101 ► Ohio, Belmont County, Morristown — 10-7 — Morristown —

Platted in 1802 by John Zane and William Chapline along the old Wheeling Road. Morristown was named for Duncan Morrison, an early settler, innkeeper, and Justice of the Peace. Older than the state itself. Morristown prospered into the mid-1800s, . . . — — Map (db m287) HM

102 ► Ohio, Belmont County, Powhatan Point — 13-7 — Powhatan Point —

First surveyed in 1849, Powhatan Point was laid out by Franklin Knox. The "point" is the confluence of Captina Creek and the Ohio River. The small but thriving river and farming community served York Township and the rich Captina Valley as a . . . — — Map (db m78499) HM

103 ► Ohio, Belmont County, Powhatan Point — 6-7 — The Coal Industry at Powhatan Point / Powhatan Disaster, 1944 —

Side 1 The Coal Industry at Powhatan Point The Pittsburgh No. 8 coal seam, located 100 feet below river level at Powhatan Point, extends across much of eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and northern West Virginia. The Cleveland and . . . — — Map (db m78501) HM

104 ► Ohio, Belmont County, Saint Clairsville — 17-7 — Governor Arthur St. Clair 1734-1818 —

Born in Scotland. From 1787-1802, was first governor of the Northwest Territory, which included Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and part of Minnesota. St. Clair established territorial court system and Ohio’s first nine counties . . . — — Map (db m214491) HM

105 ► Ohio, Belmont County, Saint Clairsville, Richland Township — 20-7 — Belmont County / Groundbreaking Site of the National Road in Ohio —

Belmont County. On September 7, 1801, Belmont County became the ninth county in what became the State of Ohio. On April 1, 1803, the state’s first General Assembly appointed a commission to determine if it was necessary to move the county . . . — — Map (db m214486) HM

106 ► Ohio, Brown County, Decatur — 5-8 — Historic Decatur / A. N. Marquis and Who’s Who —

Historic Decatur. Originally called St. Clairsville and platted in 1801, Decatur was named for early 19th century naval hero Stephen Decatur. It is among the oldest villages in Brown County, which before 1817 was a part of Adams County. Among . . . — — Map (db m121885) HM

107 ► Ohio, Brown County, Georgetown — 2-8 — Dixon-Washburn Log House —

This house originally stood at Logan’s Gap, Union Township. By tradition, it was constructed in 1783 by Indian scouts William Dixon and Cornelius Washburn who became residents of Brown County. Dixon lived in this house until 1800. — — Map (db m135937) HM

108 ► Ohio, Brown County, Georgetown — 3-8 — General Thomas Lyon Hamer — 1800-1846 — Teacher-Lawyer-Congressman-Soldier —

Master Mason (1824), Georgetown Lodge No. 72, Free and Accepted Masons. "…Hamer was one of the ablest men Ohio ever produced. I have always believed that had his life been spared, he would have been President of the United . . . — — Map (db m70909) HM WM

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109 ► Ohio, Brown County, Georgetown — 11-8 — Gist Settlement — Scott Township —

Through the terms of his will, absentee British landowner Samuel Gist freed his 350 slaves in Virginia. Gist (c.1723-1815) intended that these freed people would remain on the land and receive instruction in Christianity and that schools . . . — — Map (db m136037) HM

110 ► Ohio, Brown County, Georgetown — 1-8 — Ulysses S. Grant Boyhood Home —

U.S. Grant, general-in-chief of the Armies of the United States, 18th president and first native Ohioan to be elected chief executive, lived in this house from 1824 to 1839. Jesse R. Grant, his father, built the original part fronting Water . . . — — Map (db m70910) HM WM

111 ► Ohio, Brown County, Ripley — 7-8 — Camp Ripley / Camp Ammen — 1861–1864 —

With news of hostilities at Fort Sumter in South Carolina, Ripley men formed one of Ohio’s first military units and established Camp Ripley on what was the 12-acre Ripley Fairgrounds. Chosen as Captain was West Point graduate Jacob Ammen. His unit . . . — — Map (db m135348) HM

112 ► Ohio, Brown County, Ripley — 12-8 — Charles Young in Ripley / Colonel Young's Achievements —

Charles Young in RipleyUpon his death in 1922, Colonel Charles Young was the highest ranking African American officer in the United States Army. Born into slavery in Kentucky in 1864, Young moved to Ripley with his parents Gabriel and . . . — — Map (db m180613) HM

