Elizabeth Township

Elizabeth Township was founded in 1807. The Elizabeth Township House was built about 1870, serving as the community's assembly hall. The building is similar to the seven remaining one-room, brick schoolhouses, built throughout the township between 1868 and 1873. ...

Eldean Covered Bridge

Originally known as Allen's Mill Bridge, the Eldean Covered Bridge was built over the Great Miami River in 1860 for Miami County by the Hamilton Brothers of nearby Piqua. Its 224 feet place it among Ohio's longest covered bridges ...

Railroads: Union Pacific & Burlington Northern

Railroads played a key role in the development of the Heritage Highway corridor. Trains brought settlers and goods west to the new towns and took farm products back to market. As times have changed and transportation has evolved, many ...

Spemica Lawba-Johnny Logan

[Front Side of Marker]: "Spemica Lawba-Johnny Logan"

In September 1786, Captain Benjamin Logan of Kentucky captured a young Indian boy during a raid across the Ohio River on the Machachac tribe towns of the Shawnee nation. Upon returning to Kentucky, Captain ...

Bradford Fire of 1920

On the evening of August 3, 1920, at 10:30, two men hurrying home after working at the local Railway Y.M.C.A. discovered smoke and flames at the D. Arnold & Sons Lumber Company. Bradford firemen, with the help of area ...

Second Brigade

Second Battle of Manassas

August 30, 1862

3:15 p.m.

Jackson's Division (Starke), Left Wing (Jackson)

Army of Northern Virginia, CSA

Second Brigade

Col. Bradley T. Johnson

21st Virginia 48th Virginia

42nd Virginia 1st Virginia Battalion

"We were fighting now as I never saw it done, we behind the railroad ...

Pine Hill, Alabama

Incorporated December 2, 1895

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This area was Choctaw Indian country before the arrival of settlers moving south and west in this new nation. The first settlement, known as Arnold, was located one mile north of the present town center. Mr. Charley ...

The Brick Academy

This building was erected in 1809 by Rev. Robert Finley to house a classical school founded by him in 1797. Statesmen, professional men, and business leaders were among its graduates. The academy served as a public school from 1853 to ...

Bradford

Bradford began in 1852 as a construction camp of the Columbus, Piqua, and Indiana Railroad. When the Richmond and Covington Railroad made a junction here in 1864, the village grew with the railroad yard. There were 60 miles of ...

Sunbury, Ohio / Sunbury Town Hall

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Sunbury, Ohio

“An Ohio Stagecoach Town from 1820-1873”

From its beginning in 1816, Sunbury was destined to be a stagecoach town. Anticipating large numbers of stagecoach travelers in Sunbury, the town's founder, Lawrence Myers, built an inn at the intersection of ...