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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2CM_dayton-masonic-temple_Dayton-OH.html
(Side A): The first Masonic Lodge in Dayton was founded in 1808, located in the first Montgomery County Courthouse. Various other locations were home to Masons in Dayton, but by World War I, rapid growth of the Masonic community called for the creation of a…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2HA_huffman-prairie-flying-field_Wright-Patterson-AFB-OH.html
Huffman Prairie Flying Field, a unit of the Dayton Heritage National Historic Park, is the site where Wilbur and Orville Wright flew and perfected the world's first practical airplane, the 1905 Wright Flyer III, after their first flights in Kitty Hawk, Nort…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2VQ_historic-bridgeport_Bridgeport-OH.html
Colonel Ebenezer Zane, one of the founders of Wheeling, laid out the village that became Bridgeport in 1806 on the site of Fort Kirkwood (1789). Originally named Canton, it acquired its present name after the bridge to Wheeling Island was built. The arrival…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM35G_berea-sandstone-quarries_Berea-OH.html
For more than ninety years, this area was the heart and soul of Berea's sandstone quarries. In the early 1830s, John Baldwin discovered that the area's sandstone deposits made superb grindstones and building stones. in the 1840s, thriving sandstone quarries…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM35P_sandstone-center-of-the-world_Amherst-OH.html
The City of Amherst was founded in 1811. Beginning in 1847, Amherst developed and prospered around the sandstone industry and its associated quarries. This sandstone proved to be an important economic blessing to our early settlers and is the foundation of …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM35S_norton-s-townshend-m-d_Avon-OH.html
(1815-1895) A progressive farmer, physician, and legislator, Norton S. Townshend lived in Avon from 1830 until his death. His introduction of field drainage tile significantly increased the productivity of Avon farmland. A well-educated country doctor, he s…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM369_founding-of-lorain-ohio_Lorain-OH.html
At the mouth of the Black River in April, 1787, Moravian missionary David Zeisberger attempted a settlement of Indians but was ordered further west by unfriendly Delaware Indians. On July 16, 1834, a plat of this site was filed by Conrad Reid, Daniel Baldwi…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM36B_old-district-10-schoolhouse_Middleburg-Heights-OH.html
This Little Red Schoolhouse served children from Berea, Brookpark, and Middleburg township. The first mayor and council of Middleburg Heights were elected here. During its colorful history, the schoolhouse has been a City Hall where town meetings were held,…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM385_rail-speed-record_Bryan-OH.html
In 1966 the New York Central railroad Company (A.E. Perlman, President) proposed a test of existing rail passenger equipment to determine the feasibility of operating high-speed passenger service between cities up to 300 miles apart. The site chosen for the…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM42O_willoughby-dayton-miller_Alexandria-OH.html
1853-1907. Born in Alexandria in 1853, Willoughby Dayton Miller received his primary education in a nearby one-room schoolhouse. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1875 and then studied in Edinburgh, Scotland. Later, he traveled to Berlin, Germ…