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This non-condensing engine with a 12” diameter cylinder and four-foot stroke is one of two first installed on the sternwheel packet CARRIE BROWN (built at Harmar in 1890), which worked the trade between Huntington and Gallipolis. When this . . . — — Map (db m20656) HM
[Main Marker:]
One of the six lodges which in
1808 founded the Grand Lodge
Free and Accepted Masons of Ohio.
Erected May 10, 1958.
[Second Marker:]
Harmar Lodge No. 390
Free & Accepted Masons
of Ohio . . . — — Map (db m20185) HM
On Maple Street at Fort Street, on the right when traveling east on Maple Street.
Built on the existing piers as a covered bridge in 1856, converted to railroad use in 1873, back to foot traffic in 1962, it; was rebuilt after floods four times. — — Map (db m149715) HM
On Putnam Street east of 4th Street when traveling east.
By first connecting and enclosing two early homes in brick in 1927, philanthropist W. W. Mills built the Betsey Mills complex as a memorial to his wife, Betsey. — — Map (db m103473) HM
On 4th Street at Scammel Street, on the right when traveling south on 4th Street.
Ohio's fifty-ninth governor, Marietta native C. William O'Neill was the only Ohioan to head all three branches of state government. An honor graduate of both Marietta High School and Marietta College, O'Neill won election to the Ohio House of . . . — — Map (db m143561) HM
On Colegate Drive just east of Muskingum Drive (Ohio Route 60), on the right when traveling east.
Catherine Fay Ewing. Catherine Fay Ewing is credited with starting the Children’s Home System in Ohio. Born on July 12, 1822, in Westboro, Massachusetts,. her family moved to Marietta in 1835. At age sixteen, Catherine studied to be a teacher . . . — — Map (db m103673) HM
On Virginia Street at Gilman Street, on the right when traveling east on Virginia Street.
[Main Top Plaque]
The inscription appearing below
Is a replica of the one engraved on a lead plaque
Buried on this spot on August 15th, 1749 by
CELORON De BLAINVILLE
And of which a fragment recovered in 1798
Is preserved by . . . — — Map (db m20752) HM
On Muskingum Drive (Ohio Route 60) north of Davis Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Washington County Children’s Home, Ohio’s first, and in 1867 the nation’s first supported by taxes, was founded in 1858 by Catherine Fay Ewing at her farm home in Moss Run, Ohio. — — Map (db m103721) HM
On 3rd Street (Ohio Route 60) at Wooster Street, on the right when traveling north on 3rd Street.
Methodism was brought to Marietta by Wesleyan circuit riders Robert Manley (1799) and Peter Cartwright (1806), and by German Methodist Carl Best (1839). Present building was dedicated 1885. — — Map (db m103671) HM
On 3rd Street (Ohio Route 7) at Putnam Street, on the right when traveling north on 3rd Street.
Completed in time for Marietta's 1938 Sesquicentennial Celebration, this building_replaced the imposing 1872 City Hall with top floor auditorium, destroyed by fire in 1935. — — Map (db m149705) HM
On Putnam Street at Fourth Street on Putnam Street.
Organized September 5th, 1818, under name of “First Baptist Church of Marietta Township,” the first record on the church book is “On Saturday, the fifth day of September, 1818 A.D., we, Ephraim Emerson, Wm. Churchill, John . . . — — Map (db m103479) HM
On Front Street, on the left when traveling south.
First Congregational Church, chartered in 1796, was the N.W. Territory's first organized church. Dedicated 1809 using Rufus Putnam's “Two Horn” plan, the first building burned in 1905. This church built 1906. — — Map (db m20649) HM
On Front Street, on the left when traveling south.
Sunday School 9:15 a.m., Worship 10:00 a.m. The first church in Marietta, organized Dec. 6, 1796. The present building is patterned after the original church, familiarly known to settlers as the “Two Horned Church.” Visitors are . . . — — Map (db m20650) HM
Flatboats were designed to carry cargo downstream, floating with the current. With flat bottoms, they were easily built to any size desired. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, they were a major method of transportation for settlers . . . — — Map (db m20178) HM
On Fort Street at Fort Square, on the left when traveling north on Fort Street.
Built 1785 by U.S. Major John Doughty's federal troops. Named for General Josiah Harmar. Troops twice battled Indians in western Ohio. — — Map (db m20726) HM
On Maple Street at Crawford Street, on the right when traveling east on Maple Street.
Was chartered on Oct. 16, 1867 by the Grand Lodge Of Ohio in response to the petition of 13 Freemasons of Harmar, Ohio. The first officers were Elijah Locker, Wor. Master; A. S. Curtis, Sr. Warden: Samuel H. Tidd, Jr. W.
