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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AY8_the-amish-mennonite-settlement_Trenton-OH.html
To commemorate The Amish Mennonite Settlement founded in Butler County in 1819 by Christian Augspurger (1782- 1848) as the third Amish community in Ohio and the westernmost for immigrants from Alsace
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AWP_hamilton-civil-war-memorial-a-war-memorial_Hamilton-OH.html
Erected     A.D. 1936 by Veterans Memorial Association In honor of our soldier dead May they rest in peace G.A.R.     U.S.W.V.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AUJ_woodsdale_Trenton-OH.html
This hamlet, located one mile southwest from here, was never platted, but was named after William Woods, president of the three-story brick Woodsdale paper mill constructed in 1867. Flanking the mill were the company office and store and several w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AS4_chrisholm_Trenton-OH.html
This farm, Chrisholm (German for home farm of Christian Augspurger), was established in 1830 by Christian Augspurger (1782-1848), leader of the Amish Mennonite settlement in Butler County. The Amish selected this area because of rich, fertile farm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AS3_the-miami-canal_Hamilton-OH.html
Side A The dimensions of the canal channel were 26 feet wide at the bottom and 40 feet wide at the top. The depth of the canal averaged four and one-half feet. The 12 locks were 80 feet long with 14-foot wide interior chambers which could accomm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AS1_lane-public-library-clark-lane_Hamilton-OH.html
Side A Clark Lane built this library in 1866 and donated it to the people of Hamilton two years later. The 1913 Great Miami River flood catastrophe damaged much of the building and many of its books and records. The refurbished library reopened …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AS0_fannie-hurst-author-humanitarian-and-advocate_Hamilton-OH.html
Author Side Raised and educated in St. Louis, author Fannie Hurst (1885-1968) was born in Hamilton at 918 Central Avenue, the home of her maternal grandparents. She was the daughter of Rose Koppel and Samuel Hurst. Already a writer as a student at…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ARE_abraham-lincolns-1859-hamilton-speech_Hamilton-OH.html
Abraham Lincoln spoke from the rear of a Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad passenger train on Saturday September 17, 1859, to about 1000 people at South Fourth and Ludlow streets (about 785 feet south of here). Lincoln, elected president of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AR8_trinity-episcopal-church_Hamilton-OH.html
An Episcopal Congregation was first established in Hamilton in 1823 as part of a missionary movement under Bishop Philander Chase who later became the founder of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. The present building was designed by Cincinnati arch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2APA_cosmopolitan-no-4_Hamilton-OH.html
110 yards from the back of this marker on the present southeast corner of 4th and Butler Streets stood the Cosmopolitan Arms Company, founded by Edward Gwyn and Abner C. Campbell, where carbines for the Union Army were manufactured during the Civi…
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