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HARRISON COUNTY EARLY SCHOOLS HARRY AND HELEN HEAVILIN 40707 CADIZ DENN. ROAD CADIZ, OHIO 43907 . Lest We Forget DITRODUCTION /~/; S 0 HARRISON COUNTY As the land was settled schools, churches, and towns were built. At EARLY SCHOOLS AND TOWNS first people met in their homes for church, school and community meetings. Published by Harrison County A few families joined together and hired a teacher for a summer or a winter

Retired Teachers 1985. ter m. These subscription schools were used until about 1850 after which time the government provided schools, erected school buildings, and hired teachers. Edited by Ruth Dodson. As the land of the Northwest Territory, of which Ohio was a part, was surveyed the sixteenth section was set aside for education. The money from the sale

An Acknowledgement and Thank You- of land was kept to build schools and universities. The one-room school flourished in the twentieth century, then consolidation came with modern roads,

To God who has given health, strength, and guidance, and t r ansportation-schools became larger and controls more distant. Now often the money comes from Columbus or Washington D. C. and· they like to set the To all the members of the Harrison County Retired Teachers Association, standards. To the individual members who contributed written material and pictures, Those who have attended one-room school still praise those days when

To Forrest Thaxton for producing the maps, pupils and teacher lived as a family and learned together. Harold Everett *wrote: To The R & F Coal Co. and Mr. Frank Pempek for assisting with the maps. "The old one-room school is gone, To Mr . and Mrs. Paul Morton for historical material and pictures, But its beloved memory lingers still, To Virbel Kimmel for the old maps, As it stood by the side of the road, In valley or up on the hill. To Kathleen Birney for Hopedale material,

To Mrs. Dean Harrah who assisted with the typing, The days we spent there were happy ones, To Mrs. Anderson and the General Office Occupations Class of the Harrison That added to weeks, months, and years very fast. Career Center, especially Mary Boyer who typed the material for the Press. Leaving only the r ecord on memory ' s page, Of faces and things of the past. "

And lest the democratic little villages, little churches, and one-room schools be forgotten we have put these names of people and places and stories on paper. Small groups have a place and sometimes serve the world i n a big way . *Harold Everett was once principal of Cunot ton Valley Schools. HARRISON COUNTY Childrens•Home- It was located on the land now occupied by the Harrison Community Hospital. Ohio was part of the Northwest Territory which was formed in 1787. In "The Harrison County Children's Home is located--one mile southeast of 1796 public land was divided into townships six miles square then divided the corporate limits of Cadiz. The farm consists of twenty-five acres, with into halves and quarters. In 1800 half sections were sold, later quarter sect­ two springs on it, and is perhaps one of the most favorable situations in the ions. The first land office was in Steubenville where people obtained deeds county. The Home is on the Cottage plan. The buildings except the barn are for land they wanted . brick and were all made on the grounds--facing brick were hardpressed. Harrison County was formed in 1813. Townships were organized as follows: The following is the report of the visiting committee for year ending Short Creek 1797 North I 1813 Washington 1824 August 23, 1893. Archer 1799 Stock 1815 Athens 1833 TO HIS HONOR, JUDGE MANSFIELD: Cadiz 1803 German 1824 Rumley 1833 There are at this date in the Home 36 inmates. Males 23, females 13. Green 1807 Moorefield 1824 Franklin 1833 Received since last report 31; indentured 10; returned to parents 8; trans­ Nottingham 1809 Freeport 1824 Monroe 1833 ferred22. We take pleasure in noting the conditions of this institution. The Bridges- buildings are large, nicely and heathfully arranged, and most beautifully Because of the many streamsin the county there were 55 covered bridges located. Economy, neatness, dicipline and order characterize its management at one time. Men were given jobs in the winter covering roads under bridges by its present very efficient superintendent." with snow so sleds could. move through them easily. Taken from! Brief History of Harrison County, Ohio by S. B. McGavarn, M.D . Bands- Dr. McGavarn was father of Frank McGavarn, grandfather of Mrs. Agnes Grove . Tippecanoe Band organized in 1881 took prizes at the fair and was recog­ Churches- nized as the best in the county. It traveled from one fair to another in a The Friends or Quakers came around 1800 (1786-1803) to Mt Pleasant in huge bronze band wagon adorned with huge dragon heads, front and rear. The Jefferson County and the Short Creek area. The Nottingham (later Freeport) Deersville Band was organized 20 years later and traveled in a canoe shaped­ Friends first held services at the David Seer~Farm. A log church was built wagon. It was drawn by four white horses wearing porn porns on their heads. in early 1800's. In 1803 Beech Springs Presbyterian Church was the first Pres­ They charged $20 for a trip to Cadiz. Uncle Joe Cannon spoke at a Republican byterian Church organized in the county. Meeting in Cadiz once at which the Deersville band played. The Cadiz Band had Rankin Methodist Church was organized in David Rankin's a fine reputation. "The band wagon purchased by the Cadiz Cornet Band is one log cabin in 1814. Prayer meetings were held in Buskirk's Cabin at an earlier of the finest wagons owned by any band in the state," says the Cadiz Republican date from which came the Dickerson Methodist Church. The first sermon of August 29, 1872. preached in Cadiz was in 1804 at the base of a large walnut tree that stood Chautauquas- to the south of the courthouse site by Rev. John Rea, a Presbyterian minister. Every town had its own week of entertainment under a tent. The children In 1816 the first Methodist Church was erected. By 1890 there were more than were organized in the afternoons and every evening the community, paying a fee, 90 places of worship and 7,133 church members in the county . Then local came to hear and see music and varied programs. The chautauqua furnished social churches and schools were the social life of the people. life and educational entertainment. Cadiz had its perm13nent building and Court House- grounds, Chautauqua Park, in 1907, formerly Jamison Grove. After due procedure and advertising "On September 4, 1815 the commission­ Since 1914 Cadiz Fair has been held there. ers exposed at public sale the building of a brick court house forty-two feet

2 3 square which was knocked off to one John McCurdy, he being the lowest bidder The fair was held at Craig's on the Unionvale Road, 1889-1914. At for the sum of five thousand &ix hundred and ninty-five dollars. This court one time Quigley ' s 1 iverv owned the "White Cloud" a glamorous white hack house was finished by the firat of April 1819. 11 In 1827 some county drawn by four horses which was used for transportation from the town. At offices were added. A bell for tile court house was furnished by Daniel Kilgore one time busses were secured from Wheeling t o transport crowds at .10 for in 1829 . Many and varie d co1111Wnity meetings were held in the court house less than one half mile. Porter's Grove was later encircled by a half mile in the next 74 years. In January 1893 Ma ior Cunningham and S. D. McGavran race track. People came for miles to see the large track. Preceding the drafted a bill to present to state legislature authorizing the county com­ races the marshalls wearing bright red scarves rode on horseback around the missioners to build a new court house , borrowing not more than $100 , 000 and track calling all horses for the races. The parade of the livestock was led issuing bonds to cover the same. A COIIDllittee from the legislature visited by the band. The fire department in uniform drew the hose cart and had a Cadiz and acted favorably. Yost and Packard were the architects and E. M. fine team pulling the fire engine . As they marched they threw kisses to the Long of Bowerston was the builder. The Berea stone building was 100 feet pretty girls in the band stand. There were bicycle races-the high wheel kind square trimmed with Oolitic limestone. This building is used today much and pulling contests. The merry-go-round was operated by horses in 1863 and as planned in 1893. ice cream candy was said to have been made by !illy Wyatt.

County Fair The following persons have been pre•idute of the Harrison County Fair: "Ezra Cattell, John Hammond, Eli Peacock. JoM. Jaaison, Samuel Boggs, Obediah The first county fair was held in Georgetown in 1846 . There was a group Slemmons, Albert Quigley, W.W. Jamison. Andrew Saith, C. M. Hogg, Samuel of progressive farmers there and the fair was an agricultural exhibit. Then they moved the fair to the court house lawn . A rope was stretched along the Dickerson~ Henry Boyles, James Jamison, s«anuel Herron, and Andrew Smith. Other fairs in the county are Connotton Valley Tri-County Agricultural wall which enclosed the court house grounds. On this rope the women displayed and Mechanical Association, located at Jewett, and the Smyrna fair located at their quilts and embroideries. The live stock was shown in the open space Smyrna." back of the McNutt Tavern which is the site of the present Masonic Temple. Quotations are from A Brief Hiscory of Harrison County by s . B. McGavran, Horses were put through their paces out Peacock's Level later known as the M. D. Brick Road. "It was not until 1853 that the Society had a permanent location; they THE COUNTY INFIRMARY- then secured Sharp's grove, near town, (now Porter's) and four or five acres The Infirmary has passed through many experiences. In 1825 the county were enclosed with a strong, substantial fence , and suitable buildings were bought 104 acres and used the farm house-Heages Farm. They kept three males erected. The fair was held Oct. 10 and 11, 1853. It was the largest and best and one female and received $162 .17 for their keep. There were three other attendedof any that had taken place. The crowd was estimated at 10,000. places bought and sold and finally in 1884 the present place was secured. A There was a large entry of sheep and horses . The floral hall was very attra­ three story, ninety room brick building was erected in 1894 with 48 inmates. tive, the ladies taking great interest in it. One of the most attractive and RAILROADS- exciting features of the fair wa• a contest of horse-back riding by ladies. A salute to the railroads! At one time the railroad took many of the Competitors for the premium were: Miss Norton, of St Clairsville, Hrs. high school students, even college students, to and from school. There was Obediah Slemmons, Miss Amanda Simeral, Miss Gilmore, Niss Shotwell, Miss Taggart, the "accommodation" which took workers into Steubenville and brought them of Cadiz, and Miss Caroline Kennedy, of Green township. All were expert riders home at night. The trains stopped at cross-roads, a flag-stop, to accommodate and evinced a graceful style of riding and much skill in management of their people. Similar conditions existed around Freeport as they used the Baltimore horses. During the race Miss Simeral was thrown from her horse and badly hurt. Miss Kennedy was the first Premium. 11

4 5 and Ohio when i t was completed in 1880. The Cadiz Branch was a few miles of EARLY SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES track f r om the main l ine o f the Pennsylvania into Cadiz. It was completed in 1854 with a grand opening celebration and banquet in which the Steubenville HOPEDALE NORMAL C0LLEGE-"The first normal school, either public or pri­ merchants partic ipated. There was a turntable on which to turn the engines vate in our state, was established in what was then Sub-District No . 3, of around at Cad iz and Cadiz J unction . It was the big way to get people and Green Township, Harrison Co ., Ohio. Its instigators, founders , and life-long freight in and out of Cadiz . The railroads were essential to the transporta­ friends and benefactors were Mr. and Mrs . Cyrus McNeely, and Mrs. Mary t ion of coal and f arm products f rom the county, taking the place of the canal. Donaldson, of Green Township and Mrs. Eliza Hogg , of Cadiz, Ohio. Their obj ect Also, t he r ai l r oads were a very profi table and dependable source of taxes, was to establish an institution for the training of teacher s for the common important to our school s . Then the railroad brought employment to some schools of the country in connection with which there was to be a model ungraded especially when the r oundhouse came to J ewett in 1889. How do we get along country district school for the illustration of the best normal methods." It without the railroads? was a first in co-ed education in eastern Ohio. The beautiful ten acres of ground were improved and added to until it was valued at $40,000. There was Pumphrey Hall, a boarding hall for l adies having twenty rooms and a centrally located proper college bui lding with 10 rooms for classes. There was a gynasium, a large building on the south side of sc10 ® coh LEGE J the campus for gymnastics and general assembly purpose s . The model school was DEPARTMENTS: lat er abandoned, Summer school was held at first. J, •TERARY, COM M e t'tCIAL, ... us1c, MIUT... S.CY PREPARATORY, SHPRT·HAN0 A ND TYPE W Rl"n'NO, " In this for ty year s of educational work there has never been a death among C OURSES c:1f: STUDY: the thousands that gather here and very little sickness." About 8,000 students CLASSICAL, PH ILOSOPH IC, SC IENTIFIC.

Motto - T HOROUGH , P RACTI C A L, E CONOMIC AL. had r eceived instruction there in the 40 years. The work, name, and character of

Fau1ous II Lectur~ Plan" of Recitation, the STUDENT being the Lecturer. Homelike and Religious in character. Three-fourtb s of t he Faculty and the school changed through the years, Student s members o f tl1e M. E. Chu rch. From-"Commemorative Record of Harrison and Carroll Counties" pp. 585- 6 Attendance 402 last year; increased Attendance this year. IW"A new $20,000 building wlll be co!llpl•t ~ t h is year, and additional facilities FRANKLIN COLLEGE- For some time before the founding of Franklin College an given in all departlllents. A C TUAL EXPENSES. academy had been conducted in the town by Rev . John Walker, a minister of Board (g ood s ubstantial diet in Student's Club. reduced in price by whoksal<, the Secession Church. The school was called "Alma Mater" in active rivalr y with ~~~~1\i!}"="::t/\2}/E"t"? it!/:///":;~! a similar institution in Cadiz, Then the project of a college at Cadiz was ~ For free Catalogue, etc .. address agitat ed but "by the superior tact and energy of Rev. John Wal ker" t he charter .:a.,______SCIO COLLEG E, S c io, Ohto1;.._ __ ,_ was obtained for the academy at New Athens under the name "Alma College." At the next meeting of the legislature the name was changed to Franklin College, wi th a charter dated January 22, 1825. Franklin College had sever al administators and many teachers. Once times were so bad the property was sold to the hi ghest bidder. The pro-slavery people opposed the anti-slavery men. But in spite of al l the str uggling the college helped many people. (Shown by a paragraph f r om Commemorative Record p. 764 Beers 1891) "When we take up the record of her Alumni, and inquire into the .status of the men whose names are there enr olled, we f eel fully satisfied that what-

6 7 ever Franklin College may have cost in effort, in self denial and pecuniary sacrifice, it has paid it back to society a hundred fold. No institution can ARCHER TOWNSHIP point to a prouder record . Her sons are found occupying positions of dis­ Information supplied by Mary Patton, Harry McClain and Robert t..el s h. tinction and usefulness all over the land. On the bench, at the bar, in the There were no towns in Archer Townshi' p, The sc1001 l s were t1cl socia1 centers pulpit, in colleges and seminaries of learning, in the halls of legislations with their community dinners, cake walks, holiday programs, and plays, singing and in the national councils everywhere, "where men acquire renown," her sons schools, and literary societies. The men of Fertile Valley School were known are found maintaining their standing with the highest . With such a record, for their debates at these school meetings. Franklin College justly deserves to live and continue to prosper." CRAWFORD was a "stop" on the Wheeling Lake Er1· e (W . L . E . ) ra1· 1 road . SCIO COLLEGE- New Market College started at Harlem Springs in Carroll County as Alma College in 1851. Then it moved to New ~larket and changed names. STACEY was near the Adams Oil Field and had a post office. Adams Oil field was It was chartered as Scio College in 1866. By the beginning of the twentieth a large oil producing area at the beginning of the 1900's. century there were about 600 graduates from this Methodist Episcopal Church School. An important adjunct of the college was Beall's School of Pharmacy then unsurpassed in its field. In general education they had seven years of work-three years preparatory and four regular collegiate work. They had an enrollment of 548 with 15 teachers. Scio College ranked sixth among the col­ leges and universities in the state of Ohio but among the first in thoroughness and comprehensiveness . Scio College was meq•ed with Mt Union College of Alliance Dec. 1911. The two lar ge buildingswere torn down and only the name "College Street" remains in Scio.

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8 9 McCOYS--1850-- three fourths of a mile off Rt. 9 on the McCoy Farm. Turn left ARCHER TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS ·d n Rt 9 toward Cadiz Coal Co . There at Dickerson Farm, now owned by Bever1 ge o • may have been two buildings at this one location. CLEAR FORK 1922--It was built on State Route 9 , east of Adams Farm, just past Joe Hoobler, Willis Bigger, Harry Some of the pupils attending here were: Rt. 13. It is now the township hall used for public gatherings. It took the h ster Busby, John Busby, Lawson McFadden, Asbury Freshwater, George Mattern, C e place of McCoy ' s School. People living here were: Adams, Freshwater, Loves. McGaw , Sam Osborn, Frank Robinson, Mary Hargrave. Teachers were Ella Beall, Adele Skipper, Leota Custer , Elizabeth Arnold, Edna Harry McClain's grandmother taught at McCoys as also did: Jennie Conaway Johnson, Helen Pettay, and Lucille Leyda. er, Mary Singer, and Belle Phillips. It St rausbaugh, John Thompson, Ruby Webb >IFERT ILE VALLEY--Located close to Harry Welsh's on Ralph Mccombs' property. was closed in 1922 and the c h1" ldren were sent to Clearfork. Fertile Valley was a sub district of Archer and Stock Townships which operated Close to Cadiz Branch at N. E. corner for 20 years. The building cost $725 with James Stewart and James Grimes McKEES--1860--South east part of Sec. 32. The f1·rst school was on another site, but it was torn down. as the contractors. While they were building, one term was held in Robert of Archer Township, The coal company bought this land and cleared it. Welsh ' s grandfather' s wagon shed. Robert still has the old Burnside stove, Thompsons, Biggers, Crawfords, Bakers, Conaways. This school was built so that children might not be hindered by high water, Families living here were: The last teacher was J . L. Slates--1944--1945. either going to or coming from school at Doe Run. The water got high at the cover ed br idge which was a t the tur n of the road at the Dale Kellar farm, once It was on the Isaac Heavilin Farm at the corner next to the OAK GROVE- -1900. the Turney Farm. At the time of the Adams Oil Field boom, there was a good about 1925 and rebuilt as a home at the inter- Mc Clain · F a rm , It was torn down producing well on the school property, about 1900. There were many lively 238 where Kovaciks live. section of Co . Rd, 17 and Twp. Rd • debates a t the literary society meetings with debaters A. N. Mccombs , J.C. The last teacher was Florence Crawford-- 1927-1928. Patterson, Eli Cavern and L.A. Welsh. Fertile Valley School building had a It d by Isaac Heavilin and Alex McClain. rathe r dramatic ending. The report is the pumper at Adams Oil Field, who came POSSUM HOLLOW--1835-1840 on farms owne was torn down and rebuilt as Oak Grove. by and saw the roof on fire , said, "When I gave the alarm of fire , the students hi After Oak Grove was and teacher just came rolling out--all three of them. " They wer e Alvie Craig, RIDGE VIEW- -1927 at the N. W. corner of Archer Towns p. hool was held in a vacant house, the first one south Harry and Vince Heavili n . Mike Palmer always had a good laugh over this. This torn down, for one year, Sc Ridge View was a new portable building. The building was the last year for the school. Only s t ones a r e left now. of Ridge View Cemetery. Fami lies Jiving her e were : Sylvester Palmer, Captain Patterson, Anthony was sold to Mr . Kidd, who made it into a home . Mccombs , William Mccombs, George Henderson, Narsemus Gilbert, Welshes, Ferrels, Teacher were Lucille Leyda, Wavelene Kidd Brown, Goldie Rose. Grimes, and Wells. The last teacher was Retta Holle, 1950-1951 . It was on the former Bob Busby Farm. It was run GILMORE No. l-- 1860-1870, No. 2--1875--on the north line of Sec. 19 on Gilmore SCRIPT SCHOOL--about 1800. Ridge near Love Brother s and Bill Birney's. It is owned by t he Coal company He taught reading, writing, and b~• .~ manwh o 11·ved 1·0 a one room log cabin. which destroyed the building . ~rithmet i c, Charging each student a small fee. Families there were: Baileys, Robinsons, Heavilins, Cavins. owned by the coal company. It was on the Strausbaugh Rid ge now The last teacher was Alice Southern--1939-- 1940. WINDY ~--1865. ·n 1912 . Part o f t h e ma t erial Was U sed It was t orn down after being Closed 1 *Also known as Hardscrabble School. in the Joe Haxwell barn.

