Historical Markers and War Memorials in Barnesville, Ohio
St. Clairsville is the county seat for Belmont County
Barnesville is in Belmont County
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On East Main Street (Ohio Route 147) at Arch Street, on the left when traveling west on East Main Street.
You are standing over a 423 foot man-made sandstone tunnel built by the railroad between 1864 and 1870. Located on the Pittsburgh-Columbus main line, up to 37 trains a day passed under East Main Street during the railroad’s heyday.
The station, . . . — — Map (db m21012) HM
On Arch Street at Main Street (Ohio Route 147), on the right when traveling north on Arch Street.
Lest We Forget Those Who
Gave Their All For Our Country
Our Honored W.W. I K.I.A.
Wm. S. Bowen • Mansel E. Kaiser • George R. Higgins
Our Honored W.W. II K.I.A.
Edmund Bradfield • Wayne A. Thomas
Wm. O. Cordner • Lewis Wade
Paul . . . — — Map (db m26864) WM
On Oakes Place, 0.2 miles Flat Rock Road, on the right when traveling south.
This cemetery stands as evidence of a once thriving African American farming community established in the 1820s. With the aid of community leader, Alexander "Sandy" Harper (c.1804-1889), Captina, originally called Guinea, became a stop on the . . . — — Map (db m79263) HM
On North Chestnut Street (Ohio Route 800) at Walton Avenue, on the right when traveling south on North Chestnut Street.
Governor Wilson Shannon (1802–1877),
Ohio, first native-born governor, Wilson Shannon was born in February 1802 in the Mt. Olivet area near Barnesville. After attending Ohio University and studying law in Kentucky, he returned to Belmont . . . — — Map (db m21055) HM
This small, backyard cigar company operated from 1900 to 1943. Mr. Roby's hand-made stogies or cigars were made here in this building by family members, with the help of 2 or 3 employees daily. It was located in Belmont, Ohio.
This shop has . . . — — Map (db m79272) HM
On Fair Street west of North Chestnut Street, on the right when traveling west.
Built For U.S. Maritime Commission Hull No.27 by Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Inc. Baltimore-Md.
Presented in memory of Capt. Clifford Howelle Barnesville — — Map (db m209545) HM
On Walton Avenue west of North Chestnut Street (Ohio Route 800), on the left when traveling west.
The
Belmont County Museum
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
1984 — — Map (db m209542) HM
On Watt Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Joseph Watt and son James H. started a small foundry in 1862 making plow points, window sash weights, and heating stoves. Later, brothers Stewart, Ross, and John W. joined and the name became J.H. Watt and Brothers. Securing a patent for a . . . — — Map (db m26750) HM
On Walton Avenue west of North Chestnut Street (Ohio Route 800), on the right when traveling east.
Ohio's first native born Governor, lawyer, Minister to Mexico, member of Congress and territorial Governor of Kansas, Governor Shannon was born on or near this site. — — Map (db m209543) HM
