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CHAPTER I. -
INTRODUCTORY, BUT STILL HISTORY |
17-26 |
| |
- Indians and
the White Man's Advent
- The Owners of the Territory
- The Government Secured It
- Ordinance of 1787
- The Dunmore War
- Locating on Indian Lands
- Dunmore's March up the Hocking Valley
- The Indian Name and Why |
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CHAPTER II. - EARLY
SETTLEMENT AND MATERIAL PROGRESS |
27-48 |
| |
- The Ohio
Company
- The Valley of Hocking
- Washington County
- Generals Washington and Putnam
- Organization
- Purchase of Land
- Athens and Hocking Counties
- First Settlers
- Adelphia
- Marietta
- Indian War
- Generals Harmer and St. Clair Defeated
- Mad Anthony Victory
- First Settlers of College Lands, or Athens County
- Making Salt
- Pioneer Modes and Pioneer Progress |
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CHAPTER III. - THE
TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS, CABINS AND
COMFORTS OF EARLY DAYS. |
49-84 |
| |
- Pioneer Life
- The Log Cabin
- Cooking
- Dress
- Family Worship
- Hospitality
- Trade and Barter
- Hog Killing
- Native Animals
- Wolf Hunts
- Education
- Spelling and Singing Schools
- On Their Guard
- The Bright Side
- A Touch of Pioneer Life
- How the Pioneers Advanced Civilization
- Women Pioneers |
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CHAPTER IV. - SCIENTIFIC VIEW OF
HOCKING VALLEY, PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS |
85-127 |
| |
- Topography
- Drainage or River System
- Geology
- Stratigraphical Formation
- Archeology
- Fauna
- Flora
- Meteorology
- Summary
- Conclusion |
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CHAPTER V. -
STATISTICS OF THE HOCKING COMPANY,
BESIDES RAILROADS AND CANALS,
SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES. |
128-145 |
| |
- Lands and
Valuation
- County Buildings and Valuation
- Miles of Railway
- Area of Valley
- Population and Wheat Growing
- Cities and Villages and Population
- Boundary of the Mineral Field
- Coal Production
- Hocking Valley
- State Senators of the Hocking Valley and Representatives. |
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CHAPTER VI. -
ATHENS COUNTY HISTORY
- FROM THE
WILDERNESS TO ADVANCED CIVILIZATION
CLICK HERE for ALL ATHENS COUNTY
BIOGRAPHIES IN 1883 HISTORY. |
146-165 |
| |
- Organic
- Act of the Legislature
- Organized Feb. 20, 1805
- Area
- First Session of Court
- First Jail and Court House
- Taxation and License
- New Court House, 1818
- School Districts and School Moneys
- 1840 to 1850
- Rise and Progress, 1850 to 1860
- War and Peace
- County Officials
- Floods
- Devastation and Ruin by the Rushing Waters
- Floods of 1847, 1858, and 1873
- Destruction of Thirteen Miles of the Hocking Canal
- The Swelling Waters of 1875 |
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CHAPTER VII. -
MILITARY HISTORY - WAR OF 1812,
MEXICAN WAR, AND THE WAR BETWEEN THE
STATES. -
STARTED 10/28/2024 |
166-178 |
| |
- Early
Patriotism
- War with Mexico
- The Rebellion
- Firing on Fort Sumter
- Newspapers Firing the _ear_s of the People
- Athens County Meets All Demands
- Camp Jewett
- Mustering in
- Camp Denison
- Sanitary and Relief
- Work
- Morgan's Raid
- Nelsonville Captured
- Ladies Once More to the Front
- Grand Encampment
- War Ended
- President Lincoln's Assassination
- The Athens Soldiers by Townships
- The Regiments in which they served |
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CHAPTER VIII. -
STATISTICS OF ATHENS COUNTRY -
POPULATION, AGRICULTURAL, POLITICAL |
179-196 |
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- Population
by Townships and by Decades
- The Value of Real and Personal Property in 1870, 1880, 1881, and 1882
- Assessed Valuation in 1846, 1853, and 1859
- Record of Marriages and Deaths
- Pauperism
- Land Sales
- Mortgages
