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Muskingum County, Ohio
History & Genealogy

Source:
1794
HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY,
with
ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
of
PROMINENT MEN AND PIONEERS
Published By
J. F. Everhart & Co.
1882

CHAPTER XXXII.

FALLS TOWNSHIP
The Pioneers - Schools - Dillon's Falls - First Store
- Mail Route - Black Log M. E. Church - Organization of Township
 - Its Topography, Soil & Geology - First Surveyors - Physicians -
West Zanesville Village - The Pioneer Preacher - Temperance Work - Taverns - Flouring Mills
 - First Burial Ground - First Tannery - First Marriage  - Representatives - Salt Works - First Sabbath School
 - Methodist Protestant Church - National Road  - Frazeyburg School - Rich Vale M. E. Church
 - Oakland Church - Ancient Pottery - Post Office in West Zanesville
 - Glen Moore Nursery - Israelitish Burial Ground
Village of West Zanesville Annexed to the City of Zanesville
 - The First Grange - Pleasant Valley Grange - Rich Valley Grange
 - Pottery - Lime Burning - Iron Ore - Magnesian Limestone
 - The First Railroad - Geology.
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     THE PIONEERS. -

 

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     DILLON'S FALLS VILLAGE -

 

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THE FIRST STORE

     The first store was opened at the Falls of the Licking by Moses Dillon and sons, about A. D. 1806.  Their merchandise was brought to them on pack horses, rarely by wagon, and embraced everything known to the pioneer's schedule.

THE FIRST MAIL ROUTE

 

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

 

ORGANIZATION, TOPOGRAPHY, SOIL AND GEOLOGY.

 

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THE FIRST SURVEYORS.

 

WEST ZANESVILLE VILLAGE.

 

THE PIONEER PREACHER.

 

A HEWED LOG MEETING HOUSE.

 

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was taken down and a frame church was built on the same site.

TEMPERANCE WORK.

 

TAVERNS.

 

FLOURING MILL AT DILLON'S FALLS.

 

 

NOTES:

 

 

 

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