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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDVQ_governor-wilson-shannon-1802-1877-barnesvilles-shannon-family_Barnesville-OH.html
Governor Wilson Shannon (1802-1877),Ohio, first native-born governor, Wilson Shannon was born in February 1802 in the Mt. Olivet area near Barnesville. After attending Ohio University and studying law in Kentucky, he returned to Belmont County to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDUN_b-o-railroad-tunnel_Barnesville-OH.html
You are standing over a 423 foot man-made sandstone tunnel built by the railroad between 1864 and 1870. Located on the Pittsburgh-Columbus main line, up to 37 trains a day passed under East Main Street during the railroad's heyday. The station,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM85I_blaine-hill-s-bridge-blaine-hill-viaduct_Blaine-OH.html
Blaine Hill "S" BridgeThe first Blaine Hill Bridge was constructed in 1828 as part of the National Road, the nation's first federally funded highway. This three-arch S-shaped structure, 345 feet in length, spans Wheeling Creek (a tributary of the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2VQ_historic-bridgeport_Bridgeport-OH.html
Colonel Ebenezer Zane, one of the founders of Wheeling, laid out the village that became Bridgeport in 1806 on the site of Fort Kirkwood (1789). Originally named Canton, it acquired its present name after the bridge to Wheeling Island was built. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2SD_milestone-marks-where-extension-of-national-road_St-Clairsville-OH.html
Milestone markswhere extension ofNational Roadwest of Ohio Riverwas started July 4, 1825. Stone relocated 1964
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2QJ_home-of-benjamin-lundy_St-Clairsville-OH.html
Here in 1815 he organized the Union Human Society, the first abolitionist society in the U.S. Born 1789 N.J. Died 1839 Illinois. Edited The Genius of Universal Emancipation 1821-1838. Devoted his life to the abolition of slavery.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19O_morristown_Bethesda-OH.html
Platted in 1802 by John Zane and William Chapline along the old Wheeling Road. Morristown was named for Duncan Morrison, an early settler, innkeeper, and Justice of the Peace. Older than the state itself. Morristown prospered into the mid-1800s, n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP_harley-e-warrick_Belmont-OH.html
The last barn painter for the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company of Wheeling, West Virginia, Harley Warrick painted thousands of barns with the familiar Mail Pouch Tobacco logo over his 48-year career. Mail Pouch transcended advertising to become a fi…
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