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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27TT_marion-mausoleum_Marion-OH.html
The Marion Mausoleum represents a time in early 20th-century
America in which burial practices changed because of advances in
engineering and construction materials, concerns about hygiene, and
a new rise in wealth among the middle class. Exhib…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZH7_larue-veterans-memorial-a-war-memorial_La-Rue-OH.html
Dedicated in memory of the men of the LaRue area who served their country in World Wars I and II, Korea and Viet Nam
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZEX_larue-veterans-memorial-column-a-war-memorial_La-Rue-OH.html
Dedicated
to the memory of
veterans of the
Civil War
Spanish American
and
World War
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TY6_cummins-home-historical_Marion-OH.html
Side A Thomas Stinson Cummins, owner of a successful dry
goods store, built his home in the early 1870s on
the outskirts of the growing village of Marion. The
home was purchased in 1889 by Henry M. Barnhart,
an inventor, and co-founder of the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TXU_owl-creek-trail-historical_Caledonia-OH.html
This trail, also know as the Old war trace,
connected Upper Sandusky and Mt. Vernon
through Caledonia, Mt. Gilead, and Fredericktown.
The route continued to Newcomertown by way
of Owl Creek (Kokoshing River) and White
Woman (Walhoning) Rive…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SEV_the-underground-railroad-the-marion-county-trial-of-bill-anderson_Marion-OH.html
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was neither underground nor a
railroad, but a system of loosely connected safe havens
where those escaping the brutal conditions of slavery
were sheltered, fed, clothed, nursed, concealed, disg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SEU_old-marion-cemetery_Marion-OH.html
Marion founder Eber Baker donated this two-acre plot for use as a
cemetery shortly after platting the village in 1822. The oldest
legible headstone bears an 1812 burial date, indicating that it may
have been moved to the site after the opening…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S9O_scioto-ordnance-plant-site_Marion-OH.html
Side A On March 2, 1942, four months after the U.S. entered WWII, farmers living between Marion-Williamsport and Marseilles-Galion Roads and between State Route 98 and the Norfolk & Western Railroad were notified to vacate their farms by the first…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S56_the-old-blockhouse-site_Marion-OH.html
The U.S. Army built a two-story blockhouse on a nearby
hill during the War of 1812. The blockhouse was one of a
series of such structures erected along the Greenville
Treaty line to guard against Native Americans who
supported the British duri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QE3_the-underground-railroad_Marion-OH.html
The Underground Railroad was neither underground nor a
railroad, but a system of loosely connected safe havens
where those escaping the brutal conditions of slavery
were sheltered, fed, clothed, nursed, concealed, disguised,
and instructed dur…