Site of the First Ohio State Football Game

On the morning of May 3, 1890, Ohio Wesleyan University and The Ohio State University met at this location for a football game. It was the first game in Ohio State football history. Ohio Wesleyan had invited the newly organized ...

Geronimo Surrender Monument

"Near here Geronimo, last Apache Chieftain and Nachite with their followers surrendered on Sept. 6th 1886 to General Nelson A. Miles. U. S. Army. Lieutenant Chas. B. Gatewood with Kieta and Martine Apache scouts, risked their lives to enter the ...

Society Hill Presbyterian Church

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Was organized August 12, 1891 with 17 charter members, by a commission of the Pee Dee Presbytery under Revs. J. G. Law, J. G. Richards, and W. B. Corbett. Elders H. A. Womack and J. S. McCall and deacon ...

Oz Park

Oz Park was created in 1974, as part of an renewal program for the Lincoln Park area. Historically, the neighborhood underwent numerous population shifts and by the 1950s home ownership was declining and many buildings were in sub-standard condition. The ...

Society Hill Library Society

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On June 5, 1822, twelve men paid $20 each to purchase books for a library. These men were J. J. Evans; David and Elias Gregg; D. R. W., J. K. and T. E. McIver; Thomas Smith; Alexander Sparks; D. ...

Old Line Road

Commences at the Cut-Off, or the first high ground in that vicinity, follows the watershed between the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers, and ends at Choctaw Corner. Established in 1808 by the Creek and Choctaw Indians as the dividing line between ...

River Town Development

Many Heritage Highway communities began as river settlements. Beatrice was founded in 1857 near the bend of the Big Blue River. The first building, known as Pap Towle's cabin, was constructed just north of the present Gage County Historical Society ...

Lawrence Faulkner / Simon Brown

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Born c.1840 and a resident of Darlington County by 1871, Lawrence Faulkner was a black school teacher, later merchant, and Society Hill's postmaster from 1877 to 1889. A trustee of nearby Union Baptist Church, Faulkner died in 1898. His ...

83rd Pennsylvania Infantry

Second Battle of Manassas

August 30, 1862

3:30 p.m.

3rd Brigade (Butterfield), First Division (Morell)

Fifth Corps (Porter), Army of the Potomac, USA

83rd Pennsylvania Infantry

Capt. Thomas F. McCoy

"The whole brigade went back pell mell together. It is probable that as many men were lost ...

Thomas Cemetery / Abraham Thomas

Side A: Thomas Cemetery

Thomas Cemetery is the resting place for many of Concord Township's and Miami County's early settlers. The cemetery is maintained by Concord Township.

This marker was placed here in Miami County's and Concord Township's Bicentennial ...