Nearby stood the Shawnee village of Mackachack or Mac-A-Cheek. This village was the first of the Shawnee towns to be attacked by Gen. Benjamin Logan's mounted Kentucky militia in the fall of 1786. In all the American forces destroyed eight Shawnee . . . — — Map (db m306238) HM
United States of America
Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients
State of Ohio Logan County
Civil War
Brown, Wilson W. 2nd Lt Georgia 1862
Seaman, Elisha B. Private Virginia 1863
Smith, Otis W. Corporal Tennessee 1864
Indian . . . — — Map (db m22068) WM
Erected by
Viet Nam Veterans of America
Chapter 104 and citizens of Logan County
Designer- Janice K. Knight
Inscription- Glenda Lamb- Wilson
Dedicated the 18th day of August 1985
and presented to the City of Bellefontaine . . . — — Map (db m307211) WM
Gunn's Tavern. 500 yards west →. About 1797, John Gunn, a land agent from Canada, came to the head of McKee's Creek to start a town. His two story log house, licensed as a tavern in 1805, became the county's first hotel. . . . — — Map (db m178532) HM
[North Side of Marker]
<— 500 Yards East —«
A British-Indian Outpost was established in 1778 by the Tory, Alexander McKee, for trade with the Shawnees.
It was destroyed by Logan's Army in 1786, re-built, and used as a . . . — — Map (db m35018) HM
[South Side of Marker]: Home of John Garwood
In 1805 the John Garwood family of thirteen children located their home near this spot. Their activities here were responsible for the town of East Liberty. The village laid out 1834. Post . . . — — Map (db m35071) HM
[North Side of Marker]
Named for a Wyandot Chief. Once home of Chief Tarhee. During American Revolution was headquarters of renegade Simon Girty who brought Simon Kenton here after saving his life in 1778. Hull camped here in 1812. . . . — — Map (db m34246) HM
The Maumee Rapids Treaty of Sept. 29, 1817 granted the Shawnee and Seneca Indians a reservation of 40,300 acres surrounding this point. Here they lived until removed to the West in 1832.
A few feet South . . . — — Map (db m306289) HM
[East Side of Marker]
Built during the War of 1812 about a mile north by an independent rifle company commanded by Joseph Vance. The two 20-foot buildings were connected with a common second story and were well provided with portholes. . . . — — Map (db m34999) HM
First Meeting House and Graveyard in the county. Promoted by Jobe Sharp, first settler, and Thomas Antrim, preacher. Quakers and Methodists alternated meetings until 1813 when first Methodist church was built three miles South.
Built 1807 . . . — — Map (db m74492) HM
Hull's Trace. A trail over which General Hull's army marched to Detroit in 1812. At this point a company of scouts recruited by Capt. Wm. McColloch of Zanetown joined Hull's army.
Moluntha. Chief Moluntha, Grand Sachem of the . . . — — Map (db m198041) HM
(Side A)
Underground Railroad
A name given to a manner
of piloting negro slaves
to freedom. Pilots of this
area were largely Quakers,
the most active of whom
were the Pickerells, Paxtons,
and Williams.
(Side B)
Underground . . . — — Map (db m76372) HM
Gen. Simon Kenton
A soldier, a scout, a Guide.
History places him
among the strong and the brave.
Pathfinder for the
midwestern civilization.
Fate used him
as an instrument to open the door
of an empire state.
Historical . . . — — Map (db m23593) HM
A former Indian trail connected Blue Jacket's Town (site of Bellefontaine) and Zanestown (now Zanesfield). The highway was named by the County Commissioners in honor of Princess Myreerah, daughter of Chief Tarhe and wife of Isaac Zane, White Eagle . . . — — Map (db m20071) HM
Descendants of slaves, who may have reached Ohio through the Underground Railroad, and other African Americans, formed the community of Flatwoods in the southwest part of Bokescreek Township. This one-room schoolhouse was built circa 1868 for . . . — — Map (db m38248) HM
Distinguished citizen, legislator, public servant, and historian born in Bellefontaine, January 23, 1840. A Civil War hero, he was promoted to brigadier general at only 25 years of age. Admitted to the bar in 1866, he practiced in Bellefontaine . . . — — Map (db m75545) HM
[Front Side of Marker]:
Entering Logan County over
Greenville Treaty Line
——— • ———
Ohio lands east and south
of this line were opened for
U.S. settlement by Gen. Wayne’s . . . — — Map (db m39860) HM
Greenville Treaty Line. North of this line 640 acres of land was given to Nancy Stewart, daughter of Chief Blue Jacket, by Shawnee Chiefs in Council at Wapakoneta, May 22, 1813. Approved in treaty of 1817 by U.S. Government.