11 10 SCHOOLS ARCHER TOWNSHIP 1. FERTILE VALLEY 8 . CLEAR FORK CHURCHES Families living here were: Pittinger, Strausbaugh, Busby , Thompson, 2. POSSUM HOLLOW 9 RIDGE VIEW 13. RIDGE PRESBYTERIAN Hines, Baker, Montgomery, Reid, Maxwell, DeVore, Webster. One teacher I O SCRIPT (EARLY) AND CEM . remember ed by Mrs. Strausbaugh was Miss Herron (McElroy) 3 . ~COYS 4 . GILMORE NO. I, NO . 2 VILLAGES CEMETERIES THE RIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHlRCH--It is the oldest organization in .,\rcher Township 5 . WINDY KNOB 11 . CRAWFORD 14. MATTERN ARE.A and one of the oldest Presbyterian churches in the county. It was organized 12 . STACY P.O. 15. ADAM'S OlL FIELD . October 7, 1818. It met first on the Cadiz-New Rumley Road , but because of a 6 . M£ KEES Presbyter ian Church developing in Cadiz, it relocated in various houses and 7. OAK GROVE barns, then in a tent in the village of Hanover and finally they built at the present locat ion. TWP TWP. II ••~ 1 ~

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12 13 The mill created an immediate need ATHENS TOWNSHIP first, to process his neighbor's grists. In 1805 the first such for public access roads suitable for wagon traffic. Route 9 between Cadiz and New Athens. In Information furnished by Mary McConnell Harris and Helen McConnell. was opened. It corresponds today to d b ·1t t McConnell ' s Mill. This road is NEW ATHENS--The east side was founded by John Walker and the west side by John 1806 a second major access roa was u1 o of Route 519. Mills were sometimes built in unusual locations McConnell in 1817 on the St. Clairsville Pike 7 miles from Cadiz. Its chief now a portion t ·onal source of water power. Often they were bid for fame was Franklin College established in 1825. Once New Athens had 3 to take advantage o f excep 1 f liff These mills were located churches, 1 banking house operated by John Dunlap Jr., a general store, drug located in a little valley or on the edge o a c . ~ flour mills were the Shannon Mill on store, restaurant, furniture repair shop, meats, tin shop, 3 groceries, hard ware, where there were excellent springs. Creek on the Dunlap Estate, and a mile paper and paint store, barber, blacksmith shop, undertaker, mill near New Athens the head waters of the little Stillwater Half a mile farther down stream on land entered in 1804, now a part of the town. Also within a four mile area west down stream was Old William Gregg Mill. h . h was later moved to Piedmont. Two existed for years three mills along the same stream operated by waters from a was Dickerson Mill, both flour and saw, w 1c Saw They must surely the Lafferty Mill, b oth fl our and , race run from a distance of 5 miles from the very head waters of Little Still­ miles on down stream was have produced some grain to use so many mills. water Creek. The first traction engine in the United States, if not in the world, was made by Oliver H. Burdette of New Athens with a partner to help financially, Webb , of Athens, Illinois. He showed it f irst at the county fair in 1872. Burdette drove the traction engine twice around the race track before the horse races. He shut off the steam, raised his large beaver hat and began to sing in a loud voice, "Mine eyes have seen the glory, " amidst the deafening shouts from the multitude present. Others took advantage of Burdette so he never realized any pay for his genious or labor. He invented the Burdette endless chain for machinery but Western machine men beat him out of his patents. Franklin College (see Colle~sof Harrison County) was the life of New Athens and had a wide influence from 1825-1919 of the era of the World War I.

STUMPTOWN--It got its name f r om the Stump Family who resided near the cross road settlement. In the town there was a store, the election house, and a blacksmith shop. General Morgan turned eastward at this spot. In the 1890's Stumptown had a very capable brass band . Stumptown was located at the intersection of Route 519 and the Flushing- Cadiz road (present terms). Robert Lee whose address was New Athens was a merchant at Stumptown. The stor e was log and partly covered with siding. A porch extended across the front of the store. A part of the building was used for a dwelling.

ATHEN'S MILLS--In 1803 the neighborhood around New Athens was so well populated by farmers that a pressing need arose for a mill to grind a portion of the annual grain haliVest. So John McConnell constructed a horsemill, one of the Beech Po,i.n;t School - A-then~ Twp.

15 14 ATHENS TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS functions. Every Friday night, young and old gathered for singing school taught

BEECH POINT--lt was located at the top of a hill on Rt . 9 two miles east of by Prof. John Wilson or Prof. J. W. Salander.

New Athens . Now it is a modern home . Custer taught here before going to t,•est SCRIPT SCHOOL--This was a very early school on the t ownship l ine at the center Point. Teachers were: Emmet Webb , Rev. John F'ul ton, Ellsworth Dunlap, Sara of Sec. 13 and 14 and Sec. 19 and 20 where these sections corner. It oper ated Hughes, Ruben Mills, J.i.:ank Croon, :-iary ~cConnell Harris. on the subscription plan l ong before 1820 and was probably second or third such The last teacher taught in 1938. school in the county.

HOPWOOD--It was located off St. Rt. 519 and consisted of three building • The 0 SIXTEEN--The first building s tood near a later one which stood on the Dunlap fir st building was in the hollow, one fourth mile from the last. The second Farm south of Stumptown close to the New Athens-Flushing Road. was one fourth mile south on top of a hill. All are stripped out . Teachers The last teacher was in 1938. were: Flora Fitch Webb , Mar y Williamson Beck, Harry Woods , Bertha Anderson, Ma r y Shivers, and Ruth Adams . The last teacher taught in 1934.

JOCKY HOLLOW--lt once was called Boggs Fork, named for Captain Boggs, who was ki lled in an Indian battle near the spring now at the school. A story is told that once there was a teacher who chewed Picnic Twist Tobacco. He let some boys taste it and the first thing he knew, all kinds of tobacco and snuff were coming to school, and they were passing a tomato can from desk to desk to take care of the tobacco spit. Another story concerned a ghost party. The girls all dressed white and came with faces covered. Each carried a basket containing a lunch. The girls, one at a time stood up in front, and the boys bid on the girls and their baskets. There was a lot of rivalry which ended in a fight. When this was get ting real hot, a big fellow stepped in the door and asked who want ed t o take him on. Everything became quiet . They knew his reput ation, how he had set tled anot her fight . These stories were found in Jack Barrett ' s book Ba1.>k.ubaU :team at -t.he old 1.>c.hool builcll.n.9 -lrt Ne.w A-t.hen1.> in the Cadiz Library. In his recollections, he also mentioned how Bent on Rowland was killed by l ightning and Lyle Johnson died of typhoid fever. Teachers were: El lsworth Dunlap, Carrie Dicker son, Blanche Simpson, Dale Saunders, Joe Roberts. The last teacher was 1936- 37.

OAK DALE--It was near Frankli'n Hiwall Mine . ~h ~ ere were two buildings. Last teacher was in 1934.

OAK HILL--It was on St. Rt. 149, one fourth mil e west of New Athens on the Love Farm at the top of Love Hill. It was known as a good school and for its social

The ol d New A-t.hen1.> PubUc. Sc.hoot Build-lrtg, bu.l.U 7893 16 17 ATHENS TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS NEW ATHENS SCHOOL I. HOPWOOD 6. JOCKEY HOLLOW MILLS 2 .0AKDALE 7. NEW MHENS 9. JOSHUA a ADAM DICKERSON In 1818, John Walker organized a school in a log cabin on his farm called Alma Academy . In 1820, the trustees of the academy purchased land from 3 . BEECH POINT VILLAGES 10. SHANNONS John McConnell and erected a two-room brick building. By 1827, there was an 4. OAK HILL • 8. NEW ATHENS 11 . MQ. 00\INELLS "English School" in New Athens and in 1837 an enumeration of the youths in District One, New Athens numbered 137. 5.s,xT~E~E_:N__ ~ ~v~T~r-T---~ In 1851, a new and larger public school was erected. In 1867, the school

was removed to the abandoned building of Franklin College. It operated there ;; until 1883 when it moved to the vacated third college building. These quarters

proved unsatisfactory and in the fall of 1893, a new frame building was erected "ANG ◄ IIAHGE !I on College Street at a cost of $1134 .00 and was built by R. C. Henderson. It contained two rooms on the first floor and two rooms on the second floor with a central hall on each floor. It was equipped with wooden fire escapes and heated by a boiler in the basement with four rows of pipes running around the outside walls of each room. This building was used for twenty-eight years. This buildi ng was sold in 1921 at which time the public school was transferred to the fifth and final building of Franklin College on Main Street. ... The property of Franklin College had been put up for sale. The asking price for the building and three acres of land was $15 ,000. 00 which amount was raised and paid by the New Athens Board of Education through a local bond issue. Franklin High School and the New Athens Grade School have been housed in this building until t he high school was consolidated in the Harrison Hills ~ i Consolidation in 1971 and the grade school has remained until the present time. ; ii / -✓ • .. - ~ .. '' ! •z -'-41,.. ©I& -- ...~ t / \ ,~ --.... ' /

CEMETEBIES No. 16 - A~hen.~ Twp. 12. LONG VIEW 18 19 MOAAV ILLE--lt was located about five miles west of Cadiz on th• Deersville road CADIZ TOWNSHIP-TOWNS which was formerly known as th• Moravian Trail, Th• house for many more recent

th years was known as the Ross Moreland home. CASInformation supplied by Elizabeth Keesey, Mar a Haverfield The post office was opened in September, 1896. John L, Keesey was the SVILLE--This and Virginia p once thriving h orter. postmaster. There was separate building for the post office and store, The derives its amlet on t he first Zachary Taylor,name from that of Lewis . Cass, defeated state road west of Steubenville, building was located near the road with a picket fence on either side where 1848. In 1786 John M opponent of President most beautiful ridge". The athews, surveyor, described . farmers tied their horses. stone blo present Dunlap home this area as "a Th• post office-store was closed in th• early 1900's and the building cks, once served a , constructed off" in s a tavern I itted sand was moved to the back of the yard around 1918. There was a blacksmith shop, c· an unmarked grave • the remains. of • n the Cassville Cemet ery there lies- a coal mine, and the store all located on the Keesey farm and it and the ircumstances and som e evidence. led ah man found hanging in a nearby woods. O surrounding area made up the small village of Moraville with a population of well organized g angsters. of the Ro a ringt. e authoritiesN · to believe h.l.lil f the ineteen-Twent·ies . t5. The Mayor and Chief-of-Police was Joseph Bargar and the Marshall was nempsey'\lines , When the Morelands sold to the coal company , the young man BARRETT'S BRIDGE or BRIDGEVILLE--! promised to save the house and store building, but when Hr, Moreland was on BarFork, some f"ive miles west of the presenttwas located at the upper f low of Brushy rett, Revolutionary W Cadiz corporation line A vacation, the operator bulldozed everything away. So, Moraville disappeared in ar veteran h a ded another 320 acres in 1812. H• t ook1· up a section of land in • 1808rt ur aboved his f' e ies bur· d . . He the spoil banks. J irst cabin. In 1805 h' ie Just north of Rt. 22 on a CADlZ--The first grist mill using horse power was located one half mile north efferson county to operate a taveris son, Thoma s , was granted a license by hill of Cadiz on the Cochran farm, (The Cochran homestead has been restored by Bob Junction f f rushy Fork . Th"is tavern must haven at b the. o east and south streams Fleagane in the 1970' s.) The land Cadiz was built on was granted to Zaccheus Of B old covered bridge at the oot of Cassville Hill. een near the Beatty by the U. s. Government on April 29 , t804 and sold to Zaccheus Biggs. lt was laid out by Biggs and Beatty in t804. ln 1St6 Cadiz was a thriving ENFIELD--ThereF was some difference of o . t own containing a court house, eight stores, seven taverns, 125 dwelling houses, rom inquiry and various so pinion as to th 1 August 1884 . urces, If d e ocation of Enfield. and 537 inhabitants- Cadiz won th• county seat position because of relation­ o R • • lll the f ormer E. N. H oun that the post off ice was opened n oute 250 aver field ho h. in ships with Steubenville business. The railroad built a branch into Cadiz, was named f west , about a half mile from Coultrmew ' ich is a red brick house which brought much business to Cadiz in June 1854 . (There is no longer a or E. N. Haverfield h ap s toward Cadi railroad into Cadiz, Demolition of the branch into Cadiz began Jan, 2, 1984 and A biographical sketch of M, w o was the fi rst postmaster. z. Enfield was completed within a few weeks,) Cadiz became a moneyed cown of well-to-do y that is h ates that h Will1887, F.so Spapparent! h wenr. EnfieldHaverfield st e moved to Cadiz in ec t serving was moved to the S farmers who retired there. Th•Y were producers of the top sheep and wool of haulroad over as postmaster. The S pecht home with the United States, The home of Judge Thomas Lee, later the Birney farm, now the pass on Route 250 pecht home was 1 shed is still . which is cl ocated near the Nowjack farm, was definitely an established station of th• Undergr ound Railroad st a rd ing near the 1 ose to Mallernee ' s Market. The c.~ h ocation of th A wagon .;>t'ec t home ha d a picket. f e former h ome . for freeingsome famous slaves people. coming from Cadiz were, Matthew Simpson D, n. and L, L, on the outside for h orses. Ther ence around the yard with a h. office on the 1 f e was a store i itching rail D., (18tt-t884), Bishop of the Methodist Church; John A, Bingham, Statesman; et hand sid f n connection with October 1 • 0 the house. was closedthe post in Edwin Stanton, secretary of State under President Lincoln; Scott Brothers, inventors; , . The store remained The post office 907 after the post office was closed. open several years Clark Gable, actor; Joseph Holmes, Indian scout,

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20 The production of coal has c . 1 ife of the . ur tailed much . community. of the f Many of the rolling arming and ch in part have they hill h anged the s ave be CADIZ TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS been leveled again. en stripped and only HAVERFIELD--In the N. W. quarter of Sec. 17 at the foot of Ross Hill. It was named f or the land owner. It was three miles west of Cadiz, now stripped out. Nathan Haverfield deeded one half acre to the Board of Education in 1818, but there was school there before this as N. Haverfield hewed logs for the school when he hewed them for his home earlier. The last teacher was Edna Johnson J'?.5"C' -If'67: 1~53 1954 .'

I RISH RIDGE--It was located on Rt . 9 south of Cadiz above the cross road from the Hanna Washing Plant to the County Air Strip. People living in the district were Irish as the McFaddens. Now the building is torn down and lumber was used in the Mary Ellen Inn, east of Cadiz. The land is stripped. The l ast teacher was John Cargill--1934-1935.

LOCUST GROVE- -In Sec . 12 west of Cadiz on Rt . 250. In 1859 it was moved from Oak Gl/.ove School - Cad~z the David Thompson Farm to the Birney Hines Farm. By 1931 it was closed, the Twp . - 197 7-18 childr en going to Cadiz or Haverfields. It was torn down in January 1933.

MT . VERNON--On east line of Sec. 35, a half mile off the Cadiz- Deersville Road - -off Co. Rd . 2 . It still stands, and is used occasionally as a community hall. Many Carson and Rogers childr en went here, also the Finnical and Ramseys . Teachers were Charles Deselm, Emerson Hines, Buck Rogers, Zelma McMillan, Florence Pettay, Edna Snyder, J.E. Nichols, Bess Fitch, DoraFinnical. The l as t teacher was Edna Johnson 1949-50.

OAK GROVE--S. E. corner of Sec. 33 . There were four buildings. The fir st burned, the second, 500 feet from it burned also. The third, on Brushy Fork Rd . was torn down. The fourth was built on the Crawford Mitchell Farm in 1924 . It is also gone, even the road is abandoned. Families were: Jamison, Barr ett, Lee, Lafferty, Nash , Mitchell. Teachers were: Jenpje Harrah, Zelma McMillan, Jn.:t.rr,. u_enTe Fr ank Rogers, John Thompson, Olive Taggart, ~ ars ~ Heavilin, Kenneth Huff, Frances Baker, Mary Bargar, and Martha Thompson. The last teacher was Kenneth Huff. Oak Gl/.ove - CAd~z Ti wp. PIKES PEAK--On mid point of west l i ne of Sec. 15, four miles west from Cadiz. ut. VVtnon - Aa:tVw.Ja'td-6 It was second or third school established in the county. The first building a coa.;t 'too. .

