On Main Street (Ohio Route 119), on the left when traveling west.
John W. Carey was born in 1805 in West Virginia [sic - Virginia] and came to Shelby County with his parents, Cephas and Jane Williamson Carey. Around 1833, J.W. Carey bought a thousand acres in Dinsmore Township, west of the present railroad in . . . — — Map (db m29873) HM
Side A:
Acclaimed author and illustrator of juvenile literature Lois Lenski was born in Springfield in 1893, grew up in Anna, and graduated from Sidney High School. In 1915, Lenski graduated from The Ohio State University and moved to New . . . — — Map (db m28589) HM
On McRill Way north of West North Street, on the right when traveling north.
This bell rang for the first time in 1828 when John Quincy Adams was President of the United States. Cast by John Wilbank, it was hauled over dirt roads from Philadelphia to its first destination, the Clark County Courthouse in Springfield, Ohio. . . . — — Map (db m250903) HM
On Hardin-Wapakoneta Road (County Route 20) 0.2 miles south of Blanke Road (County Route 76), on the right when traveling south. Reported missing.
Rumley was a colored community, platted in 1837 by Joel and Wesley Goins, who purchased 400 acres of land. They were freemen from Baltimore, Maryland. The deed to the land was granted and signed by President Van Buren. Over 500 Negroes lived in this . . . — — Map (db m249990) HM
On Wapakoneta-Sidney Road (County Route 25A) at Harmon Road, on the right when traveling south on Wapakoneta-Sidney Road.
Here the pioneer founders of the congregation built a log church in 1832. In this place they laid to rest their dead from 1832 until 1900. "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord" — — Map (db m108838) HM
On Hardin - Wapak Road (County Route 20) at Blanke Road (County Route 76), on the right when traveling south on Hardin - Wapak Road.
The Temple of Rumley Church is of one of two remaining buildings in what once was Rumley, a thriving African American community in Shelby County. On May 19, 1837, the village was surveyed for Amos Evans, who built his hewed log dwelling and . . . — — Map (db m227788) HM
On Amsterdam Road (County Route 52) 0.5 miles west of Wenger Road (County Route 50), on the left when traveling west.
Dinsmore Township School District No. 4 was formed in 1865 following
a decision by the township’s board of education that a school
would be built in the center of every four sections of land, or
every four square miles. This placement of school . . . — — Map (db m77671) HM
