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TOWN OFFICIALS
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ADDITIONS.
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FIRE DEPARTMENT
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WATERWORKS
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WILMINGTON GAS, LIGHT AND COKE
COMPANY
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ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANTS.
In December, 1889, Adam Scott appeared before
the village council of Wilmington and applied for an electiric light
franchise. Immediate action was deferred and a com-
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PHOTOS
SOUTH STREET,
WILMINGTON, LOOKING SOUTH FROM LOCUST STREET, 1864.
SOUTH STREET,
LOOKING SOUTH FROM LOCUST STREET, 1910.
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LIGHT ARCHES.
CITY HALL.
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STREET PAVING.
WALKER MEMORIAL BUILDING.
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estate, to the amount of twenty-three thousand seven hundred
dollars. The work on he memorial building was immediately
begun and it was finished and dedicated in 1914.
This is a beautiful and modern building, locatedon Main
street between Mulberry and South, adjoining the Martin hotel.
The first floor is used as a business room, while the second story
contains the Commercial Club rooms, a library room and a photograph
studio.
WILSON FLAG TOWER.
MILITARY BAND.
CHAMPION BRIDGE COMPANY.
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THE IRWIN AUGER BIT COMPANY.
FARQUHAR FURNACE COMPANY.
WILMINGTON CASTING COMPANY.
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J. B. Boone, superintendent of shop. The company began
work in its old foundry on Clarke street and moved into its new ten-thousandpdollar
building at Truesdell and Charles street in August, 1915. The
company makes a specialty of manufacturing gray iron castings.
THE NATIONAL SAFETY SNAP COMPANY.
WILMINGTON AUTO COMPRESSOR
COMPANY.
THE TURNBULL MANUFACTURING
COMPANY.
CEMETERIES.
The old Methodist
graveyard located in the northeastern part of Wilmington, was
originally the private burying ground of Isaiah Morris, who
set apart a small lot prior to 1820. Ellis Pugh, Levi
Sheppard and James Fife owned adjoining land and each
made additions to it. On Apr. 23, 1832, Levi Sheppard
sold one-half acre of land to Amos T. Sewell, Charles
Russell, E. Kelly, Israel Johns, James Christy, Daniel Jones and
Thomas Gaskill, trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church of
Wilmington, for twenty-five dollars. The land, which had been
donated, was then thrown together and the Methodist graveyard
formed. The first burial of which there is a record was that
of Rachel Morris, on Jan. 22, 1720, although it is probable
that others were buried there before that, as it is the oldest
graveyard in Wilmington. The remains of many of the old
citizens, who were buried here, have been removed to Sugar Grove
cemetery, among whom are the following prominent families:
Morris, White, Holland, Gustin, Curtis, Treusdell, Sheppard, Hughes
and Barrett.
In 1830 Mark Thatcher and wife
deeded the old graveyard at the western end of Sugartree street,
adjoining the Hicksite Friends church, to William Adams,
Azel Walker and Jesse Doan, trustees of the society of
Friends. The grounds have been abandoned as a burying place
for a number of years.
On Feb. 24, 1848, the General Assembly of Ohio passed
an act providing for
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the incorporation of cemetery associations, and on Apr. 11,
1857, a number of citizens of Clinton county met at the court house
at Wilmington and organized the Sugar Grove Cemetery Association.
The first officers of the association were: E. L. Lacy,
president; Matthew Romback, W. C. Fife, J. E. Hibben, A. E.
Strickle, J. W. Chaffin, L. B. Welch and E. L. Lacy,
trustees, and Albert Hockett, clerk and treasurer.
Nearly twenty-three acres of land situated southwest of Wilmington
were purchased from William Hibben for one hundred dollars an
acre and were laid out by Leo Weltz. Additions have
since been made to the cemetery until it now contains about fifty
acres. Catherine Kline was the first one buried in the
cemetery, being buried on July 4, 1858. Isaiah Morris,
the old pioneer, was the next one buried there, being interred on
July 20, 1858, and the marble shaft which marks his grave was the
first erected in the cemetery.
The cemetery derives its name from the timber which
once covered the grounds and many of which have been left standing.
These stately trees, the rolling ground, the beautiful monuments and
a little stream, which flows quietly through its narrow channel,
give the cemetery a beautiful appearance and make it a picturesque
spot for the resting-place of the dead.
There is a special plot in the cemetery
set aside for the burial of veterans of the Civil War. Two
cannon, mounted on wheel carriages are set in the midst of the
soldier's graves.
In the summer of 1915 a destructive
wind storm swept across the cemetery and destroyed more than a score
of beautiful trees. Some monuments were also damaged at the
same time.
POSTOFFICE HISTORY.
WILMINGTON LIBRARY COMPANY,
1816-39.
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WILMINGTON READING ROOM, 1866-68.
PHOTO OF
PUBLIC LIBRARY,
WILMINGTON
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THE WILMINGTON LIBRARY.
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WILMINGTON COMMERCIAL CLUB.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
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