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
Robert R. Davis Jr. taught history and geography at ONU from 1966-1997. He was an innovative teacher and a groundbreaking scholar of Black nationalism. Bob loved trees. The trees it this grove are the gift of his friends to the university! — — Map (db m248208) 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
On January 11, 1968, in Taft Memorial Gymnasium, on this site, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., addressed the community of Ohio Northern University.
Ohio Northern University became one of the last campuses this preeminent American civil rights . . . — — Map (db m248215) HM
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 of Northwest Ohio. In 1885, the school became Ohio Normal . . . — — Map (db m29025) HM
Ohio Northern University was founded on this site in 1871 by Henry Solomon Lehr as the Northwest Ohio Normal School. The University has provided liberal and professional education in a Christian setting since its founding and has been related to the . . . — — Map (db m248203) HM
