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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AWP_hamilton-civil-war-memorial-a-war-memorial_Hamilton-OH.html
Erected     A.D. 1936 by Veterans Memorial Association In honor of our soldier dead May they rest in peace G.A.R.     U.S.W.V.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AS3_the-miami-canal_Hamilton-OH.html
Side A The dimensions of the canal channel were 26 feet wide at the bottom and 40 feet wide at the top. The depth of the canal averaged four and one-half feet. The 12 locks were 80 feet long with 14-foot wide interior chambers which could accomm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AS2_warren-gard_Hamilton-OH.html
Side A Warren Gard (1873-1929), son of Samuel Z. Gard and Mary Duke, was born in Hamilton, Ohio. He established his practice in Hamilton after graduating from Cincinnati Law School and being admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1894. Gard served as But…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AS1_lane-public-library-clark-lane_Hamilton-OH.html
Side A Clark Lane built this library in 1866 and donated it to the people of Hamilton two years later. The 1913 Great Miami River flood catastrophe damaged much of the building and many of its books and records. The refurbished library reopened …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ARE_abraham-lincolns-1859-hamilton-speech_Hamilton-OH.html
Abraham Lincoln spoke from the rear of a Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad passenger train on Saturday September 17, 1859, to about 1000 people at South Fourth and Ludlow streets (about 785 feet south of here). Lincoln, elected president of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AR8_trinity-episcopal-church_Hamilton-OH.html
An Episcopal Congregation was first established in Hamilton in 1823 as part of a missionary movement under Bishop Philander Chase who later became the founder of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. The present building was designed by Cincinnati arch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2APA_cosmopolitan-no-4_Hamilton-OH.html
110 yards from the back of this marker on the present southeast corner of 4th and Butler Streets stood the Cosmopolitan Arms Company, founded by Edward Gwyn and Abner C. Campbell, where carbines for the Union Army were manufactured during the Civi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2764_symmes-monument_Hamilton-OH.html
- "I declare the earth is hollow and habitable within," said John Cleves Symmes in summarizing his "Theory of Concentric Spheres and Solar Voids" to a doubting scientific world in the early 1820's. His theory is commemorated by…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2762_beckett-homesite_Hamilton-OH.html
On this site stood a square two-story brick farmhouse occupied by Wiiliam Bebb and built in 1835. After he was elected nineteenth Governor of Ohio, William Bebb sold his house in 1848 to William Beckett, founder of Beckett Paper Company, who …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM274X_the-hollow-earth-monument_Hamilton-OH.html
Capt. John Cleves Symmes as a philosopher, and the originator of 'Symmes Theory of Concentric Spheres and Polar voids.' He contended that the Earth is hollow and habitable within. Capt. John C. Symmes a Native of New Jersey, died in…
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