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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S9L_browning-masonic-community_Waterville-OH.html
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Browning Masonic Community
This location was selected in 1936 for a Memorial Home for aged Masons, at the wishes of Otis Avery Browning. Browning, a prominent Toledo businessman, book publisher, civic leader, and Mason, set f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S9G_wakeman-hall-waterville-historical-society_Waterville-OH.html
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"Wakeman Hall"
Henry Hanford Wakeman (1840-1879) of New York came to Waterville and became a successful businessman. He conceived the idea of a local Masonic Lodge, which became Wakeman Lodge No. 522 Free and Accepted Masons…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R77_site-of-fort-deposit-roche-de-boeuf_Waterville-OH.html
Site of Fort Deposit
Built by General Wayne
on his march to Fallen
Timbers in 1794.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R70_bowling-green-fault_Waterville-OH.html
The Bowling Green Fault, a geological feature unique to the Great Lakes region, passes through Farnsworth Metropark. The 100-mile-long fault, which runs from south of Findlay into southern Michigan, is exposed at the Maumee River in the bedrock an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GIJ_a-strategic-location_Waterville-OH.html
The British constructed Fort Miamis at the foot of the Maumee River rapids to challenge U.S. General Anthony Wayne and his Legionnaires marching through the Ohio country in 1794.
Besides preventing a U.S. advance on British-controlled Detroit, th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GII_running-a-gauntlet_Waterville-OH.html
Desperate to break the British and American Indian siege of Fort Meigs, General William Henry Harrison ordered 800 Kentucky Militia under Colonel William Dudley to cross the Maumee River and destroy the British batteries.
After seizing the enemy …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GI7_site-of-fort-miami_Waterville-OH.html
Site of Fort Miami
Erected 1680 - the oldest
fortified trading post in
the Mid-west. Here flew
the flags of France, 1680;
Great Britain, 1760; and
the United States, 1796.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GG1_fort-miamis-during-the-war-of-1812_Waterville-OH.html
In the spring of 1813, British troops returned to the site of Fort Miamis to again ally with a determined American Indian Confederacy struggling to expel American settlers from their homeland. The British successfully landed troops and artillery a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKL6_ohio-electric-railroad-bridge-roche-de-bout-roche-de-boeuf_Waterville-OH.html
[South Side of Marker]: "Ohio Electric Railroad Bridge"The Lima and Toledo Traction Company Bridge was construted in 1907 by the National Bridge Company of Indianapolis, and it was considered to be a revolutionary type of bridge construction. The …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKL2_john-pray-founder-of-waterville-ohio-the-miami-and-erie-canal_Waterville-OH.html
[East Side of Marker] : "John Pray - Founder of Waterville, Ohio"
Born in Rhode Island, John Pray (1783-1872) moved to the Maumee River Valley from New York shortly after serving in the War of 1812 and completing a prospecting tour in Ohio. He …