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23 was on a hi h . g Point near th school, called P e one time Maggie axtons, was tor Morris on th P Hamilton, Mehollin P n down . Families we e orter land. This , axton Mor re: Chaney M the first common or public school in Cadiz. l ast teacher was Ruth Ad , / ?~!n•siohnson, Flem· , cFadden, ams--1-953~.• ing, Hennen, d Another brick school known as District 9 was built in 1837 where the -..,... an Lawlis. The !Af!SEY--Located former Methodist parsonage stands, at the turn into Lincoln Avenue from six miles west of Cad· iz. West Market Street. This, too, was a public school and was used until 1863. It burned down i'n ~ HI1:!:--Sec. 34. 1884. It It was located on The older youth of Cadiz also had the opportunity to go beyond the was named for St. Rt. 250 at th Bullock had the red clay soil. I e east edg f grammar school. Cadiz Academy was select school established in 1818 on Gimlet over 40 pupils in a t became a two e o Cadiz. four gr d spa room school. H 1 Hill where the Edwin Arnold home, now the home of the John Vich family, stands a es and the 4th d ce for 25 . Florence M e en on Charleston StreeL. This school was in a private home until 1820, when a Arnold a nd B . gra e when not reciti organ had the upper Seibert. essie Wilson. The last ng. Other teachers w building was erected. However, it closed in 1825 and was later sold to the When they w teachers were Al ere Elizabeth closed in D ere there, they had 90 . ma Hendershot and Leona school directors for public school use. It was held by this group from 1832 ec. 1956 when it Pupils between them. to 1869, after which the directors had no use f or it as the new Union Building to Westgate. It was idle f was consolidated With Cadiz. It was was erected in 1868. While this old Cadiz Academy building was being used as person, it was used or several years. After . They were moved as a used f . it was a common or public school, it was often called "the school on the hill" or bought by a 1 ocal THOMPSON 1QQ .§.CHOOL~-It urniture store. It was " the old frame school" to distinguish it from the schools on the public ground. later torn d own. in Sally Buffalo P;rk . was located one mile Miss Foster's Seminary, also on Gimlet Hill, occupied the site of the Charles in Cad~... north of Cadi.. Mi ss Nancy Th ...... It was a ... . Now it is ompson. subscription school located Stewart home, which was later the Dr. Lewis Pugh home and, more recently, the operated by Daniel Swickard home on~ Market Street. K.AR1::r SCHOOLS~ CADIZ--r to d - nformation The earliest high school in Cadiz was organized in 1840 as a select school. e ucate children . furnished b select or Private in Cadiz began early. I y Martha Haverfield--The efforts A building was erected about 1850 on the north corner of the public ground, that became the h school in his own n 1807, William Tin 1 being the part between the House of Coal and the Hines Building. It was ome of Am home on North M . g ey opened a anda McCre ain Street now stands. ary, located wh • This later called Cadiz High School and after 1854, became a public school. ere the Hugh S Following the proposal for the erection of a school building 80' x 64'-- In 1812 mith dwelling 15 • a school call d also two privies--the Union Building housing both elementary and secondary pupils, on North Buff e Cadiz School was bui'lt . alo Street Th on the was built in 1868. This school was located on an eight acre tract of land on issued , the stockhold . is was a Selects h now vacant lot ers bein c ool for which East Market Street back of where Central Elementary School now stands. The COIIUllunity . Sel g the more educationall . stock was f ect Schools held y minded architect was J. W. Kerr of Pittsburgh and the cost of the eight room brick or public school sway until b people of the s . a out 1819 due to school, including the land, was $25,000.00. Another 1 lack of money se ect school As attendance was optional at that time, the enrollment was 301 pupils the corner of W was located where the old est Market Qi l perhaps this i and South Musking u g ey house stands on with only four teachers and the superintendent, who taught one room of pupils. s where Bish um Streets taught in h' op Matthew Simpson • It is thought that There were also 257 children of school age who were not in school in 1868 when is Uncle Matth . , noted min. the new school opened. However, compulsory attendance was instituted in 1875. A brick school Was ew Sl.lllpson's school in 1826 ister and educator, which 1 erected before 1821 • As more room was needed, an addition was made to the building in 1903, s now occupied on a by the Courthouse portion of th which afforded several new rooms, closets, hall, and stairways. In 1903, also, and ground e public ground s. This sch 1 the curriculum was enlarged and Cadiz High School became a four year high oo Was probably school.

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25 Bibliograph,1_ (compiled 1940). An annex was built to the front of the Ynion Building in 1906, providing . z Year El. !_ea_!_ l_?~-l._9~~:20~~0~~:J_..!i~n_:.th~e_S~t;:;;.a;;..t_e_o_f McConnell, ~dl. - . of ~rrison county eight new rooms and a number of facilities in the basement. The cost of this Harry B. . 1 c.,,o::,l:!.l::.e::;.;;:.c_t_1._on___ s - - 1\istor1.ca_ ~ latter addition was $30,000.00. Charles A. Ranna, This twice enlarged building served well until the early 1920's when it Ohio (1900) . f uisho_£ Simpso_!: (1890). - D Life o ~ - again became overcrowded. To alleviate this congestion, two new portable R, crooks, D . • , ~ -u \olallace. diz Elementary G. b Charles D• ry of ca buildings were set up on the school property in October, 1922, and were used for collected y ·ct paper on histo papers School Distr1. • . Hills CitY some of the classes for several years. '!hey were removed when the present Harrison Cadiz High School, built adjacent to the old building, was ready for occupancy Schools 0 97&) • d pupils. teachers an ·th former and the elementary pupils had full use of the old building. However, this was Interviews w1. for a short time only, as the old building was destroyed by fire on Monday night, January 20, 1930, a month before the new high school was to be dedicated on February 21, 1930. All available space in the new building was used for half-day sessions until the new elementary school, now Cadiz Central Elementary, was built immediately following the fire. It is thought that the education of the black children of Cadiz also began in homes, However, a Rev. Mr . Sloan was the schoolmaster in the 1830's when a school for black children was established in the Old Covenanter Church on North Main Street where the Ehrhart Hotel later stood. The Sunoco service station is now located here, at the corner of North Main and West Spring Streets. Later, the brick school, District 9, where the former Methodist parsonage stands, on West Market Street, became their school for a number of years. In 1873 a new building was erected on the corner of South and Ohio Streets. This building was torn down in 1913 when W. F. Gammeter bought the lot and built the family home on that site. The newly built Dunbar School on North Buffalo Street was opened in January, 1909. Professor W. H. Lucas, who began teaching in the Negro schools in 1872, continued as teacher and principal for a number of years . Although this building has not been used for a school since 1951, when the black children began attending school in the Cadiz Central building, it has with additions, most recently been used by the Cadiz Manufacturing Company and the J . D. Bowling , . vv.i-t.n.oye.d by 6,Ut.e., ~ e/1. 1906 a.dd,u,u,n. Lanes. Oh.LO a. 6:t. . su..,J.d)..ng, cadil, LJn,U)n 7930 Ja.nu.an.!J 20,

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TWP. Info-tion supplied by Mary Rogers and Ann• Hawk . ~ ERSVILLJ1,_-- lt was platted by John cramblett in IBIS- It was a t hriving I settlement of skillful craftsmen and busy merchants. There were many English e and many were Methodists. In Deersville lived David Auld , compile< of " The i Ohio Harmonist'' . The<• were lat e and 1ocal anti-Masonic activities, also a Good Templars organisation, an anti- liquor societY• Deersville was a place of early cultural achievement. Th• schools, printing press, and communitY library •N were strongly established- About 1900, of 96 residents, 91 lived in the ir own homes. There were 14 of school age, 17 widows, and 16 widowers- Not a child

was born that year, not a death in 15 months. ,,- >-- -­ !!!'oWSVIL~--lt was platted by Absolam Kent Jr. on December 20, 1815 , and filed / on December 22 , 1815- It is said, "A town th•t died abo r nin' " , but the cross • roads ar e so designated- Th• beginnings seemed to be a race with Deersville.

Once ther e was a store, a copper shop, and a saw mill- FEED SPRINGS- -This was a stoP on the Moravian Trail where t he stage coaches al ways stopped, watered and fed their horses. Th•Y left mail and supplies at _,,._ ii ---a nea-r-bY -cott age. That stop was at t h• ,_i t of t h• long haul up f r om Gnaden­ / ,-... _} .. ~. t hutten. This site had near-bY "deeP springs" . Here wagoner s and drovers could q J ii I - • . ' 5 ; t water their animals- Hence the name of the co,mnunitY• There was a post Office I as early as 1850 and a church even ear lier. A family by t he name of Strauss I I • operat ed the P . Q. at one time. ~s'!VIL1,J1,.--This was th• sit• of a company- owned mining settl ement, consi s t ing ~ of 80 homes and a company s t ore. The mine operat ed f r om 1904 t o 1927 under 0 the or iginal mining corpor ation. l>, FRANKLIN \TAl'PAN POST oFFICE)--ThiS inland village was platted by John Marshall 0 N on ,iar ch- 4, 1837_-;;;....-Befo_r e t-he day s of Rural Free Del i ver/, t his was quite an d important post office - According t o t he map , the office must have be en located ~ in the Arbaugh stor e at th• corne r of Main and Rose stree t s - According t o z nonna Fr asier, at one tim•• a doctor pract iced across t he street. \le was t h• (/) I grandfather of sam carpenter- In 1856, the post Mast er was Leonard D- Rowl•Y · 7J His sal ary was $20. 61 · Th• revenue at th• post office was $14.41 , Fr anklin

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28 once ~a d a s aw mill, a Steam Mill Company , a blacksmith shop , two shoe shops, FRANKLIN SCHOOLS a cabinet shop, the post office, the Levi Arbaugh Store d , an a tannery owned by Court right Brothers. This small town was lost h T BEAVER DAM-- In Sec. 33 off C. 2 near (Co. Rd . 25) Tappan. The school was on wen appan Dam was made. The lake covers much of this area now. George Ch d . the Robert Pittis farm until the dam was built in 1936. It was closed for aney, a ent1st, lived in Tappan and made plates for $10 each for many people of the local·t Th lack of pupils in the 1920's. Families were: Sprags, Fowler, Hurless, Cramb­ 1 y. e general store was owned by David Taylor. He sold to David Cramblett and Rae. Later Earl lett, McGuire, Smith, Spiker, Milhorn. Teachers were: Hattie Harding, Pearl Reed became a part owner with David Cramblett. Simpson, Veda Hastings, Floyd Boor, Nellie Eiler, Hattie Host, McKinley Betts, Ellen Coultrap, Oliver Thompson, Charley Copeland, (became a professor at Ohio :• University at Athens), Morrison Czatt. Charley Jordan, a slave, and a soldier ,J of the Union Army in the Civil War, attended Beaver Dam when he was 33 years

/ -~1··· old. The last teacher: Wavalene Kidd . . ... t .... BROWNSVILLE-- It was on the Moravian Trail between Deersville and Feed Springs. .,. • The school building was torn down. A church was moved from Tappan to this site • ~ ., . when the dam was put in. It is now Brownsville Christian Church. ..,.. DEERSVILLE-- The first building was in the east end of town-- one story with two rooms. This building was dragged to the west end of town. It was placed across from the Methodist Church. Later it was rebuilt as a stable. The second building, built in 1872, had two floors and four rooms . In 1916, they got a charter for a Vee.tt~vil.le G~ade School and H-lgh School two year high school which lasted until 1928, when they lost the charter. They F~ank.lln. Twp. I used the upper floor for plays. They had grades in one room and the high school I I in the other first floor room. They later used only one room and finally con­ solidation took all the pupils away. The last teachers were: Lo&tella Simpson .. -----..o..;..~-....e.....'---- .... -- - - "i and Melissa Heavilin.

FEED SPRINGS--Sec. 16. It was near the everflowing spring where travelers stopped to feed and water their animals on the Moravian Trail. The first log building was on the Joshua P. White Farm. The last building was bought by Frank McGuire of Cleveland, whose mother once taught there. He deeded the building to the Feed Springs Church in memory of his mother's people, the Worst ells. Albert Easlick attended a log school on this site in 1864. Now the last Saturday in August, every year, there is a picnic, reunion, and program here. People enjoy the building and grounds, maples, coal house, and two little buildings in back. Teachers were Jesse Slates, John and Alice Priss, Frank Copeland. The last Weave.tt '~ School teacher was: Grace Chaney in 1954.

Tappan, OhJ...o

30 31 FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS VILLAGES TAPPAN-- Under water now on Route 250 near the boad landing. In the last I. DEERSVILLE 7. FEED SPRINGS building, there were two rooms--high school above and grades below. Mary 2 . FEED SPRINGS 8. BROWNSVILLE Rogers' father , Louis Patterson, taught high school in 1915-16. Mary attended 9. FRANKLIN - TAPPAN P.O. the grades and Jay Spiker attended the high school which was a two-year high 3 . WEAVERS school. The dam and the lake took the town and school. The last teacher: 4. TAPPAN 10. DEERSVILLE Grace Rothermund. 5 . BEAVER DAM CHURO-iES 6 . BROWNSVILLE II. FEED SPRINGS a CEM. l3. DEERSVII I E WEAVERS-- It was located in the southern part of the township toward Tippecanoe 12 . BROWNVILLE METHODIST 8 on C. 39 , Sec. 13. It is used as a store now . CEM . WEAVER' S SCHOOL HISTORY-- The first record of Weaver's School was the leasing - ~ .... PRESBYTERIAN ~ Tlfl'. ·c of land from Phillip Donareghy by school board members, Bernard Weaver, ~ Alexander Gunning and Isaac Laport, for the consideration of 50 cents for a 11 II term of SO years, recorded in Harrison County Courthouse July 2, 1834. We assume a building was built soon after. By word of mouth we know there

was a little log schoolhouse which stood on the west side of the present building. I 11 10 ,--/ On June 15, 1866, it is recorded the sale of 40 feet S . E. quarter by Phi llip Donaughy, administrator of John Donaughy, to Bernard Weaver. ,,(I The same day Bernard Weaver and wife,Gertrude, deeded the plot to the ! 1---t--~1-1----+~----t---;:::,-"~r--__;;,L_----4l--J.-+------l ::f Board of Education for the consideration of $15 . 00 to be their property as long i as it was used for educational purposes. This plot is where the present building • stands. So we know it was built some time after 1866. r-1 .-J The school was closed in 1959 at which time the students were taken into / \ the Lakeland School District. The ground and building reverted to the Weaver ( l farm which is now owned by Ezra Brainerd. I I I S2 ~ . I ~-\ \ \ ' 7 •• ·fl \ -/ I ...,_TONT11P.

School het..d hVte a6~Vt B~own~vW.e BeavVt Va.m School abou,t: 1922 - F~anW,n Twp. bt.JM.d,i.ng bu~ned - F~ank..U.n Twp. 33 32 FREEPORT TOWNSHIP - TOWNS One is Oliver P. Kinsey, founder of Valpa~ so University in Indiana. He spent his latter years in Freeport contributing much to the local schools-their library. Inf ormation f urnished by Martha Taylor , Paul and Alice Morton It has always been a place of culture with two famous parks, Shadyside and Bear Den Parks . Many noted speakers and musiciansperformed there-once William Jennings FREEPORT- Platted first in Tuscarawas County in 1810. The name i ndicates the use Bryan, the silver tonguedorator spoke at Shadyside Park. Later in the 1900's of the Big Stillwater (port) to ship produce to Tuscarawas River s ettlements. This chautauquas held in tents and lyceum courses in the old opera house above the village was on the early trail, later, r oad, to the ridge, west, on which sat present Dunlap Hardware attracted large crowds. A landmark still s t anding is Cadwalader now Westchester, and over into the valleys leading to Old Newcomer' s the town jail built of stone from near-by quarries. Another is the brick Town and to White Eyes Plain. This was the mail r oute scene of the Post Boy building on the corner being used as the town hall and given to the town by the murder. Freeport is served by the Baltimore and Ohio once, the Wheeling, Probee Clark Family hoping for a village library. So we're a proud little village­ Cleveland, and Loraine- or, locally, Tuscarawas Valley Railroad. The community a little over 500 people-raising $8, 000 for our fire department by our Centennial enjoyed a "stone Quarrying age" which can be verified by the early stone school, Celebration. the jail, and side walks of stone. And it has been the chief timber area of the county. A Mr. Allen was one of the first postmasters. Some thought he was a SMYRNA-Had a post office from 1827- 1838, first postmaster BenoniStoats. The plat Southern sympathizer, So he wasn't very popular. Freeport has just celebrated was filed in 1817 . It was an early settlement of the Friends. It had a grocery its Centennial. When the first road was cut through the forest, stumps were store and stores to meet t he needs of a farming community. Smyrna being on the left standing along what is now the main street of the village. 'Dhe early streets line where three counties join (Belmont, Guernsey, and Harrison) afforded the were wagon roads about 12 foot wide with a wood pile in front of each home to place for the Tri- County Fair. This exposition was unusual in that it brought supply the open fireplaces. (Even today we are seeing those wood piles due to the forth many fence climbers from remote places who made manifest characteristics of high price of fuels. ) Freeport grew rapidly in those days. The Stillwater Creek past generations. Grown boys were barefooted and twist tobacco held forth long was navigable as far up as Piedmont and f reight was loaded free on the sout hside after the advent of the automobile. Morgan' s Raiders entered the county at Smyrna. of the village, hence, the name-Freeport. After building homes and clearing MCKEOWN-Had a post office 1899-1901, postmaster, William McKeon. the ground, churches and schools were the next priority. The f irs t church was the Friend's or Quaker Church. It was followed by the Methodist, the Presbyterian and Christian Churches. In the 1900' s three more churches were added - the church of Christ; the Catholic and the near-by Nazarene Church. It is interesting to note the low cost of the early churches: Presbyterian in 1891cost around $4, 000, manse in 1905 about $2, 200, and education rooms and basement in 1928 cost $8,500. There were many businesses - 3 general merchandise, grocery, furniture, hardware, meats, drugs, jewelry, farm implements, harness, shoe repair, tailor, millinery, mill, iron foundry , coal mine near town, and later telephone, creamery, stock and Cla¢¢ 06 1933-1 934 Smy~na School grain buyers, barbers, livery~ hotel, insurance, opera hall, 3 doctors , dentis t , Smy~na School bank, newspaper . The biggest employer in town today is the Press He~ald, the long time owner being the Williams Family . With better roads came consolidation and many school changes. Many noted people have had their beginnings in Freeport.

