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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B1Z_worlds-greatest-mine-fire_New-Straitsville-OH.html
During the 9-month Hocking Valley Coal Strike beginning in June
1884, tensions between the Columbus & Hocking Coal and Iron
Company and striking miners led to violence and destruction.
Starting October 11, 1884, unknown men pushed burning mine …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B19_knights-of-labor-opera-house_Shawnee-OH.html
In 1869 a secret organization. The Knights of Labor, was founded
in Philadelphia. The K.O.L. promoted an ideal society based on
bettering life for others with the slogans. "labor was the first
capital" and "an injury to one is th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B0H_robinsons-cave_New-Straitsville-OH.html
On a forested hillside south of New Straitsville. the spacious
1000 square foot Robinson's Cave offered a secluded location with
great acoustics where large groups of Hocking Valley coal miners
could meet in secret. Beginning in about 1870, lab…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ASX_rendville_Corning-OH.html
Established in 1879 by Chicago industrialist William P. Rend as a coal
mining town, Rendville became a place where African Americans broke
the color barrier. In 1888, Dr. Isaiah Tuppins, the first African
American to receive a medical degree in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ART_jacob-millers-tavern_Somerset-OH.html
In 1805, for $1.50 an acre, Jacob Miller purchased this property in
the Congressional Land Office in Chillicothe, capital of the new
state of Ohio. He and Somerset co-founder John Finck then each built
a tavern on either side of town along the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ARS_first-catholic-church-in-ohio_Somerset-OH.html
St. Joseph Church, "Cradle of the Faith in Ohio." was the first
Catholic church in the state. Dominican Father Edward Fenwick, later the
first bishop of Cincinnati, came from Kentucky to
visit local Catholics for the first time in 180…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ARO_mariah-storts-allen_New-Lexington-OH.html
Mariah Storts Allen was Ohio's last surviving
first generation daughter of a Revolutionary
War soldier. She was born August 4, 1842 in
Bearfield Township and died May 2, 1933 in New
Lexington. Her father, John Jacob Storts, vol-
unteered to f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ARM_milligan-ohios-icebox_Crooksville-OH.html
On February 10. 1899, a United States Weather Bureau Station
operated by Steve Eveland, in the small hamlet of Milligan, Ohio,
now part of McLuney, reported a temperature of 39 degrees
below zero. To date, this is the lowest temperature officia…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ARL_nelson-mccoy-pottery-company_Roseville-OH.html
In 1910, Nelson McCoy Sr. established the Nelson McCoy Sanitary
Stoneware Company on Gordon Street in Roseville. The company made
utilitarian stoneware using regional and local clay. In 1933, the
company name became the Nelson McCoy Pottery Com…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M7R_paynes-crossing_New-Straitsville-OH.html
Side 1Payne Cemetery (1852-1945) is the only remnant of a freed African American community known as Paynes Crossing. Research indicates that the area was involved in the Underground Railroad Movement, and may have been established expressly for th…