Early County

Early County, an original county, was created by Act of Dec. 15, 1818, from Creek Cession of Aug. 9, 1814. At first it contained Decatur, Seminole, Baker, Mitchell, Calhoun, Miller, Dougherty and parts of Clay, Grady, and Thomas Counties. It ...

Earl Webb

Baseball Record Holder

William Earl Webb was born in White County, Tennessee, on September 17, 1897. His family moved to Bon Air and then Ravenscroft, where Earl worked in the coal mines and played baseball for local teams. He began in ...

Near here were located

Near here were located

Fort St. Marys

Built by Gen. Wayne-1794

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Fort Barbee

Built by Gen. Harrison-1812

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Girty Town

So named for the renegade

Girtys, whose home it was.

Marker is on West Spring Street (Ohio Route 703) east of South Wayne Street.

Courtesy ...

Decatur County

Decatur County was created by Act of Dec. 8, 1823 from Early County. Sessions were cut off later to form part of Seminole and Grady Counties. It was named for Stephen Decatur (1779-1820), naval officer who served with great gallantry ...

Potawatomie Baptist Manual Labor Training School

Student farm labor was intended to make this boarding school self-supporting. The building, completed in the spring of 1850, housed approximately ninety Indian children. Eleven years later, the school was closed due to funding failures and the Civil War.

Courtesy hmdb.org

3-inch Rifles

Civil War Veterans

Sure Fire

"The Yankee 3-inch rifle was a dead shot at any distance under a mile. They could hit the end of a flour barrel more often than miss, unless the gunner got rattled."

- A member of Lumsden's Confederate ...

Lincoln In Petersburg

Tears at Fort Mahone

On the morning of April 3, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln awoke at City Point to the news that Petersburg had fallen just hours before. He immediately arranged to visit the city and meet with Gen. Ulysses S. ...

Foundation -1776 or 1777

Mount Independence State Historic Site

This is one of the best-preserved stone foundations on Mount Independence. It was built during the Revolution, but historic maps and documents do not refer to it. Who built it? Did the Americans have time to ...

Lake Champlain and the American Revolution

Mount Independence State Historic Site

“ . . . the possession of every thing here depends upon keeping the Command of the Water.”

- Maj. Gen. Horatio Gates, July 16, 1776

In front of you is Lake Champlain, at 120 ...

Canal Terminus / Manhattan

Ohio Historical Marker

[Marker Front]:

Canal Terminus

The original northernmost lock in a canal system which linked Lake Erie with the Ohio River was located near the foot of LaSalle Street. Indiana’s Wabash & Erie Canal (1843 – 1874) joined Ohio’s Miami & ...