- Dog and Sheep Statistics
- Railroad and Telegraph
- Political
- Presidential Vote, 1836 to 1880
- Governor's Vote, 1836 to 1880
- Vote for Secretary of State
- The County Vote by Townships |
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CHAPTER IX. - A
SERIES OF ARTICLES WORTHY OF
ATTENTION |
197-224 |
| |
- Perusal
- Educational
- Normal Institute
- Statistical
- Agricultural Society
- Annual Fairs
- Constitution and By-Laws
- Pioneer Association
- The Death Roll
- Officers
- Letter of General Thomas Ewing
- Future Prospects
- New Court-House
- The Old Log Court-House of 1807
- The Ancient Brick Court-House of 1818
- The Pride of Athens County, 1880
- Its Cost
- Jail
- Children's Home
- Infirmary
- Defalcation |
|
CHAPTER X. -
TOWNSHIP AND CITY OF ATHENS LINKED
TOGETHER - ONE AND INSEPARABLE |
225-282 |
| |
- Interwoven
- Metes and Bounds
- 1805, and 1851 to 1883
- Items
- First Post Route
- Progressing Slowly
- Population and Comparison of Growth
- Township Officers, 1806 to 1883
- Trustees
- Treasurers
- Clerks
- Justices of the Peace |
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CHAPTER XI.
THE CITY OF ATHENS - THE HOME OF
CULTURE, REFINEMENT AND
INTELLIGENCE. |
233-258 |
| |
- What She Was
and Is
- Advance of Civilization
- When Settled and by Whom
- Act for the Laying-out of the Town of Athens, 1799
- Inception and Growth
- Sale of Lots and Purchasers
- Incorporation
- Growth
- Schools
- Churches
- Cemeteries
- Bible Society
- Lodges
- The Press of Athens
- With BIOGRAPHICAL Notes |
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CHAPTER XII. - OHIO
UNIVERSITY - ITS INCEPTION, RISE AND
PROGRESS |
259-283 |
| |
- The Wisdom
of Is Conception
- The University and Dr. Cutler
- Acts of 1802 and 1804
- Steps taken for Organization
- The Act to Increase Rents
- Beginning Active Work
- The First Graduate
- Pressing Forward
- Literary Societies
- Beautiful Location
- The College Buildings
-
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
- Presidents of the Faculty
- Professors
- Preceptors and Principals
- Trustees
- The Officials |
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CHAPTER XIII. -
INCIDENTS OF TWENTY YEARS - A
GROUPING OF FACTS AND A BUSINESS
STATEMENT |
284-307 |
| |
- Insane
Asylum
- Light Guards
- City Hall
- Temperance Movements
- From 1829 to 1883
- A Challenge
- The Whisky Insurrection, 1861
- Lynching at Athens
- Athens Business Interests
- Business Houses and Enterprises
- Banks
- Gas Light Company
- Telegraph
- Officers of Athens, 1825 to 1883 |
|
CHAPTER XIV. -
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES IN THE
CITY OF
ATHENS AND ATHENS TOWNSHIP - SEE
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX -
PARTIALLY
FINISHED 10/27/2024
|
308-403 |
CHAPTER XV -
YORK
TOWNSHIP - A TOWNSHIP OF
INEXHAUSTIBLE MINERAL WEALTH -
PARTIALLY
FINISHED 10/27/2024 |
404-411 |
| |
- Taken from
Ames in 1811, Six Miles Square
- It is Bounded by
- Population and Transportation
- Canal and Railroad
- Mining its Principal Industry
- Some Rich Valley Lands
- The Hills Good Sheep Pasture
- Development
- Official Statistics |
|
CITY OF NELSONVILLE,
THE MINERAL CITY OF THE HOCKING
VALLEY -
PARTIALLY FINISHED 10/27/2024 |
412-436 |
| |
- The Mineral
City
- Hills of Coal and Iron
- Where Located
- Some Account of its Early Settlers
- First Library and Society
- Some Old Papers of Value
- Settlers in 1827
- James Knight's Prophecy
- Letter to Dr. Hildreth
- The Completion of the Canal
- Coal Operators
- Manufactures
- City Officers
- Churches
- Public Schools
- Lodges and Societies
- Business Interests
- 1866 to 1883 |
|
CHAPTER XVII -
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF
YORK TOWNSHIP
INCLUDING THE CITY OF NELSONVILLE
- PARTIALLY
FINISHED 10/27/2024 |
437-493 |
CHAPTER XVIII -
AMES
TOWNSHIP - A TOWNSHIP THAT HAD A
HISTORY TO RECORD.