Its first home was a short . . . — — Map (db m149716) HM
On Gilman Avenue 0.1 miles north of Market Street, on the right when traveling north.
Lydia Young was postmaster in this, her notary shop,
1864-1885. Harmar postal service and civil government returned to Marietta 1890. — — Map (db m149720) HM
Near Putnam Street at Ohio River Scenic Byway (Ohio Route 7).
Side A
The Peoples Bank Theatre, built in 1919 and called the Hippodrome, marks an age when movies transitioned from silent films and nickelodeons into a major national industry and pastime. Designed by Columbus architect Fred Elliott for . . . — — Map (db m149686) HM
Near Front Street 0.1 miles south of Union Street.
Marietta and the Mid Ohio Valley area have always known that the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers will at times flow through the streets of our communities. On September 17,2004, we once again prepared ourselves and our belongings to be moved to higher and . . . — — Map (db m149712) HM
On West Ohio Street at Front Street, on the left when traveling west on West Ohio Street.
Lafayette
Landed at this point, May 25, 1825
——— • • • ———
Returning in 1824 to the young Nation he had greatly assisted during the Revolutionary War, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du . . . — — Map (db m20736) HM
Oldest building in Northwest Territory. From 1788 Gen. Rufus Putnam recorded war veteran land grants and sales. Maintained Ohio Company surveys and maps.
The Rotary Club of Marietta
Marking a Place in History with Service Since . . . — — Map (db m20183) HM
On Fort Street 0 miles north of Fort Square, on the right when traveling north.
[Marker Front]:
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Meriwether Lewis arrived in Marietta on September 13, 1803. His descent of the Ohio River aboard a keelboat began his expedition to explore the West. Included among his crew was 18-year . . . — — Map (db m20741) HM
Near St. Clair Street at Front Street, on the right when traveling east.
(Left Side Panel): Life on the River “Wheel Coal - Sleep - Eat - Wheel Coal: If there was such a thing as a typical day in the life of a deckhand...that would be it.” - W.V. Torner, recalling life as a deckhand.
Towboats . . . — — Map (db m20578) HM
On Front Street south of Putnam Street, on the right when traveling south.
Built 1899 to serve adjacent locks which replaced those of 1840’s on Harmar side. Locks and dam removed 1968. Muskingum was first canalized U.S. river — — Map (db m103279) HM
On Front Street at Greene and West Ohio Streets, on the right when traveling north on Front Street.
Directly across from this spot was Picketed Point, a fortification erected for the protection of the early settlers from hostile Indians. Within the stockade were dwellings, the first store and the first tavern in the Northwest Territory. Marquis de . . . — — Map (db m103236) HM
Near 4th Street 0.1 miles north of Wooster Street.
The Presbyterian Church was built here in 1865. The new First Presbyterian Church, to the left, was built in 1897. In 2014, the original church was removed for the 2016 creation of the Memorial Garden. Elements of the original church include the . . . — — Map (db m143560) HM
On Front Street, on the right when traveling south.
Sculpted for Marietta's Sesquicentennial by Gutzon Borglum
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Dedicated July 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a tribute to those farsighted pioneers who journeyed here . . . — — Map (db m20674) HM
On 5th Street at Scammel Street, on the right when traveling north on 5th Street.
Erected by the Marietta Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, as a memorial to the revolutionary soldiers buried in Marietta and to honor the heroic men and women who faced the wilderness with courage and hope to create the Great Northwest. . . . — — Map (db m103515) WM
MIGHTY RIVER
Although it remains an unpredictable force of nature, the Ohio River was far more volatile a century ago. Thirty-foot floods could wash away everything along the river's edge, only to be followed by dry spells that would lower the . . . — — Map (db m21676) HM
On 5th Street 0.1 miles north of Putnam Street, on the right when traveling south.
Built 1822 for H.P. Wilcox. Home of Col. John Mills and sons, William and John, 1836-1936 Marietta College president's home since 1937. — — Map (db m143589) HM
On 5th Street at Cutter Street, on the right when traveling north on 5th Street.
A work of the Moundbuilders, reserved for the public use by the Founders of Marietta in 1788. Set aside as a cemetery in 1800. First burial was in 1801.
“I know many of the Ohio Company personally. Never were men better calculated to . . . — — Map (db m103642) HM
On Putnam Street at 5th Street, on the right when traveling east on Putnam Street.
Muskingum Academy, 1797, Birth of Higher Education in Ohio.
In April 1797, a committee of Marietta citizens, led by General Rufus Putnam, met to establish an academy suitable for preparatory instruction for their youth. Muskingdum Academy, . . . — — Map (db m103363) HM
On Front Street, on the right when traveling south.
