| CHAPTER I. |
WHEN THE NEW
WORLD WAS FIRST SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED. |
17 - 32 |
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Verging on Ancient
History - What the Ancients Knew - DeSoto, the
Spirit of the Sixteenth Century - Marquette, Joliet
and La Salle - 1776 and 1983 - Louisiana Territory -
The Ground of Dispute - Ownership of the Northwest
French and Indian War - The Dunmore War - Lord
Dunmore's March - The Treaty of Paris, France - The
Government owned it - Ordinance of 1787 - The Author
of Ordinance of 1787 - Scioto Land Company - Judge
Cutler's Letter. |
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| CHAPTER II. |
PROGRESS OF EVENTS -
GROUPING OF INTERESTING FACTS. |
33 - 41 |
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The First Settlement -
Governor Appointed - The Indian War - Wayne's
Campaign - A Treaty - Indian Annuities - Progress of
the New Northwest - The First Territorial
Legislature - Location of Bounty Lanes - Formation
State Constitution. |
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| CHAPTER III. |
THEY FOUND A WILDERNESS
AND LET IN THE SUNLIGHT OF CIVILIZATION. |
42 - 59 |
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Pioneer Life - Home of
the Indians - From Whence they Came - The Log Cabin
- Dress and Manors - Market Prices - Milling -
Native Animals - Agricultural Implements - Education
- The Bright Side - What the Pioneers have done -
Women Pioneers. |
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| CHAPTER IV. |
SCIENTIFIC VIEW OF
SCIOTO VALLEY. |
60 - 82 |
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Its Topography - The
Scioto River - Its Drainage System - The Geology of
Scioto Valley - Fire Clay, etc. - Archaeology of the
Scioto Valley - The Mound Builders - Piketon Walls -
The Fauna of Scioto Valley - The Beasts of the
Valley - The Reptiles of Scioto Valley - The Flora
of Scioto Valley - Conclusion - The Future of Scioto
Valley - Its Mineral Resources - The Future
Population of hte Scioto Valley. |
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| CHAPTER V. |
MATERIAL WEALTH -
OFFICIAL LIFE - PATRIOTISM |
83 - 91 |
| |
A Chapter of Material
Wealth - Internal Improvements - The Ohio Canal -
Mils of Railway in 1882 - Governors -
Representatives, Scioto, Pike and Jackson Counties -
The State of Ohio - State Senators, Scioto, Pike and
Jackson Counties - Common Pleas Court - Election of
1840 - Presidential Campaign |
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| CHAPTER VI. |
THE BEAUTIFUL VALLEY
OF THE SCIOTO - THE FERTILE BANKS OF THE OHIO. |
92 - 110 |
| |
Before Organization -
The Pioneer Settlement - The First Surveys - Scioto
County Pioneer Life - Names of Pioneers, 1796 to
1806 - The Settlement of the French Grant. |
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SCIOTO COUNTY,
OHIO
(See
Scioto
County, Ohio) |
| CHAPTER VII |
ORGANIZATION,
CHANGES, TOPOGRAPHY AND PROGRESS. |
111 - 126 |
| |
Habitation and Name -
Act to Establish the County of Scioto - Its
Topography - Scioto River Navigation - Scioto River
Bridges - Change in Township Lines |
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| CHAPTER VIII. |
AGRICULTURAL
RESOURCES OF SCIOTO COUNTY - HER RAILROADS AND
POPULATION |
127 - 135 |
| |
Introductory -
Agriculture - Township and County Finances - Melange
- Progress - Township and Changes - Court House and
Turnpike - Fine-Grained Sand Rock - An Act for
Altering the Boundary Line Between Scioto and Gallia
Counties - An Act to Erect the County of Lawrence -
Act to Attach Part of Lawrence County to Scioto
County - The Loss of the County Records - The
Townships - Water Supply - Mineral Resources - Iron
Ore Deposits - Bituminous Coal - Boundaries of the
Coal Field - From 1814 - Valuation - Population of
Scioto County, Area 640 Square Miles - Population
Since 1840 - Scioto & Hocking Valley Railroad -
Portsmouth Brnach of hte M. & C. R. R. - Scioto
