The Submarine Industry

Rooted in Connecticut

Just as the early settlers recognized the fine qualities of the New London harbor, so did the US Government. At the end of the Civil War, the Federal Government accepted land in Groton and Ledyard, purchased by New ...

Riddle-Pace Field

Originally constructed as the home field for the university’s football and baseball teams. Pace field, home of the Troy Trojans and the Troy baseball team in the late 1930s and 1940s, stood at the location of the current Riddle - ...

The Ohio Oil Co - Marathon Oil Co / Gas Boom Era

Side A: The Ohio Oil Company-Marathon Oil Company

Site of the first Findlay Field Office for what was to become a world-wide oil company, formerly locally owned and operated.

1887: The Ohio Oil Company was incorporated by five independent oil producers in ...

Cowart Hall

Renovated 1993

Born in Henderson, Alabama in 1850, Fletcher Jackson Cowart began his working career as a public school teacher. He later served superintendencies for both the Pike County and the Troy City schools. He was editor of the Troy Messenger ...

Cowart Hall

Renovated 1993

Born in Henderson, Alabama in 1850, Fletcher Jackson Cowart began his working career as a public school teacher. He later served superintendencies for both the Pike County and the Troy City schools. He was editor of the Troy Messenger ...

Rusk County World War I Memorial

Rusk County

"Greater love

hath no man

than this."

1917 - 1918

Marker can be reached from Everett Avenue west of East 3rd Street North (U.S. 8), on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Shackelford Hall

Built during 1929, Shackelford Hall opened to students in September 1930. It was named for the institution’s president Edward Madison Shackelford, who served from 1899 to 1936. Adjoining this building was the original dining facility for the campus. The magnolia-lined ...

Mason Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church

Side A:

In spite of small numbers and being welcomed by the mostly white congregation of First Methodist Episcopal Church, African Americans in Findlay in the 1880s wanted to express their faith in ways that best reflected their freedoms and traditions. ...

Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients

State of Ohio, Hancock County

United States of America

Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients

State of Ohio, Hancock County

Civil War

Bensinger, William Captain Georgia 1862

Porter, John R. 1st Lt. Georgia 1862

Scott, John M. Sergeant Georgia 1862

Vance, Wilson J. Brevet Capt. Tenn. 1862

Williams, William H. ...

Hancock County Veterans Memorial

Dedicated to the honor and sacrifice

of our men and women of Hancock County

who served their country

Lest We Forget

Marker is at the intersection of Main Cross Street (Ohio Route 12) and Dorney Plaza, on the right when traveling south on Main ...