113 ► Ohio, Brown County, Ripley — 4-8 — Ripley / The John P. Parker House —

Ripley was incorporated as the village of Staunton in 1812. Its name was changed in 1816 to honor General Eleazer Wheelock Ripley, a hero of the War of 1812. In the years before railroads. Ripley was principal Ohio River shipping center. Also . . . — — Map (db m135431) HM

114 ► Ohio, Brown County, Ripley — 8-8 — Ripley and the Ohio River —

A part of the Virginia Military District, Ripley was founded in 1812 by Colonel James Poage, a veteran of the Revolutionary War. Originally named Staunton, after Poage’s home town in Virginia, the village comprised 1,000 acres along the Ohio river. . . . — — Map (db m135427) HM

115 ► Ohio, Brown County, Ripley — 9-8 — The Squirrel Hunters —

The American Civil War was in its second year, and Confederate forces were advancing in the east and in the west. Confederates led by General Edward Kirby Smith had defeated a Union Force at Richmond, Kentucky on August 30, 1862. Word was received . . . — — Map (db m135372) HM

116 ► Ohio, Butler County, Bethany — 19-9 — First Jain Temple in Ohio / History of Jainism in Ohio —

First Jain Temple in Ohio "Souls render service to one another" The Jain Center of Cincinnati and Dayton was established on April 22, 1979 as a non-profit tax-exempt organization under the laws of the United States and the State of Ohio. . . . — — Map (db m24073) HM

117 ► Ohio, Butler County, Busenbark — 8-9 — Busenbark / Dr. Charles F. Richter — 1900 - 1985 — An originator of the Richter Scale —

Side A: Busenbark In 1833, Robert Busenbark deeded land to the directors of School District No. 6 for Busenbark School. Twenty years later, Robert and son David granted a right-of-way on their property for a station on the Cincinnati, . . . — — Map (db m28533) HM

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118 ► Ohio, Butler County, Fairfield — 16-9 — Elisha Morgan Farm Mansion —

Elisha Morgan purchased 48.6 acres in Fairfield Township, part of the Symmes Purchase, in 1817. The Farm Mansion was built shortly after he settled the land. The house incorporates two prevalent architectural styles in southwest Ohio in the . . . — — Map (db m224980) HM

119 ► Ohio, Butler County, Fairfield — 42-9 — Miami Chapel Cemetery / Fair Play —

Miami Chapel Cemetery. Around 1843, local Methodists organized a new Methodist Episcopal church at Fair Play and later erected a brick chapel. The congregation was short-lived, however, and fell into decline after one of its leading members, . . . — — Map (db m158422) HM

120 ► Ohio, Butler County, Hamilton — 28-9 — Abraham Lincoln's 1859 Hamilton Speech —

Abraham Lincoln spoke from the rear of a Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad passenger train on Saturday September 17, 1859, to about 1000 people at South Fourth and Ludlow streets (about 785 feet south of here). Lincoln, elected president of the . . . — — Map (db m122279) HM

121 ► Ohio, Butler County, Hamilton — 31-9 — Bunker Hill / Dog Town —

Bunker Hill The Millville, Reilly and Milton Turnpike brought prosperity to the village now renamed Bunker Hill. School House No. 10 stood nearby from 1849-1857. By 1860 clothing manufacturing was the major business here. A Post Office was . . . — — Map (db m107801) HM

122 ► Ohio, Butler County, Hamilton — 43-9 — Butler County Children’s Home — 1869- 1985 —

Side A The Civil War created orphaned and impoverished children across the nation. To establish a home for area children, a group of Hamilton women met with Reverends Thane Miller and Benjamin W. Chidlaw in January 1869. By May, the women . . . — — Map (db m137852) HM

123 ► Ohio, Butler County, Hamilton — 22-9 — Butler County Courthouse —

Butler County was created on March 24, 1803, about three weeks after Ohio became a state. Hamilton won the competition for the county seat, thanks to Israel Ludlow, Hamilton's founder. Ludlow's donation of the public square secured the county . . . — — Map (db m28546) HM

124 ► Ohio, Butler County, Hamilton — 3-9 — Champion Hamilton Mill —

The Champion Coated Paper Company began production here April 15, 1894, with nine employees under the direction of Peter G. Thomson (1851-1931), a Cincinnati businessman, who had incorporated the firm in November 1893. Thomson, previously a . . . — — Map (db m28547) HM

