"Little Sure Shot"
One of America's best-known sport shooters and entertainers of the late 1800s, Annie Oakley was born Phoebe Ann Mosey (or Mozee) north of Versailles in Darke County in 1860. She achieved local fame for her shooting ability as a hunter while still in her teens. By 1885 Oakley was a star performer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West. With husband and manager Frank Butler, she refined a shooting act and image that appealed to late 19th century notions of a romanticized but vanishing West. Throughout her 30-year performing career, Oakley provided honest entertainment in a deception-prone industry while demonstrating widening opportunities for women. She retained her Ohio ties throughout her life and is interred at Brock Cemetery, eleven miles north of Greenville.| HM Number | HMQ9W |
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| Series | This marker is part of the Ohio: Ohio Historical Society series |
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| Marker Number | 2-19 |
| Year Placed | 2001 |
| Placed By | Ohio Bicentennial Commission, The Longaberger Company, Darke County Visitors Bureau, and The Ohio Historical Society |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Tuesday, September 9th, 2014 at 12:53pm PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 16T E 701385 N 4442190 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 40.10593333, -84.63720000 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 40° 6.356', W 84° 38.232' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 40° 6' 21.36" N, 84° 38' 13.92" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 937 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 124 N Broadway St, Greenville OH 45331, US |
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