Old Brick House

Site granted by Spanish to Jean Baptiste Carquote in 1790. Residence in Civil War of Mayor John L. Henley, who led defense against Union fleet, Sept., 1861. Restoration by Biloxi Garden Clubs.

Marker is on Bayview Avenue ½ mile from Interstate ...

Buckeye Lake Amusement Park

-- the Playground of Ohio

How It All Started

In 1894, the Ohio General Assembly declared Licking Reservoir a public park by the name of Buckeye Lake. In 1904, the Columbus, Buckeye Lake and Newark Traction Company's Interurban Electric Railway was completed. ...

East Dubuque Veterans' Memorial

Dedicated in memory

of all veterans of

the area who have

served and especially

to those who gave

their lives in

service of our

country in all our

conflicts.

Marker is at the intersection of Sinsinawa Avenue and Third Street, on ...

Bristol Sessions

July 25 through August 5, 1927

In 1927 Ralph Peer, a record producer with the Victor Talking Machine Company, set up a temporary music studio on this site. Over the next 12 days he recorded 76 songs by 19 artists, includding ...

Oyster Bay WWI Memorial

To the memory

of those

from Oyster Bay

who gave their lives

in the service

of their country

in the

World War

1917 – 1918

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Let those who come after

see that these men shall

not be forgotten.

Nicolas Abbati

Frank Boday

Fred H. Cassell

Luke Kiloran

Quentin Roosevelt

[ Lower Plaque: ]

The above plaque honors veterans ...

Gibson's Brigade

Ruggles' Division - Bragg's Corps

C.S.

Gibson's (1st) Brigade,

4th La., 13th La., 1st Ark., 19th La.,

Ruggles' (1st) Div., Bragg's Corps,

Army of the Mississippi.

This Brigade, with its regiments in order from left to right as above, formed here about noon April 6, 1862 ...

Buckeye Lake Park

“The Playground of Ohio”

[Marker Front]:

Using a four-mile long dam, the state of Ohio impounded the Licking Summit Reservoir in the mid-1820s to supply water for the Ohio and Erie Canal. In 1894, the state renamed it Buckeye Lake and developed ...

Buckeye Lake

[Marker Front]:

Formed by the retreating glacier more than 14,000 years ago, Buckeye Lake first existed as a shallow, swampy pond, named "Buffalo Swamp" by Ohio Company explorer Christopher Gist in 1751. Beginning in 1826 the State developed it as a ...

Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Assoc., 1911

The original tenants of the two-story, Oriental-theme structure were the Gee Goon Tong, famous for their help in plotting the 1912 revolution which formed the Republic of China. The Benevolent Society was founded in 1920 as an outgrowth of the ...

The Lane Avenue Bridges

A Brief History

• In the late 1800's a steel truss was constructed across the Olentangy River at Lane Avenue. Its primary function was to gain access across the Olentangy River from the main campus of The Ohio State University to ...