U.S. Grant, . . . — — Map (db m65450) HM
Born in Warren in 1859, Phebe T. Sutliff received a Bachelor's degree from Vassar College in 1880 and a Master of Arts from Cornell University in 1890. Miss Sutliff taught at Hiram College in Ohio and Rockford College in Illinois and served as . . . — — Map (db m65451) HM
As a living monument
to all veterans who served
and made the supreme sacrifice
for our country in the time of need.
Dedicated by the
Polish Legion of American Veterans
Lt. Col. Matt Urban Post # 164
Warren, Ohio
Organized on Jan. . . . — — Map (db m204384) WM
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Dr. Ronald A. Parise (1951-2008), from Warren, was a payload specialist for the Astro 1, Columbia, and Astro 2, Endeavour, space shuttle missions in 1990 and 1995. He logged in more than 614 hours in space. Among his scientific . . . — — Map (db m121477) HM
On July 26, 1936 at the age of six Neil Armstrong, a Warren and Champion Township resident took his "first flight" in a Ford Tri-motor airplane from the Warren Airways which was located on this exact site. This sparked his love of aviation. . . . — — Map (db m73226) HM
The Western Reserve
Bank chartered
February 20, 1812 was the
First Bank on the
Western Reserve on this
site, in 1816 and 1817, was
erected the First Bank
Building in Warren. — — Map (db m204371) HM
To the men of Warren
who fought to conquer
the Rebellion and
preserve the Union of
the States, this
monument is erected
that their example
may speak to
coming generations.
Vicksburg
Chickamauga Atlanta
In greatful . . . — — Map (db m204551) WM
This memorial is dedicated
to honor Trumbull County's
men and women of the
United States Armed Forces
for their service in support
of the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan as well as all past
and future conflicts in the
Global War on Terrorism . . . — — Map (db m204366) WM
The dreams of peace that for America have grown comfortable with Luzon, Iwo Jima, and the Belleru Woods, now draw back to the sounds of Chu Lai, Van Tong, and Khe Sanh, set these dreams that created America, created our plight dropped into an . . . — — Map (db m204726) WM
Trumbull Red Cross Chapter House
Administration Building built in 1931. Chapter House built in 1962. Commemorating American Red Cross Centennial, 1881-1981.
Pioneer Cemetery
Early Western Reserve burial grounds, 1804-1848. Grave sites . . . — — Map (db m65453) HM
In recognition of the Patriotism of the People of Trumbull County who so generously purchased War Savings Stamps in 1918 this tablet is gratefully erected by the Ohio War Savings Committee — — Map (db m204355) HM
The "Who's Who of Warren's industry, commerce
and politics lived in stately mansions that lined the
street during the 1800s. Today, the mansions are
museums, businesses and private residences. — — Map (db m204369) HM
Dedicated to all Trumbull
County women veterans
past and present.
Honor to your country
you have served, sacrificed,
and suffered. Your
patriotism and courage is
greatly appreciated. — — Map (db m204381) WM
To the
memory of those who served and gave their lives in World War II
1941 - 1945
Negro soldiers lost in service
from Trumbull County.
Leonard H. M Corkle
Bernard W. Smith
John Gillam
Harrison Edwards
Howard J. Ward . . . — — Map (db m204382) WM