President Theodore Roosevelt and W. H. Taft spoke here in 1912. President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the “Start Westward” sesquicentennial monument in 1938. — — Map (db m20603) HM
Muskingtum River Underground Railroad
People living in Marietta and along the Muskingum River shared a history of slavery opposition. Manasseh Cutler, from Massachusetts and an Ohio Land Company agent, helped draft the Ordinance of 1787 that . . . — — Map (db m21653) HM
On Front Street at Putnam Street, on the left when traveling north on Front Street.
Here the new United States of America found, through Northwest territory, the first and common offspring of thirteen discordant and disputatious states, her formula to eminence among all the governments of mankind.
To those unfamed citizens who . . . — — Map (db m20654) HM
On Front Street north of Butler Street, on the left when traveling north.
With a mission to protect citizens at home and abroad, the Ohio National Guard was originally established as the Northwest
Territory Militia in Marietta on July 25, 1788 and has fought
in every war since the War of 1812. Built in 1914, this Ohio . . . — — Map (db m103267) HM
On Front Street, on the left when traveling south.
The steamboat TELL CITY was built in 1889 and named for Tell City, Ind. She carried passenger and freight on the Ohio River until she sank following an accident at Little Hocking, Ohio on April 6, 1917.
The Pilothouse was removed from the wreck . . . — — Map (db m20635) HM
On Front Street, on the right when traveling south.
Erected by the New Century Historical Society to record the names and commemorate the landing near this spot of the pioneer families of the Ohio Company August nineteenth 1788. Their homes were established in Campus Martius.
Benjamin Tupper . . . — — Map (db m20637) HM
On West Ohio Street at Post Street, on the left when traveling west on West Ohio Street.
This land at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers was part of a million-and-a-half acre tract made available by the Northwest Territory Ordinance of 1787, and purchased by the Ohio Company of Associates for resale and settlement. Many of . . . — — Map (db m20784) HM
RIVER TOWN
"The settlement of the Ohio country, sir, engrosses many of my thoughts... and if I am to form an opinion on what I have seen and heard on the subject, there are thousands in this quarter who will emigrate to that country." - . . . — — Map (db m21678) HM
On 4th Street 0.1 miles north of Wooster Street, on the right when traveling north.
Boyhood home of U.S. VP Charles G. Dawes, Marietta College graduate and Trustee, awarded Nobel Prize, ambassador to England, author WWI German reparations plan. — — Map (db m143556) HM
On Ohio Street at Front and Greene Streets, on the left on Ohio Street.
Transportation and tourism visionary and owner-manager of the Lafayette Hotel, “put Marietta on the map” by convincing the federal government to locate I-77 near historic Marietta.
The Rotary Club of Marietta gratefully . . . — — Map (db m103185) HM
On Mill Creek Road at Colegate Drive, on the right when traveling west on Mill Creek Road.
Sewah Studios was founded in 1927 by Mr. E. M. Hawes and began operations on Marietta's west side at the site of the former Stevens Organ Factory. That facility was destroyed by fire in 1932 and a new factory was built on the Millgate property on . . . — — Map (db m114539) HM
On West Ohio Street at Greene and Front Streets, on the right when traveling west on West Ohio Street.
One of the first industries in Marietta was shipbuilding. Due to the abundance of trees and the shipbuilding talent of the New England settlers, twenty-nine ocean-going vessels were built in eight shipyards from 1800 to 1812. In 1845 shipbuilding . . . — — Map (db m103231) HM
On 4th Street at Wooster Street, on the right when traveling north on 4th Street.
Built 1852 for J.B. Shipman, purchased 1877 by Elizabeth and M.C. Professor J.L. Mills whose descendants were occupants until 1961. Mills establishes Elizabeth College for women in 1893. — — Map (db m143563) HM
On West Ohio Street at Front Street, on the left when traveling west on West Ohio Street.
This stone is placed to keep
In remembrance the Historic
Point where dwelt during four
Years of Indian War 1791-1795
Early settlers of Ohio. — — Map (db m20731) HM
On 2nd Street at Scammel Street, on the right when traveling north on 2nd Street.
1788 Pioneer use of the Book of Common Prayer preceded Judge Arius Nye's 1826 founding of St. Luke's parish. The Reverend John Wheat's nurture led to the first church--1833. This church built 1856. — — Map (db m149688) HM
On 4th Street at Scammel Street, on the right when traveling north on 4th Street.
Side A
Martin Luther (1483-1546) proclaimed that we understand from Scripture alone (sola scriptura), are declared right by God through faith alone (sola fide), and are saved by God's grace alone (sola gratia), through Christ alone (sola . . . — — Map (db m143562) HM
On 5th Street at Scammel Street, on the right when traveling north on 5th Street.
Marietta’s second oldest, the German Evangelical “Kirche” built 1849. Became St. Paul’s Evangelical Church 1872. English sermons began in 1909. — — Map (db m103541) HM
On Front Street at St. Clair Street, on the right when traveling south on Front Street.