125 ► Ohio, Butler County, Hamilton — 39-9 — Fannie Hurst - Author, Humanitarian and Advocate —

Author Side Raised and educated in St. Louis, author Fannie Hurst (1885-1968) was born in Hamilton at 918 Central Avenue, the home of her maternal grandparents. She was the daughter of Rose Koppel and Samuel Hurst. Already a writer as a student . . . — — Map (db m122411) HM

126 ► Ohio, Butler County, Hamilton — 41- 9 — Hamilton Airport - Hogan Field —

The Hogan Family owned and operated what was known as the Hamilton Airport for over 52 years. Airplane owner and pilot, Carl "Pop" Muhlberger and aviation enthusiast and farmer, Joe Hogan, co-founded the airport in July 1929. Muhlberger taught Joe . . . — — Map (db m225373) HM

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127 ► Ohio, Butler County, Hamilton — 30-9 — Johnny S. Black, Songwriter / Paper Doll —

John Stewart Black (1891-1936) was a Vaudeville performer and songwriter who penned the classic "Paper Doll." He is also remembered for "Dardanella," which he called his "gift to the musical world." "Dardanella", recorded by the Ben Selvin . . . — — Map (db m158421) HM

128 ► Ohio, Butler County, Hamilton — 37-9 — Lane Public Library / Clark Lane —

Side A Clark Lane built this library in 1866 and donated it to the people of Hamilton two years later. The 1913 Great Miami River flood catastrophe damaged much of the building and many of its books and records. The refurbished library . . . — — Map (db m122413) HM

129 ► Ohio, Butler County, Hamilton — 7-9 — Lane-Hooven House —

Side A: James Elrick, a local carpenter, built the Lane-Hooven House in 1863 for Clark Lane (1823-1907), a Hamilton industrialist and philanthropist. Lane, who first came to the area at age twenty-one as a blacksmith, resided in the house for . . . — — Map (db m28775) HM

130 ► Ohio, Butler County, Hamilton — 44-9 — Lewis-Sample Farmstead / Butler County's American Indian Heritage —

Lewis-Sample Farmstead. The farmstead shares the name of the Lewis and Sample families, two owners since European-descended settlers began moving into the Ohio County in the late 1700s. Andrew (1762-1847) and Martha Lewis (1774-1852) acquired . . . — — Map (db m157034) HM

131 ► Ohio, Butler County, Hamilton — 49-9 — Pilgrim Baptist Church / A Beacon of Light for Over a Hundred Years —

Pilgrim Baptist Church. On January 9, 1919, a group of eight men and three women, being led by the Holy Spirit, met at a house on Wallace Street to form a new black Missionary Baptist Church in Hamilton, Ohio. The group quickly raised $150 to . . . — — Map (db m206449) HM

132 ► Ohio, Butler County, Hamilton — 10-9 — Rossville Historic District —

Rossville was settled in April 1801 shortly after the U.S. Government initiated land sales west of the Great Miami River. Its original proprietors--John Sutherland, Henry Brown, Jacob Burnet, James Smith and William Ruffin--named the town in honor . . . — — Map (db m28790) HM

133 ► Ohio, Butler County, Hamilton — 25-9 — Soldiers, Sailors, and Pioneers Monument — "Victory, the Jewel of the Soul" —

Side A: Soldiers, Sailors, and Pioneers Monument The Soldiers, Sailors, and Pioneers Monument was planned and promoted by Butler County Civil War veterans and financed by a county levy in 1899. The monument, built of Indiana Limestone, is . . . — — Map (db m30705) HM

134 ► Ohio, Butler County, Hamilton — 1-9 — The Miami Canal —

Side A The dimensions of the canal channel were 26 feet wide at the bottom and 40 feet wide at the top. The depth of the canal averaged four and one-half feet. The 12 locks were 80 feet long with 14-foot wide interior chambers which could . . . — — Map (db m122419) HM

135 ► Ohio, Butler County, Hamilton — 36-9 — Warren Gard —

Warren Gard (1873-1929), son of Samuel Z. Gard and Mary Duke, was born in Hamilton, Ohio. He established his practice in Hamilton after graduating from Cincinnati Law School and being admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1894. Gard served as Butler County . . . — — Map (db m122416) HM

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136 ► Ohio, Butler County, Hamilton — 12-9 — William Dean Howells —