- STARTED
10/29/2024 |
494-548 |
| |
- The Arrival
of the Pale-faces
- Who They Were
- The Area in 1805
- A Few Items
- Religious Whisky
- Population
- Area and Production
- Boundary and Valuation
- Western Library Association
- Township Officers
- 1802 to 1863
- Amesville
- Somewhat Historic
- When Founded
- Growth and Business Interests
- Postoffice
- Academy
- Presbyterian Church
- Methodist Church
- BIOGRAPHICAL |
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CHAPTER XIX -
ALEXANDER TOWNSHIP - A GIANT IN ITS
YOUTH, NOW SHORN OF MOST OF ITS
TERRITORY
- STARTED
10/27/2024 |
549-565 |
| |
- As it Was
and Now is
- Its Boundary Lines Topography
- Early Settlers
- Whisky Transportation
- Township Officers
- Justice of the Peace
- Hebbardsville
- Pleasanton
- Woodyard P. O.
- Churches, Schools, and Religious and Educational Interests
- BIOGRAPHICAL |
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CHAPTER XX -
ROME TOWNSHIP
- THE RISE OF
ROME
AND THE
PROGRESS OF THE ROMANS. -
FINISHED
10/27/2024 |
566-601 |
| |
- Location
- Metes and Bounds
- Topography
- Organization
- Population from 1820 to 1880
- Schools
- Bridges and Mills
- Settlers and Progress
- Early Historical Facts
- The War of 1812
- Township Officers
- Guysville
- Lodges
- Stewart Village and Its History
- New England, Frost and Big Run
- BIOGRAPHICAL
- PARTIALLY
FINISHED 10/27/2024 |
|
CHAPTER XXI -
LEE
TOWNSHIP
- SOMETHING OF OLDEN TIMES,
AND THE NEGRO'S MECCA
-
started
10/27/2024 |
602-625 |
| |
- Organization
- Some of the Old Settlers
- Population
- Elections
- Township Officers
- Albany, the Negro's Mecca
- Postoffice and Postmasters
- Mayors of Albany
- Atwood Institute, its History
- Gifts and Donations
- Enterprise Institute
- Its Rise and Progress
- Schools and Churches
- The Wells Library
- Lodges and Societies
- The Underground Railway Run by a Few Citizens of Albany
- BIOGRAPHICAL
- FINISHED 10/25/2024 |
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CHAPTER XXII -
CANAAN TOWNSHIP
- THE LAND OF CANAAN AS SEEN TO DAY |
626-649 |
| |
- Location and
Description
- When Settled
- The Hocking River
- Population
- Rough and Broken
- Grazing for Stock Good
- Churches and Schools
- Township Officers from 1819 to 1883
- Canaanville
- Its History
- A few Closing Remarks
- BIOGRAPHICAL |
|
CHAPTER XXIII -
TROY
TOWNSHIP -
SOME HISTORY OF COLONIAL TIMES
- STARTED
10/30/2024 |
650-684 |
| |
- Historic
- Lord Dunmores March
- His Camp
- 1774 to 1798
- Advance in Population
- Dismembered Early Settlers
- Township Officers
- Coolville
- Its Rise and Progress
- Its Surroundings
- Churches, Schools and Mills
- Business INterests
- Lodges and Societies
- Hockingport
- Its Local History
- Torch Condense
- BIOGRAPHICAL |
|
CHAPTER XXIV -
WATERLOO TOWNSHIP
- AGRICULTURAL, MINERAL, AND STOCK
-
STARTED
10/30/2024 |
685-700 |
| |
- When Settled
- When Organized
- Metes and Bounds and Area
- Old Settlers
- Agriculture and Population
- Organization and First Election
- Who Elected and Who Voted
- All Other Town Officers
- Marshfield
- Churches
- Carbondale
- Mineral City
- BIOGRAPHICAL |