Valley Railroad - Cincinnati & Eastern Railroad -
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. |
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| CHAPTER IX. |
SOCIETIES -
INFIRMARY - FLOODS - ITEMS - COUNTY OFFICES. |
136 - 146 |
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Agricultural Societies
- First Organization - Grange - County Infirmary -
The Waters and the Floods - 'The Flood of 1883 -
Itemized - Oil Excitement, 1861 - Common Pleas -
County Officers. |
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| CHAPTER X. |
THE MILITARY HISTORY
OF SCIOTO COUNTY FROM 1812 TO 1865. |
147 - 178 |
| |
The War of 1812 - The
March and Surrender - Captain Roop - The Mexican War
- Civil War, 1861 to 865 - Portsmouth Rifles - The
First Battle - Home Relief - Distribution - The
Fifty sixth Ohio Infantry - The Organization - The
Gallant Thirty-third Ohio Infantry - The
Ninety-first Regiment - The Fifty-third Ohio
Infantry - The Seventy-second Regiment - The
Grosbeck Regiment - The Second Kentucky - The One
Hundred and Seventeenth Regiment - Battery L -
Eighty-first Regiment Ohio Infantry - Thirtieth
Regiment O. V. M. - The Scattered. |
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| CHAPTER XI. |
THE CITY OF
PORTSMOUTH - THE HOME OF BEAUTY, CULTURE, REFINEMENT
AND WEALTH |
179 - 193 |
| |
Rank and Classification
- Alexandria - Portsmouth Platted - City Officials,
etc. - Improvements - Business and Banking - From
1830 to 1840 - Portsmouth Dry Dock and Steamboat
Basin Company - The accession of Wayne Township -
Additions to the City of Portsmouth. |
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| CHAPTER XII. |
EDUCATIONAL
IMPROVEMENTS AND GENERAL PROGRESS |
194 - 204 |
| |
Portsmouth Public
Schools - Sanitary - Medical Societies - Hempstead
Memorial Academy of Medicine - Sewerage -
Post-Office - Fire Department - Portsmouth Water
Works - Gaslight Company |
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| CHAPTER XIII. |
THE CHURCHES OF THE
CITY OF PORTSMOUTH |
205 - 220 |
| |
Presbyterian -
Episcopal - Methodist Episcopal - Baptist - Catholic
- Miscellaneous - Cemetery |
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| CHAPTER XIV. |
PRESS - CHILDREN'S
HOME - LIBRARIES AND SOCIETIES |
221 - 233 |
| |
The Press - Children's
Home Association - Public Library - City Reading
Rooms - Independent Order of the Harugari - Masonry |
|
| CHAPTER XV. |
BANKS, TELEGRAPHS,
TELEPHONE AND MANUFACTURES - COMMERCIAL ARTERY OF
THE CITY. |
234 - 243 |
| |
Banks - Portsmouth
Street Railway - Canal Business - Telephone Exchange
- Western Union Telegraph Company - Adams Express
Company - Baltimore & Ohio Express - Manufactures |
|
| CHAPTER XVI. |
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PORTSMOUTH |
244 - 311 |
| CHAPTER XVII. |
PORTER, CLAY AND
HARRISON TOWNSHIPS. |
312 - 238 |
| |
-
Porter Township - The First Settled -
Area and Valuation - When Formed - Early Settlers -
Items of Interest - Sciotoville - Its Business
Interests, 1883 - Wheelersburg - The Business of
1883 - Societies - Wait's Station - Schools -
Churches - Township Officers - BIOGRAPHICAL
- Clay Township - Its
Metes and bounds - Organization - Official - The
Richest Township - Churches - Schools -
BIOGRAPHICAL
- Harrison Township
- Over One-fourth Century Later - Its Organization -
Old Pioneers - Boundary Changes - The Dixon Mill -
Harrisonville - Business, etc. - Official - Churches
- Schools - BIOGRAPHICAL. |
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| CHAPTER XVIII. |
GREENE, VERNON, AND
BLOOM TOWNSHIPS. |
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| |
- Greene Township
- French Grant, Valuation and Population - The
Township and Changes - Old Settlers - Haverhill -
Churches - Powellsville - Churches - Schools -
Township Officers - BIOGRAPHICAL
- Vernon Township - Description and Area - Old
Settlers - Churches - Schools - Official -
BIOGRAPHICAL.
