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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHOK_fort-ancient-earthworks_Oregonia-OH.html
You are standing inside a hilltop earthworks built by the Hopewell Indians nearly 2000 years ago. Early settlers in this area thought these walls were constructed for defensive purposes, hence the name Fort Ancient. Today, archaeologists believe t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHOE_fort-ancient-dwelling_Florence-OH.html
The Fort Ancient people who occupied this area between about AD900 and AD1600 lived in larger communities than the Hopewell people did. Their villages of 200 to 500 people were truly agricultural; they cultivated beans, corn, squash, and tobacco. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHOC_changes-at-fort-ancient_Oregonia-OH.html
Many changes have occurred at Fort Ancient over the last 2,000 years. Hopewell Indians built the site and used it as a ceremonial and social gathering area. The Fort Ancient Indians lived in the South Fort 500 years after the Hopewell people left.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHMQ_preservation-of-log-post-office_Franklin-OH.html
[North face of the pavilion]
It all started in June 1974 when Franklin Judge J.T. Riley decided to replace the white building pictured here. It was reputed that the right portion was where J.N.C. Schenck had his store and post office. He was ap…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHMO_the-old-log-post-office_Franklin-OH.html
The oldest known structure standing in Franklin, the Old Log Post Office is a reminder of the links the community's earliest members maintained to the rest of the young state of Ohio and to the United States during the early nineteenth century. Jo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHMN_jonathan-wright-homestead_Springboro-OH.html
Jonathan Wright (1782-1855) and his wife Mary Bateman Wright (1787-1866) moved with their five children from Menallen, Adams County, Pennsylvania, in 1814 and built this Federal style house. Using skills acquired from his father, Joel Wright, a su…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHMM_justice-john-mclean_Lebanon-OH.html
Having settled in the Ridgeville area with his father, Justice McLean, in 1799, Justice John McLean was appointed to the United States Supreme Court in 1829 by President Andrew Jackson. He was best known for his anti-slavery dissenting opinion in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHML_harveysburg-the-harveysburg-school_Waynesville-OH.html
Side A: HarveysburgThe Quaker village of Harveysburg was founded in 1829 on land originally a part of Colonel Abraham Buford's Revolutionary War Land Grant. Levi Lukens, a Virginia Quaker, purchased the 1000 - acre survey in 1812 and sold a portio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHM1_friends-burial-ground_Waynesville-OH.html
In 1804, Miami Monthly Meeing purchased this land to use as a graveyard. Burials were made without regard to status or family association, but rather by date of death. Some of the earliest graves are marked with a plain rock obtained from a nearby…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHKZ_the-civilian-conservation-corps_Oregonia-OH.html
Side A: The Civilian Conservation CorpsDuring the Great Depression of the 1930s, the federal government established the Civilian Conservation Corps, known as the CCC or triple C's under the direction of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal p…