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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Manchester
Manchester, Ohio and Vicinity
▶ Adams County (25) ▶ Brown County (39) ▶ Highland County (18) ▶ Pike County (16) ▶ Scioto County (35) ▶ Lewis County, Kentucky (1) ▶ Mason County, Kentucky (47)
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GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| On Ohio River Scenic Byway (U.S. 52) 1.5 miles west of State Highway 247, on the right when traveling west. |
| | One half mile north of this monument the home of Gen. Nathaniel Massie, founder of Manchester in 1791, first settlement in the Virginia Military District. Residence of Charles Willing Byrd, Secretary and Acting Governor, Northwest Territory and . . . — — Map (db m45344) HM |
| On 2nd Street (U.S. 52) west of Jack Roush Way, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Israel Donalson, member of the First Constitutional Convention of Ohio.
In May 1800, Congress passed an act building the Northwest
Territory, with the western division becoming Indiana
Territory and the eastern called the Territory of the . . . — — Map (db m136539) HM |
| On East Front Street at Pike Avenue, on the right when traveling east on East Front Street. |
| | Manchester was founded in 1791 by Nathaniel Massie as a base to
survey the land warrants of American Revolutionary War soldiers in
the Virginia Military District. This bank of the Ohio River provided
a secure site for the last civilian stockade . . . — — Map (db m136536) HM |
| On West Front Street at Pearl Street, on the right when traveling west on West Front Street. |
| | In 1784, the state of Virginia ceded all of its Northwest Territory
to the federal government except for this tract to satisfy the
land bounties owed to its Revolutionary War soldiers. The Virginia
Military District extended from the Scioto River . . . — — Map (db m136532) HM |
| On 2nd Street (U.S. 52) east of Cemetery Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Massie’s Station, built in 1791, was the fourth
permanent settlement center in Ohio and the
last stockade settlement built in Ohio.
It
provided protection from the Indians
for
Manchester’s settlers until 1794.
Manchester was . . . — — Map (db m136537) HM |
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