- Bloom Township - Its Mineral Deposits - Petition for Organization -
Area and Valuation - Its Early Settlement - Webster
- School Districts - Churches - BIOGRAPHICAL |
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|
CHAPTER XIX. |
MADISON, JEFFERSON AND VALLEY TOWNSHIPS. |
389 - 407 |
| |
- Madison Township
- Topography - Settlement - Churches and Schools
- Township Officers, 1883 - Wallace Mill -
BIOGRAPHICAL
- Jefferson Township - Metes, Bounds and Area -
Population - Old Settlers - Township Officers, 1851
- Churches - Schools
- Valley Township - Next to the Youngest -
Organization- Area, Boundary and Valuation - Old
Settlers - Township Officers - Churches - Schools -
Business Interests - Lucasville Lodge, No. 465 -
BIOGRAPHICAL. |
|
| CHAPTER XX. |
MORGAN, RUSH AND
BRUSH CREEK TOWNSHIP |
408 - 423 |
| |
- Morgan Township
- When Settled - Organization - Churches -
Schools - Township Officers, 1883 - Oil Wells on
Bear Creek - BIOGRAPHICAL
- Rush Township - Area, Valuation and Population
- Freestone - How and when Organized - Township
Election - Schools - Churches - BIOGRAPHICAL
- Brush Creek Township - Organization - Old
Pioneers - Official - Schools - Hamlets of Brush
Creek - Churches |
|
| CHAPTER XXI. |
NILE, WASHINGTON AND
UNION TOWNSHIPS |
424 - 456 |
| |
- Nile Township -
Valuation, Bounds and Population - Old Settlers
- Schools - Items of Interest - Township Officers
and Voting Precincts - Buena Vista - Churches -
Friendship - BIOGRAPHICAL
- Washington Township - The Old Pioneer -
Schools, 1883 - A Change and More Territory - Area,
Valuation and Population - Tempervale - Churches -
Township Officers - BIOGRAPHICAL
- Union Township - Villages - Officers |
|
|
JACKSON COUNTY,
OHIO |
| CHAPTER XXII. |
JACKSON COUNTY FROM
DATE OF ORGANIZATION
- PARTIALLY DONE |
457 - 468 * |
| |
The Misty Ages of the
Past - Topography - County Organization - "An Act to
Erect the County of Jackson - Meeting of the County
Commissioners - First Road - Townships and Taxation
- First Jail - Townships, etc., 1824 - Court House -
Land Sales - Vote on Sale of School Lands - Decade
Between 1840 and 1850 - Old Scioto Salt Works -
County Infirmary |
|
| CHAPTER XXIII. |
THE OLD PIONEER -
SKETCHES OF EARLY SETTLERS - OFFICIAL LIFE - ITEMS
- PARTIALLY DONE |
469 - 481 * |
| |
Old Settlers - Items of
Interest - Officers of Jackson County from its
Organization to the Present Time - Commissioners -
Auditors - Treasurers - Recorders - Probate Judges -
Surveyors - Sheriffs - Prosecuting Attorneys -
'Clerk of Courts - Judges - Population of Jackson
County by Townships from 1840. |
|
| CHAPTER XXIV. |
GEOLOGY AND THE
MINERAL RESOURCES, COAL AND IRON INTERESTS.