|
CHAPTER XXV -
BERN TOWNSHIP
- FERTILE SOIL, MINERAL WEALTH,
MATERIAL PROGRESS
- STARTED
10/30/2024 |
701-713 |
| |
- Location and
Extent of Domain
- Metes and Bounds
- Some of the Early Settlers
- Mineral Deposits
- Transportation Only Needed
- Churches
- Cemeteries
- Schools, and Material Prosperity
- BIOGRAPHICAL
- FINISHED
10/30/2024 |
|
CHAPTER XXVI -
CARTHAGE TOWNSHIP
- THE BEAUTY OF ITS LANDSCAPE
- STARTED
10/30/2024 |
714-730 |
| |
- The Act
which organize It
- Taken from Troy Township in November, 1819
- Area
- Lost Records
- Officeholders
- The Pioneers
- Flint Mill
- First Postmaster
- Population by Decades
- Growth Slow but Substantial
- Churches and Schools
- BIOGRAPHICAL |
|
CHAPTER XXVII. -
DOVER AND TRIMBLE
TOWNSHIPS
- IN PROCESS -
10/25/2024 |
731-789 |
| |
- Outline
- Early Settlers
- Township Officials
- Sunday Creek Valey
- Mineral Resources
- Social Periods
- BIOGRAPHICAL
- IN PROCESS -
10/25/2024 |
|
|
CHAPTER XXVIII. -
LODI TOWNSHIP
- AN AGRICULTURAL TOWNSHIP MIXED
WITH PETRIFACTIONS AND INDIAN
TRADITIONS
- STARTED
10/30/2024 |
790-812 |
| |
- Organization
and Bounds
- Population
- Topography
- Petrifactions
- First Election, Fourteen Votes
- The Pioneers
- Schools and Some Few Remarks
- Churches, Villages, Business
- Township Officers from 1827 to 1883
- BIOGRAPHICAL |
|
|
CHAPTER
XXIX. -
HISTORY OF HOCKING COUNTY - THE HOCKING VALLEY -
THE WHITE MAN'S ADVENT AND RED MAN'S EXIT. |
813-834 |
| |
- Those Who
Led the Van of Civilization
- The First Pioneers
- The County Organization Act
- Early Records
- Eagle and Salt Creek
- County Commissioners' First Meeting
- First Grand Jury
- Green and Laurel
- Townships Organized and Numbered
- Items
- Falls, Gore and Jackson
- Marion
- Benton
- Jail and Court-House
- Mineral Talk
- Progress
- Population, 1840
- Taxation
- Extracts from Sentinel, 1842
- Something of Early Days
- Something about a Name
- Topography
- Metes and Bounds |
|
CHAPTER XXX. - AGRICULTURAL AND
MINERAL - LOCAL EVENTS.-
|
835-851 |
| |
- Progress and
Flood
- Yield of 1859
- Local History
- Valuation and Taxation
- 1867 to 1875
- Jail
- Births and Deaths, 1873
- County Infirmary
- Its Cost and Officers
- Assessment Returns, 1874 and 1876
- Agricultural Products and Stocks for 1870, 1875 and 1880
- Hocking County Assessment, 1882
- Coal Output
- Two Items
- Hocking County Agricultural Society
- From 1853 to 1882
- The Record of a Crime
- Murder of hte Weldon Family
- Patrons of Husbandry
- Oil Well
- Postal Routes and Tally Ho
- Normal Institute
- From 1868 to 1882 |
|
CHAPTER XXXI. -
POLITICAL HISTORY |
852-861 |
| |
- Govornors of
Ohio and Hocking County's Vote
- County Officials
- Commissioners
- Other County Officers
- The Vote of Hocking County, 1818 to 1882
- Population from 1820 to 1880
- Seventh Judicial District
- Sub-Districts 1, 2, and 3
- Judges from 1818 to 1883
- Counties Comprising the Districts and Sub-Divisions
- Ten Judicial Districts in the State |
|
CHAPTER XXXII. - WAR
HISTORY OF HOCKING COUNTY - THE
GLORIOUS RECORD OF THE GALLANT SONS
OF HOCKING |
862-883 |
| |
- They WEre
Born So.
