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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24H9_milford-township-veterans-memorial_Oxford-OH.html
Milford Township Veterans Memorial
The seventh township in order of creation, it was erected from St. Clair Township by the Butler County Commissioners on December 2, 1805
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21CP_alumnae-hall_Oxford-OH.html
Alumnae Hall
Built: 1890- 1892
Razed: 1977
Born of the vision of President Leila McKee and built through the generousity of
Olivia Meily Brice, Class of 1866 and Western's first woman Trustee,
Alumnae Hall was truly the gift of women to wome…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21C7_freedom-summer-1964_Oxford-OH.html
In what was called the "Freedom Summer" of 1964, more than 800 volunteers, most of them college students, gathered at the Western College for Women (now Western Campus of Miami University) to prepare for African-American voter registration in the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21C5_bethel-chapel-1815-1873_Hamilton-OH.html
William Holmes McGuffey, author of the Eclectic Series of Readers, was ordained a Presbyterian minister in a log meeting house on this site in 1829. The ordination was performed by Robert Bishop, President of Miami University, and other ministers …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21C1_bunker-hill-dog-town_Hamilton-OH.html
Bunker Hill The Millville, Reilly and Milton Turnpike brought prosperity to the
village now renamed Bunker Hill. School House No. 10 stood nearby
from 1849-1857. By 1860 clothing manufacturing was the major
business here. A Post Office was est…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21BV_bunker-hill-universalist-church-bunker-hill-cemetery_Oxford-OH.html
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Bunker Hill Universalist Church
The Bunker Hill Society was organized about 1845 and fellowshipped in 1854. A frame meeting house, capable of seating 300, was dedicated in 1855. Thirty people united with the church during the 1859 A…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21BS_mother-of-fraternities_Oxford-OH.html
In 1833, Samuel Eells founded Alpha Delta Phi (ΑΔΦ), the first fraternity west of the Allegheny Mountains and the first fraternity at Miami University. The formation of Miami's Alpha (founding) chapters followed in the next two deca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21BQ_alpha-delta-phi_Oxford-OH.html
In October 1833 was organized
at Old Miami a chapter of Alpha
Delta Phi- the first Greek letter
fraternity to expand west of
the Alleghenies. With this event
Miami became the fourth college
in the United States to recognize
fraternities.
…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21A4_oxford-female-institute-caroline-scott-harrison-1832-1892_Oxford-OH.html
Oxford Female Institute Chartered in 1849, the Institute was the first of three women's colleges established in Oxford. The original brick building was completed in 1850, and forms the core structure. The Reverend John Witherspoon Scott, a member …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YAN_veterans-memorial-a-war-memorial_Hamilton-OH.html
In honor of all veterans in times of peace and war
The patriots blood is the seed of the freedom tree -Thomas Campbell