Author William Dean Howells (1837-1920) spent his boyhood from 1840 to 1848 in Hamilton. Called the "Dean of American Letters," Howells wrote 35 novels, 35 plays, 34 miscellaneous books, 6 books of literary criticism, 4 books of poetry, and hundreds . . . — — Map (db m28772) HM

137 ► Ohio, Butler County, Middletown — 4-9 — Miami-Erie Canal — 1825–1929 —

At Middletown, Ohio, on July 21, 1825, ground was first broken for the Miami-Erie Canal, which eventually linked Cincinnati and Toledo. The canal created much change in the region, including increased population and commercial, political, and . . . — — Map (db m134879) HM

138 ► Ohio, Butler County, Millville — 2-9 — Bethel Chapel — 1815 - 1873 —

William Holmes McGuffey, author of the Eclectic Series of Readers, was ordained a Presbyterian minister in a log meeting house on this site in 1829. The ordination was performed by Robert Bishop, President of Miami University, and other ministers . . . — — Map (db m24060) HM

139 ► Ohio, Butler County, Miltonville — 5-9 — Village of Miltonville —

The village of Miltonville, located along the banks of Elk Creek, was platted in 1816 by George Bennett, Theophilus Eaglesfield, and Richard V. V. Crane. The creek served two grist mills, one built around 1804 and operated by a free black, Bambo . . . — — Map (db m28776) HM

140 ► Ohio, Butler County, Monroe — 46-9 — City of Monroe / Monroe Historical Society —

City of Monroe Monroe. Nathanial Sackett (1768-1854) and John H. Piatt (1781-1820) platted Monroe in 1817, naming it for President James Monroe. Monroe was a stagecoach stop between Cincinnati and Dayton and grew to be a rural village . . . — — Map (db m206448) HM

141 ► Ohio, Butler County, Okeana — 26-9 — 1858 Morgan Township House / Copperheadism in Butler County —

Side A: 1858 Morgan Township House On April 20, 1857, the trustees of Morgan Township met in Okeana to obtain a lot for the township house. From a quarter mill tax levy, $850 was budgeted for a house and lot. Money expended on the project . . . — — Map (db m24000) HM

142 ► Ohio, Butler County, Okeana — 1-31 — Birthplace of William Bebb — Governor of Ohio — 1846-1848 —

Edward Bebb, father of William Bebb and first Welshman to settle in Paddy's Run, Morgan Township, Butler County purchased this cabin in 1801. Originally the cabin stood four miles southeast of this site on the Dry Fork of the Whitewater River. It . . . — — Map (db m24001) HM

143 ► Ohio, Butler County, Oxford — 33-9 — Bunker Hill Universalist Church/Bunker Hill Cemetery —

(side A) Bunker Hill Universalist Church The Bunker Hill Society was organized about 1845 and fellowshipped in 1854. A frame meeting house, capable of seating 300, was dedicated in 1855. Thirty people united with the church . . . — — Map (db m107789) HM

144 ► Ohio, Butler County, Oxford — 9-9 — Freedom Summer 1964 —

In what was called the "Freedom Summer" of 1964, more than 800 volunteers, most of them college students, gathered at the Western College for Women (now Western Campus of Miami University) to prepare for African-American voter registration in the . . . — — Map (db m107802) HM

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145 ► Ohio, Butler County, Oxford — 34-9 — Indian Creek Baptist Church — The Indian Creek Pioneer Burial Ground —

The Indian Creek Regular Baptist Church was established in 1810 as an arm of the Little Cedar Creek Church of Brookville, Indiana. The congregation purchased three acres of land for a burial ground and church and built a log structure here in . . . — — Map (db m120291) HM

146 ► Ohio, Butler County, Oxford — 15-9 — Langstroth Cottage / Lorenzo Langstroth — "The Bee-Man of Oxford" —

Side A: Langstroth Cottage Reverend Lorenzo Langstroth, renowned as "The Father of American Beekeeping," lived in this simple two-story, eight-room house with his wife, Anne, and their three children from 1858 to 1887. Unchanged externally, the . . . — — Map (db m24009) HM

147 ► Ohio, Butler County, Oxford — 29-9 — Mother of Fraternities — Alpha Delta Phi —

In 1833, Samuel Eells founded Alpha Delta Phi (ΑΔΦ), the first fraternity west of the Allegheny Mountains and the first fraternity at Miami University. The formation of Miami's Alpha (founding) chapters followed in the next two . . . — — Map (db m107741) HM

