Springfield, Troy, & Piqua Electric Railway

[Marker Front]:

Asa Bushnell, former Governor of Ohio, encouraged by the light grade of the land, decided to establish the Springfield, Troy, and Piqua Railway (ST&P) in July 1904. The interurban traction line utilized sixty-pound rail and traveled over only ...

Dayton, Springfield, and Urbana Electric Railway

[Marker Front]:

The Dayton, Springfield, and Urbana Electric Railway (DS&U) was an “Interurban” rail system that ran between the cities of Urbana, Springfield and Dayton. Its beginning can be traced to the franchise given to William H. Hanford to operate a ...

Springfield City Hall Bell

This bell from Springfield's first City Hall, located on this site in 1848, is placed here to honor the school children of Springfield and Clark County who participated in the Esplanade/Fountain Square Project.

Time capsule encased beneath this bell.

October 14, 1993

Marker ...

Lincoln’s Farewell to Springfield

February 11, 1861

My friends, no one not in my situation can appreciate my feelings of sadness at this parting, to this place, and the kindness of this people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, ...

First Post Office in Springfield

Near this spot was located the first post office in Springfield, in a one story, hewed log cabin, occupied by John Polk Campbell, who was appointed postmaster, Jan. 3, 1834. Mail was brought on horseback twice a month from Harrison's ...

First Cabin in Springfield

About February, 1830, William Fulbright erected, near this spot, the first cabin built on the site of the present city of Springfield. At the same time, A. J. Burnett built a pole cabin near the natural well, and John Fulbright ...

Springfield Farm

(Circa 1755)

Home of Brig. Gen. Otho Holland Williams, Revolutionary War hero and founder, 1786, of Williamsport, and of Col. Elie Williams, president of commission to lay out National Road and chief surveyor Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. President George Washington dined ...

Springfield Baptist Church Birthplace of Morehouse College

This building, which was erected in 1801 by Augusta`s first Methodist Society, was moved to this location in 1844 to

become the home of the Springfield Baptist Church.

Organized in 1787 by Jesse Peters, the Springfield Baptist Church is the oldest ...

Laodicea Langston Springfield

(Dicey)

On this site

stood the home of

Laodicea Langston Springfield

("Dicey")

1759 - 1837

Heroine of

the American Revolution.

To her daring and courage

many patriots owed their lives.

This rock was

a hearthstone in her home.

[On a separate plaque, mounted above the original, is inscribed the following]:

Laodicea ...

Springfield Presbyterian Church

Built 1836

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on Sprout Hill Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org