Historical Marker Search

You searched for City|State: ironton, oh

Showing results 1 to 8 of 8
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14UW_ungers-shoes_Ironton-OH.html
This propertyhas been placed on theNational Registerof Historic Placesby the United StatesDepartment of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14RP_tanks-memorial-stadium-opening-day-nov-25-1926_Ironton-OH.html
November 30, 1930, was a classic Indian summer day in southern Ohio. Balmy, shirt-sleeve temperatures greeted the 10,000 football fans who flocked into old Redland Field in Cincinnati to watch the upstart, small-town Ironton Tanks battle the "Mons…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14RO_ironton-tanks-tanks-memorial-stadium_Ironton-OH.html
(Side A) Ironton TanksSemi-professional football began in Ironton in 1893 with a team known as the Irontonians. The Ironton Tanks, founded in 1919, was a combination of two Ironton cross-town rival football clubs known as the Irish Town Rags and t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14RN_city-of-ironton_Ironton-OH.html
In 1849, the city of Ironton was founded by local ironmasters, railroaders, and financiers associated with the Ohio Iron and Coal Company. They saw the city as a manufacturing and shipping point for their products. As a young industrial city, Iron…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14BX_john-campbell-memorial-home_Ironton-OH.html
John Campbell (1818-1891), founder of Ironton, was an ironmaster and president of the Ohio Iron & Coal Company, a Presbyterian, and an abolitionist. This house and barn, which he built in 1850, became a stop on the Underground Railroad for slaves …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14BW_replica-of-the-statue-of-liberty_Ironton-OH.html
With the faith and courage oftheir forefathers who madepossible the freedom of theseUnited States The Boy Scouts of America dedicate this replica of theStatue of Liberty as a pledgeof everlasting fidelity andloyalty The Crusade to Strengt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14BT_the-hanging-rock-iron-region-the-blast-furnaces-of-lawrence-county_Ironton-OH.html
The Hanging Rock Iron RegionTo furnish the needs of the early settlers, then to furnish ordnance for a nation at war, and finally to furnish merchant iron to the steel mills, 100 iron producing blast furnaces were built within these 1,800 square m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14BS_ironton-lawrence-county-memorial-day-parade_Ironton-OH.html
Since 1868, Ironton's annual Memorial Day parade has recognized those in Lawrence County who died while defending our country's freedom. This was the same year in which the Grand Army of the Republic established May 30 as Decoration Day. Originall…
PAGE 1 OF 1