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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2AOX_sandyville-the-town-that-moved_Sandyville-OH.html
Sandyville was founded in 1815 by future State Senator Henry Laffer. In 1936, the 275 villagers learned that the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District planned to control regional flooding with the construction of 14 dams including nearby Bolivar Dam. Thi…
historicalmarkerproject.com/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 the United …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2ARW_riverfront-industries-powered-by-canal-water-how-napoleon-kept-its-name_Napoleon-OH.html
The completion of the Miami and Erie Canal passing through Napoleon in 1843 provided a way to receive manufactured goods, export farm products, and power local mills. The early industries of Napoleon utilized the canal as a source of reliable water power, w…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2AS0_fannie-hurst-author-humanitarian-and-advocate_Hamilton-OH.html
Author Side Raised and educated in St. Louis, author Fannie Hurst (1885-1968) was born in Hamilton at 918 Central Avenue, the home of her maternal grandparents. She was the daughter of Rose Koppel and Samuel Hurst. Already a writer as a student at Washingto…
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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 in 1914 an…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2AS2_warren-gard_Hamilton-OH.html
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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 Butler County…
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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 accommodate boat…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2AS4_chrisholm_Trenton-OH.html
This farm, Chrisholm (German for home farm of Christian Augspurger), was established in 1830 by Christian Augspurger (1782-1848), leader of the Amish Mennonite settlement in Butler County. The Amish selected this area because of rich, fertile farmland and p…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2AT3_athens-national-guard-armory_Athens-OH.html
In the first years of the twentieth century. Athens' citizens formed
a new National Guard company. The guardsmen initially held drill
at the Campbell Block on Court Street, but soon the Athens
Commercial Club began advocating for an armory from the
Ohio…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2AZU_bainbridge-center-historic-district_Chagrin-Falls-OH.html
Founded in 1817, Bainbridge Township was named for Commodore William Bainbridge, commander of the USS Constitution during the War of 1812. The unincorporated hamlet of Bainbridge Center is both the geographic and historic center of Bainbridge Township. The …