- Michigan and Ohio Boundary Troubles
- Mexican War and Little Hocking
- What Ohio Did
- The Gallant Seventeenth
- A Series of Marches
- New Organization
- The Slain
- The Glorious Thirty-first
- Ordered to Travel
- The Gallant Dead
- The Noble Fifty-eighth
- The Sixty-third, Seventy fifth, and the One Hundred and Fifty-first
- The End |
|
CHAPTER XXXIII. -
FALLS TOWNSHIP - THE PIONEER
TOWNSHIP AND ITS STEADY GROWTH |
884-893 |
| |
- From 1798
- Something of Its Important Changes of Territory
- Railroad, Canal, and River-Timber, Coal, adn Iron Ore
- Assessed Valuation
- Schools
- Streams
- The Falls of the Great Hockhocking
- Under the Surface
- Churches
- When Located
- Cemeteries
- Population
- Falls Gore
- Railroad and Furnaces
- Churches
- Schools
- Societies
- Towns
- Industries
- Business
- Land
- Water
- Boundary
- Name |
|
CHAPTER XXXIV - THE
CITY OF LOGAN - THE PRIDE OF THE
VALLEY AND OF THE HOCKHOCKING |
894-902 |
| |
- To the
Memory of the Mingo Chief, Logan
- The Beauty of its Location and Surroundings
- From 1825 to 1830
- Incorporation of Logan
- What She Was
- Bridges
- The Culver Property
- Purchase and Price
- Logan Postoffice
- Mayors of Logan
- Logan Graded School
- Business Interests in 1859 and 1883
- Professional |
|
CHAPTER XXXV -
REFERRING TO RELIGIONS, MORALS,
POLITICAL AND BUSINESS INTERESTS. |
903-917 |
| |
- Presbyterian
Church
- Methodist Episcopal Church
- Catholic Church
- Lutheran Churches
- People's Bank
- First National Bank
- The Logan Press
- Manufactories
- Iron and Steel
- Furniture
- Woolens
- Sash, Doors, adn Blinds
- Fire Brick
- Foundry and Machine Shop
- Lodges and Societies |
|
CHAPTER XXXVI. - BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF FALLS TOWNSHIP,
INCLUDING FALLS-GORE AND CITY OF
LOGAN |
918-1011 |
CHAPTER XXXVII. -
WARD AND GREEN TOWNSHIPS - WARD
TOWNSHIP, THE SEAT OF WEALTH, OF
COAL AND IRON |
1012-1035 |
| |
- Mineral but
not Agricultural
- About Ninety Per Cent
- Shawnee Ore
- Gardner's Trace
- Interesting Situation
- Dew Farm Organization
- Carbon Hill
- Orbiston
- Murray City
- Population and Area
- School, etc.