Sc~ence Hill School on S:t . Rz. 342 be;aveen C'lu:t Chu:t~ and F~eepolvt -i..n 1935 34 35 FREEPORT TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS LOWER CRABORCHARO , No. 6 Sec. 28 N. W. \ On Rt . 118 close to the cemetery. Still

DRY RIDGE- standing, frame building. Legend says there used to be a log building up the No . 5-0n Co. Rd. 57, Sec. 23. There were 4 buildings. This story of Silas run with a huge fire place in it. Last teacher - Lois Hutchenson 1936. Green is found in Jack Barrett' s book in the Cadiz Library. In the Freeport Press for February 9 , 1910 John Morton tells of his teaching Silas Green went barefooted the year round in the log school. Re kept a at Lower Craborchard . "I taught five terms of school in that subdistrict: two thick piece of board near the fireplace and when he ran to school he carried it summer terms and three winter terms. Our terms of school at that time were not under his arm. Then after arriving he stood on the board to warm his feet. near Ly so long as a t the present day. We generally managed to have three months in The first building was on the Andrew S. Carr Farm, used until 1868. This the winter and the same in the summer. And a little later on it was changed to four second building was built on the Thomas Whittington Farm and was called "Frog in the winter and two in the summer. I am speaking here of the rural districts, Pond" . This letter published in the Freeport Press in 1880 tells the story. where the scholars are get ting so scarce that thev can't have any school. I "While there has been some talk of places around us and the origin of their taught for thirty-two years in the rural districts, and never had an enrollment names, I have never heard one word as to the origin of Frog-pond School house. of less than forty scholars, the general average (attendance) scarcely ever falling It is a neat little building situated in the corner of District No. 5, but on below thirty-five . The largest enrollment of any school I ever taught was account of location, is unfit for the purpose for which it was built. It was com­ Friendly Ridge in Washington Township, Harrison County, in the winter of 1864. The enrollment there that winter was eighty, but seventy-five was the highest number pleted ten years ago this fall. When finished we all thought it must have a in attendance on any one day-more by far than any one teacher could do justice name. Some called it Possum Trot; some No . 5; some the D---l's Half-acre, but tO • II says I, let's give it the title belonging to it-Frog-pond. NO 1- When the Board met to select a location for School house, they went down into 0fr St. Rt . 800-Behind Lakeland School. Sec. 7 SW •. Go east from St. Rt. 800 the hollow where there was nothing but a mud- hole. Some of the directors, D. north of Freeport where you go to Lakeland, continue down the road a short distance Daugerty and John Watt, were opposed to the present location, and all honor to and then: the remains of the last building can be located. There must have been them, say I . But the one in favor prevailed.------But it has some advantages four buildings, the third one brick. Quaker stock established this school, as and some disadvantages. There is a good supply of frogs and wiggle-tails are usual they promoted education. Families: Bracken, Sears, Sproull, Compher, numerous. Mud is plenty all year through. Good water was so scarce last fall McNamee, Rice Allen, Goulden , Russel, Carver, Kinsey, Ca Green, John Morton, that the children suffered from thirst, the wiggle- tails having taken possession .James Cope, Harriet Smith, Reuben Allen, Rebecca Green, William Bracken, Maggie of their spring. Some of the neighbors locked their springs against them, and Stewart McCullough. Last teacher - Mrs. Gustara Milleson Pittis 1925. the poor little children had to wander around and get water wherever the could find it. Sometimes they would get back after school was taken up, from these PLAINVIEW - NO. 7 expeditions in search of a drink. Then again there is no road to it. Think of On St. Rt . 800, Sec. II N.E. ~. The building is still standing used as a it, a Public School house, and no road to it. It is not a rather private one? barn, midway between Smyrna and Freeport. The first building was located at Me thinks I hear someone say, 'we have a road.' But, More Anon." the forks of the road near the home of the late John Decker . Teachers: H. N. A substantial citizen, John Niblock, is said to have described the location Carver later a professor at Valparaiso University, Thomas Sewell later a as a place "where the eye of God had never seen nor the foot of man ever trod," professor in Franklin College, Joseph Romans, John Morton and later Mary Rowland, So not long after 1880, because of the general dissatisfaction and "the west Mary Taylor Wilson, Martha Taylor, and Ray Zimmerly. Families: Rowland, Curtis, side became prolific" the building was torn down and moved near to the home of Hollett, Moore, Kirkpatrick, Leeper Dennis, Lester, McAdam , Wilson, Figley. There Linc Bendell and became Dry Ridge again. Then in 1882 a brick building replaced was always a large attendance, much activity. Last teacher - Glen Carver 1941. the frame one.

36 37 SCIENCE HILL, NO. 3 quite young, I can only remember him as a 'born gentleman', a fine example, On St. Rt. 342 . It was located between the Watt and Cree Farms . The always a good dresser, shoes always highly polished, in short, a fine example for the building still standing has been in this location since the 1860's. Formerly boys . the first building was located down on Atchison Creek and was called Bat on Next came , about 1858, Samuel Knox, and all I have said about Carver will Rouge getting its name from the widow woman , Batton, who lived in a cabin almost apply to Knox, besides he was a fine instructor, quite handy with the rod, but adjoining the school. In 1930 R. M. Black wrote in the Freeport Press of this only taught a year or two, when he was elected auditor of Harrison County, and left school: "About 1865 Joseph Romans began teaching in the school house down on for the county seat, Cadiz. Atchinson Creek, followed soon after by O. P. Kinsey, E.B. McNamee , and others, I might make mention at this time, that during the Knox terms, our school had till 1871 when R. M. Black taught a summer ter m, on the hill. This was quite an enrollment of seventy or more with about a full attendance, when the school a well patronized school, there being some of the following families to contribute board deemed it best to employ an assistant, John H. Reaves, who took the primary and in goodly numbers: The Dugans , Crees, Ripleys, Watts, Wrights, Lewis, end of the school, and recitations were heard in thesouth end of the building. Lathams, Kerrs , Steadmans, Fawcetts, Quillens, and others whom I have forgotten. The arrangement was not of long duration, as Reaves enlisted and lost his life There was one man in this district to whom the writer wishes to pay a tribute , in battle, early in the Civil War. For some time after this, the teacher required for he was surely worthy, in other ways than his deep interest in the school, and the more advanced scholars lend assistance by way of hearing classes in recitation. this man in John Watt. John Watt lived within a stone's throw of the school For the benefit of those who have no recollection of the schools of this building and was always the best of counsel as to school matters , having taught period, it may be in place to give some idea of our studies. In addition to the school in his younger days, besides he was a man of excellent judgment on old saying, "readin' and writin' and 'rithmetic', we had grammar, geography, practically every issue." Last teacher - Roger Reynolds 1939. anatomy , and physiology, algebra, geometry, phi losophy, or physics, and astronomy. Smyrna- N04 . I may also tell of some of the means of punishment in favor at this time with At the junction of St. Rt . 800 and 22 just north of Smyrna . It is of Mr . Thompson , Viz: that of standing on the floor; standing on one foot on the red brick, and shows fine points of masonary and could be studied for its floor; standing on the floor holding one arm at right angle to the body or architectual know-how. It has been used as a church and as a gospel chapel. pointing at the corner of the room; lying on a bench face downward; if you cast a At one time it had a large attendance. Last teacher - J. Ellis Glasgow 1941 . side glance, the ' spanker' was, it appeared, automatically in action. He also, Let's learn a little about life in the one-room school from R.M. Black as as far as we know, invented a 'dunce block' or stool. published in the May 29 , 1930 issue of the Freeport Press. Mr. Thompson instituted what he called a general exercise, which occurred about "Mr. Thompson always in the opening of school in the mornings, read a 11:40 a.m. till noon, and again in the evening at from 3:40 p.m. until dismissal , chapter from the Bible and added a short prayer; in the evenings perhaps ten the advanced pupils only , taking part, that is from the 4th reader up . The minutes were used in reading to the school from a journal he kept when he made a exercises in geography consisted in singing the names of the states, the capitols trip to California in 1858 , and this was a great treat, since he wrote each day and location, for instance. 'Maine , Augusta on the Kennebec River, ' and so on from the time he left Harrison County till he returned to his native state and home , till we had learned the nanes of all the states, the capitols, and location. f f"l)m Ohio to the Pacific, over the Rockies, digging gold and so on. His description All this appealed to the younger pupils and many of them by listening, had the songs of crossing the 'Great American Desert' , climbing the mountains, and as he lay at as pat as we older ones. Again naming ten of the highest mountain peaks in the nights looking into the heavens night after night, and admiring the great comet of world, location and altitude, ten of the longest rivers in the world and location: 1858, and I believe this comet is known as the largest ever visible to this ten of the largest cities in the world, with their location and population, etc." earth. He was a good writer and his comment on the grandeur and sublimity of the mountains and all else, s ave us quite anij insprration. My first teacher was Mitchel Carver, in the ' new brick house' and as I was

38 39 R. M. Black describes Dry Ridge before the Civil War days as printed in the FREEPORT SCHOOLS Freeport Press. The first school was established in 1812. The first building was a log one "There were the Steadman boys, six, super men physically, the Blackwoods, on corner of Main and S. High St. where Freeport Press Building now is . Between about the same number or more, and they, too, were of the same class; then came 1830 and 1835 a native sand stone building, 24 by 24 feet, was erected, having the Huhges, Wittingtons, Alexanders, Lawrences, Tolands, McClellands, Mayes , six windows and one door. It was used for school then for shops of different Karrs, Breens, and so on. The greater portion of these families carried almost In 1874 the stone building was sold to the late Thomas Hall and torn the full Irish blood in their veins and while the Irish usually unload difficulties trades. A little before 1856 a new brick building was located on Ohio Street and trouble with their wit, not so always.------Some of the older folks will away . remember that during the war some how the nort hern Democrat was christened where a duplex owned by James McCartney now stands. Parts of the building were · h d 1 The 1 11.·ttle wh1.·te school house' "Copperhead," also "Butternut, " the Democrat taking this 'slam' at its intent, torn away and i t was converted into t e up ex. was remodled into a home , now occupied by the Phillip Cunningham Family. One found a way to show his colors, by carefully taking the cross- section out of the more building was erected in 1911 used for all the grades until Lakeland School butternut and polishing it, The same was really a beauty, and later the same was worn as a pin on the lapel of the Democrats coat, or by the lady on her neck was built. Now it is used for the first six grades. In 1891 the first graduating class of three, Margaret Dick (Mrs . W. Weaver) , ribbon, to indicate the wearer ' s politi cal position as well as a banter to the Hattie Harding (Mrs. Thomas Stewart) , and Maud Wherry graduated from Freeport Republican to take the thing off. High School, a two year course. In 1907 the high school became a three year As I said in a former story, that at this time during the war, political school , with F. D. Green as principal. In 1941, under R.W . McCullough, the arguments were often times emphasized with the clenched fist, so here in the Dry school became a first grade, 4 year high school and also operated a Normal Ridge School, when the Hughes (Democrats) appeared with this handsome pin blazing School. The high school continueq graduating as many as 48 one year, under from the coat lapel the Blackwoods (Republicans) decided to do t he trick, take the pins off, and a genuine Irish row ensued, fencestakes flew, as did anything Emerson Roman ' s leadership-until ideas of consolidation developed. *The Boards' of Education of Freeport, Moorefield, Deersville, Washington , handy. Much blood was lost, but no one murdered. This feud was of only short and Perry Townships met to discuss consolidation August 9, 1956. As a result duration, since a few years later all were friends as before.------finally the new building was finished and Lakeland School opened September 5, 1961 , Along in the sixties when the Civil War was raging, all of us had f i ght in our At first some elementary rooms met at Lakeland . These elementary students were hearts; soldiers we wanted to be especially since every able-bodied man under probably fifty was compelled to meet and drill for the service anytime he moved back to Freeport and the 7th and 8th gr ades became a part of Lakeland Building. Then in 1972 Lakeland became a part of Harrison Hills City School might be called, instructed by a real military man , so we boys caught the There are now three high school centers-Lakeland, Jewett-Scio, and inspir ation and organized a company of some thirty boys, ranging in age from System. eleven to thirteen, uniformed with a real black oilcloth military cap, dark Cadiz-under one board of educati on." *Taken from the Bicentennial History of Lakeland 1976 recorded in the Office blue round-about, white trousers with red stripe down the leg, on the out-side, broomsticks for guns, wire bayonets, a small snare drum, so~ were quite pleased of Harrison Hills City School System. with ourselves.-- - - -So Dry Ridge put on a big school celebration and invited our company to appear, which they did, and put on quite arms , in short, we did the thing up in good shape and the cordial reception we received will last in memory of every boy through out life." Last Teacher - Forest Thaxton - 1932.

F1te.epotLt School 1908 41 40 FREEPORT TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS YILLAGES GREEN TOWNSHIP TOWNS I. PLAINVIEW - NO. 7 10. SMYRNA 2. SMYRNA II. FREEPORT Information furnished by Ha zel Scott and Kathleen Birney.

3. SCIENCE HILL - BATON ROUGE HOPEDALE- 4 . LOWER CRABORCHARD CHURCHES *"In the year 1800, a Mr. Delaney purchased a section of land in what at that time was part of Jefferson County . This section was known as Township 5 . DRY RIDGE 12. SMYRNA a CEMETRY #10 and went by the name of Green. Mr. Delaney sold parts of his holdings to 6. 13. FREEPORT : FRIENDS, newcomers who were moving westward and found this location much to their 7. FROG POND METHODIST, PRESBYTERIAN, liking. The soil was rich, the springs of good water were plentiful , and there 8 . FREEPORT CHRISTIAN, CHURCH OF CHRIST, was an abundance of good timber with which to build their homes. 9. LAKELAND HIGH CATHOLIC, NAZARENE Log cabins sprang up everywhere; stores, blacksmith shops , carpenter shops were built and soon there was quite a settlement. At first it was known as Green and the first post office went by that name . CEMETERIES Among the early log cabins built by the following names : Crouch, Moor , KERR - BOYD Allison, Skelly . The Allisons purchased several farms, some of which remained GREENMONT in Jefferson County when the new county of Harrison was formed. Among the early log cabins built by the Allisons is one which is still ----•~HIN~TON _ TWP ______MN&.f_7 I ------standing just outside the corporation line on the E. N. Carson property. It was / formerly occupied by the Byers family, but now stands empty . Another is the II home of Harold Stringer, built in the middle 1800 ' s, by Dr. A.W. Ramsey, who lived there for several years, as did his son, Dr . Wesley Ramsey who enlarged and remodeled the home. His office was a small building across the driveway from his residence. The home of Gladys Raber was once a log cabin as was our founder's home on High Street, now owned by E. S. Atkinson. Isabell Carson's home was discovered to have been logs at one time and is listed on the early records as an old house." Cyrus McNeely and his wife, Jane Donaldson McNeely, came to Green in 1849 , bought a home, platted the town and filed it in 1851. He built the mill and bought ten acres from Mr. Delaney on which to build his school. (This I land is still the site of Hopedale public schools. ) The town and school were the dreams of the McNeeleys so for this reason they got the name Green changed to Hopedale. There are many interesting buildings in Hopedale; it would seem the old homes were not destroyed, but added to and remodeled. On the Allison farm were two coal banks and a tannery. Hopedale Bicen- tennial Museum fixed up in 1976 was built in 1817 by Mr. Crouch, father-in- law of David Allison. The exterior is red brick with a back section added later.

43 42 printing business. He printed the Hopedale Enterprise in 1906. Another It has five roo.ns up and f ive down and is heated by fireplaces and a coal stove. paper, The Hopedale Herald, was published about 1910. In this old hardware In the home of Charles Carson Mrs. Hanley once operated a stage coach stop building was once a feed store and later also a furniture store. Mr~. Lizzie between Steubenville and Cambridge. This was an underground station for Johnson opened a hotel on Mill Street at one time. The first bank was opened escaping slaves, too . Also Cyrus McNeely's home was used for hiding slaves as a in 1903. To the town came several doctors and an attorney as the college small hidden room with a cot in it was found when they enlarged the cellar years attracted educated people. For a number of years The Wabash and The Erie later. On the corner of Normal and Fifth Streets was a millinery store and the Railroads and also the Penn Central Lines were very busy. Taxis and drays dwelling of Miss Hattie Minor who made and trimmed most of the hats-beautiful brought mail, express, and passengers from the stations in and out of Hopedale. creations! At the corner of the property at Central and High was once a plan­ Then remember the Spellacy Farm which 176 acres sold in 1905 for $90,000 ing mill combined with a carpenter and "joining" shop owned by Mr. Baldwin, to the Standard Oil Company because it had producing wells with a daily output later made into a mortuary run by his son, Russel. Once there was a butter of ninety barrels. Also there was the "Gold Mystery". In 1875 some men factory where Geanangel' s house is now. On the back part of Carmon Pizzino ' s digging a well discovered a metal and it was reported the property owner property there once stood a large brick kiln which later was made into a livery was offered $20,000 for the land. Was there gold? South of Hopedale grew stable owned by George Copeland who moved it down town. Then this building up Cherry Valley and Parlett-small mining t owns-bringing business to Hopedale became the town opera house having a large stage, two side dressing rooms, a and many foreign names. Gradually, Hopedale passed through the Normal School, balcony, and ticket booth. Since the chairs were moveable they would have dances the oil and gas, then the coal era. Now , if trains go on the tracks, they there, also high school graduation and plays-later, moving pictures, until Hope­ do not stop. The automobile and truck have taken over even much of the coal dale Theater was built by the Stringer men . On the corner of High and Main is hauling. Hopedale is a community of homes , homes with a history, a feed still a store building once owned by Mr. M. J. Saunders and then by several others . mill-no milling, eating places, a grocery , grade school, and churches. It was a well stocked grocery and general dry goods store. In the older part * Taken from "Hopedale Then 1849 and Now 1976" of the Blackburn Funeral Home was once a grai n cradle factory before the Civil War and below the garage was the site of a brick factory . On Church Street lived Stringer Timmerman, a watch and clock repairman. On the driveway behind the United Presbyterian Church was an old log blacksmith shop of the late Mr. James Frazier. Nearby was the home of James McKeever where he made organs, flutes , and cabinets. On the corner of Church and Main Streets was a small building used as a barbershop. The Methodist and the United Presbyterian Churches are located still on Church Street. Clark Gable's childhood home is located on Mill Street, and, of course, so is the mill which Cyrus McNeely built in 1849. It was a 3 story grist mill having a 14 inch hewed timber frame held together with wooden pegs or pins. At first they used a steam mill and mill stones then the roller process was put in with natural gas or crude oil. The top story of the mill was destroyed by fire, reducing its height. Now it is used as a feed and general store. Mr. Lyon's blacksmith shop was where t he G. E.M. Lumber business is located. The old hardware was on the corner of Mill and Main Streets where the parking lot is now. On the second floor in the early 1900's Mr. sutton Richards had a c,p1.u-ti McNee,ly Home 0ounded Hoped.a.le 184_9. Wr. . Mc.Nedy wa.1.> P11.e.1.J,i,d e.n.t 06 Hope..cta.i.e College.