148 ► Ohio, Butler County, Oxford — Oxford — City Marker —

Miami University established in 1809. Oxford became a village in 1830 and a city in 1971. — — Map (db m177520) HM

149 ► Ohio, Butler County, Oxford — 32-9 — Oxford Female Institute / Caroline Scott Harrison 1832-1892 —

Oxford Female Institute Chartered in 1849, the Institute was the first of three women's colleges established in Oxford. The original brick building was completed in 1850, and forms the core structure. The Reverend John Witherspoon Scott, a . . . — — Map (db m107675) HM

150 ► Ohio, Butler County, Oxford — 38-9 — Percy MacKaye / "The Poet's Shack" —

Percy Mackaye Percy MacKaye (1875-1956) was a poet and dramatist elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1914. From 1920-1924, MacKaye held the position of writer-in-residence at Miami University, the first position of its . . . — — Map (db m140417) HM

151 ► Ohio, Butler County, Oxford — 40-9 — Sigma Chi Fraternity Founding Site — Reported missing

Thomas Cowan Bell, James Parks Caldwell, Daniel William Cooper, Isaac M. Jordan, William Lewis Lockwood, Benjamin Piatt Runkle, and Franklin Howard Scobey met in a second floor room of this building to found Sigma Chi (ΣΧ) in early . . . — — Map (db m227310) HM

152 ► Ohio, Butler County, Oxford — 35- 9 — Stanton's "Magnificent Dwelling" / Elizabeth Cady Stanton —

Stanton's "Magnificent Dwelling" Home of Two Miami University Presidents Built by “Old Miami” University President Robert L. Stanton, D.D. (1810-1885) as his private home and president’s office, Stanton’s 1868 Italianate house faced . . . — — Map (db m225372) HM

153 ► Ohio, Butler County, Oxford — 24- 9 — Stillwell’s Corners —

side A A cemetery was established on the site in 1811 and became the final resting place for many of the area's early pioneer families. The Hanover Township Trustees obtained title to the land in 1823 from John and Anna Farnsworth, and it . . . — — Map (db m97814) HM

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154 ► Ohio, Butler County, Oxford — 11-9 — The Black (Pugh's Mill) Covered Bridge —

Front One of the few remaining covered bridges in southwestern Ohio and the only one in Butler County on its original site, this bridge was built in 1868-1869 to give access to a saw and grist mill owned by James B. Pugh on Four Mile . . . — — Map (db m86977) HM

155 ► Ohio, Butler County, Oxford — 13-9 — The DeWitt Family / The DeWitt Log Homestead —

Side A: The DeWitt Family Zachariah Price DeWitt was born of a Dutch family in New Jersey in 1768. With brothers Jacob and Peter, he migrated to Kentucky where, in 1790, he married Elizabeth Teets, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1774. By . . . — — Map (db m24064) HM

156 ► Ohio, Butler County, Oxford — 27-9 — The Doty Settlement / The Pioneer Farmstead —

Side A: The Doty Settlement As Oxford Township was developing in the mid-1800s, a cluster of farmsteads near its northern border was designated the "Doty Settlement." As was the custom, the community took its name from a prominent family in . . . — — Map (db m24015) HM

157 ► Ohio, Butler County, Oxford — 23-9 — The Restoration Movement / Doty Settlement Cemetery —

Side A: The Restoration Movement In the early years of the nineteenth century, a religious unrest known as the Second Great Awakening spread across much of the American frontier. Among the most influential of the evolving religious . . . — — Map (db m24051) HM

158 ► Ohio, Butler County, Oxford — 14-9 — William Holmes McGuffey House —

William Holmes McGuffey (1800-1873) was a Miami University faculty member in 1836 when he compiled the first edition of the McGuffey Eclectic Reader in this house. His Reader taught lessons in reading, spelling, and civic education by . . . — — Map (db m24012) HM

159 ► Ohio, Butler County, Oxford, Mile Square — 45-9 — Woodside Cemetery / Maurice Rocco Jazz Musician —

Woodside Cemetery Established as the Oxford Township Cemetery in 1880, this public graveyard replaced the original one at the corner of College Avenue and Spring Street. That earlier burial ground was abandoned when the railroad bisected it . . . — — Map (db m227942) HM

