Honoring all those who serve,
past, present, and future
Thank you for your service.
May 17, 2008
[Originally installed May 30, 1969] — — Map (db m28849) WM
The Alpine Alpa restaurant in Wilmot, Ohio commissioned clockmaker Karl Schleutermann to build the world's largest cuckoo clock in 1963. Twelve years and $50,000 later, the enormous outdoor clock was finished. It was featured on the cover of the . . . — — Map (db m139953) HM
1814 • 100 lots recorded as laid out by
Abraham Shane with “ten perches for a
public square and street.”
1820 • Lutheran Church began with
Rev. Abraham Snyder
1821 • First Reformed Church of Shanesville
organized by Rev. . . . — — Map (db m28851) HM
Lieutenant General Donald Leander Putt was born at what is now 412 West Main St., Sugarcreek, Ohio on May 14, 1905, a son of Harry E. and Lucy Pressler Putt. He graduated from Sugarcreek-Shanesville High School in 1923. In 1928 he graduated with . . . — — Map (db m241065) WM
Corporal Blickensderfer earned the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Civil War, for heroism at Petersburg, VA on 3 April 1865. He was born May 20, 1835 in Penn. and died Mar. 17, 1916. He is buried at Eastlawn Cemetery. — — Map (db m240042) HM WM
Tom Miller was an inspired local painter and master carver who painted the Swiss murals on the buildings throughout the area and designed the Swiss- styled storefronts in Sugarcreek. A self-taught artist, Tom was influenced by his travels, . . . — — Map (db m240044) HM
