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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AJE_the-salt-springs_Mineral-Ridge-OH.html
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A salt spring, located about a mile west of this site, was the primary attraction for immigrants to the Western Reserve territory in the mid-1700s. Prior to European-American settlement, Indians used the springs, boiling the water to extra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AJD_mineral-ridge-black-band-ore_Mineral-Ridge-OH.html
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The discovery in the mid-19th century of iron-rich black band ore in this region helped revitalize Mahoning Valley's iron industry. The land now called Mineral Ridge was primarily a farming community before the 1850s. In the 1830s, coal wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A8S_bristol-public-library_Bristolville-OH.html
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In 1912, an endowment of $6,000 from Andrew Carnegie made it possible for the Bristol Public Library to become a reality. Four years earlier, the newly organized Bristol Library Association, headed and promoted by retired Judge Norman A. G…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A8P_honor-roll-a-war-memorial_Bristolville-OH.html
Erected to those buried in Bristol Township whose service assured our nation's independence
1775-1783
Gasper Cline
Elias Daily
Jacob Hamman
John Morley
Joseph Talcott
William Wilson
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A8N_southington-township-centralized-school-and-monument-park_Southington-OH.html
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Southington native Newton Chalker built, furnished, and donated Chalker High School to his community in 1907. Chalker was born in 1842 in Southington Township and lived there until adulthood. He later built a prosperous law and real estat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A8L_settled-by-alexander-and-sarah-sutherland-newton-township-duck-creek-settlement_Newton-Falls-OH.html
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Alexander Sutherland (1767-1845) and his wife Sarah (1768-1836) were the first settlers in Newton Township, Trumbull County, Ohio. Coming from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, the Sutherlands acquired 205 acres of land along Duck Creek s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A8B_casterline-cemetery_Cortland-OH.html
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Originally part of the Casterline farm, this cemetery was once the site of the 1824 Bazetta Presbyterian Church, the first church in Bazetta Township. Ziba Casterline deeded .75 acres for the cemetery to the church in 1829 for five dollars…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A8A_howland-springs_Warren-OH.html
On January 31, 1798, Joseph Howland bought Township 4-Range 3 (Howland Twp.) for $12, 903.23 and an equalizing portion of Township 1-Range 10 (Springfield Twp.) as part of a lottery held to distribute Connecticut's Western Reserve lands. On Februa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A89_camp-hutchins-warrens-civil-war-training-camp-camp-hutchins-and-the-6th-ohio-volunteer-cavalry_Warren-OH.html
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Camp Hutchins-Warren's Civil War Training Camp
After the outbreak of the Civil War in the spring of 1861, the U.S. War Department commissioned Ohio Senator B.F. Wade of Jefferson and local Congressman John Hutchins of Warren to supervise …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A88_mahoning-lodge-29-ioof_Niles-OH.html
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF), a world-wide fraternal organization, was introduced to the United States from England in 1819 and was established in Ohio in 1830. Mahoning Lodge #29 in Warren, Ohio, received its jurisdictional charter…