160 ► Ohio, Butler County, Shandon — 17-9 — Paddy's Run —

The foundation for the first Welsh settlement in Ohio was laid on June 29, 1801, when William and Morgan Gwilym purchased land in what is now Morgan Township at the Cincinnati Land Office. The Welsh, who settled in Pennsylvania beginning in the late . . . — — Map (db m23991) HM

161 ► Ohio, Butler County, Trenton — 18-9 — The Village of Trenton / The Elk Creek Baptist Church and Cemetery —

Side A: The Village of Trenton Platted 1816. Incorporated as Village 1895. Became a city 1971 Trenton's founder, Michael Pearce, came to the area in 1801. The original village of 33 lots was named Bloomfield. When the post office was . . . — — Map (db m28792) HM

162 ► Ohio, Butler County, West Chester — 20-9 — The Voice of America Bethany Station —

During the height of World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt turned to the innovative engineers of the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation to build powerful short wave radio transmitters capable of delivering broadcasts overseas. On farm fields . . . — — Map (db m23994) HM

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163 ► Ohio, Butler County, Woodsdale — 6-9 — Chrisholm —

This farm, Chrisholm (German for home farm of Christian Augspurger), was established in 1830 by Christian Augspurger (1782-1848), leader of the Amish Mennonite settlement in Butler County. The Amish selected this area because of rich, fertile . . . — — Map (db m122421) HM

164 ► Ohio, Butler County, Woodsdale — 6-9 — Woodsdale —

This hamlet, located one mile southwest from here, was never platted, but was named after William Woods, president of the three-story brick Woodsdale paper mill constructed in 1867. Flanking the mill were the company office and store and several . . . — — Map (db m122420) HM

165 ► Ohio, Carroll County, Carrollton — 1-10 — The Fighting McCooks and the Civil War —

Major Daniel McCook of Carrollton and his 9 sons and their cousins, the 5 sons of Dr. John McCook of Steubenville, won popular acclaim for their outstanding service in the United States Army an Navy. “TRIBE OF DAN” Maj. Daniel: mortally . . . — — Map (db m290) HM

166 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Cable — 28-11 — Lincoln Funeral Train —

President Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 14, 1865, created a national tragedy, and the nationl mourned as his body was transported by rail from Washington, D.C. back to Springfield, Illinois, where he would be buried. As the nine-car . . . — — Map (db m84946) HM

167 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Cable — 10-11 — Mt. Tabor Church / Mt. Tabor Cemetery —

Mt. Tabor Church. The first Mt. Tabor Church, a log meetinghouse, was erected on this site in 1816. It stood on land originally selected by Griffith and Martha Evans for a graveyard at the death of their daughter circa 1812. Deeds show the . . . — — Map (db m198029) HM

168 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Christianburg — 2-11 — Marion A. Ross — In Memory of —

Born here October 9, 1832. Attended Antioch College. Member of Mt. Olivet Masonic Lodge. Enlisted in the 2nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment and volunteered for the famous Andrews Raid. The raiders seized "The General" locomotive at Big Shanty, . . . — — Map (db m76518) HM

169 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Mechanicsburg — 16-11 — Addison White —

Side A: Congress passed Fugitive Slave Laws in 1793 and 1850, allowing federal marshals to arrest slaves that had escaped to the North and take them back to their southern owners. They could also arrest northerners suspected of aiding . . . — — Map (db m13760) HM

170 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Mechanicsburg — 23-11 — James Roy Hopkins —

Side A: James R. Hopkins was born May 17, 1877, in Irwin and graduated from Mechanicsburg High School in 1895. As a child, he gained exposure to art through his mother, Nettie, an accomplished self-taught water colorist. Hopkins enrolled at . . . — — Map (db m13729) HM

171 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Mechanicsburg — 9-11 — Joseph E. Wing —

Joseph E. Wing was one of the first persons to identify, promote, and grow alfalfa as a forage crop east of the Mississippi River. He developed his interest in alfalfa while in Utah, where he worked on a cattle ranch. When he returned, Wing began . . . — — Map (db m13761) HM

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172 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Mechanicsburg — Mechanicsburg —

Founded in 1814. Home of William (Bill) Saxbe, U.S. Attorney General, Senator, Ambassador to India — — Map (db m174046) HM

173 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Mechanicsburg — 25-11 — Mechanicsburg United Methodist Church —

The Mechanicsburg United Methodist congregation was founded in the early nineteenth century and met first in open-air camp meetings before moving into a small log school building. In 1820 the congregation built a wood framed church on East Sandusky . . . — — Map (db m13730) HM