- Holocaust
- WARD BIOGRAPHICAL
Green Township
- Organization and Area
- Topography
- Its Wealth of Waters
- Coal and Iron
- Craft's Furnace, Saw and Grist Mills
- Early Settlement
- Haydensville
- Churches
- Greenland Lodge
- Assessed Valuation
- Schools
- Population
- Its Relative Progress
- GREEN BIOGRAPHICAL |
|
CHAPTER XXXVIII. -
STARR TOWNSHIP - A TOWNSHIP THAT HAS
A HISTORY |
1036-1070 |
| |
- Boundary
- Name
- Water Courses
- Timber
- Pioneers
- Who They Were
- Starr Post-office
- New Cadiz
- Haydensville
- Schools
- Mills
- Societies
- Political
- God's Acre
- Religious
- Churches
- Township Officers
-
STARR
BIOGRAPHICAL |
|
CHAPTER XXXIX. -
WASHINGTON AND BENTON TOWNSHIPS - A
COMBINATION OF HILLS AND VALLEYS,
CAVES AND RAVINES. |
1071-1097 |
| |
Washington
- Its Name, Topographically Speaking
- Soil adn Production
- Old Settlers
- Population
- Schools
- Township Officials
- Postoffice
- New Mt. Pleasant
- Point Pleasant
- Cemeteries
- WASHINGTON BIOGRAPHICAL
Benton
- Metes and Bounds
- Area
- The Wonders of Queer Creek
- Agricultural Resources
- Mineral Wealth
- Silver and Lead Mines
- Description of the Weird Valley
- 458 Acres Excess
- The Road and H__l__ Cedar and Black Jack Falls
- Ash Cave
- Bloomingville
- Business Interests
- Township Officers
- Population
- BENTON BIOGRAPHICAL |
|
CHAPTER XL. - SALT
CREEK AND PERRY TOWNSHIPS - VARIED
SCENERY, FERTILE SOIL, A WELATHY AND
PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE |
1198-1130 |
| |
Salt
Creek
- What it Comprises
- Metes and Bounds
- Area, Six Miles by Seven
- Population
- Pioneers, Schools and Churches
- Post-office and Stores
- Township Officers, 1883
- SALT CREEK BIOGRAPHICAL
Perry
- Area
- Boundary
- Scenery
- Early Settlers
- Mills
- Township Officers
- South Perry
- Laurelville
- Buena Vista
- Churches
- Schools
- Population
- Valuation
- Present Officials
- PERRY BIOGRAPHICAL |
|
CHAPTER XLI. -LAUREL,
GOOD HOPE AND MARION TOWNSHIPS - A
LAUREL WREATH OF HISTORY BEAUTIFULLY
BLENDED |
1131-1157 |
| |
Laurel
- The Laurel Bush
- Topography
- Boundary
- Early Settlement
- First Preacher
- Churches
- School-House
- Official Record
- Gibisonville
- Population
- LAUREL BIOGRAPHICAL
Good Hope
- Its Bounds
- Valleys Productive
- Official Record
- Rock Bridge Village
- Rock Bridge
- Churches and Schools
- Transportation
- Population and Stock
- GOOD
HOPE BIOGRAPHICAL
Marion
- Topography and Boundary
- Area
- Pioneer Settlers
- Population
- Valuation
- Real and Personal
- Churches
- Schools
- MARION BIOGRAPHICAL |
|
CHAPTER XLII. -
HISTORY OF
VINTON COUNTY
- A COUNTY WHICH CAME INTO BEING
READY MADE BY TOWNSHIP |
1158-1174 |
| |
- A County
Which Had No Pioneer History
- Labor
- Its Organization, 1850
- Boundary and Area
- Early Arrivals
- An Interesting Letter
- Names of Early Settlers
- Political Movements
- First Convention
- Jail and Contract
- Court-House
- Mineral Interests
- Coal
- Iron Ore
- Geological Report
- Burr-Stone
- Agricultural and Stock Statistics
- Valuation
- Miles of Railroad
- County Infirmary
- Buildings and Cost
- Officials |
|
CHAPTER XLIII. - THE
PRESS AND OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
|
1175-1184 |
| |
- The Vinton
County Press
- McArthur, Zileski and Hamden
- Agricultural Society of Ante-bellum Days
- Safe Burglary
- Contents, $40,000
- No Convictions |
|
CHAPTER XLIV. -
VINTON COUNTY IN THE WAR OF THE
REBELLION |
1185-1207 |
| |
- Introductory
- Eighteenth Ohio, Three Years' Service