Nancy . . . — — Map (db m12198) HM
Born in Piqua, Ohio, the Mills Brothers grew up and attended school in Bellefontaine. The brothers -- John, Jr., Herbert, Harry, and Donald Mills -- were the first African-American vocal group to perform on a national radio broadcast and achieve . . . — — Map (db m22069) HM
(Front Side of Marker)
Location of the County's
most thriving early village.
Surveyed 1832, on lands of
Robt. Edminson, Dr. S.A. Morton
& Alex. Thompson. Following
the building of the N.Y.C.
Ry. & founding of Huntsville . . . — — Map (db m58756) HM
Nicknamed “Ohio's Million Dollar Playground” or “Atlantic City of the Midwest,” Sandy Beach Amusement Park opened here on May 29, 1924. The park at Indian Lake featured a 2,000-foot long roller coaster and other popular . . . — — Map (db m22070) HM
Born in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, William Lawrence moved to Bellefontaine shortly after graduating from Cincinnati Law School in 1840. Lawrence was prosecuting attorney for Logan County (1845); a member of the Ohio Legislature (1846, 1847, 1849-51, . . . — — Map (db m22049) HM
Representative of the patriotic spirit of the homefront during World War II, the Big Four Route Veterans Association Women's Auxiliary No. 3 operated a free canteen service for troops in a small white building on the platform of the New York Central . . . — — Map (db m43906) HM
America's first concrete streets were those which surrounded this court house. Concrete was first used in 1891 to provide an 8-foot strip along Main Street where horses were hitched. Two years later Court Avenue was paved with concrete made from . . . — — Map (db m156664) HM
1920s
In the 1920s, a sentiment was applied to U.S. history promoting a romantic veneration of early America's past. This movement, now referred to as "Colonial Revival," popularized historic markers.
The Ohio Revolutionary Memorial . . . — — Map (db m307104) HM
The Indian Lake Region was inhabited by Native American Indian cultures long before white settlers. The Shawnee, Cherokee and Wyandot Tribes were the primary inhabitants, The Algonquin, Delaware and Ottawa tribes also had settlements nearby. Many of . . . — — Map (db m104209) HM
The paving of concrete streets in Bellefontaine, Ohio during the 1890's resulted principally from one man's efforts, George Bartholomew.
This statue was presented to the citizens of Logan County by the Concrete industries of Ohio and the United . . . — — Map (db m156663) HM
This bridge carries County Road 21, which was originally called Logansville and Muchinippi Free turnpike, over the Great Miami River in Logansville, Ohio, and was constructed in 1882 by the Massillion Bridge Company of Massillion, Ohio. It was . . . — — Map (db m160783) HM
Here was fought the first of the major engagements of Logan’s 1786 campaign, in which eight Shawnee towns were destroyed and Chief Moluntha killed. Kenton here ran the gantlet in 1778. — — Map (db m136689) HM
Many species of the perennial plant, Anemone, grow in a range of colors. The white and pink shades depicted in the drawing room ceiling were garden favorites in the late 19th Century, when they were associated with excitement and anticipation. . . . — — Map (db m307114) HM
Margaret Piatt remembers her 1950s childhood at Mac-A-Cheek, when she and her brother, William played on the garden rocks, then covered with Trumpet Creepers. The kids called the plants "Virginia Creepers" and sang the popular jazz song, "Jeepers . . . — — Map (db m307110) HM
In the center of the fresco that decorates the ceiling of Mac-A-Cheek's drawing room, a painted Sunflower once suspended a chandelier. Victorians often placed tall plants like Sunflowers in the center of their gardens for visual effect. . . . — — Map (db m307111) HM
"I would have in a large flower garden, a corner or a belt, where nature and apparent neglect should reign throughout the season." - Ella Rodman Church, The Home Garden, 1884
Entering Logan County over Greenville Treaty Line. Ohio lands east and south of this line were opened for U.S. settlement by Gen. Wayne's defeat of Indian tribes under Chief Blue Jacket at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, August 1794. . . . — — Map (db m185268) HM
Russells Point
In 1847, John Russell, for whom Russells Point is named, was born near the shores of the original spring-fed Indian Lake. His parents farmed near the areas we know today as Lake Ridge and O’Connors Point on the east side of . . . — — Map (db m104178) HM
The Logan County Historical Society 521 Columbus Ave., Bellefontaine, Ohio, dedicates this caboose to the Big Four Railroad and the many men and women who worked for it - some 25% of the people employed in the area at one time. About 110 engines . . . — — Map (db m307208) HM
Geneva College
established here in 1848
by Dr. J.B. Johnston
moved to Beaver Falls Pa. in 1879
erected by
Logan Co. Historical Society
Second plaque
Committee
H, C. Marmon, pres. Hist. Soc.
