Historical Markers and War Memorials in Oxford, Ohio
Hamilton is the county seat for Butler County
Oxford is in Butler County
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On East Walnut Street at South Campus Ave, on the left when traveling east on East Walnut Street.
In October 1833 was organized
at Old Miami a chapter of Alpha
Delta Phi- the first Greek letter
fraternity to expand west of
the Alleghenies. With this event
Miami became the fourth college
in the United States to . . . — — Map (db m107742) HM
On Western College Drive, on the left when traveling south.
Alumnae Hall
Built: 1890- 1892
Razed: 1977
Born of the vision of President Leila McKee and built through the generousity of
Olivia Meily Brice, Class of 1866 and Western’s first woman Trustee,
Alumnae Hall was truly the gift of women to . . . — — Map (db m107803) HM
On Reily-Millville Road (County Route 29) 0.2 miles west of Bunker Hill Woods Road, on the right when traveling east.
(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
On Western College Drive, on the right when traveling south.
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
On Indian Creek Road (County Route 37), on the left when traveling east.
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
Near Indian Creek Road, 0.7 miles north of Imhoff Road, on the right when traveling north.
Brick church built - 1829
Indian Creek Cemetery on first county land sold for public burial
Preserved by Indian Creek Cemetery Association, 1880 - 1959 — — Map (db m166727) HM
On Patterson Avenue (U.S. 27), on the left when traveling south.
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
On West High Street (U.S. 27) at West Park Place, on the right when traveling west on West High Street.
Lynching in America. Between 1865 to 1950, thousands of African Americans were victims of mob violence and lynching across the United States. Following the Civil War, fierce resistance to equal rights for African Americans and an ideology of . . . — — Map (db m178139) HM
On Oxford Street at Hamilton-Richmond Road, on the left when traveling north on Oxford Street.
Milford Township Veterans Memorial
The seventh township in order of creation, it was erected from St. Clair Township by the Butler County Commissioners on December 2, 1805 — — Map (db m103319) HM WM
On South Campus Ave at East Walnut, on the right when traveling south on South Campus Ave.
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
On South College Ave, on the right when traveling south.
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
On Main Street (Ohio Route 732) at High Street (U.S. 27), on the left when traveling north on Main Street.
In honor of all veterans
who proudly served
our country and flag
Gratefully dedicated
to those who offered their lives
in the cause of freedom
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Memorial Park
“When people get caught up . . . — — Map (db m24783) HM
Near Bishop Circle, 0.1 miles west of South Patterson Avenue (U.S. 27), on the right when traveling south.
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
On East Park Place at East High Street (U.S. 27), on the left when traveling south on East Park Place. 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
On East Spring Street at Oak Street, on the left when traveling west on East Spring Street.
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
Near Oxford Millville Road (U.S. 27) 0.3 miles north of Stillwell Beckett Road, on the right when traveling north.
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
(bust of Washington)
The Act of 1794
In the name of the United States of America: It is hereby declared that
one complete township or tract of land, of six miles square, to be located
with the approbation of the governor, for the . . . — — Map (db m116659) HM
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
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
On Brown Road at Doty Road, on the right when traveling north on Brown Road.
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
This original dug well relates to one of the several fascinating legends of Zachariah and Elizabeth DeWitt. As reported by Ralph McGinnis in The History of Oxford, Ohio, from the Earliest Days to the Present, Zachariah heard Elizabeth's . . . — — Map (db m24072) HM
On Brown Road, 0.2 miles south of Doty Road, on the right when traveling south.
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
On Patterson Avenue (U.S. 27) at Oxford-Trenton Road (Ohio Route 73), on the left when traveling south on Patterson Avenue.
The life of Verlin L. Pulley was
long intertwined with Miami University.
A member of the class of 1925
A trustee from 1959 to 1965
A resident orf Oxford since graduation
and mayor of Oxford from 1936-1940
The founder of Capitol Varsity . . . — — Map (db m25006) HM
Near Bishop Circle, 0.2 miles west of South Patterson Avenue (U.S. 27), on the right when traveling south.
This building is named for
the fourteenth president
of the university
1928-1945
who met the challenges
of depression and war
Alfred H. Upham
Member of the class of 1897
whose "Old Miami" tells the
story of her first . . . — — Map (db m140481) HM
On Campus Avenue at Spring Street, on the right when traveling north on Campus Avenue.
Who, while professor in Miami
University compiled the famous
McGuffey Readers which established
the social standards of the Great
Middle West of the United States
for three-quarters of a century.
Professor of Miami University 1825-36 . . . — — Map (db m24781) HM
On Spring Street at Oak Street, on the right when traveling east on Spring Street.
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
On East Chestnut Street, on the left when traveling west.
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