45 44 GREEN TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS more ago . Mrs. Parkinson ' s father (a boy) was taken by his father to see it. Probably the circus came over "Drovers Road" on which they used t o drive herds BAXTERS and flocks east to the Ohio River at Brilliant. The building was dismantled Sec. 2. Just north of Beech Springs Church. The first school was prob­ and lumber used in the "Ranch" on the road to Unionvale. There were two ably held in the church building. Later this early school was named for the rooms to 1931- 32. Baxter Family who were noted for their sheep raising and wool. Samuel and Last teacher - Bernice Ounbar 1943. Nancy Baxter were born before 1800 and are buried in Greenwood Cemetery. Carson brothers attended school here. It was on the Rose Valley Road . It was closed SNYDERS- about 1912 and pupils went to Hopedale or Rose Valley. Milton J . Taggart and Sec. 19 . North easL corner. Near Co . Rd. 55 across f rom Ponder osa Inn. perhaps, Orville Harrah were teachers there. It was named for Martin Snyder who is buried in Gr eenwood Cemetery . It is now used for a farm machinery building. It has known many social gathering, even BURTON- Sunday School. Just east of Hopedale, on land by the Don Rabers now , was the site of this Last teacher - Lucille K. Taggart 1948. country school for years. UNIONVALE- BROWNS- Sec. 17 . On Co . Rd. 12 on site of first school. Once it was called "Six Sec. 27 . The structure still stands on the slope some 300 yards above the Square", as the building was 18 by 18 feet . The remodled building still stands one time Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad near the tunnel and station, Pittsburg on the site as a residence . Junction. One school burned before the present structure on Co . Rd . 51 above Last teacher - Room I Lucille Leyda 1954, Room II Nelle McClain 1959. Skit. At one time 100 pupils needed two teachers- a man for the big boys and a lady for the small children. They had a partition which could be raised WARNER COLLIERS- for social occasions or plays, like, "The Face on the Barroom Floor". Last teacher - Rena Sagrilla 1928. Last teacher - Doris M. Tipton 1954. GREENWOOD CEMETERY- Many early settlers are buried here. CRAIG- On line between Sec. 23 and 29 . On Co . Rd . 12 near old Fair Grounds. There were two buildings. Land was given by John Craig in 1862. Now t orn down. Last teacher - Sarah McClintock.

KENWOOD- Sec. 10. Close to Railroad on Co. Rd. 13. After school closing it was used for a saloon and was burned down . Last teacher - Olive Vehre 1947 .

ROSE VALLEY- Sec. 11 at intersection of Co . Rd. ' s 12 and 14. Early settlers were here in 1803. It was first known as Reed's School. After railroad came school was moved near it. A c ircus, in wagons, passed through Rose Valley a century or C~cug'-!i School How.,e - 2 mU.u 6~om Cadlz on the Cacuz - Un.lonvale Road ne.a.~ the Moo~e.he.a.d ye.Uow blU.C.k. hou-!i e. ·

46 47 NO. 7- many other changes were made, The portable building was used as a cafeteria. Sec. 16-Educational land. (Section 16 of every township in the Northwest A new cafeteria and three classrooms were added in the early 1960's. Territory was designated as school land ; money from the sale of this land was In 1971 Hopedale High School graduated its last senior class. It then set aside for schools.) An 1862 map shows the entire section as school land consolidated into the Harrison Hills School District and Hopedale students but by 1875 t he map showed an acreage owned by Merryman, Dowdens , and Kails . 9 through 12 grades, go to Cadiz High. This land is located northwest of Hopedale, near the O and P Shaf t mine but Members of the first graduating class of Hopedale were: we know nothing of the school there. Ila (Dunn) Cole John Dallas Elsie Buckingham Fenstemaker W. C. Parks Mayme (Barnhouse) Laughlin Myrtle (Kerr) Van Atta HOPEDALE- Georgia (Betts) Martin Taken from "Hopedale Then and Now" compiled by Lucile Kyle Taggart. This was in 1893, and the high school course was just a two year course. ·"Old r ecords show that in 1840 and perhaps earlier there were schools in Later it became a four year term. Our school now is a grade and junior high this area. We know there was a one room log school near where Beech Spring school. We have a full core of teachers including music and band. We have Chur ch once stood and one record makes mention of Cyrus McNeely having attended a lovely cafetaria." the neighborhood school as a young lad. There was a log school building on what is now the Winn farm, and it also served as a meeting house for worshippers in the days before there was a nearby church. We find no record of any name designating these schools, and they were probably referred to by certain · districts . • Later on, there were many one room rural schools in Green Township. Three of these schools were close to our village and provided means of education to both the village children and the rural children.---- Of course, as these rural schools closed, most of the pupils came into Hopedale to school. In the beginning they provided their own transportation, or as many did, obtained rooms in town and stayed here during the week. Then in due time came the busses. Hopedale ' s first grade school was opened about 1891. i n a large two s t or y building locat ed on the parking lot side of the Me thodist Church. The first seven gr ades were located on the first floor. The eighth grade and the high school pupils occupied the top floor. Mr. A. J . Dennis was the first superintendent and ser ved until 1905. School continued to be held in this bui ldi ng until about 1911 or 1912, when it was moved to the old college buildi ng, since t he college was closed. In 1914, the two small brick buildings were built to pr ovide for the first four grades. The high school and t he upper grades were s t ill occupying the old college buildings . In 1925, a new high school building was erect ed. It was also used for seventh and eighth grades. This buildingwas just one stor y. In the spring of 1936 work was started on adding a second s t ory and a larger auditorium and

48 49 ~ ~ I. ROSE VALLEY 8. FIFE l'O, SKIT 12 BETHEL fl CEM 2 . UNION VALE 9. GREENOUGH - ,KM EAS7 CADIZ 13 HOl'EOALE METHODIST 8 CEM GREEN TOWNSHIP 3. CRAIG tO UNION'V.6LE 14 Gil:EENWOOO 4 KENWOOD II HOl'l;t».Lf 15 BEECH SPRINGS 5, BROWN°S GREEN TOWNSHIP - CHURCHES- CEMETERIES 6. SNYO£R's 7 HOPEDALE

UJUIAN TWP. BEECH SPRINGS- *" The history of this grand old church dates back to 1804, and it con- I I tinues on in many United Presbyterian Churches in the surrounding area. Be­ r-...... I fore the Beech Spring Church was built, two log churches served the communities \ '~ 1 , I .. / as both church and school, and from some accounts there was at one time, a I I -- ..... tent church. The first log church was located on the County Road leading ~ from Hopedale to Adena, about a mile west of where the cemetery is:bcated. This building also served as a school house. The next log building was located just north of the cemetery. The Beech Spring Church was organized on November 10, 1804. The Reverends Mr . Mccurdy and Patterson held a meeting and organized Beech Springs Church, so named because 0f .the magnificent beech tree that stood beside a full flowi ng spring of water. The last church to be erected on those grounds was beautiful and spacious dark red brick, which served the people of the community f r om 1830 until it disbanded, due to the families selling their land to coal companies for stripping purposes, and moving away. At the time of disbanding in the late 1920's, members were given the privi­ 1:, lege of taking their letters to any church of their choice. The First minister r I was Rev. John Rea , who served for fifty years. The last minister was Rev. I • I T. W. Pearson, who served from 1921 until ill health forced hi m to resign in . , November of 1937. Reverend Pearson was serving the joint pastorate of Beech / Springs and Hopedale Churches. " 12 *Taken from the Bicen tennial booklet "Hopedale Then 1849 and Now 1976" . p. 70.

BEECH SPRINGS CEMETERY- Sec. 7. Many pioneer s wer e buried here. There is a memorial to Andrew II Ralston a soldier with Geor ge Washington thr oughout the entire Revolution. *"Of the Rose- Valley- Beech Spring area we have this note: John Mathews, I a surveyor of the Seven Ranges, kept a journal which gives the ' first written \ "" personal account' of a white man's presence in Harrison County. Mathews wrote, I ~ \ \ &@ 1787, September 27th, we encamped a half mile beyond the Big Lick on thence --...... n \,- IO 4 " \ he traveled westward to the ridge divi ding Shortcreek and Stillwater' /', ~ ,, \ -Taken from Harrison County Sesquicentennial book of 1963 p. 21 . ' '\ IIIMa[ 4 ' ' IN0ft1' · QIRI( TWP.

50 51 GERMAN TOWNSHIP TOWNS There was a turn table for engines located between the Branch and the main line also: a reservoir for filling the steam engines with water. Located here Information furnished by Hazel Scott and Winifred Veith. 1 were: 2 grocery stores, 2 saloons, general store, post office, ~ivery stable, GER.MAJ.~O, NEW JEFFERSON, JEFFERSON- grain mill, school, Howard's Chapu1 Church, telegraph office, telephone office, Since there was another Jefferson in Ohio the post office was named Germano. and a rooming house where meals were served. Once Abraham Lincoln stopped here This thrifty farming community established several t~riving businesses. On for a mea .. ,in 1861, on his way to Washington D. C. the main street where Tom Baker' s home now is located there was a furniture

factory. Caskets were made there. On the same street was the Post Office MILLERS STATION- and Charles Galbreath's Hardware Store. Also there was a drug store and across A railroad station on t he Pennsylvania main line. There was a general store the street was a hotel. At its height Germano had four churches- Luthe~ , Meth­ operated by the Walraths. odist, Reform, and Presbyterian. Bing Scott's Grocery and Dry Goods and Adrian's CARMAN- Hardware, Grocery, and Meats were long standing businesses. The school at the A railroad station east of Millers Station centered around a coal mine. top of the hill provided education for the youth, from the first grade and for There was~ tipple to load coal and ship on the Pennsylvania Railroad. William some time through grade eleven. Gradually all of the pupils were transfered Carman was the postmaster and operated a general store. Twenty-seven houses to the Jewett system. The Jefferson Flour Mill was located one half mile were built for miners-only one remains today and it has been moved from its South below the village. A leading merchant of early times was George Wirt; original location. a leading attorney, John Gruber. Here was the first camping ground of the veterans of the War of 1812 on their march from Mingo Island to the lake. The APEX- point of highest altitude in the county is found just north of the village. It was located on St. Rt. 646 east of Germano, a stop on the New York One of the first strip mining operations in the county was at Germano. Besides Central Railroad. A mining town grew up there during World War I. Most of the afore mentioned businesses the village had a barber, shoe repair man, the houses are gone. In the late 20's and early 30's a liquid oxygen plant tannery, saw mill, dentist-Dr. William Spence, and doctor, his father-Dr, Walter was located there. Spence, and an inventor, Rider who made the famous hay rake.

CADIZ JUNCTION-Post Office, MEANS- The Junction was platted by Joseph H. Penn, father of the late William B. Penn founder of the Penn store at Bowerston, in 1851, and called Pennsville. That name did not stick. The town grew up around the junction of the Cadiz Branch and the main line of the Steubenville and Indiana Railroad later the Pennsylvania Central System. Service began on the Branch June 11, 1854. A train from Cadiz met each passenger train that stopped at Cadiz Junction. Shipping by railroad was so j_mportant that it was a busy center serving all the eastern part of the township . Students going to Jewett High School and Scio College used the train for transportation (the Greaser). Many worked as far away as Steubenville, using the "Acconunodation"train night and morning,

Cen..tite. Un-<.:ty un.Ue.d P11.Ubtf:lVt-tan. ChUAc.h vr.e.c.-t.e.d ,(,.yt 1868. Loca;ted a.:t Ln.Vtr.iec.;Uon 06 Cou.n;t.y Roa.d 51 g 46 Ln. Gvunan Twp. 52 53 GERMAN TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS was made into a home . Families: Bibey, Leggetts, Peoples, Carmens. Teachers here were Clara Graham and Paul Patton. THE FIRST SCHOOL- There is a recorded deed that shows that in 1828 Chistofer Able, Jacob CENTER UNITY , N0.5- Winnings, and Jacob Lehenguth (Levengood) obtained from John and Molly Wagner Sec. 30, On Co. Rd. 51 First building was north of the Center Unity a small tract of land for the purpose of school establishment. It was believed Church and has been made into a residence. About 1849 a new building was there was a school already on that site but it was not known how long the built which has been made into a community hall. common school had operated, but probably as early as 1824 when German Town­ Last teacher - Martha Thompson 1945 .

ship had been separated from Green. COLES, NO. 3- THE FIRST SCHOOL BUS- Sec. 18 north of railroad. First building was wood frame near Carmen; The first one in German Township area was in 1931- 32. High school stu­ Second, brick on Cole farm. Both buildings were bought by Mr. Cole and used dents were transported to Jewett in a bus operated by Harold Stringer. His for farm storage. route began at Millers Station then to Center Unity and to Germano. Students Last teacher - Elsie Cole 1936. from out-lying farms had to find their own way to loading stations. The GERMANO- eleventh and twelveth grades were then bussed to Jewett. Mr. P.H. Smith Sec. 26. In the town of New Jefferson or Germano . The public school brought students in from Apex area. building constructed about 1873 was a nice two story frame structure standing

APEX, NO . 4- just above the Luthe~ Church which was built about the same year. The In the s.E. corner of Sec. 9 on Germano-AnpapolisRoad. First school school building cost about $2, 000. On Saturday, July 16, 1881 at 5 p.m., was located at the junction of Co. Rd. 4 and St. Rt. 646 . It was torn down a cyclone dropped down completely destroying the school building along with and moved east of Apex. Later it was made into a dwelling-the home of Mary the church. While the new brick building was being built classes were held in what is now Ada Ritchie' s garage in the north western secti on of town. Wilson now. When the four room building was completed the two down stairs rooms were used Last teacher - Virginia Miller 1936. for grades one through six; the two up stairs seven thr ough ten. For heat BLUE RIDGE- there was a coal stove in each room and the rest rooms were outside. Water Sec. 12 at junction of two roads. It was up a steep grade from the was obtained by pushing a button in the down stair s hall, with a sink for railroad. It was built in 1884 , and now torn down. Some teachers: J.A. washing hands. A library was donated by Mr. McMillan. Then Germano had a Finnicum, William Karl Winnings, Claude F. Statler, Sam Birney. three year high school until 1914, then a two year until 1936. Subjects had Last teacher - Lucy Hosterman 1945. to be alternated and students had to complete high school in another school living away from home. Gradually the school was sent to Jewett-1936-37 CADIZ JUNCTION- Sec. 23. Up a steep grade south of the railroad. Now building is high school bussed to Jewett, 1971-72 seventh and eighth, 1973-74 fifth and home of Dorothy Sinfield. Families: Leggett, Sinfield, Merryman, Birney. sixth and 1979 all went to Jewett. In 1949 a fire damaged two rooms making Grace Rothermund and Robert McFarland take their classes to the Community CARMEN- Hall. This Community Hall had been developed frora the United Presbyterian Sec. 5. on railroad. School lasted as long as the coal mine. Building Church. Teachers: J.A. Finicum, William Car l Winnings, Claude Statler, Sam

54 55 SCHOOLS VILLAGES I. APEX 8 . GERMANO - JEFFERSON GERMAN TOWNSHIP 2. CENTER UNITY 9 . CADIZ JUNCTION - MEANS P.O. 3 CADIZ JUNCTION 10. M ILLERS STATION CEMETERIES Birney, Mrs . Redman , Dean Harrah, Elizabeth Hendricks, Ella Rose, Lucille Leyda, 4. COLES II. CARMAN l!S. GERMANO !S. BLUE RIDGE 12 APEX 16. ZION Jay Eberly. 6 . CARMAN 17. TEDROW Last teacher - Richard Beatty and Winifred Veith 1979. 7. GERMANO CHURCHES 18. CANAAN 13. CENTER UNITY 8 CEM . 19. BLUE RIDGE 14 . GERMANO CH~HES 20. BUFFALO HILL UNITED PRESBYTERIAN 21 . SPROAT LUTHERAN

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ELM GROVE- Material supplied by: Elizabeth Smith, Roy Baker, Florence Postlewait, It was moved from the hills east of Plum Run Church close to the Gotchall and Sally Wymer . home to a road near St. Rt. 250. Sec. 12. BOWERSTON - The town was laid out in 1852 by David and Nathaniel Bowers Last teacher - Mrs. Anna Brown 1943. and Henry Hoover. First it was called Bowersville from the first, settlers. Barnhart Bower operated the first saw and grist mill in 1812 which got its HAVNARS- power from rapidly flowing Conotton Creek. At one time Bowerston had 2 Sec. 30. on Twp. Rd . 18. First building was log, a prescription school general stores, a confectiona ry, grocery and meats, hardware,hotel, creamery, with a summer term.A frame structure was built in 1885. Roy Baker bought the land and building in 1944, using the building for a farm machinery shed. lumber yard, garage, autolivery, ice dealer, blacksmith shop, bank, dealer Last teacher - Elizabeth Barr 1939. in farm implements, 2 physicians, 2 barbers, 5 churches, 2 railroads, 4 chapters of secret societies, undertaker, and real estate dealer. Also near HELLERS- town they had coal mine, In 1878 W.B. Penn established one of the biggest Sec. 26. One half mile south of Bowerston. A watering trough was across general stores in Eastern Ohio. In 1910 the Nolan Company started manufac­ the road from it. It was on the Nancy Heller Farm and had no fence to keep turing mining equipment. And in 1930 the Bowerston Shale Company started the cows away from the frame building. In those early times they used slates producing tile. From this community for years M. Tope, a leading phrenologist and first grade charts-no books. Elizabeth Smith's mother and Floyd McCauley in the United States mailed his magazine to interested followers all over went to school here. Teachers; Ida McDonald, Gulla Price. Building was moved the world . to Plum Run .