- Second West Virginia Cavalry
- Seventy fifth Ohio Infantry
- Ninetieth Ohio Infantry
- One Hundred and Fourteenth Ohio Infantry
- Twelfth Ohio Cavalry
- One Hundred and Ninety-fourth Ohio Infantry |
|
CHAPTER XLV. -
TOWNSHIP, INCLUDING CITY OF McARTHUR
- THE PIONEER ORGANIZATION OF VINTON
COUNTY |
1208-1280 |
| |
- The Pioneer
Township
- The Pioneers of Elk
- Personal Recollections of Mrs. C. E. Bothwell
- Schools
- Church
- Population by Decades
- McArthur
- Location
- Incorporation
- Village Officers
- Fires
- Postoffice
- McArthur in 1883
- Churches
- Societies
- Schools
- Vinton County Bank
- Town Hall
- Railroad Statistics
- Mills
- BIOGRAPHICAL |
|
CHAPTER XLVI. -
MADISON, KNOX AND BROWN TOWNSHIPS,
CONTAINING ZALESKI, THE LARGEST CITY
IN THE COUNTY. |
1281-1305 |
| |
Madison Township
- Original Organization
- Surface and Drainage
- The Pioneers
- Population
- Mineral
- Schools and Churches
- Assessor's Returns, 1883
- Zaleski
- Its Religious, Educational and Business Interests
- Lodges
- Manufactories
Knox Township
- Identical with Madison
- Name and its Origin
- Soil and Topography
- The First Arrivals
- Stock and its Assessment
- Only Post-office
- Schools and Churches
- Mills
- Population
Brown Township
- How it Became a Township
- Metes and Bounds
- The First Settlers
- Its Winter Supply
- What Usually Happens
- Religious Denominations
- Population
- Transportation
- New Plymouth
- Its Stock Returns for
1883
- Agricultural and Mineral
- Value as a Stock Township
- BIOGRAPHICAL |
|
CHAPTER XLVII. - SWAN
AND JACKSON TOWNSHIPS - WHAT HOCKING
LOST WAS VINTON'S GAIN. |
1036-1332 |
| |
Swan Township
- Boundary
- Early Settlers
- First Events
- Postoffices
- Business
- Minerals
- Township Officers
- Assessment and Stock
Jackson Township
- When Changed from Eagle to Jackson
- Its Water Courses
- Early Settlers
- County Honors
- Population from 1840 to 1880
- Postoffices
- Schools
- Stock Returns, 1883
- Assessed Valuation
- BIOGRAPHICAL |
|
CHAPTER XLVIII. -
EAGLE, HARRISON AND RICHLAND
TOWNSHIPS - IN AGRICULTURE, POOR; IN
MINERAL DEPOSITS, FAIR |
1333-1344 |
| |
Eagle
- When Organization
- Divided by Hocking
- First Election, May 9, 1818, and in 1850 Gave Remainder to Vinton
- Area and Location
- The Old Pioneer
- Religion and Education
- Stock and Valuation
Harrison Township
- A part of Ross Township in 1798
- Topography
- Well Watered
- A Part of
- Jackson in 1818
- Then Again to Ross
- Population
- Rapid Gain
- Churches
- Schools
- Stock and Valuation
Richland Township
- The Largest Township
- Some Good Land
- Its Assessed Valuation
- Stock Report
- North Part Good Farming Land
- South Part Minerals, Iron Ore and Coal
- A Partial List of Settlers
- Churches, Schools and Military
- BIOGRAPHICAL |
|
CHAPTER XLIX. -
WILKESVILLE, VINTON AND CLINTON
TOWNSHIPS - A TRIO THAT CONTAINS
IMMENSE MINERAL DEPOSITS. |
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Wilkesville Township
- Iron Ore and Coal
- Wilkesville Village
- Churches
- Schools
- Hawk Station
- Minerton
- Valuation of Stocks
Vinton Township
- Name
- Early Settlement
- Schools
- Population
- Radcliff Station
- Mineral Development
- Personal Property
- Valuation
Clinton
Township
- Of Athens County, then of Jackson
- Once Part of Elk Township
- Local History
- Post-office
- Lodges
- Churches
- Dundas
- Educational
- Population
- Valuation
- Stock Reports
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