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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BA2_new-hope-baptist-church_Bidwell-OH.html
The New Hope Baptist Church was organized around 1860, burned in 1863, and was rebuilt in the fall of 1864. Once called the Harris Colored Baptist Church, the edifice's name "New Hope" was chosen because it represented the hope of peo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B8T_university-of-rio-grande_Rio-Grande-OH.html
This historic marker is on the western boundary of the original 10 acre Rio Grande, College Campus, founded and endowed by Nehemiah and Permelia Atwood. The campus was located on the southeast corner of the Atwood Farm. Construction of Atwood …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B8K_robert-l-bob-evans_Rio-Grande-OH.html
Bob Evans was born on May 30, 1918 in Sugar Ridge, Ohio. He married Jewell Waters in 1940 and moved to Gallipolis, Ohio. In 1946 Bob took the first step in what would later become Bob Evans Farms, Inc., when he opened a 12-seat diner in Gallipolis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B8F_the-village-of-adamsville_Bidwell-OH.html
The Village of Adamsville commemorates life in this area as it was during the early to mid-19th century. The original Adamsville settlement was located on the banks of Raccoon Creek. roughly one-half mile east of this site. Adam Rickabaugh (1761…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B70_the-homestead_Bidwell-OH.html
The Homestead was built in 1820 by Nehemiah Wood with an addition completed in 1822 by his son, Harrison. The Wood family, a pioneer family of Gallia County, arrived in 1805.The Homestead remained in the Wood family for over 100 years. The two-…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B5R_gallipolis_Gallipolis-OH.html
Begun as a land speculation project of William Duer, the Scioto Company had hoped to encourage European investors to purchase lands in its grant in the Ohio country. The project proved especially attractive to the French middle class, who were …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B4Z_u-s-army-general-hospital_Gallipolis-OH.html
At this location, during the American Civil War (1861-1865), a U.S Army General Hospital was constructed on 29 acres of land over looking Camp Carrington, a site used to recruit and train soldiers for the Union Army. Built in the spring of 1362…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B4C_stone-water-towers_Gallipolis-OH.html
These three stone water towers were erected by local craftsmen in 1892 and serviced the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics until 1950. The sandstone of the uncoursed masonry walls was quarried from the surrounding hills. The hospital facility, a fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B44_grandma-gatewood_Cheshire-OH.html
Grandma Gatewood. In 1953, at the age of 67, Emma Rowena "Grandma" Gatewood became the first woman to hike the 2,050 mile Appalachian Trail alone and in one season. The Gallia County, Ohio resident hiked the Appalachian Trail again in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LXG_here-lies-james-jeffers_Gallipolis-OH.html
A soldier in the Indian Wars. And his wife, Elizabeth, 1771-1845, Daughter of Revolutionary Soldier James Whitaker and his wife, Catherine Petit.
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