You are cordially invited to visit one of the last of the Mark Twain Era steam towboats used so successfully on the Mississippi and Ohio River systems during the past century. This boat was presented to the Ohio Historical Society in September 1955 . . . — — Map (db m20633) HM
On Second Street, on the right when traveling south.
The lodge was organized in Roxbury, Massachusetts, on February 10, 1776, by Connecticut soldiers in the Continental Army. It met when and where it could during the Revolutionary War. By tradition, the lodge's name and seal were suggested by Benjamin . . . — — Map (db m20669) HM
On 4th Street 0.1 miles south of Wooster Street, on the right when traveling north.
A fine example of Gothic Revival architecture was built in 1855 for Melvin C. Clarke, a lawyer who died in the Civil War at Antietam. Later owned by the Nye and Bosley families.
The house is a treasure of fine woodwork, furnishings and changing . . . — — Map (db m143557) HM
On Front Street at West Butler Street, on the left when traveling north on Front Street.
To record the names of the forty-eight pioneers who landed near this spot, April 7, 1788.
Haffield White •
Jethro Putnam •
Ezekiel Cooper •
Amos Porter •
Allen Putnam •
Jervis Cutler •
Benjamin Shaw •
Oliver Dodge •
Henry Maxon . . . — — Map (db m103259) HM
On Hills Bridge Road 0.1 miles north of Zion Ridge Road (County Road 544).
Once we had the most!
Ohio once had more covered bridges than any other state! A conservative guess is that Ohio once had over 2,000 of these bridges. Today, the national leader is Pennsylvania, but Ohio's remaining covered bridges are . . . — — Map (db m159735) HM
The Holden House
408 Front Street
Built in 1852, this house is located on Ministerial land leased to Edwin Putnam in 1809.
The house was built for Joseph Holden, born in Massachusetts, in Dec. of 1767. It was later owned by William . . . — — Map (db m20182) HM
On Second Street at St. Clair Street, on the right when traveling south on Second Street.
Side A: The Northwest Ordinance, 1787
Following the establishment of the public land system in 1785, the Continental Congress appointed a committee, chaired by James Monroe, to establish government in the new territory north and west of . . . — — Map (db m20653) HM
On Greene Street at Front Street, on the left on Greene Street.
Look carefully and you might see the Ohio River’s wild side! During the warmer months, great blue herons wade the shallows while osprey fly overhead in search of fish. Bald eagles and waterfowl visit in winter, driven by northern cold to find food . . . — — Map (db m103241) HM
On Putnam Street at 5th Street, on the left when traveling east on Putnam Street.
Built in 1822 by Postmaster Henry P. Wilcox, the property was acquired in 1837 by Colonel John Mills, a founder of the college. It passed to his sons John and William Webster Mills, graduates of the college and, like their father, longtime trustees . . . — — Map (db m103465) HM
On Front Street near Greene and West Ohio Streets.
The roadway down to the river from this point was once the busy route for freight and passengers using the many steamboats that served Marietta. For more than 100 years, boats in a variety of trades on the Ohio and Muskingum rivers made this landing . . . — — Map (db m103234) HM
Near Front Street, on the right when traveling south.
Side A:
The W.P. SNYDER Jr. is one of the few links between the age of steam-powered, stern-wheeled towboats and the diesel-powered, propeller-driven vessels that push barges on America's rivers today. The James Rees and Sons Company in . . . — — Map (db m20632) HM
The W.P. Snyder Jr. is a steam-powered towboat. It moved barges loaded with coal, iron ore, and steel along the Monongahela and Ohio rivers.
When it was launched in 1918, the boat was originally owned by Carnegie Steel and operated as . . . — — Map (db m20678) HM
What would the life of one of the men or women who worked on the W.P. Snyder Jr. be like? The Ohio River Museum offers tours that provide an opportunity to explore the decks of this historic vessel.
Imagine living on the boat all day. What . . . — — Map (db m20680) HM
On Front Street, on the right when traveling south.
Lord God of Hosts
be with us yet
Lest we forget
Lest we forget
In honor of the men and women of
this community who served in the
World Wars
W.W. I 1917-1918 • W.W. II 1941-1945
Korea
They grow not old, as
we . . . — — Map (db m20667) WM
On 3rd Street (Ohio Route 60) at Washington Street (Ohio Route 7), on the right when traveling south on 3rd Street.
Side A
Richardson was born on May 25, 1824 in Washington County, PA. He graduated from Washington College in 1844 and moved to Ohio to be a teacher. In 1846 he enlisted In the Third Ohio Infantry and served in the Mexican War. He was . . . — — Map (db m143587) HM
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