- PARTIALLY DONE |
482 - 500 * |
| |
Geology of Jackson
County - Limestone Ore - The Mines and Furnaces -
Early Coal Mining in Ohio - The Development of Coal
in Ohio - Jackson County Coal Notes - Discovery of
Smelting Coal - Coke - Iron Smelting Coals - Jackson
Shaft Coal - Jackson Hill Coal - Blast Furnaces -
Jackson County Railroads - Two Other Lines - Narrow
- Gauge |
|
| CHAPTER XXV. |
AGRICULTURE, CEREALS
AND STOCK
- PARTIALLY DONE |
501 - 504 * |
| |
Material Wealth - The
Crop of 1854 - Valuation of Chattel Property -
Agricultural Products of Jackson County - Stock
Statistics, Jackson County - Value of Real Estate,
1848 to 1883 - Agricultural Societies |
|
| CHAPTER XXVI. |
MILITARY HISTORY OF
JACKSON COUNTY, OHIO
-
FINISHED 6/25/2016 |
505 - 519 * |
| |
The Pioneer Movements -
1812 - Mexican War - The War of the Rebellion -
Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry - Twenty-seventh
Ohio Volunteer Infantry - Thirty-third Ohio Infantry
-Thirty-sixth Ohio Infantry - Fifty-third Ohio
Infantry - Fifty-sixth Ohio Infantry -
Eighty-seventh Ohio Infantry - Seventh Ohio Cavalry
- Ninety-first Ohio Infantry - First Regiment Ohio
Heavy Artillery - Second Ohio Heavy Artillery -
Seventy-third Ohio Infantry - One Hundred and
Twenty-ninth Ohio Infantry - One Hundred and
Seventy-second Ohio Infantry, O. N. G. - One Hundred
and Seventy-second Ohio Infantry, O. N. G. - One
Hundred and Seventy-third Ohio Infantry, - One
Hundred and Seventy-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry -
One Hundred and Ninety-fourth Ohio Volunteer
Infantry - Second West Virginia Cavalry - Colored
Troops - Miscellaneous Organizations -
Re-capitulation - The Morgan Raid - Francis Smith -
Robert W. Caldwell - Pensions and Pensioners - Grand
Army of the Republic. |
|
| CHAPTER XXVII. |
CITY OF JACKSON -
ITS RUGGED FEATURES IN 1823 - ITS CULTURE,
REFINEMENT AND WEALTH IN 1883
- PARTIALLY DONE |
520 - 530 * |
| |
Capital City of the
Salt Creek Valley - When Laid Out - Act
Incorporating the Town of Jackson - Items -
Newspapers - Banks - Telephone System - Reading Room
- Silver Cornet Band - Fire Department - Express
Companies - Manufacturing Interests - Jackson in
1883 |
|
| CHAPTER XXVIII. |
RELIGIOUS,
EDUCATIONAL, SOCIETIES AND THE BAR OF JACKSON.
- PARTIALLY DONE |
531 - 542 * |
| |
Churches -
Fairmont Cemetery - Sabbath Schools -
Nationalities - Jackson and Jackson County Schools -
The Jackson and Jackson County Schools - The Jackson
County Literary Association - The Bar of Jackson
County - Masonic |
|
| CHAPTER XXIX. |
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF JACKSON CITY
( ) |
543 - 585 * |
| CHAPTER XXX. |
LICK, LIBERTY,
SCIOTO AND FRANKLIN TOWNSHIPS.
