| PREFACE |
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PART III
LAWRENCE COUNTY |
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CHAPTER I. - NATURAL
AND IMPROVED RICHES - PARTIALLY FINISHED |
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- Neglect Near-by Riches
- Back to the Soil
- Geology of the country
- The Coal Veins
- Coking Coals
- Grades of Iron Ores
- Claims for Native Ores
- The Different Clays
- The Maxville Limestone
- Great Cement Deposits
- Mineral Strata of the County
- Natural Gas
- As an Apple Country
- Horticultural History
- Rise of the Rome Beauty
- Set Back of 1885-90
- Nelson Cox
- Gospel of Spraying Introduced
- Markets No Longer Glutted |
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CHAPTER II. - OF
GENERAL COUNTY INTEREST. -
FINISHED - 6/24/2023 |
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- Created and Named
- County Seat, Burlington
- First Officers
- Jail, First County Building
- Taxes and Other Money Matters
- First Marriage
- First Judges and Lawyers
- The Burlington Courthouse
- Taxes for 1818
- Founding of the Iron Furnaces
- Population in 1820 and 1830
- Census by Townships, 1840, 1850, 1860
- Postoffices in 1850
- Property Valuation in 1914
- Present Courthouse and Jail
- County Infirmary
- Lawrence County Children's Home
- County System of Education
- Statistics by Districts
- County Management
- High Schools
- Lawrence County Children's Home
- County Systems of Education
- Statistics by Districts
- County Management
- High Schools
- Duties of Superintendents
- Medical and Legal County Societies |
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CHAPTER III. - THE IRON INDUSTRIES -
PARTIALLY FINISHED |
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- When Ironton Become the Center
- Pioneer Lawrence County Furnaces
- Hanging Rock in 1833
- Old Arbillite, of Kentucky
- Other Greenup Concerns
- Brush Creek and James Rodgers
- Pine Grove Furnace Founded
- Arrival of John Campbell
- Introduction of the Hot Blast
- First Furnace Shut Down on the Sabbath
- The Ellison and Robert Hamilton
- J. Riggs and Company
- Mr. Campbell Makes Hanging Rock His Home
- The Campbell Furnace Interests
- The Old Cold Blast Furnaces
- Hamilton and Campbell Part Company
- The Hanging Rock of 1846
- Campbell and Willard, Delegates to Buffalo
- Site of Ironton Directed to Buy the Entire Site
- The Hanging Rock Railroad Falls Through
- Dr. C. Briggs, Diplomat
- The Ohio Iron and Coal Company
- Cholera Precautions
- The Iron Railroad
- Ironton Rolling Mill Built
- Other Iron Factories
- Oak Ridge Furnace an Ill-Fated Venture
- Industrial Conditions of 1857
- Revival of the Later '60s
- Belfont Iron Works Founded
- The Transitional '70s
- Later Furnaces
- Means, Kyle and Company
- Eugene B. Willard
- Deaths of John Campbell and Caleb Briggs
- The Hanging Rock Iron Company
- The Hecla Iron and Mining Company
- Old Hecla Furnace Again
- Proposed National Armory
- Abundant Charcoal Supply
- Proposed Navy Yard
- The Charcoal Iron Company
- Last Cold Blast Charcoal Furnace
- The Belfont Iron Works
- The Kelly Nail and Iron Works
- The Marting Iron and Steel Company |
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CHAPTER IV. - CIVIL
WAR -
FINISHED - 6/24/2023 |
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- Patriotic Heraldry
Number of Soldiers by Townships
- How They Were Distributed
- First Three Volunteer Companies
- Bulk of Service in Virginia Regiments
- First Action at Guyandotte
- Town Partly Burned by Union Soldiers
- Captain Davey's Light Artillery
- Battery L
- The Busy Year of 1862
- Relief Activities
- News From the Front
- Promotion of William H. Powell
- Preparation for Morgan
- Colonel Powell Returns From Libby
- In 1864 the War Still Raging
- Losses of the Fifth Virginia
- Gen. William H. Enochs
- The Ninety-First Ohio
- The Veteran One Hundred and Seventy-Third Ohio
- The Soldiers' Presidential Vote
- Consolidation of Second Virginia Cavalry. |
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CHAPTER V. - IRONTON
AND THE VILLAGES - PARTIALLY FINISHED |
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- Development of Railroad Communication
- General Favorable Conditions
- Tracts Purchased for Town Site
- How the Name Came to Be
- Company Tells Why Lots Should Sell
- Status of the Iron Railroad
- Founding of the Iron Bank
- "Young America" Against Foreign Labor
- An Epochal Year, 1881
- Railroads
- Additions to Original Site
- City as a Whole in 1881
- Extent of Iron Industries
- The Clay Industries
- The Clay Industries
- The Goldcamp Mill Company
- The W. G. Ward Lumber Company
- Chamber of Commerce
- First National Bank
- Second National Bank
- Citizens National Bank
- Iron City Savings Bank
- First Village Code
- Divided
- Into Seven Districts
- Fire Prevention Rather Than Cure
- Postoffice Moved to Union Hall
- Early Fire Companies
- Building of the Waterworks
- Present Works
- The Public Schools
- Subscriptions for pioneer Schools
- Board of Education in 1854
- School Rules
- Kingsbury Becomes Superintendent
- First Brick Schoolhouse
- Enrollment in 1856 and 1860
- Successors of Professor Kingsbury
- Present Enrollment and Schoolhouses
- Proposed Educational Reforms
- Briggs Library and Memorial Hall
- Details of the Foundation
- The Press
- The Ironton Register
- The Irontonian
- Ironton News
- Transportation and Electricity
- National Gas Consumption
- Historic Floods
- Village of Coal Grove
- Old Hanging Rock
- The Old County Seat
- Proctorville, Chesapeake and Althalia |
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CHAPTER VI. - IRONTON
CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES - PARTIALLY FINISHED |
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- Baptists the Religious Pioneers
- The 1854 Church Built
- The Methodists Organize
- Spencer Chapter
- The New Church
- Wesley Church Formed
- Chapel Dedicated
- Commencement of English Services
- Western Charge Becomes Wesley Chapel
- The Consolidated First M. E. Church
- The First Presbyterian Church
- A Season of Trial
- St. Lawrence Catholic Church
- Christ Episcopal Church
- Immanuel M. E. Church
- St. Joseph's Catholic Church
- First Congregational Church
- The German Luterans
- Other Religious Bodies
- Hospitals
- Lawrence Lodge No. 198, F. and A. M.
- LaGrange Chapter No. 68, R. A. M.
- Ohio Council No. 92, R. and S. M.
- Ironton Commandery No. 45, K. T.
- Masonic Temple
- I. O. O. F. Lodges
- The Rebekahs
- Grand United Order of Odd Fellows
- The I. O. O. F. Temple
- Patriotic Societies
- Knights of Pythias
- Other Secret and Benevolent Bodies |
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