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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJRY_start-of-the-miami-and-erie-canal_Middletown-OH.html
In emulation of those who, July 21, 1825,here began the building of theMiami & Erie Canal,this Ohio property was rededicatedNovember 2, 1929, to its original purpose -transportation, with the confident hopethat a super-highway soon would follow
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJR0_remembrance-rock_Middletown-OH.html
About 20,000 years ago this pink granite boulder was brought from Canada by the Wisconsin Glacier and deposited near here, along the Great Miami River.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ63_the-village-of-trenton-the-elk-creek-baptist-church-and-cemetery_Trenton-OH.html
Side A: The Village of TrentonPlatted 1816. Incorporated as Village 1895. Became a city 1971
Trenton's founder, Michael Pearce, came to the area in 1801. The original village of 33 lots was named Bloomfield. When the post office was established…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ61_rossville-historic-district_Hamilton-OH.html
Side A:Rossville was settled in April 1801 shortly after the U.S. Government initiated land sales west of the Great Miami River. Its original proprietors—John Sutherland, Henry Brown, Jacob Burnet, James Smith and William Ruffin—named …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ5S_bambo-harris-grist-mill_Middletown-OH.html
In c1795 Bambo Harris a freed black slave built and operated the first Water Driven gristmill in the area on Elk Creek. For fifty years his Millstones ground wheat and corn. A member of the Prairie Baptist Church, he was highly respected in the co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ5Q_village-of-miltonville_Middletown-OH.html
The village of Miltonville, located along the banks of Elk Creek, was platted in 1816 by George Bennett, Theophilus Eaglesfield, and Richard V. V. Crane. The creek served two grist mills, one built around 1804 and operated by a free black, Bambo H…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ5P_lane-hooven-house_Hamilton-OH.html
Side A:James Elrick, a local carpenter, built the Lane-Hooven House in 1863 for Clark Lane (1823-1907), a Hamilton industrialist and philanthropist. Lane, who first came to the area at age twenty-one as a blacksmith, resided in the house for more …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ5M_william-dean-howells_Hamilton-OH.html
Author William Dean Howells (1837-1920) spent his boyhood from 1840 to 1848 in Hamilton. Called the "Dean of American Letters," Howells wrote 35 novels, 35 plays, 34 miscellaneous books, 6 books of literary criticism, 4 books of poetry, and hundre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ00_champion-hamilton-mill_Hamilton-OH.html
Side A:The Champion Coated Paper Company began production here April 15, 1894, with nine employees under the direction of Peter G. Thomson (1851-1931), a Cincinnati businessman, who had incorporated the firm in November 1893. Thomson, previously a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIZZ_butler-county-courthouse_Hamilton-OH.html
Side A:Butler County was created on March 24, 1803, about three weeks after Ohio became a state. Hamilton won the competition for the county seat, thanks to Israel Ludlow, Hamilton's founder. Ludlow's donation of the public square secured the coun…