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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EB8_flood-recovery_Hamilton-OH.html
March 25, 1913, a record Great Miami River flood hit Hamilton, claiming more than 200 lives, leaving about 10,000 homeless and causing more than $10 million in property damage. Local survivors helped create the Miami Conservancy District - a 65-mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EB7_flatboats-and-early-trade_Hamilton-OH.html
Because water was the most efficient way to transport goods, most early Ohio roads led to a navigable stream, such as the Great Miami River. Through the 1820s, much of Butler County's abundant agriculture output found its way to market on flatboat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EB5_french-exploration_Hamilton-OH.html
Pierre-Joseph Celron, sieur de Bienville, with 200 to 250 French soldiers and some Indians, was sent in 1749 to renew and strengthen France's claim to the Ohio country and drive out the British. During navigation of the Allegheny, Ohio and Great M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKHJ_founding-of-fort-hamilton_Hamilton-OH.html
On this spot in the year of ourLord 1791 General Arthur St. Clairfounded Fort Hamilton. Here, in 1793General Anthony Wayne organized hisexpedition against the Indians whichgave to this Republic five great states.Here our forefathers first bridged …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ61_rossville-historic-district_Hamilton-OH.html
Side A:Rossville was settled in April 1801 shortly after the U.S. Government initiated land sales west of the Great Miami River. Its original proprietors—John Sutherland, Henry Brown, Jacob Burnet, James Smith and William Ruffin—named …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ00_champion-hamilton-mill_Hamilton-OH.html
Side A:The Champion Coated Paper Company began production here April 15, 1894, with nine employees under the direction of Peter G. Thomson (1851-1931), a Cincinnati businessman, who had incorporated the firm in November 1893. Thomson, previously a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFYB_bethel-chapel_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/HMFWL_paddys-run_Hamilton-OH.html
Side A:The foundation for the first Welsh settlement in Ohio was laid on June 29, 1801, when William and Morgan Gwilym purchased land in what is now Morgan Township at the Cincinnati Land Office. The Welsh, who settled in Pennsylvania beginning in…