STATION FIFTEEN - Post Office Philadelphia Roads - There were always a PLUM RUN- few houses and a store or two . It was never important commercially but a Sec. 6. Co. Rd. 8. First building was on top of hill on a triangular 1 convenience to the community. The railroad crossing was dangerous-several plot between Twp . Rd. 213 and Co . Rd. 8 . It was moved in early 1900 s to having been killed there before the railroad was put above the road as an make Elm Grove. Second building was torn down by Rev. Huffman and put into a house in New Rumley. Students: Winifred McCauley, Jim Palmer, Mrs . Sarah overhead. Calloll, Herman Host, Clyde Host, Gladys Bower, John Carroll. Teachers: Beatty Phillips, Mary Getter, Frank McGuire, Mr. Mull; Mrs . Chaney, Mable Betts, Jess Slates, Alva Craig. Last teacher - Miss H. Wheeler 1947.

STATION 15- 0n line between Sec. 13 and 8. On St. Rt. 151 south of Will Heavilin's barn about where a trailer now stands, Last teacher - Frances Heavilin 1935.

flavnVl.'-6 Sc.hoo.t 59 58 TUNNEL HILL- BOWERSTON SCHOOLS Sec. 3. At the intersection of Co. Rd. 44 and Twp. Rd. 200, west of St. It was beyond the church and cemetery. Building has been torn down. Rt. 151. Last teacher - Elizabeth Barr 1935. The first school in the vicinity was one quarter mile south of the town acc--...odatethe children of the neigh- Notice that schools Were moved to ~•~u (across from Carlisle's?). It was called Heller's School. Where there were a large number of children there they moved the borhood. James McGavran was the teacher, and there were ninety pupils. school. In 1875 the first school was built in Bowerston on Jarvis Street where Glenn Hunt now lives. It was a two-story frame building with two rooms. Dr. McGavran was the principal and was outstanding for his teaching of morals as well as the 3 R's. Ross Masters was the teacher. In 1892 a brick school building was built on the present site. It had four rooms . The bricks were made on the grounds as the building was built. A. B. Wright was the first principal and organized the high school. He was outstanding for his religious influence on the pupils. A Mr . Finefrock was considered the best teacher. He was known to have whipped 22 pupils the first day of school. To be certified as a teacher, a person had only to be recommended by a board of three teachers of the county. In the high school there were four grades; Preparatory, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior. Subjects taught were; orthography, reading, geography, physical geography, grammar, arithmetic, physiology, penmanship, history , composition, rhetoric, algebra, civics, botany, and American Literature. The first grad­ uating class was in 1893. In 1914 the four room building was torn down and the present one was constructed at a cost of $25,000. Pi.um Run Sc.hool JennJ...e. Hol.i-t, Pe.a.1t.le. Stu.bbJ..nl.J, wl.1ma. BJf.own, Sa.1t.ah Ca.It.It.OU, Ve.lb~ Pai.mu, Mac and Albert Bower helped lay the brick for the building. Cha1t.le-6 Pa.tme.11., Gi.ady1.i Bowe.1t.1.i, Lau.1t.a. Slonac.kvi, AnnJ...e. Palme.It., ~duh Ba11.na11.d, Pea.It.le. Bowvi1.i, RennJ...e. 81t.own, Mae. Bowe.1t1.i, Emme.t.-t Mc.Cauley, J ettl'l.,l.e. Mu.Jt11.a.y, Ida. Bowe.It. Jenn.le. Va.w1.ion Jo6h Bowe.It., Vona.id Bowvi, Ed Mu11.1t.a.y, BVtt Bowe.It., La.ve.1t.ne. B~wVt, Che,otvi M;J(.Jt.a.y, Wil61t.e.d Mc.Cauley, Ra.lph Mc.Ca.u..tey, Ge.o11.ge. We.1:i.t., Hvr.ma.n Ho1.i.t, Clyde. Ho6t, Glenn Bowvr., Chalt.i.€-6 Mc.Cauley, Lloyd Mc.Cau..te.y, B-Ut WUma. We,ot, Ne.va. We,ot, JU.c.ha.11.d Palmvr., Kate. Bowvi1.i, Pe.all.le. B1t.own, Co1t.a. ney

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60 MONROE lDWNSHIP SCHOOLS MOOREFIELD TOWNSHIP - ORGANIZED ON DECEMBER 6 , 1824 I. PLUM RUN CHURCHES 2. ELM GROVE 10. TUNNELL HILL a CE M. Information given by: Zelma Moore and Mary Rogers . MOOREFIELD- 3 . HAVNAR 11. PLUM RUN a CEM . It was platted by Michael Moore and Gabriel Cane 1815. It was l ocated on 4 . STATION 15 12. BAPTIST Clay Pike, one of the main highways from Pittsburgh to the West , used by the 13 . BOWERSTON: BRETHREN 5 . TUNNELL HILL Post Riders . The town reached its peak during the Civil War day . At the time 6 . BOWERSTON METHODIST the town had: 3 hotels, 7 shoe makers, 2 tanneries , 2 buggy factories , 4 7. HELLERS CEMETERIES blacksmith shops, 1 saddler, 1 hatter, 2 tailors, 3 general stores, 1 pottery, 1 distillery of peppermint and other extracts, 2 churches , 1 dentist , 3 car­ VILLAGES 14. LONG VIEW penters, 1 newspaper, 3 stone masons, 4 plastere,;s; l veteJnarian, 1 jeweler 8. STATION 15 I5. HELLERS and 2 butcher shops. Here, also, were some of the best horse dealers in the I6.JOHNSON -BETTS 9 . BOWERSTOWN country; one of them had a barn big enough for 50 horses . Moorefi eld had a four room school and later added another room. Friday, July 24, 1863 this village was occupied by the Confederate Cavalry commanded by Gen . John Hunt Morgan. While Morgan rested on the parlor bed of a local hotel, apparently undisturbed by the nearness of µ.irsuing Union Forces, his troops stripped the vicinity of horses and edibles. Refreshed the Raiders set out late in the day . Shortly thereafter MocrEfield became the more willing hosts of James M. Shacleford and the Union Cavalry. Early morning the 25th found the village returning to normal quietude , possessed, however, with exciting memories of its longest day . There is a plaque in the center of the village that tells the story today.

PIEDMONT- At first it was called Butler because Henry Butler gave the right of way for the Cleveland, Tuscarawas Valley and Wheeling Ra ilroad constructed in 1880. The town was platted by Henry Butler in 1880, too . The railroad later ~ became the Baltimore and Ohio and transported boys and girls f r om Moorefield ~ I and Piedmont to Freeport High School. Another train called the Hootlebug carried the working men from Piedmont t o the B. & O. Railroad Shops in Holloway . ,.._. / ~ Collinsport was platted by Zacheriah Collins in 1878 . This village included / JO : \ ,. r all of the town lying North of state route 22 and West of the railr oad . It --m- ,,/ f / was named i n honor of Collins who formerly owned the land. Later the two t. towns were joined and given the name Piedmont because of the surroundings I ,, ' r hills. The change from Butler was necessitated because of goods going to ., r, ., .. I • ______j ~ --~Liltiif ______- ' I "'------iiwllc1.it- -,-.- STOCIC TB ...•

62 63 MOOREFIELD '..:Jw~SHIP SCHOOLS Butler in Richland County of this state, on the railroad. In both towns businesses grew up. There was a general store, a meat market, blacksmith shop, Moorefield in village on line between sections 21-18 on Co . Rd . 34. There furniture store, livery, and post office. There was a planing mill and a were two rooms then another was added for the high school. Building is used handle factory, a saw mill and lumber business on a large scale. The produce as a community Center. The high school closed in 1931. Consolidation closed business, butter and eggs, prospere.d There Was a hotel, a flour mill, hardware, the school in 1954. Last teachers were: Lela Moore, three and four , Mrs . implement business, a bank, barbers, undertaker, physic•~ns . Public schools Sarah Conrad, four and five, Mary Rogers grades seven and eight. were established in 1885. So Piedmont is the youngest town in the county Nott_ingham - South of St. Rt . 22 Sec. 6 . It was torn down. Last teacher and now, on the lake, is becoming a recreation center . was LeSlie L. Street - 1935. There was an early school South of St. Rt. 22 and ESTEP- east of Nottingham Church which Dr. John Holliday's father, Walter Holliday, Post office named for a family of Democratic persuasion. Obviously it was attended . They have a photograph of it over 100 years old. This may have established in one of Grover Cleveland ' s administrations. It might have been been the first Nottingham School.?? viewed as evidence of subversive act1.v1.ty· · b Y 1 oca1 c1.·t1.·zenry · (Tenure was brief.) Oak Valley or PossumHollow - Twp. Rd. 253 Range 6, Sec. 36. It was torn down . Last teacher - John Brokaw 1934.

Piedmont - two rooms in old part of town. Later they used only one room. Consolidation closed school. Last teacher - Shirley Westthall 1954 .

Poplar Ridge - Sec. 16. It was torn down. Last teacher - Corella Moore 1934.

Science Hill - South west point of Sec. 7. Co. Rd. 16. This was the site marked for altitude by the surveyor on stone with lead plate. Families living there were: Wilsons, Sprouls, McKibbens, Hamiltons, Moores, Second building was on John A. B. Moore's place; built in 1914. Moore ' s bought it; and made i t into a dwelling. First building was 300 feet east of the last one. Land is stripped now. Last teacher - Ruth Young 1934 .

Uni ty Ri dge - In center of north edge of Sec. 25 on Township line or near Co. Rd . 20. Mary Rogers atteuded Union Ridge . She said John Clemens carri ed water for the school, Students were: Alma and Alta Pugh, Albert and Mary Hami lton; Fr ances , Lawrence and Vernon Tarbert; Jim Simpson; Pauline Scott , Lela Dunlap Moore , and Oscar Dunlap. Vince Lumley play the harmonica for cake walks. Building was torn down in the 1930's.

Moo~e6Leld G~ade School, abou;t 1890 65 64 (/) .,, .,, z ("') 0 i~ i ~ ~ (/) 0~ 0 0 fTI ~ ~ r------·------, ::0 (/) r -i NORTH TOWNSHIP VILLAGES ~ ~ z C )> L ------, "Tl O ("') z ~ ::0 G') ,~ ~ ~ fTI :c: Infor mat ion fur nished by Elizabeth Smith and Rut h Dodson. 0 ::c ::0 )> Hanover- Ar cher , Po~t.offirP. - It was platted in 1812 by John Fisher. It was !a ::c 0 0 3:: 10 r r G') to be a big t own . The road going past Hanover Methodist Chur ch was the r oad --, 'r r r fTI 0 to Columb us . I n fact , Hanover lacked only one vot e of being chosen for the ~ county seat instead of Cadiz. There were two or three grocer y stores, t hree churches , a hot el, and the first pottery in the county was locat ed on a lot on N .. the right hand cor ner where the road turns down to the church. Near ther e lived Amos Hi xon who made a wooden clock which not only told the hour but the day and the year. Aar on Moore of Scio helped him with the mathemati cal calcul ati ons . 3:: 8 Anyway a man bought the clock for fifty dollars but paid only f i ve of t hat. ::0 There was a blacksmith shop beside the alley that leads to Myer's pond . Joe fTI "Tl Blake was t he last bl acks mit h and the shop was made into a garage for a private fTI r home. Across t he all ey was a s t oreroom in the upstairs of whi ch David Easlick 0 cut hair a t one time . Ther e was a tannery in town in the pr oper ty on the cor ner at the left of the road going to Cadiz. Later George Welch bought hides t here . In the middl e of Hanover is still a brick house, the bri ck of whi ch ar e said to have been burne d on t he back of the lot. This is known as t he Tur ney House and Bill Turney made brooms in a small building there . Johnny Curr y lived a few houses down the s t reet on the opposite side. He car ried the mail , also bread f r om Sci o i n a bag on his shoulder. In fact , the Curr eys wer e known for ~ I\) ("') ~ ::c 0 thei r strength- J ohnny Sr. once carried a quarter of beef from New Rumley t o 3:: ::0 z C 0 :n ;o Hanover and Johnny Jr. carr ied a grind stone from beyond the Ridge Church, ("') .,, I ~ ~ ~ ::c from the Mat Miller pl ace t o Hanover. They say Johnny J r . was a young fellow :!! z z "1 n, i ,,, G') (/) walking down t o Lacyville wi th a group at the time of t he Cadi z Bank r obber y r ~ ::c r \ 0 »' )> 0 (1866) . Johnny pi ped up , "I dods sir, I ' ll fix ' em;' and he pulled out a lar ge l • ~ I g, ("') object all wrapped in a handkerchief- a revolver . On the l ef t cor ner of t he I g, d 9lt I I r oad leading t o the church i s a dwelling which was the home and off ice of Dr. r--1.__ - ;-.---....---,---L~~+------+-J.__~n 111 ~ ~ ~ i :i ~ Nixon. At one time a small white house sat next to the r oad , buil t from t he / d5 old Hanover Church by t he doctor for his daughter, the Char ley Easli ck Family . \ ,,, s ✓ - ~ That house has been t orn down . At the south end of town where Co . Rt. 17 t urns @_} to Sci o stands a house facing the road . Tom Pal mer bui l t this f r om the fir s t ______J ~ ~ ~ - __ Hanover School house; then when Tom returned from the Wo r ld's Fair i n 1893 he tore off the roof and added the upstai r s. Among t he stores was the Riley' s

67 66 with its huckster route. They took out a load of groceries and broughc back Gundy, a Mennonite preacher, east of the present village known as the John M. produce - eggs, chickens, and butter. But now the town has become a row of Holmes and later the Carl Beamer farm. The second farm was entered soon after houses and the Methodist Church - that ' s Hanover. by Rev. John Crum (U. B. preacher) just north of the village and for many years

Scio- New MarKet*- It was laia ouc by ~eorge Turner on his farm in 1837 and known as the Robert Law Farm. The third farm was entered by Philip Firebaugh platted in 1852. The establishment of the college in 1866 led to the change in 1812 passing quickly through several hands into the possession of Thomas Smith of name from New Market to Scio. In 1862 Rural Seminary was moved from Harlem whose descendants made it their home until the retirement of a grandson,

Springs to New Market where it took the name "Scio College". The college Charles Smith. Later it was owned by Holloways. Probably the first business flourished and prepared many men to fill Methodist pulpits. And Beall's School structure to be built in the town was an old style "up and down" saw mill of Pharmacy was areal addition to the college as it was unsurpassed in its erected by Rev . Crum south of the creek just below the present site of the field. H. A. Snyder's long exploration work paid off in 1899 when a big pool bridge. This was soon destroyed by f ire. In 1822 Lot Demming purchased the of oil was tapped. Populati on increased from 700 to 5000 along with 175 wells land south of the creek and built the sawmill. In 1824 he built the first resi­ being pumped. Many businesses sprang up - men and women's clothing, hotel, dence of the town on the rise just above the sawmill. (Still standing on the eating places, bakery, groceries, general stores, hardwares, pool halls, den­ L. J . Smith, Inc. property) Holmes Wilson came into possession of the land, tists, doctors, barbers, stock dealers, garages, cream station, bank, building on which the village grew and laid out lots and sold them. Joseph Masters and loan, and even a daily newspaper. In 1918 the first pottery came and in purchased the mill property from Demming and repaired and improved it. Later

1933 the late L. P. Reese developed a pottery of national recognition. During he built a carding and fulling mill operated by power from the same dam. this time Scio developed an excellent water system and fire department. This mill had up- to-date facilities for scouring, carding, and rolling wool

"Among numerous villages of Harrison County few if any possess a stronger dis­ for local use. The rolls of wool were taken back to the homes where they were position to do and to dare in their business undert akings than Scio.": spun into yarn, woven into cloth, and dyed by the housewife. The Pennsylvania

Conotton - Master sville never was incor porated. It was platted by G. W. Holmes Railroad was built in 1854 when it crowded between the mill and the mill pond.

in 1851. There had been a settlement in that locality since 1808. In 1846 A spark from a locomotive set a fire which destroyed the mill in 1879. The when John Holmes was in the East purchasing goods for his store and was asked U. B. Church built in 1856 has now been torn down . It stood by the cemetery

for an address he impulsively said, "Holmes Brothers, Mastersville, Harrison and for some time used as a community house. The Methodist Episcopal Church

County, Ohio." The goods arrived so marked. The town was laid out on ad­ was buil:t in 1857. The one-room school set below the cemetery. The depression

joining farms (three). The first farm was entered in 1805 by Rev. Joseph of 1873 following the Civil War bore heavily on the farmers who blamed the high cost of goods and low prices of their products on the middle-men. Agita~ion * Eckley and Perry, Volume I , pages 456- 460.

