Historical Markers and War Memorials in Hillsboro, Ohio
Hillsboro is the county seat for Highland County
Hillsboro is in Highland County
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On North West Street (Ohio Route 73) north of West Main Street (U.S. 50), on the right when traveling north.
C. S. Bell Foundry
and Showroom
1866
Expanded 1892
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
c. 1882 — — Map (db m202690) HM
On North High Street (U.S. 62) north of West Main Street (U.S. 50), on the right when traveling north.
Early Civil Rights protest to desegregate Hillsboro, Ohio schools and legal victory in the first test case of Brown v. Board of Education in the North
Marching Mothers
Zella Cumberland • Elsie Steward Young • Sallie Williams • Zora . . . — — Map (db m202700) HM
On North High Street (U.S. 62) at Trimble Place, on the right when traveling south on North High Street.
To the memory of the
Soldiers and Sailors
of
Highland County, Ohio
who served in the
Union Army
during the War of the Rebellion — — Map (db m166055) WM
On North High Street at West Main Street (Ohio Route 73), on the left when traveling north on North High Street.
In honor of the Revolutionary soldiers buried in Highland County, Ohio.
Samuel Adkins • James Anderson • Benjamin Arthur • Azor Bagley • John Beard • Andrew Beatty • William Bell • Thomas Bernard • William Boatman • Thomas Brady • Daniel . . . — — Map (db m235377) WM
On Foraker Place at West Main Street (U.S. 50), on the right when traveling north on Foraker Place.
In honor and memory of all veterans of Highland County who served our country in times of peace and war, and to those who paid the supreme sacrifice so that we might enjoy freedom. Their spirit, devotion and love of country will be forever . . . — — Map (db m235375) WM
On East Main Street (Ohio Route 124) west of South East Street, on the right when traveling east.
In the year 1870 Hillsboro was the center of population of the United States.
The exact center was located 3/4 of a mile east in front of the Marshall Pike (S.R. 124) in a lane on the Lilley Farm in front of the Dr. Robert D. Lilley Home, a . . . — — Map (db m202709) HM
On West Main Street (U.S. 50) west of South High Street (U.S. 62), on the right when traveling east.
John A. Smith Building
c. 1880
This property is listed in the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of Interior — — Map (db m221616) HM
On West Main (U.S. 50) at Willettsville Pike (Ohio Route 124), on the right when traveling west on West Main.
Creator of some of America's favorite cartoon characters, Milton Caniff was born in Hillsboro in 1907 and graduated from Ohio State University in 1930. He created his first comic strip in 1932 for the Associated Press Syndicate, and in 1934 . . . — — Map (db m121939) HM
New Market
In 1798, Henry Massie, brother of General Nathaniel Massie, platted a town, the earliest permanent settlement in Highland County, covering 400 acres and named it New Market after a town in his native Virginia. New Market served as . . . — — Map (db m121938) HM
On East Main Street (U.S. 50) east of North High Street (U.S. 62), on the right when traveling west.
1808 Jasper Hand 1828 •
1823 Jacob Kirby 1873 •
1849 Wm. R. Smith 1900 •
1863 Kirby Smith 1920 •
1865 Walter G. Smith 1925 •
1904 Ed. B. Ayres, Jr. 1964 — — Map (db m202703) HM
On North East Street (Ohio Route 247) at Collins Avenue, on the left when traveling north on North East Street.
Side A
The Lincoln School, which stood on this site from 1869 to 1956, was a segregated elementary school intended for the city's African American students, grades one through eight. Hillsboro was the site of the first Northern desegregation suit . . . — — Map (db m121940) HM
On North High Street (U.S. 62) north of West Main Street (U.S. 50), on the right when traveling south.
In recognition of the patriotism of the people of Highland County who oversubscribed their war savings quota in 1918 this tablet is gratefully erected by the Ohio War Savings Committee — — Map (db m221617) HM
