Battery F

Battle of Corinth

Only extant redan of six built in 1862 by U.S. troops as outer defense south and west of town. Taken on Oct. 3, 1862, by C.S. forces after fierce fighting. Battle resumed on Oct. 4, but C.S. troops ...

Western Library Association

1804

In the years leading to Ohio statehood in 1803, Ames Township citizens decided to establish a stock-owned circulating library. Since cash was scarce during Ohio's frontier era, some citizens paid for their $2.50 shares by the sale of animal pelts, ...

Burd Tombs

Col. James Burd of "Tinian", able and gallant officer in the colonial wars, author of the Middletown Resolves for Independence, June 1774, and wife, Sarah Shippen, lie buried near the entrance of Middletown Cemetery.

Marker is at the intersection of N. ...

Caballo Mountains

To the east beyond Caballo Reservoir are the rugged Caballo Mountains, uplifted about 3 miles above the downdropped Río Grande trough, along the fault scarp at the edge of the mountains. Lowest slopes are ancient granites. Black ironstone beds are ...

Harrisburg

Pennsylvania's capital since 1812. As Harris' Ferry, was settled a century before by John Harris Sr. Laid out as a town in 1785 by John Harris Jr. For over 200 years a center of travel, trade and historic events.

Marker is ...

John Mohler Studebaker

1833 - - - 1917

Pioneer – Blacksmith – Soldier

Inventor – Builder

Marker is on Main Street east of Bedford Avenue, on the right when traveling west.

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Birdsey’s Plain Methodist Church

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Stepney

1839

Birdsey’s Plain

Methodist Church

(Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel)

This Greek Revival-style church, one of the “twin” churches on the Stepney Green, was built by Hanford Hull. This was the second Methodist ...

Birdsey’s Plain / Stepney Cemetery

Stepney

1794

Birdsey’s Plain /

Stepney Cemetery

Noah and James Burr, Jr. donated this land for a burial ground. Over 1,400 men, women & children are interred including many of the areas first settlers. Veterans include: Revolutionary War, War ...

Ames Academy Bell

1852 - 1955

Over a century its clear tone carried from valley to hill beckoning all to learn

Marker is at the intersection of State Street (Ohio Route 550) and Franklin Street, on the right when traveling east on State Street.

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Gogebic Iron Range

The Gogebic Iron Range, which may be seen to the south of here, extends 80 miles from Lake Namekagon, Wisconsin to Lake Gogebic (Chippewa for “place of diving”) in Michigan. Prior to the discovery of iron ore the area was ...