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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ARN_general-otho-french-strahl-csa_Malta-OH.html
Born in 1832, Otho French Strahl grew up in Malta Township, Morgan County, Ohio. After attending Ohio Wesleyan University and teaching in a schoolhouse that stood on this site, he moved to Tennessee, becoming a successful attorney and landowner. F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AQ5_brick-church-and-cemetery_Stockport-OH.html
The Windsor Township Baptist Association was organized January in 1818 by Elder William Davis with 35 members who met in homes, barns and schoolhouses. At the death of the six-year-old granddaughter of Samuel and Tabitha Davis Henery, this plot…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AKW_maple-grove-farm_Malta-OH.html
Rufus P. Stone, grandson of General Rufus Putnum, settled on this 1,000 acre farm and built a wooden farmhouse here in 1818. In 1855, John E. Thomas purchased the original farmhouse and 600 acres from the heirs of Rufus P. Stone. Thomas enlarge…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IVE_two-riverboat-pilots_Stockport-OH.html
In the heyday of steamboating on the Muskingum, many people made their livelihood on the river. Jane McMillan, known as Old Jane, was one of the few women reported to have piloted boats on the river. In the 1840s she was co-owner of the "Zanesv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IVD_underground-railroad_Stockport-OH.html
Front Text : "Underground Railroad" Some of the main Ohio Underground Railroad lines that fugitive slaves used on their way from the Ohio River toward Canada and freedom followed the Muskingum River. These lines, however, were not easy. Under …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAWS_quaker-meeting-house_Chesterhill-OH.html
Despite the fugitive slave laws that prohibited harboring runaway slaves, fugitives found refuge in the Quaker village of Chesterfield, now Chesterhill. Legend tells that no runaway slaves were ever captured here, although many were hidden and hel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAWR_windlass-or-crab-winch_McConnelsville-OH.html
The earliest North American mechanism used to open miter gates on steamboat locks were muscle powered, geared winches (windlass, crabs), which quickly replaced balance beams when lock widths exceeded about 25 feet. This 3,360 pound windlass miracu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAWQ_two-river-towns-mcconnelsville-and-malta_McConnelsville-OH.html
McConnelsville and Malta are two towns that prospered because of the locks and dams built on the Muskingum River from 1836 to 1841. Settlers came to both towns in 1817. In the 1820s and 1830s, flatboats carried grain, lumber, and livestock down th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAWP_the-stockport-mill_Stockport-OH.html
The Stockport Mill, the third on this site since 1842, was built in 1906 by the Dover brothers. Using a pair of 40-inch Leffel turbines, it harnessed water power for both milling and generating electricity for the town. Known for its Gold Bond, Se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAWO_big-bottom-massacre_Stockport-OH.html
Following the American Revolution, the new Federal government, in need of operating funds, sold millions of acres of western lands to land companies. One such company, the Ohio Company of Associates, brought settlement to Marietta in 1788. Two yea…
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