68 69 crystalized in the Grange plan of cooperative buying and selling. On land donated days in his father ' s home, John M. Holmes, in Conotton. This is the story: by John M. Holmes, Conotton built a hall and started a Grange Chapter. Next to "Judge Ladd, of Virginia, decided to free his slaves and settle them in homes abolition, abstinence held the sway. The agitation reached its crest in the of their own . He chose Harrison County, Stock Township , Ohio as a place to organization of a Chapter of the Independent Order of Good Templers. A "boy's select a tract of land and had it divided into homesteads. He supplied each eye view" of Conotton was given by Dr. McGavran in an address in the U. B. Church family with a cabin, a stable, a cow, pigs, chickens, some horses, and food to in 1904. "The water going over the Master's Mill was a Niagara, the Conotton last several months. Then, the judge on horseback led the band of freed men Creek -- an ocean, the greatest sawmills in the world were Overholt' s, Fier­ to their homes but the negroes walked all the way. According to Granny a supreme baugh' s, Master' s and Minick's. There was no grist mill like Master' s and the honor was to be permitted to walk beside the judge and hold to the stirrups. greatest enterprise of all was Master' s Wool and Carding Mill where the wool They were imbued with the idea of cooperation. The little Zion A.M. E. Church was made into rolls to be taken home and spun into yarn by our mothers . There which the judge built for them was more than a mere meeting place. It became was no machine shop like McKay ' s, no stores like Demming's, Willet's, and Heaston' s . a social center. In the summer they had "bush meetings", all day meetings with no place like Frank Bartow's candy store." The good doctor might have added picnic dinners. Mr . Holmes attended two such meetings, making the trip alone the coffin and cabinet shop of his father, William McGavran , the Overholt Cider on our faithful old ' Julie'. On one of these occasions there was an immersion Mill, so conveniently located near the schoolhouse, Ben Johnston's bicycle following the morning service and I followed the crowd down from the ridge to repair shop in 1890' s, J. J . McCauley' s Cigar Factory (later located in Uhrichs­ the pasture, where there was a pond about waist deep. The ordinance of immersion ville) Loman Smith' s shop for desi gning and making stairways, Joe Peabody' s marble was new and strange but, with all, impressive to me." works at south end of the bridge (his skillful work is still found in the ceme­ So a wooded country then an almost independent agricultural community has teries today), P.O. Walker's harness and leather shop, and Gabe Long and John become an almost cleared land crossed by paved highways and dotted with many Striker's broom factory. Besides there were the blacksmiths, shoemakers, tailors, homes from which many travel miles to work each day. The only business left carpenter' s, stonemasons, and brick layers. At a stone quarry just north of the in Conotton is the Loman Smith wood working under the name L . J . Smith, Inc. bridge on the Robert Law farm, stone was quarried for bridges , abuttments, founda­ They make fine stairways. tions. So the businesses were varied. Even the medical was not left out. An operation was performed on the S. R. Johnson's store porch. It involved the stitching of a split nose on the face of George Hall. It is thought the doctor, Dr. Biddle, might have lived for a short time across from Johnson' s Store. The Conotton Corranunity once included the Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur. Bishop Milton Wright, the father of the great inventors, lived a short time in a home near Conotton. He was often in the Joseph Master' s home with his family. -.. Rev. Wright later became a bishop ans won distinction as the leader of the dissenting faction when the u. B. Constitution of 1847 was being revised. This I division was an important factor in the decline of the Conotton United Brethren Church. Then John Horace Holmes of Pittstown, New Jersey, had childhood memories of Gundy '~ School -1933-1934 "Granny Lindner", an emancipated slave from "Little Egypt" who spent her last Sc.lo School

HanovVt School 1934-1935

70 71 NORTH TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS McGavran - In central part of Sec . 9, one mile N.E. of Cono tton. On St. Rt. 151 where T. Rd. 205 j oins . First building was log on Henr y Phillip's Farm across Conotton- Second school established in the township-on north west part of Sec. 14- the road from the s e cond . Second was a frame building, made f r om lumber Leroy one fourth mile south of Conotton. Site near cemetery on land owned by John Borland hauled in 3 trips from Dover with horses . It took a week. Farms were Overbolt, owner of one of the first steam saw mills. Early settlers were: owned by McGavran , Hol mes , Phillips, Moore, Amos , Snyder, Bor l and, Trushel, Barr, Holmes, Fierbaugh, Hiestand, Smith-later, Scott, McBride, Rogers, Warren, Moore, and Rowley. The buildi ng remains on the same sit e remodeled into a dwelli ng. McClain, Bowers. Teachers- Jim Downs, Eugene Bowers, Anna Mellor, Fred Swinehart, Last teacher - Ei l een Vor hees 1936-37. Frances Masters. Last teacher - Elizabeth Barr Smith • 1935-36.

Creals No. 3- First school in township. The first log building was on Creal' s land on Scio-Kilgore road in south east corner of Sec. 33. The second buil ding was near the first building but on Harrison' s land. Closed in 1926 and students sent to Scio. Last teacher - Margaret Jamison. (See the Creal School Story).

Fishers - Early school known as Locust Grove in north west quarter of Sec. 6 . In 1831 it rested on the same land as in 1875 when it was on the T. R. McDivitt Farm. Farms owned by Strayer, Holle, Minard, Trushel, Humphry, Buxton. Many taught their f irst term there, maybe because Scio College was so near. Teachers: J. D. Sommerville, Mildred Stahl, Retta Holle, Ella Manbeck. Last teacher - Grace Rothermund - 1935-36.

Gundys - East central part of Sec. 18. Farms owned by Bucey, Ankney, Albaugh, Suo PubUc. School Anderson, Lawthridge. Ground was given by M. V. Gundy . This high ground was known as Gundy Ridge because at a very early date Rev. Joseph Gundy accompanied by his daughter, Magdalena, made an exploratory trip to this area, built a cabin and returned later with his fami ly. Magdalena is credited with being the first white female to cross Upper Conotton Creek. Her parents, she, and her husband, David Fierbaugh, are buried in Conotton Cemetery. Last teacher-Retta Holle 1937-38.

Hanover- In the south edge of Sec. 30. -440 yards west of Hanover Village. First building was bought by Tom Palmer who moved it into the edge of the village and made i t into a dwelling which still sits at point where Co. Rd. 45 joins Co. Rd . 17 . The second building was used in a house now owned by Barry Statler on the old school site. First building was in N. W. part of Sec. 29; second in S. W. part of Sec. 30. Farms: Fishers, Nixons, Conaway, Mills, Hamilton, Singhaus, Whittaker, Welch, Fowler, Palmer. Last teacher - Olive McGinnis 1937-38.

HanovVt Chu~ch

73 72 A. Custer who was born in New Rumley, December 5, 1839. His parents lived for THE CREAL SCHOOL several years on the farm now owned by Jacob Gutschall and George and his brothers attended this school, classmates of James McLandsborough, Jonas Hendricks "The first term of school was taught 1839-40 by John Giles in a log house and others. It is said he used to like to play soldier at school and was a very situated about 25 rods due south from the present school house -- the same being mischievous pupil.--- 'Speaking of the term 1895-96.' in a rough hollow and surrounded by woods. This might be termed 'one of the The average attendance has been excellent, several having not missed a single houses you read about'. In one end there was a huge fireplace in which there day, and some few not more than three or four days . On account of the school burned a monstrous fire and the only li'ght that pervad e d th·is • seat of learning' being small the pupils have had extraordinary advantages, and we are not sorry stole through a few panes of glass and some greased paper that filled a crevice to say that they have to a great extent gotten away from the text books, and have made by cutting out a log on either side. On some days it was impossible to see done good work in Co~positon, drawing, letterwriting, language work, home to read. The desks and seats were made of slabs hauled from Harrison's sawmill. ge0graphy, history, literature, and many other kinds of work that can and will Pins were driven into the wall and upon these rested a slab which formed the be used after they have left the school room. desk, while the benches had no backs. Here Andrew and John McLandsborough, We will not, as of your, treat with candy this term, but have procured for John Harrison, and others received their start. each pupil a choice book (though a cheap edition) which we know will be of more A. B. Creal taught in this house ~- 1840-41 and 1841-42. The next year, use, and will serve as a memento of days gone by. We will add here that we have 1842-43, he taught in the kitchen of another house somewhat near the present site, the very best regard for the patrons and pupils of this district who have been but east of it, while he and his wife lived in another room of the same house. exceptionally kind to me . For this and their request of me to teach the school Mrs. Creal tells how she used to peep through the cracks when Mr. c. was dis­ the coming year, I ask them to accept my thanks. In conlusion I may say, educate pensing the "lickin' and learnin" , and says they were so crowded that Mr . c . your children, furnish them with good books and papers, create in them a desire could not whip one without hitting several. In 1843, a new log house was built to read and they will never seek bad company. Do this though you may be compelled on the site of the present frame building which was built by James Patton in to wear the old coat another winter. This will be 'the true bread cast upon the 1867, the same year in which the first Scio College building was erected. Mr. C. waters which will return to you after many years, not alone, not impaired, but taught 1853-54 and 1854-55, the years before and after the summer in which increased a hundred fold.' Then in your old days you can look back with pride the locomotive first steamed into Scio on the Panhandle. George Skipper, Thomas to the legacy left your children and country, far better than silver or gold . Fox, and Silas Robb taught during the interim between 1848 and 1853. The 'ten-plate' stove followed the fireplace, and many a poor boy was made John D. Somerville to sit near the stove and withstand a ' roasting' as a means of punishment . The Scio, 0. March 30, 1896 II Christmas treat consisted of apples,and on one occasion· George Wood brought a This is a quotation taken from "The Story of the Dining Fork" written by small sack to take some home to ' Jane'. Every t each er haa to treat or be shut out Joseph T. Harrison. on Christmas Day . George Skipper was fond of his 'tea', and often was on a spre-:! for two or three days, during which time the school 'adjourned from day to day '. Eli Canaga used to bring a dog with him and take the boys out rabbit hunting at noon, quite often remaining out for two or three hours, and on one occasion, some of the pupils drove Johnny Creal ' s pigs into the schoolroom. In this school were educated the several members of the Amos, Arnold, Markley, Canaga, Creal, Custer, Harrison, Gibson, McLandsborough, Mott, Thompson, and other families of who we will say the most disti·ngui'shed was Gen. George

75 74 SCHOOLS NORTH TOWNSHIP SCIO SCHOOLS--The first school in Scio was built of logs, roofed with clapboards, 1. CREALS 7. MASTERSVI LLE - CONOTTON 1 at the sit e of the present Scio Medical Clinic about 1835. A number of schools 2.GUNDY S 8 . ARCHER - HANOVER gr ew up in the township also. I n 1840 a two story frame building was constructed 3. FISHER'S 9. HF.W MARKET - SCIO on Schoolhouse Street in Scio, The school was called the "Eight Square School" 4. M£. GAVRAN CHURCHES because of its octagon shape. It was used until 1882. In 1883 the site of our present school building was chosen and bricks for a four room school were burned 5. CONOTTON 10. CONOTTON =BRETHRENS a CEM. METHOOIST. at the site. Two additions of two rooms each were soon added to this brick 6. HANOVER 11. SCIO: WE:THODIST a PRESBYTERIAN building. A two year high school was instituted in this eight room building. 12. HANOVER AND CEMETERY During the boom times in Scio, it was necessary to hold classes in temporary quarters due to lack of space for students. This brick building was back of the CMttOLL CO. NIIRY present high school building. By 1912, a new building became necessary, so the I old building was razed and construction begun on a new brick building of 12 class J ' rooms and a gymnasium. While the building was under construction, classes were 19 ,S I , I held in the near vacant buildings of the Scio College on the south side of town. r A 1920 school report showed Scio with an enrollment of 238 students and an I average attendance of 197. One brick building existed in Scio and its f aculty consisted of 8 females and 2 males. With the advent of compulsory education for all children 6-18, the demand for an expanded curriculum in high school, and further centralization from neighboring one-room schools, it soon became obvious that 12 rooms would not meet the needs. With the help of the Public Works Administration Funds, eight class rooms were built. Also, this new addition included a cafeteria, kitchen, and a combination auditorium gymnasium with permanent seating for 500 persons. By 1952, t hey had plans to modernize pr esent facilities and to add a new building

TW! II 0 to house the high school, and increase space for the grades. This was completed TWP. 12 TWP. II i n 1959. As consolidat ion has grown, the high schools of the county have been ~ I dr awn together and the grades shifted to various buildings. It is now r· I I I \ I Jewe::t- Scio High School in the Scio building. This is under the Harrison Hills / iil •"'I City School System with a superintendent' s office in Hopedale. --Taken from I I Bicentennial Recor ds 1976- -County School Records. ~

CEMETERIES 13 . GRANDVIE·W

76 77 21 d 27 The first Postmaster was the junction of T-340 and T-344, Section an • 29 1902 The site is now under John L, Johnson. It was discontinued November , • NOTTINGHAM TOWNSHIP Clendening Lake. ·ce was established May 31, 1882, located on the NW corner Hattonia Post Off1 by Mike Vinka in Section 11. It was By: Martha Cope Raber of the farm known as Hattonia Farm, owned native who was Postmaster General of named for Frank Hatton, a Harrison County Arthur. The first Postmaster of Nottingham Township was erected April 25 , 1809, while a part of Jefferson the United States, appointed by President The office was discontinued November 30, 1903. County. It is bordered on the north by Franklin and Stock Townships, on the Hattonia was L. L. Barrett. are now under Clendening Lake, but east by Cadiz, on the south by Moorefield and on the West by Washington. It Clendening and Tariff Post Offices I am told nothing remains but part is five miles from North to South and six miles from East to West, covering Hattonia is still nestled in its valley . 30 sections of land. The Brushy Fork branch of Stillwater Creek winds through of the foundation. . was also a Community Center. It the southwestern portion of the township and is fed by many lesser streams. Hattonia was not only a Post Office, it h grist mill, a saw mill, The land is also blessed by many fine springs. had a country store, a spring house, an ice ouse, a field, a band room and a 15-member brass band that Early settlers, mostly from Maryland and Pennsylvania, incl uded such a baseball team, a practice Walked from one to three miles names as: Arnst, Barrett, Barclay, Caldwell, Carothers, Carson, Cope, Crab­ practiced every week. Most of the band members tand and a band wagon. They played in many tree, Fulton, Grist, Haines, Hines, Johnson, Love, Mccorkle, Philips, Pugh, for practice. They ha d a b and S in the area. They carried lanterns at night Richardson, Riley, Sayer, and Wallace. Places and all campaign meetings d first big night was during the Garf iel Among the early settlers was my great, great grandfather, Benjamin Johnson, and wore red capes. Legend says their The Postmaster' s home was there and shoe who came to Nottingham from Maryland in 1805 or 1806 . He secured title to 160 campaign, and the last for McKinley's. acres by a deed signed May 23, 1810, by President Madison. This farm is a r epairman named "Doc" Toner. known for many years as the Rachael part of the farm known as the Johnson Homestead, occupied and operated by Annie' s Cave is located on t he farm Sylvia Cope. It was named for Annie Benjamin's great, great, great grandson, John Herbold. About a mile to the occupied by Taylor and Pugh farm and now At one time one could childhood was spent on that farm. north is another farm deeded by President Madison to Samuel Cope (from West­ Pugh Bargar whose It is now blocked the other side of the hill. chester County Pa. ) , my great grandfather. That farm is now owned by Samuel's enter it and pass through to underground ra ilway about 1911 or 1912 . An great, great, great, grandson, Wayne Cope and his sister Paula Andreani. To by a large gas 1in. e that was laid d ~tis thought that e nearby Samuel Cope farm, an - the north of the Cope farm is Hattonia Farm deeded to a Mr. Barrett, father station was located On th art of the escape route. of L. L. Barrett, first Post Master of Hattonia. Hattonia Farm is now owned ' s Cave may have b een a P , c on An n i e f 11 not far from Annie s ave, and operated by Michael and Phyliss Vinka. I am told there is a beautiful water a Through the years, Nottingham has had 3 post offices, 7 schools, 5 the same farm. Union Ridge, Elk Run, Buckeye, Bealls, churches, 8 cemeteries, 2 caves and at least 1 water fall. Nottingham , s seven schools were: Clendening Post Office was established November 9, 1889. It was located urants and Barretts. the Walkers' O as Kennedy ' s Ridge near located on what was known about one- half mile SW of the junction of T- 303 and T-311 in Section 33 . The Union Ridge was is gone and the land 20 . The building first Post Master was Ebenezer D. Clendening. It was discontinued November 29, border of Moorefield Twp . on Twp . Rd, azel Moor e 1935, 1901. The site is now under Clendening Lake . st Teacher - H v. upsid e d own. La Tur, , To ¥ 1. Tariff Post Office was established June 30, 1892. It was located near pa.-3e

