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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YDS_childrens-home_Marietta-OH.html
Washington County Children's Home, Ohio's first, and in 1867 the nation's first supported by taxes, was founded in 1858 by Catherine Fay Ewing at her farm home in Moss Run, Ohio.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YDP_ephraim-cutler_Vincent-OH.html
Ephraim Cutler (1767-1853) arrived in Marietta from Connecticut in 1795. Prominent in southeast Ohio, Cutler was appointed judge of the court of common pleas and justice of the peace, surveyed land for the Ohio Company, and was a trustee of Ohio U…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YDO_the-peninsula_Waterford-OH.html
Waterford Township was organized in 1790. The "Donation Grant" of 1792 to Rufus Putnam stipulated the "Peninsula" was to be the community of Waterford. It was laid out in 3 acre lots, first owned by the Devol Family and later s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YDM_fort-frye_Beverly-OH.html
About 600 feet south of this site and near the river stood Fort Fry occupied during the Indian War 1791-1795.
This fort protected the Waterford settlers during the period of the war. Waterford was founded by the Second Association of Settlers w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YDL_the-buckeye-belle-explosion_Beverly-OH.html
On November 12, 1852, the riverboat Buckeye Belle
exploded at this site. Twenty-four people died
and a dozen were injured in the worst steamboat
disaster on the Muskingum River. An eyewitness
described the scene: "The bank of the canal wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YD9_st-pauls-church_Marietta-OH.html
Marietta's second oldest, the German Evangelical "Kirche" built 1849. Became St. Paul's Evangelical Church 1872. English sermons began in 1909.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YCV_memorial-to-the-revolutionary-soldiers-buried-in-marietta-a-war-memorial_Marietta-OH.html
Erected by the Marietta Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, as a memorial to the revolutionary soldiers buried in Marietta and to honor the heroic men and women who faced the wilderness with courage and hope to create the Great Northwes…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YBV_first-baptist-church_Marietta-OH.html
Organized September 5th, 1818, under name of "First Baptist Church of Marietta Township," the first record on the church book is "On Saturday, the fifth day of September, 1818 A.D., we, Ephraim Emerson, Wm. Churchill, John Thorniley…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YBJ_betsey-mills-club_Marietta-OH.html
By first connecting and enclosing two early homes in brick in 1927, philanthropist W. W. Mills built the Betsey Mills complex as a memorial to his wife, Betsey.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YBD_the-presidents-home-of-marietta-college_Marietta-OH.html
Built in 1822 by Postmaster Henry P. Wilcox, the property was acquired in 1837 by Colonel John Mills, a founder of the college. It passed to his sons John and William Webster Mills, graduates of the college and, like their father, longtime trustee…