- UPDATED 1/14/2019 |
586 - 614 * |
| |
- Lick Township
- Once a Township in Ross County - Topography - The
Pioneers - Its Growth - Assessed Valuation and Area
- Township Officers -
BIOGRAPHICAL
- Liberty Township - Topography and Minerals
- Population and Improvements - Schools and Churches
-
BIOGRAPHICAL
- Scioto Township - Topography and
Streams - Organization - Settlement - Population and
Valuation - Schools and Churches - Villages -
BIOGRAPHICAL
- Franklin Township - Surface and
Minerals - The Old Pioneer - Churches an Schools -
Bounds, Area and Wealth -
Franklin Township
Officers, 1842, 1860, 1883 -
BIOGRAPHICAL |
|
| CHAPTER XXXI. |
MILTON, COAL,
WASHINGTON AND JACKSON TOWNSHIPS
- PARTIALLY DONE |
615 - 656 * |
| |
- Milton Township
- Topography - Settlement - Furnaces - Wellston -
Postoffice - Public Schools - Churches - Societies -
Newspaper - Professions - Business Interests -
Stores - Berlin - Middleton -
BIOGRAPHICAL
- Coal Township - Settlement - Coalton - The
Business - The Schools - Postoffice - Valuation -
Churches and Societies -
BIOGRAPHICAL
- Washington Township - Topography - Schools -
Ellsworth -
BIOGRAPHICAL
- Jackson Township - Topography - Canter's
Cave - Settlement - Schools - Raysville -
Swiftsville -
BIOGRAPHICAL. |
|
| CHAPTER XXXII. |
BLOOMFIELD, MADISON,
JEFFERSON AND HAMILTON TOWNSHIPS.
- UPDATED 5/7/20202 |
657 - 688 * |
| |
- Bloomfield
Township - Topography - Old Settlers -
Population, Valuation, etc. - Township Officers -
Schools and Churches - The Keystone Furnace -
Winchester -
BIOGRAPHICAL
- Jefferson and Madison Townships - Schools and
Churches - Oak Hill - Manufactures - Oak Hill in
1883 - The Welsh Settlement in Jackson and Gallia
Counties, Ohio - Churches - Oak Hill Public Schools
- Oak Hill Academy
BIOGRAPHICAL
- Madison Township -
BIOGRAPHICAL
- Hamilton Township - Settlement - Schools and
Churches - Post office - Bounds, Valuation, etc. -
BIOGRAPHICAL |
|
|
PIKE COUNTY,
OHIO
(See Pike County, Ohio) |
| CHAPTER XXXIII. |
THE HISTORY OF PIKE
COUNTY - ITS PHYSICAL FEATURES - ITS SETTLEMENT AND
ORGANIZATION. |
689 - 702 |
| |
The Dawn of
Civilization - Early Settlers - Governor Robert
Lucas - Items of Interest - Before it Became Pike
County - When Organized - Court Records - Eli Sargent's Report - From the Journal - Geology of
Pike County - Waverly Stone - Topography - Origin of
Names - Zane's Trace |
|
| CHAPTER XXXIV. |
BOUNDARY, AREA,
PROGRESS, COUNTY SITE |
703 - 710 |
| |
Boundaries and Area -
County Business
- Peeble Township - The Lost Records -
Advancing - Population of Pike County by Townships
from 1840 - Removal of County Seat - The Gift of the
Town of Waverly - The Deed Copy
- Centre Township - Infirmary - Postoffices
of Pike County - County Indebtedness. |
|
| CHAPTER XXXV. |
AGRICULTURE, STOCK
AND WEALTH OF PIKE COUNTY |
711 - 721 |
| |
Valuation of Real and
Personal Property - Pike County Medical Society -
'The First Hanging - Kuklux in Pike - Witchcraft in
Pike County - History of the Press in Pike County -
Railroads - The Narrow Gauge - Turnpikes - Official
- Commissioners - Auditors - Sheriffs - Treasurers -
Probate Judge - Recorders - Clerk of Courts -
Prosecuting Attorney - Judges Second Judicial
District. |
|
| CHAPTER XXXVI. |
PIKE COUNTY ACTORS
