Col. William Crawford

Hero of Indian wars, made his home about a half mile from Connellsville after 1766, and was Washington's land agent. During the Revolution, he led a campaign against Ohio Indians; he was captured and killed near Upper Sandusky in 1782.

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Crawford County

1826 - 1976

Legend

1. Col. Crawford's Retreat

2. Col. Crawford's March

3. Native Plains Area

4. Seccaium Indian Village

5. Indian Village

6. Knisley Springs Resort

7. Courthouse Yard

Marker is at the intersection of East Mansfield Street and North Walnut Street (Ohio Route 100), on the left ...

Crawford Bay

The peace­ful waters of Craw­ford Bay play host each year to a num­ber of boat­ing events includ­ing the Cock Island Race and the Craw­ford Bay Crew Clas­sic. The homes vis­i­ble across the inlet are in a neigh­bor­hood called Swim­ming Point.

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Crawford County

This County created by Acts of the Legislature Dec. 9 & 23, 1822, is named for William H. Crawford, Georgia statesman who was Secretary of the Treasury at the time the County was established. At the County Site, Knoxville, lived ...

Crawford Grill

A center of Black social life where musicians such as Art Blakey, Mary Lou Williams, John Coltrane drew a racially mixed, international clientele. Here, Crawford Grill #2, the second of three clubs opened 1943; was owned by William (Gus) Greenlee, ...

Dr. Ephraim McDowell, 1771-1830/McDowell-Crawford Surgery

Burial site of Ephraim McDowell, the “father of modern surgery.” His family moved here from Va. in 1784. He studied medicine in Va. and Scotland before practicing in Danville. In 1802, he married Sarah Shelby, dau. of Ky.’s first gov. ...

William H. Crawford

William Harris Crawford was born in this vicinity, February 24, 1772. Early in life he was taken to Georgia and became a leading politician of the era. He was United States Senator; Minister to France; Secretary of War and of ...

Home Site of William Crawford (d. 1762) Founder of Portsmouth

Here stood the residence of William Crawford who in 1752 founded the town of Portsmouth on sixty-five acres of his extensive plantation lands. The house site extended south on Crawford Street 113 feet, and east on High Street to the ...

Crawford Memorial Park

Dedicated in memory of Col. Wm. Crawford who was born in 1722, in what is now Berkeley County, West Virginia and was burned at the stake, one half mile northeast of here down in the valley, on June 11, 1782, ...

Col. Crawford

In Memory of

In

Memory of

Col. Crawford

Who was

Burned by the Indians

In this Valley

June 11, 1782

Marker is on Township Highway 300 0.2 miles north of County Route 29, on the right when traveling north.

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