Army of the Ohio

Major General Don Carlos Buell

First Army Corps

Major General Alexander McD McCook

Tenth Division

Brigadier General James S. Jackson

Thirty-Third Brigade

Brigadier General William R. Terrill

80th, 123rd Illinois and 105th Ohio Infantry Regiments

and detachments 7th, 32nd Kentucky

3rd Tennessee Infantry

Parsons' Improvised United States Battery

Thirty-Fourth Brigade

Colonel ...

The Ohio Michigan Boundary War / Battle of Phillips Corners

Ohio Historical Markers

[Side Facing North]

"The Ohio Michigan Boundary War"

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 defined the boundary of the northern and southern tier of states to be carved out of the Northwest Territory, as a line drawn east from the ...

John Pray - Founder of Waterville,Ohio / The Miami and Erie Cana

[East Side of Marker] : "John Pray - Founder of Waterville, Ohio"

Born in Rhode Island, John Pray (1783-1872) moved to the Maumee River Valley from New York shortly after serving in the War of 1812 and completing a prospecting ...

The Scottish Rite in Ohio

The first Scottish Rite body of Free-Masonry west of the Alleghenies was formed in Cambridge, Ohio, in 1852 by Killian H. Van Rensselaer, an honorary 33rd Degree Mason. He lived in this city from 1851 to 1867. Van Rensselaer was ...

The Ohio State Reformatory

Designed by architect Levi T. Scofield, the Ohio State Reformatory opened its doors in 1896 as a facility to rehabilitate young male offenders through hard work and education. A self-sufficient institution with its own power plant and working farm, the ...

The Northwest Ordinance, 1787 / The Ohio Company Purchase

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The Northwest Ordinance, 1787

Following the establishment of the public land system in 1785, the Continental Congress appointed a committee, chaired by James Monroe, to establish government in the new territory north and west of the Ohio River. Drafted ...

Pioneer Families of the Ohio Company

Erected by the New Century Historical Society to record the names and commemorate the landing near this spot of the pioneer families of the Ohio Company August nineteenth 1788. Their homes were established in Campus Martius.

Benjamin Tupper

Huldah Tupper.

Nathaniel Cushing

Elizabeth Cushing.

Nathan ...

Life on the River / Boats on the Ohio

(Left Side Panel):

Life on the River

“Wheel Coal - Sleep - Eat - Wheel Coal: If there was such a thing as a typical day in the life of a deckhand...that would be it.” - W.V. Torner, recalling life as a ...

The Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad

The path lies on the rail bed of the Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad, the first railroad constructed through this region in 1877. Primarily a coal hauling line from the mines of the Ohio River valley to northwest Ohio, the ...

Gallia County, Gallipolis and the Ohio River

The Ohio River, the southeast border of Gallia County, played a significant role in the development of Gallipolis and Gallia County. One of the state's first thoroughfares, this waterway enabled pioneers to settle in what was known as the Northwest ...