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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJFL_hancock-county-courthouse_Findlay-OH.html
Side A:Hancock County was organized March, 1828, court being held in a log schoolhouse. In 1833, a frame courthouse was built. It served until 1840, when a brick structure went up on this site. During the oil and gas boom of the 1880's, the presen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJFK_the-glass-industry-of-findlay-ohio_Findlay-OH.html
In 1884, the first natural gas well was successfully drilled in Findlay, and when The Great Karg Well, then the largest in the world, was drilled in 1886, the boom was on. Many industries, especially glass, were attracted to Findlay, lured by free…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEU0_hulls-trail_Findlay-OH.html
Hull's Trail1812Erected ByFort FindlayChapter D.A.R.1915
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME8N_site-of-fort-findlay_Findlay-OH.html
[Marker Front]:Early in the War of 1812, Gen. Wm. Hull, commander of Ohio troops, ordered Col.. James Findlay to open a road from Ft. McArthur on the Scioto River to Blanchard's Fork. Under Findlay, a stockade 50 yards square, with a blockhouse at…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD7Z_william-bensinger-and-john-r-porter_McComb-OH.html
[Marker Front]: In Memory ofWilliam Bensinger and John R. Porter ...who are buried here. They joined the famous Andrews Raid to wreck Confederate supply lines. The raiders captured a locomotive, "The General," at Big Shanty, Georgia, on Apri…
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