J. R. Templeton, chair
O. . . . — — Map (db m74869) HM
Construction of this stone mansion was begun in 1864 by General Abram Sanders Piatt (1821-1908). Finished in 1871, it replaced an earlier frame house where Abram had lived with his first wife Hannah and their children before her death in 1861 and . . . — — Map (db m144457) HM
This land was home to Shawnee People who established their villages on the uplands of the north side of the Mac-A-Cheek valley and their corn fields in the bottom lands along the stream. The earliest white settlers also favored the bottom lands . . . — — Map (db m144757) HM
After the 1786 destruction of the Upper Mad River Shawnee villages, some Mekoches migrated northwest to a bountiful area known as the Grand Glaize along the Maumee River. Others relocated to Indiana, Missouri, and Kansas. However, the cruelty of . . . — — Map (db m307098) HM
Dehumanized in History Texts
Kentuckians remembered Logan's raid as a successful campaign that contributed to opening the Ohio territory for American settlement. Building on the ideology of continental expansion that began with the first . . . — — Map (db m307103) HM
In the 1700s, Shawnees of the Mekoche division established two villages on the land you are visiting. One, located on the north side of the stream, was called Moluntha’s Town named for the Mekoche chief who lived there. The second, on the south . . . — — Map (db m307094) HM
Civil War
Brown, Wilson, W. Co. F, 21st Ohio Infantry, Private, Army. Born; December 25, 1837 in Logan County, Ohio. Entered service in Wood County, Ohio. Died; December 25th, 1916, in Toledo, Ohio. Buried at New Belleville Ridge Cemetery, . . . — — Map (db m160385) WM
In 1881, the community of Rome
was established at the forks of
the Coal River. Named for local
landowner Rome Pickens. Renamed
Alum Creek after nearby stream
on December 7, 1910. The stream
was named for alum found along
its banks. New post . . . — — Map (db m137394) HM
Lincoln’s Mahomet
Upper Section
The village of Middletown-Mahomet was platted by Daniel Porter in 1832 on the west bank of the Sangamon River near its headwaters. The main street of the village was actually a new road, made necessary by . . . — — Map (db m24374) HM
Elkhart City in Logan County is typical of the many Illinois villages whose growth was spurred by the arrival of the railroad. Founded by John Shockey in 1855, two years after the coming the Alton and Sangamon Railroad, now the Gulf Mobile and Ohio. . . . — — Map (db m159582) HM
Myeerah Trail A former Indian trail connected Blue Jacket's Town (site of Bellefontaine) and Zanestown (now Zanesfield). The highway was named by the County Commissioners in honor of Princess Myreerah, daughter of Chief Tarhe and wife of Isaac . . . — — Map (db m74503) HM
This memorial is dedicated in honor of all Bellefontaine High School students, and residents of Logan County, who have fought to defend and serve our great Country in time of war.
We especially recognize those listed who made the ultimate . . . — — Map (db m173161) WM
We remember all Veterans
past - present - future
Honor roll of donors
Dedicated to those killed in action from Logan County during the Vietnam Conflict. • Steven M Mueller • Firman . . . — — Map (db m307258) WM
Bridge 174-0.56
Ohio’s first
recycled thermoplastic composite bridge
Built in 2012
Construction cost $325,661
Built by Logan County Engineer’s Office Bridge Crew
Materials manufactured by Axion, New Providence, NJ
Designed by Parsons . . . — — Map (db m76832)
Historic Logan County. Highest point in Ohio. Site of:
Ten Indian towns: Wapatomica, Blue Jacket, Mackachack, Moluntha, Lewis, Old, Zane, Solomon, McKee and Buckongehelas.
Zane-Kenton Monument: Squaw Rock; Ft. Wapatomica; . . . — — Map (db m22589) HM
(Side One)
Buried in this cemetery were two soldiers. Befitting the honor due and so that future generations will always know this marker was dedicated July 4th 1956 by Charles W. Harker Post 143, American Legion, Bristol, Indiana.
. . . — — Map (db m68708) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