IN THE GREAT CIVIL WAR. |
722 - 734 |
| |
The Signal Given at
Sumter - The County Calls Again - The Seventy-third
Ohio - The Sixty-third Infantry - What Ohio did for
the Union. |
|
| CHAPTER XXXVII. |
THE CITY OF WAVERLY. |
735 - 744 |
| |
The Beauty of Its
Surroundings - Additions - Postoffice - Sanitary - A
Most Fatal Epidemic - Waverly Public Schools -
Adoption of Graded System - Churches - Cemeteries |
|
| CHAPTER XXXVIII. |
BUSINESS INTERESTS
OF WAVERLY - PEE PEE TOWNSHIP |
745 - 774 |
| |
Manufactures - Banks -
Telegraph Office - Express Office - Lodges - Bands -
Waverly in 1883 - Pee Pee Township - Area and Wealth
- Churches - BIOGRAPHICAL |
|
| CHAPTER XXXIX. |
SEAL TOWNSHIP. |
775 - 792 |
| |
Geographically Located
- Topography - Line Changed - Piketon Bridge -
Schools of Seal Township - Waverly Sandstone -
Official - Jefferson - Reminiscence of David Ware -
Piketon Agricultural Society - Early Incidents -
Flouring Mill - Piketon Public School - Piketon
Lodge, No. 323, I. O. O. F. - Churches - Business of
Piketon - Official - BIOGRAPHICAL |
|
| CHAPTER XL. |
JACKSON, BEAVER,
MARION AND UNION TOWNSHIP |
793 - 825 |
| |
- Jackson Township
- Organization and Bounds - Township Officers -
Educational - Transportation - Sharonville - Its
Business Interests - Churches - BIOGRAPHICAL
- Beaver Township - Area, Metes and Bounds -
Drainage System - Name - Organization - Township
Officers - 1883 - Schools - Beavertown -
Churches - Population - BIOGRAPHICAL
- Marion Township - Size and Location -
Topography - California - Township Organization -
Officers, 1843 - 1883 - Schools - Churches -
BIOGRAPHICAL
- Union Township - When and by Whom Settled -
Topography - Mineral Development - Early Facts -
Organization, Bounds, etc. - Township Officers -
Churches - Educational - BIOGRAPHICAL |
|
| CHAPTER XLI. |
SCIOTO, NEWTON,
SUNFISH AND CAMP CREEK TOWNSHIPS. |
826 - 847 |
| |
- Scioto Township
- Topography - Big Run - Old Settlement -
Educational - Churches - Postoffices - Township
Organization - Boundary Changes - Official -
Valuation - BIOGRAPHICAL
- Newton Township - Soil, Production and Bounds
- Timber - Population and Valuation
- Jasper Village - Public School - Bethel -
Churches - BIOGRAPHICAL
- Sunfish Township - Something of its Early Days
- Topography - Old Settlers - Boundary Line Changes
- Population - Churches - Schools - Offices -
BIOGRAPHICAL
- Camp Creek Township - Bounds and Area - Timber
and Water - Coopersville - Educational - Churches -
Township Officials - Population - BIOGRAPHICAL. |
|
| CHAPTER XLII. |
MIFFLIN, PERRY,
BENTON AND PEEBLE TOWNSHIP |
848 - 872 |
| |
- Mifflin Township
- Its Advent to Independence - Bounds, Valuation and
Population - Soil, Timber and Topography - Byington
- Latham - Some of the Old Pioneers - Churches -
Schools, 1888 - Official - BIOGRAPHICAL -
- Perry Township - Its Topography - Bounds,
Acreage and Valuation - Pioneers - Cynthiana -
Schools - Churches - BIOGRAPHICAL
- Benton Township - Its Form and Area - When
Organized - Population and Politics - Morgantown -
Schools - Churches
- Peeble Township - Organization and Election
- Valuation and Population - Old Settlers - Buchanan
- Idaho - Schools - Churches - Official -
BIOGRAPHICAL |
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