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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B0I_the-second-high-school-the-burton-public-library_Burton-OH.html
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The Second High School
This Queen Anne style building with segmental-arched windows and steep hipped roof was Burton's second high school. Completed in 1885 at a cost of $12,500, it is wood framed with a brick and stone exterior, modeled …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B0H_robinsons-cave_New-Straitsville-OH.html
On a forested hillside south of New Straitsville. the spacious
1000 square foot Robinson's Cave offered a secluded location with
great acoustics where large groups of Hocking Valley coal miners
could meet in secret. Beginning in about 1870, lab…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B07_burton-congregational-church_Burton-OH.html
The Burton Congregational Church was organized in 1808 and met in several nearby locations before this present building was erected in 1836 at a cost of $4,000. It was originally located within the park directly opposite where it stands today, but…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B05_burton-ohio-first-permanent-settlement-in-geauga-county-the-village-green_Burton-OH.html
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In 1796, surveyors for the Connecticut Land Company designated an area five miles square surrounding this place as Range 7, Township 7 of the Connecticut Western Reserve. A landowner's expedition on June 15, 1798, arrived at the northwest …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B04_athens-county-infirmary_Millfield-OH.html
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century, when the general public
believed that the insane and paupers could be rehabilitated into productive
citizens, the Ohio Legislature gave authorization to county commissioners
to establish county "p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B03_south-newbury-union-chapel_OH.html
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Called the "Cradle of Equal Suffrage" and "Free Speech Chapel," Union Chapel was to be "...open and free for all denominations, but to be monopolized by no one or to the exclusion of anyone." Built in 1858 or 1859 on land donated by Anson …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B02_this-tablet-marks-the-site-of-union-chapel_OH.html
Built by citizens of South Newbury, Ohio on land donated by Anson Mathews in 1856. This chapel was dedicated to
Free Speech
by
James Abram Garfield
Twentieth President of the United States
Other speakers in this chapel were
Susan B. Anthony
…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AZU_bainbridge-center-historic-district_Chagrin-Falls-OH.html
Founded in 1817, Bainbridge Township was named for Commodore William Bainbridge, commander of the USS Constitution during the War of 1812. The unincorporated hamlet of Bainbridge Center is both the geographic and historic center of Bainbridge Town…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AZT_building-history_Chagrin-Falls-OH.html
Erected in 1822 by 30 of the 200 Bainbridge Township residents as a Methodist Episcopal Church, this building was sold to the township in 1866 and served as a town hall and public meeting place for the next 76 years. During the 1900-1901 school ye…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AY8_the-amish-mennonite-settlement_Trenton-OH.html
To commemorate
The Amish Mennonite Settlement
founded in Butler County in 1819
by Christian Augspurger (1782-
1848) as the third Amish community
in Ohio and the westernmost for
immigrants from Alsace