174 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Mechanicsburg — 19-11 — Second Baptist Church —

Side A: This site has long served the religious, education, and public interests of the residents of Mechanicsburg. A local Methodist congregation built its first church here in 1820, and the townspeople also used the structure as its . . . — — Map (db m13731) HM

175 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Mingo — 7-11 — Ohio Caverns —

In 1897, a farm boy investigating the disappearance of water into a sinkhole in a nearby field discovered this system of subterranean passageways. Digging down a few feet, he found an opening to a cave that had begun forming perhaps several . . . — — Map (db m198028) HM

176 ► Ohio, Champaign County, North Lewisburg — 20-11 — Friends Church / Friends Cemetery —

Friends Church Among the earliest settlers to Rush Township were members of the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers, who emigrated from the eastern states, mostly Pennsylvania and North Carolina. At first religious services were held in . . . — — Map (db m86266) HM

177 ► Ohio, Champaign County, North Lewisburg — North Lewisburg —

Line of the Underground Railroad. Many Quaker residents provided safety and shelter. Platted 1826. — — Map (db m176374) HM

178 ► Ohio, Champaign County, St. Paris — 22-11 — A. B. Graham —

Albert B. “A. B.” Graham was born in Champaign County on March 13, 1868, the son of Joseph and Esther Graham. He was raised in a small rural home, but a fire destroyed the house in 1879, and the family moved to Lena where Graham attended . . . — — Map (db m13789) HM

179 ► Ohio, Champaign County, St. Paris — 24-11 — Lincoln Funeral Train —

President Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 14, 1865, created a national tragedy, and the nation mourned as his body was transported by rail from Washington D.C. back to Springfield, Illinois, where he would be buried. In Champaign County, . . . — — Map (db m13790) HM

180 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Urbana — 8-11 — 1950 National and Ohio Plowing Matches —

Benson Road and the North Urbana Lisbon Road (SR 54) in Champaign County was the site of the 1950 National and Ohio Plowing Matches and the National Association of Soil Conservation Districts Field Days. The three-day event drew a crowd of nearly . . . — — Map (db m86249) HM

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181 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Urbana — 5-11 — Bailey and Barclay Halls / Johnny Appleseed —

Bailey and Barclay Halls. Urbana University was established by the Swedenborgian Church in 1850. Bailey Hall (1853), named after Francis Bailey (1735-1815), was designed by W. Russell West, architect of the Statehouse of Ohio. Bailey was an . . . — — Map (db m13808) HM

182 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Urbana — 29-11 — Billy “Single” Clifford / Clifford Theater —

Billy “Single” Clifford Wm. C. Shyrigh, better known as Billy Clifford, was born in this house on January 24, 1869, to Levi and Sarah Shyrigh. Coming from a musical family, he developed an early interest in music and practiced with the . . . — — Map (db m90489) HM

183 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Urbana — 6-11 — Cedar Bog Nature Preserve —

In 1942 Cedar Bog became the first nature preserve in Ohio purchased with state funds. Efforts to set this wetland aside began in the 1920s through the efforts of Florence Murdock and her daughter. Efforts intensified in the mid 1930s with help . . . — — Map (db m90503)

184 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Urbana — 15-11 — Dayton, Springfield, and Urbana Electric Railway —

[Marker Front]: The Dayton, Springfield, and Urbana Electric Railway (DS&U) was an “Interurban” rail system that ran between the cities of Urbana, Springfield and Dayton. Its beginning can be traced to the franchise given to . . . — — Map (db m13811) HM

185 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Urbana — 1-11 — Harmony Lodge No. 8 Free and Accepted Masons —

A group of Freemasons, inspired by the concepts of a new country, of Freedom with Responsibility, Brotherly Love, and Truth, formed Harmony Lodge near this site in 1809, the first Masonic lodge in western Ohio. Meetings were held in the log court . . . — — Map (db m13820) HM

186 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Urbana — In Memory and with Appreciation —

The side rails on this boardwalk were made possible by financial support from the Cedar Bog Association and from Ralph and Jean Ramey, who made generous contributions in memory of their daughter Carolyn. Though handicapped from birth, Carolyn . . . — — Map (db m198692) HM

187 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Urbana — 3-11 — In Memory of Simon Kenton —

