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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS6T_the-first-presbyterian-mission-in-the-maumee-valley_Bowling-Green-OH.html
On this ground was establishedIn the year 1822The first Presbyterian MissionIn the Maumee Valley—————Rev. Joseph Badger,Missionary, 1805 - 1812.Rev. Isaac Van Tassell,Its first superintendent, 1822 - 1834.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS51_grand-rapids_Grand-Rapids-OH.html
This site, at the head of the Great Rapids of the Maumee, has been a major river crossing for centuries. The village was platted in 1833 as Gilead but was overshadowed by rival Providence during the canal era. In 1868 the name Grand Rapids was ado…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRM9_fostoria-ohio_Fostoria-OH.html
Fostoria's glass era began when natural gas was discovered in the mid 1880s at "Godsend," five miles west of town. Aided by former governor Charles Foster, Fostoria attracted more than a dozen companies that manufactured utilitarian and decorative…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJQ7_commodore-oliver-hazard-perry_Perrysburg-OH.html
The original of this monument to Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813, was created in marble in 1860 by New York Sculptor William Walcutt for the City of Cleveland. When that City had the statues cast in bronz…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJPW_perrysburg-perrysburg-plat-map_Perrysburg-OH.html
[West Side of Marker] : "Perrysburg"Following the War of 1812, settlers reestablished the 1810 Maumee River town, Port Miami of Lake Erie, on the land below the deserted Fort Meigs. The inhabitants nicknamed the new town "Orleans of the North" in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJMO_history-happened-here_Perrysburg-OH.html
You are standing on "Corn Cob Hill" where corn was once shelled, weighed and and lowered in hopper cars into a grain elevator below, thence onto ships.Under the bridge to the left is the foot of the rapids where non-native settlement started in th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJM0_major-amos-stoddard_Perrysburg-OH.html
Wounded May 1, 1813, on the opening day of the siege of Fort Meigs. Died May 11 of tetanus; buried May 12 in front of the "Grand Battery" on the spot where he received the wound that caused his death.
A native of Connecticut, Major Stoddard ser…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJG0_north-baltimore-community-firsts_North-Baltimore-OH.html
Side A: North BaltimoreLocated in southern Wood County, the village of New Baltimore was founded in 1860, with the first plat of twenty-nine acres recorded by B.L. Peters in 1873. Official incorporation occurred February 7, 1876, with the name bei…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJFZ_pemberville-town-hall-and-opera-house_Pemberville-OH.html
Completed in 1892 at the height of the region's oil boom, the Pemberville Town Hall followed a late-1800s municipal trend to house many civic functions under one roof. The fire station, jail, and council chambers occupied the ground level, while t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJFY_wood-county-infirmary_Bowling-Green-OH.html
The Infirmary, also known as the poorhouse or simply "The Home," is one of the last county poorhouse sites in Ohio where nearly all of the original structures still stand. The main building, constructed in 1868 with outbuildings added over the yea…