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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDLM_first-congregational-church_Marietta-OH.html
First Congregational Church, chartered in 1796, was the N.W. Territory's first organized church. Dedicated 1809 using Rufus Putnam's "Two Horn" plan, the first building burned in 1905. This church built 1906.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDLF_pioneer-families-of-the-ohio-company_Marietta-OH.html
Erected by the New Century Historical Society to record the names and commemorate the landing near this spot of the pioneer families of the Ohio Company August nineteenth 1788. Their homes were established in Campus Martius. Benjamin TupperHuld…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDLE_pratt-mcgirr-house_Marietta-OH.html
Built circa 1803 by Azariah Pratt using hand-hewn beams and wooden pegs. Marietta's oldest private residence.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDLD_oldest-pilothouse_Marietta-OH.html
The steamboat TELL CITY was built in 1889 and named for Tell City, Ind. She carried passenger and freight on the Ohio River until she sank following an accident at Little Hocking, Ohio on April 6, 1917. The Pilothouse was removed from the wreck…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDLB_steam-towboat-w-p-snyder-jr_Marietta-OH.html
You are cordially invited to visit one of the last of the Mark Twain Era steam towboats used so successfully on the Mississippi and Ohio River systems during the past century. This boat was presented to the Ohio Historical Society in September 195…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDLA_the-towboat-w-p-snyder-jr_Marietta-OH.html
Side A:The W.P. SNYDER Jr. is one of the few links between the age of steam-powered, stern-wheeled towboats and the diesel-powered, propeller-driven vessels that push barges on America's rivers today. The James Rees and Sons Company in Pittsburgh …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDKM_muskingum-park_Marietta-OH.html
President Theodore Roosevelt and W. H. Taft spoke here in 1912. President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the "Start Westward" sesquicentennial monument in 1938.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDKL_merydith-house_Marietta-OH.html
Built 1868 for Conrad Biszantz. Owned by Merydith family from 1897 to 1963. Later Thomas and Gammon.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDK6_meigs-house_Marietta-OH.html
Built 1802 for Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr., Ohio's first postmaster, fourth governor, U.S. senator and postmaster general.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDK3_life-on-the-river-boats-on-the-ohio_Marietta-OH.html
(Left Side Panel):Life on the River"Wheel Coal - Sleep - Eat - Wheel Coal: If there was such a thing as a typical day in the life of a deckhand...that would be it." - W.V. Torner, recalling life as a deckhand. Towboats are a twenty-four-hour op…
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