Simon Kenton who is buried here. During the Revolutionary War he frequently served as scout under George Rogers Clark and later praised Clark for his role in saving the Kentucky settlements. Kenton's Indian captivity of 1778-79 acquainted him with . . . — — Map (db m34088) HM

188 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Urbana — 13-11 — John Anderson Ward Farmstead / John Quincy Adams Ward & Edgar Melville Ward —

Side A: John Anderson Ward Farmstead John Anderson Ward had this Federal style house constructed from 1823-1825 on land inherited from his father, Urbana's founder Colonel William Ward. The Colonel's will stipulated that a local mason . . . — — Map (db m13822) HM

189 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Urbana — 12-11 — Kings Creek Baptist Church —

Side A The founders of what would become the Kings Creek Baptist Church first met on June 29, 1805 in the log home of local residents James and Ann Turner. The Baptist congregation continued to meet in people's homes until 1816 when . . . — — Map (db m84858) HM

190 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Urbana — 26-11 — Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad —

The Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad Company was chartered by the State of Ohio in January 1832 to connect west central Ohio with northern Ohio and Lake Erie. It was the first company to be incorporated for railroad purposes in the state. . . . — — Map (db m13824) HM

191 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Urbana — 27-11 — Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad —

Champaign County residents James [sic-Joseph] Vance (1786-1852) and John H. James (1800-1881) were among the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad's first officers, serving as president and treasurer, respectively. Vance emerged as a leader in the War of . . . — — Map (db m13825) HM

192 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Urbana — 30-11 — Pennsylvania Railroad Depot —

(side A) Construction of the Columbus, Piqua, and Indiana Central Railroad started in 1850 and was finished in 1854. Later referred to as the "Panhandle Railroad," it ran from Columbus to Bradford. During the Civil War, the line carried . . . — — Map (db m93853) HM

193 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Urbana — 31-11 — President Lincoln’s Funeral Train in Urbana —

(Side A) The nine-car funeral train for President Abraham Lincoln departed Washington, D.C. on April 21, 1865. It arrived in Urbana on April 29 at 10:40p.m. Urbana’s citizens erected an arch of evergreens and flowers near the station . . . — — Map (db m84960) HM

194 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Urbana — 32-11 — The Underground Railroad in Champaign County / Lewis Adams —

The Underground Railroad in Champaign County The inhumanity of slavery and the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850 motivated anti-slavery activists to operate a covert network, the "Underground Railroad," which helped fugitive slaves . . . — — Map (db m78141) HM

195 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Urbana — 34-11 — War Council of 1812 / Old Grave Yard —

War Council of 1812. To confirm that the Treaty of Greenville would be upheld, Ohio Governor Return J. Meigs called a council with Native Americans June 6-9, 1812. He sought approval to cross native land when marching to Canada and to ensure . . . — — Map (db m81636) HM

196 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Urbana — 11-11 — Warren G. Grimes / Grimes Field —

Warren G. Grimes. Raised in an Ohio orphanage, Warren G. Grimes (1898-1975) ran away after finishing the ninth grade and at age 16 went to work for the Ford Motor Company in Detroit. He later became a partner in an electrical business where . . . — — Map (db m13818) HM

197 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Urbana — 17-11 — William Owen — First Settler in Mad River Township, Champaign County, Ohio —

Virginia native William Owen, 1769-1821, is credited with being the first American to settle in Mad River Township, Champaign County sometime between 1797-1799. He and his family built a cabin in the northeast quarter of Section 15 directly west . . . — — Map (db m86157) HM

198 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Urbana, Urbana Township — 21-11 — The Johnson Manufacturing Company —

The Johnson Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1902 by brothers James B., J. Will, Isaac T., and Charles F. Johnson, all of Quaker heritage. The company manufactured tin and galvanized iron ware for railroad lines across the United States. . . . — — Map (db m221049) HM

199 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Westville — 18-11 — Harvey Haddix —

Baseball great Harvey Haddix was born on September 18, 1925, and grew up on a farm just south of Westville. He attended Westville School until March 1940 and played his first organized baseball at this site. Entering Major League Baseball in 1952, . . . — — Map (db m13888) HM

200 ► Ohio, Champaign County, Woodstock — 24-11 — Lincoln Funeral Train —

President Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 14, 1865, created a national tragedy, and the nation mourned as his body was transported by rail from Washington, D.C. back to Springfield, Illinois, where he would be buried. On its way the Funeral . . . — — Map (db m84945) HM

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