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By J. J. Prats, April 23, 2017
Children’s Home Marker
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| 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 High Street (Ohio Route 261), on the left when traveling south. |
| | On this site on May 29, 1851, Sojourner Truth, a former slave, gave her world famous "And Ain't I a Woman?" speech, recalling the hardships she had endured. Active in both the Abolitionist and Women's Rights Movements, she electrified an audience . . . — — Map (db m43726) HM |
May. 28, 2024