Historical Markers and War Memorials in Ironton, Ohio
Ironton is the county seat for Lawrence County
Ironton is in Lawrence County
Lawrence County(23) ► ADJACENT TO LAWRENCE COUNTY Gallia County(53) ► Jackson County(55) ► Scioto County(63) ► Boyd County, Kentucky(41) ► Greenup County, Kentucky(35) ► Cabell County, West Virginia(73) ► Wayne County, West Virginia(31) ►
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In 1849, the city of Ironton was founded by local ironmasters, railroaders, and financiers associated with the Ohio Iron and Coal Company. They saw the city as a manufacturing and shipping point for their products. As a young industrial city, . . . — — Map (db m60016) HM
Since 1868, Ironton's annual Memorial Day parade has recognized those in Lawrence County who died while defending our country's freedom. This was the same year in which the Grand Army of the Republic established May 30 as Decoration Day. Originally . . . — — Map (db m59370) HM
(Side A) Ironton Tanks
Semi-professional football began in Ironton in 1893 with a team known as the Irontonians. The Ironton Tanks, founded in 1919, was a combination of two Ironton cross-town rival football clubs known as the Irish Town . . . — — Map (db m60017) HM
John Campbell (1818-1891), founder of Ironton, was an ironmaster and president of the Ohio Iron & Coal Company, a Presbyterian, and an abolitionist. This house and barn, which he built in 1850, became a stop on the Underground Railroad for . . . — — Map (db m59375) HM
Memorial
American Legion
Ironton Post 433
Dedicated to perpetuate the memory
of those who gave their lives in the
Viet-Nam War and to honor those who
served with the U. S. Armed Services
1964 - 1973
Killed In Action
Sgt. Donald . . . — — Map (db m166317) WM
With the faith and courage of
their forefathers who made
possible the freedom of these
United States
The Boy Scouts of America
dedicate this replica of the
Statue of Liberty as a pledge
of everlasting fidelity and
loyalty . . . — — Map (db m59374) HM
November 30, 1930, was a classic Indian summer day in southern Ohio. Balmy, shirt-sleeve temperatures greeted the 10,000 football fans who flocked into old Redland Field in Cincinnati to watch the upstart, small-town Ironton Tanks battle the . . . — — Map (db m60019) HM
The Hanging Rock Iron Region
To furnish the needs of the early settlers, then to furnish ordnance for a nation at war, and finally to furnish merchant iron to the steel mills, 100 iron producing blast furnaces were built within these 1,800 . . . — — Map (db m59371) HM
New jail bldg. erected 1973
board of county commissioners
Louis N. Bryant Chr.
W. Lt. Buddy Kaiser
Jess Brammer
This corner stone from old jail
Comrs.
W. W. Wiseman
E. T. Edwards
Chas. Brammer
Mark S. Bartram - Auditor
S. . . . — — Map (db m213420) HM