79 78 meeting. There is a cemetery at the site containing 35-40 marked graves, but Buckeye was located east of Twp. Rd . 312 about 1/4 mile north of road 799 in only one is legible and it is Hanna Jane Barrett, 1st wife of Arthur Barrett. section 28. The building has been moved and put to use in a nearby farm. The She died at age 17 , a bride of two weeks. This is a part of the farm now owned ground is a victim of Clendening Lake. Last teacher - Martha Taylor - 1935. by Bradley Knight. Bealls, high on the hill near the home of John Jones has been torn down . 2. Seceders: Located approximately 1/4 mile West of T-303 and 1/2 mile North It was located about 3/4 mile NW of junction of Twp . Rd. 338 and 339. Last of T- 305 Jt. , on Clinton Adams farm, Section 30. The first meeting recorded teacher - Pearl Simpson - 1930. was on September 19 , 1825. The original Session Book is marked on the first Walker' s - through the years had three different buildings, each built on page, "Session Book of the Sharon Congregation, Nottingham Twp ., Harrison a different farm; last location on the west side of T-330 on the corner of the County, Ohio. " The early Sessions were held in the homes of members until Albert Clark farm - Section 17 . When school was discontinued, the building was 1840 when the Sharon Meeting house was built. The first Session in the meeting moved to Barretts and joined to the building there where a two-room school was house was on September 26 , 1840. 'The last on October 15, 1885. held until Nottingham became a part of Harrison Hills City Schools. Last 3. Bethel - a Methodist church, now torn down, was located at the junction of teacher - Laura Simpson - 1941 . C-60 and T-339 in the SE corner of Section 17. Elk Run' s third school building was built in 1902 by U.S. Love and is 4. Pleasant Mount is still standing on T-303, s outh of junction with T- 311 , still standing on Twp. Rd. 340 at the junction of 347, but is in poor condition. toward the lake in Section 33, but is unused and in poor condition. Last teacher - Doris Dunbar - 1934. 5. Minksville Church of Christ or Christian, the second building, is still in ourants School, in Section 12, Nottingham Twp. just off County Road 2, on good repair and in regular use. The land for it and the first log church was Deersville Ridge; west side T-328, corner of Mike Vinka and Robert Fleagane . · It has been preserved by the tender, loving set apart by Benjamin Johnson, soon after he completed his first home on the farms , is in exce11 ent cond 1t1on. land. Later the land was deeded to the congregation with the reservation that care of the Cheever Rogers family , who have been joined by Ramseys , Carsons , when it ceased to be used for a church, the land would revert to the original Finnicals, and others. It is loved and visited by the many decendents of former students. A cake walk is held the second Saturday evening in June and a reunion farm. It is located on the east side of T- 346 near the junction with C-1. Last teacher - Elizabeth Four of Nottingham's eight cemeteries; Hopewell, Minksville, New Bethel and homecoming the 1st Sunday in August each year. and Sharon-Seceder, are located near their respective church sites. Old Keesey - 1941, Bethel is at the junction of C-60 and T-338, Sec. 22; Pugh is on T-347 from Barretts School house (No. 3) is still at the original site; junction of Elk Run School at the bend in T- 347 turning east t o T- 346 and T- 269-A, Sec. 9 ; C-1 and T- 328, Section 4. The Township trustees and interested citizens have nd nd Molesworth is on T-303 south of junction with T-312 on west side of T-303 improved the Barrett- Walker building and the well-kept building a grou s it C ter Last teachers - approximately 1/4 mile (walk to it), Sec. 36; Blair cemetery is west of T-303 now serve as the Township House and an active Commun Y en • 4 on T-304 about 3/4 mile - north side, Sec. 36. (2-rooms) Bernice Dunbar and Virginia Johnson - 195 , The whole township is a part of the Harrison Hills City Schools, but is Nottingham Township has given doctors, lawyers, preachers, teachers and authors to our country and furnished the county with many county government divided between Cadiz and Lakeland Districts. leaders. Politically, it has always been overwhelmingly Republican. Nottingham's Five Churches: 3 acres from Jake and Mary Cope in My township has many legends: The Nottingham Jimhinker is not only a 1. Hopewell Society of Friends, purchased A, Section 3. The building burned legend, it was a very real terrifying experience. I was there . 1819 and built a church; location, Twp 269 th Freeport quarterly The bear that caused the stampede of a herd of cattle is still a mystery. in 1832 and was not rebuilt. The congregation joined e Twrn 1c Tt.v;rn to page 8'J,,

81 80 13. Bethel (Methodist) POST OFFICES At junction of T-339 and C-60 SE corner 1. Clendening Post Office Sec. 17 SW corner l/2 mi. SW of the junction of T- 303 and T-311 Sec. 33 14. Sharon (Seceders) The bear trap - in the corn crib; a true story - names withheld. App. 1/4 mile West of T-303 App . 1/2 mi. North of T-305 The gunsmith who repaired guns for the Indians making their bullets from 2. Tarriff Post Office juntion on Clinton Adams Near the junction of l:arm Sec. 30 lead they brought him from a near by cave. T- 340 and T-344 Sec. 21-27 The gas well that caught fire mysteriously and burned for many months, 15. Pleasant Mount (Methodist) On T-303 So. of junction going out as mysteriously as it started. The light from it was so bright you 3. i!etEg~i:rPgftM~k~ivinka Farm North T-311- toward lake Sec. 33 could read newspaper headlines 2 miles away. Next to David Howell & Alfred Rose Farms The great squirrel hunt. Sec. 11 CEMETERIES Before the Muskingum Conservancy District was developed, Nottingham 16 . Hopewell SCHOOLS at site of Hopewell Church Township was beautiful, productive, well kept and busy farm land. Registered Union Ridge (Irish) numbered (11) 4. Sec . 3 hogs, fine wooled sheep, fine horses and cattle, both dairy and beef, roamed On T-20· App. 1/4 mi . east of T-79~; the pasture land. Corn, wheat, oats, clover, alfalfa, and timothy hay was Sec. 26 17 . Minksville at si~e of Minksville ChurcC~S produced in quantity. The woodlands were of maple, walnut , oak, hickory , elm, No . side of C-1 at junct. 4 Elk Run School . . s. Located at the Junction Sec. 10 beech and others. Most far ms had fruit orchards of apples, peaches, cherries, of T-340 adn T-347 Sec. 8 pears and quinces. There are still many good farms in the township and many 18. Old Bethel C-60 & T-338 summer homes, but Clendening Lake has destroyed hundreds of acres of the best Sec . 22 6. Barretts School of the tilable farm land and many more acres now owned by Cleveland and Junction of C-1 and T-32~; so. & East Corner 19. New Bethel Steubenville Boy Scouts have become an almost impenetrable wilderness. Section 4 Across T-339 from Bethel Church at junct. of T- 339 & C-60 7. Ourants School . Sec. 22 (corner) on T-328· West side Corner of Mike Vinka & Robert Fleagane 20 . Sec. 12 PughNo . op T-347 from TE l~ ~un School at bend in - 4 turning East to T-346 & 8. Walkers School T-269-A west side of T-330 Corner of Albert Clark farm Sec. 9 Sec. 17 21. Sharon-Seceder 9 . Bealls School Refer to No . 14 on map On T-338~ No. side, 3/4 mi. Sec. 30 NW of T- ~39; corner of D.C. & A. C~ Jones farm Molesworth . t· Sec. t.2 22 . on T-303 South of Ju~c ion with T-312 on West side of 303 10. Buckeye School app . 1/4 mile (walk to it) East of T-312 about 1/4 mi. Sec. 36 North of T-799 Sec. 2~ 23 . Blair cemetery T- West of T-303 on North304 side about 3/4 mile - CHURCHES ::;ec . 36 Hopewell Church (Friends) 11. Located near T-269A on Br~d\ey Knight fa)rm Sec. 3 (near center

Minksville (Church of Christ) 12 . On T-346 - east.side near junction with C-1 sec. 10 Wo.lke1t~ School 1925 83 82 an enameling works, a brick plant, J tt ewe creamery making ice cream, an ice RUMLEY TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS plant where they made ice, a round house wereh they worked on railroad cars, COLES--It was in Sec. 24 southwest of St. Rt. 151 , ~ mile south of Rumley or and engines, an undertaker and furniture store, an appliance store, a dentist, Cole's Crossing, a whistle stop on the Pennsylvania Railroad. O. W. Lowmiller two doctors, dry cleaners, drug stores, bl acksmith, a clothing store, two har d- whom the boys called "owl" taught there. Some of the pupils were: Ethel and wares, a dairy delivering milk to homes, a hotel, and three or four groceries. Otto Hawk, Charles and Clara Dutton, Florence Powell, Emerson Wolfe, Sadie Today the railroads ar.e losing out to the trucks and most of the people are employed elsewhere. Thompson, Boyce Kentner, Fred Christian, and Nellie Maxwell Tope . In 1920-21 Ella Rose taught 10 pupils here. The last teacher was Laird H. Gamble - 1931-32.

JEWETT--(From Bicentennial Records in Harrison Hills City School Office) \\Jhe first school house in the immediate vicinity was built in the early nineteenth century before the town of Fairview was plotted. It stood near the place where the telegraph tower now stands or half way between the town and Rumley Crossing. During the period 1838-39 the logs were removed t o the John Webster farm on the Rumley Road. With them a new building was erected. As the town grew (platted in 1851) it became desirous to have a school nearer town. A frame building was erected in 1859 in Shambaugh's Addition on a corner owned by W. S. Stewart. That building became too small. In 1876 a two story, two room frame structure was built on High Street. Although no longer a school this building serves as a dwelling. In 1884 this structure was abandoned for another building erected on the site of the present building. This new building was thought by many to be too large, but before long they had to hold part of the classes in other buildings. It also housed the first graduating Jewe:t.~ School - Ea~ly 7900 1¢ class of Jewett High School. The graduating class of 1887 consisted of: Cora Dyson, Jess E. Stahl, Ira W. Stahl, O. W. Lowmiller, Anna M. Stahl, Emmett Lucas, Lillie Shilling, Cora Webster, Lessa Craig, Mary Wilson, Frankie Starrett. In 1905 the middle of the present structure was built at the cost of $20, 000 . In 1928-29 a large gymnasium- stage was added. This was followed in 1937 with the remodeling of the whole building including six new rooms. In the early 1940's a one story two room building was added through the Work Progress Administration Programs. .. The Hilbert Machine Shop and several lots were added . In 1953 a new gymnasium­ I I stage area was added to the east side of the main building. Presently this

. h II building houses the middle grades and Junior Hig. 111 1 I I

Ru.mle.y Sc.hoot 86 87 RUMLEY TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS CHURCHES NEW RUMLEY--It was a two room frame building located in the middle of town I . POSSUM HOLLOW 9. NEW RUMLEY back of the Van Fossen home. George Custer taught here once. On March 15 , BRETHREN CEM . 1921 lightning struck the building, tore off the bell tower, threw the bell 2 . PLEASANT HILL a 150 feet and pushed it three feet in the ground, leaving the bell on its side. 3 . ORR S METHODIST 8 CEM . The rope wheel was almost non- existant. The chimney was knocked off to the 4 . COLES LUTHERN 8 CEM . level of the roof and a hole made large enough for a man to fall through. The 5. NEW RUMLEY 10. JEWETT 11 CEMETERf ES building was repaired and used until 1959. 6 . JEWETT PRESBYTERIAN FAIRVIEW The last teachers were: Primary - Mary Manbeck, Upper - Ethel Hennen. VILLAGES ~THODIST ORRS, NO . 2-- It was in Sec . 31 j ust off Rt. 9, on Co. Rd . 52, beyond the 7. NEW RUMLEY LUTHERN Arthur Arbaugh farm. Once it was moved 800 feet off the hill. It once had 8. FAIRVIEW - JEWETT CA~ CO. UlUOOH TWP. a partition which could be moved up and down to make two rooms. Some pupils .--' , attending here were: Bruce Zimmerman, Carl Dodds, Edith Moore, Emmett Lowmiller, \ ' -.II ~- ' \ r-- - --. I -~ S-- and Gladys Robertson. The building has been torn down. II\ I \ 1'• 13 ' '\ •• l • The last teacher was Gladys Robertson - 1931-32. fijJ !iii / I I I ) \ I \ I r PLEASANT HILL--It was on the line between sections 2 and 3. Ralph Townsend \ .,/ bought the building and made it in a dwelling. Families living here were: Myers, Mull, Shambaugh, Wright, Townsend. Some of the teachers were: W. F. • 32 Mull, Ada Stahl, Hazel Ryder, Tom Barr, Robert McClain, Carl Patton, Roy Crab, Wilma Shambaugh, Harry Manbeck. Iii) Q; 1 The last teacher was John A. Miller - 1933 . L---,-~/--+::__~+-~==~~~L-,-----f~ :-----;1....:...__7i /' I POSSUM HOLLOW--It was located in Sec.2, ½ mile east of Pleasant Hill. It was .a: -..... _ .,.,. ffi( •Ill built in early times and then called Pleasant Hill as listed above. The move .. was made in the 1920's. Hazel Ryder and Mary Dye taught there.

TWl'! 11 SHAMBAUGH'S--It was located just off St. Rt. 646 near where Irish Creek road TW. 10 I ff) turns off. The school house site is now the site of Donald Gatts home . A i!D I 12 ® Mr. Jones from Scio taught there also a Guy Maxwell whose sister, Edna Maxwell, \ \ lived in New Rumley. The directors got mad at Maxwell, dismissed him, and sent I students to New Rumley. One of the Custers hauled the students. Some of the students were: Leland and Ermna Gotshall, Forest, Emerson and Florence Manbeck, I D !__ ')iii Irma Epley and David Thompson. The building was torn down (1900-1905) . Lumber .... was used in the Cora Manbeck house in the Custer Park area, later moved into the center of town.

88 89 It was the site SHORT CREEK TOWNSHIP-SURVEYED 1797 ROBYVILLE--Located one-half mile south of Short Creek Station. of an early company- owned mining settlement of approximatel y 80 homes with a Information was given by Golda Flowers. the original company s tore. The mi ne operated from about 1904 to 1927 under GEORGETOWN-SHORT CREEK is the name of the ~ s t of fice. It is on the eastern corporation. edge of township, 7 miles south east of Cadiz. Town was platted in 1814. Here SCIENCE HILL--It was a community center having a post offi ce and a school. This was a village of noteworthy artisians and craftsmen up to 1870 era. A family d one- half miles on State Route 250 out of Cadiz . was a farming ar ea one an named Huff located on what was then known as Indian Short Creek near the present HAMMONDS CROSS ROADS-Sect ion 23 & 29 communit y . site of Georgetown. Their house was the frontier house of that vicinity for WARFEL- Post of f ice - Section 27 about three years. The exact year of this settlement was not known but it was HURFORD-Post office- Sect ion 3 recorded that it was not before 1796. However , William Huff shot an Indian near Geor getown as late as 1800 because the Indian boasted of how many white men he had killed. The first fairs in the county were held at Georgetown-exhibits of production of farms. Early in coal production there was the Short Creek Coal Co . .,, There were general dealers, grocer ies, a blacksmith, carpenters, restaurants , ------and a photo studio here. A spur of the Wheeling & Lake Erie came into Georgetown and to the mlnes. The Methodists established a church here and with the Friend's ·1 e , ·.• • ('- . Meeting House they have persisted for a long time. At one time it was not .~ ~~,t ~-./~-- . uncommon for the whole town to gather on a hill above the town to see the youth . ~•~ ,r;,P•. , ,.;. learning ~o fly. Floyd Lamb was teaching them. The town was proud of their school, high school, gymnasium and basketball t eam. '!I- -- ,., ,rL~... .. ~-~ ·,, . , ....-. . " - . HARRISVILLE--It was platted in 1814 and in 1821 had 130 inhabitants third next \ f •>. : to Cadiz in size. In 1796 Isaac Holmes raised his cabin on the site of t he gateway to Harrison County. There was a strong colony of the Friends Society Su..e.nc.e Hill - Sho~t C1teek Twp. 1931 Sho'Lt C1teek. Sc.hoot G-i.ltl-6 Ba.-6 k.et Ba.il Te.am - here. There were many thriving businesses. Griffin' s Home-made Ice Cream was - la..te 20'-6 known over the adjoining counties and brought in many customers. In the days of small farms The United Dairy Creamery flourished. Coulter's and Gillespes' Garages were active and Farnsworth, Hall, Miners and the Co-op Store did business as well as a blacksmith, Joe Johnson being the last one. A monument of stone was placed in 1913 near the Adena Road in Harrisville t o mark Morgan's Raid and keep in memory the experience of Civil War days.

DUNCANWOOD--Was a grbup of houses built for the workers at the mine. There was a post office, a school, and a company store. Those all disappeared when the mine was closed. It was at Duncanwood about 1930 the troops were called in to keep order because the union men moved in to unionize the mine.

Sue.iic.e Ifill Sc.hoot - Sho'Lt C~eek. Twp . -- abou;t 1926-27 91 90 the North West Territor y . SHORT CREEK TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS ;n Sec. 1 south of Adena , on the count y line but mainly in ROBYVILLE--It was ~ BELNAP--It was located in Sec. 2, the first building, on t he farm of David Belnap who once owned all of Sec. 2. The second building was in Sec . 3 and ha s Harrison County . R 250 William Henr y Hol mes went t o been made into a warehouse. SCIENCE __HILL -- It Was in Sec. 26 , on St . t . · d ..::...;.___ down under the slate blackboards t hey f oun The last teacher was Lucille Taggart - 1950. school here. When building was torn The coal mines took Pa;nted with several coats of black pain t . BELVIEW--It was near Hurford and may have been a Friend's school at first. The old wooden ones ~ building in 1883 cos t $1600. The Board of Education was: Charles E. Speer, J ames Science Hill, Was Florence Hor gan - 1942 · Minteer, John Bond, S. X. McLaughlin, Robert Ladd , Griffeth Lemmon, Gilmore The l ast t eacher i n t he town and as population increased it was McLaughlin, Issac Case. For the dedication they had a big community dinner GEORGETOWN--A school grew Up i h oms . Ther e were two year s of high school until n c e and a speech by Rev. Gibson, pastor of the Adena Presbyterian Church. necessary to have several r o e last high school princi pal s . The girls ' The last teacher was Anna Fillipovich - 1950. 1930's. Mr. Barnett was one of th Consoli dati on t ook the school away. ' basketball teams were excell ent. DUNGANWOOD--It was located in Sec. 30 and f lourished with the mine. It probably andb o Ys came with the company houses. The last teacher was Leona Set b&rt.

HAMMONDSVILLE--It was located at Hammonds Cross Roads i n Sec. 29, on road from Harrisville to New Athens. They must had an exciting day when Morgan's Raiders passed through the village. The las t teacher was Aaron Smith - 1934 .

HARRISVILLE--School has been under Jefferson School System.

HAWK ' S NEST--It was on Co . Rd . 9, ½ mile from Co. Rd . from Harrisville to Adena. It was a subscription school in the early days before public schools.

LAUREL VALLEY--It was in Sec. 7 on Fox's Bottom Road to Adena . The last teacher was Doris Singer - 1940.

NO . 5- -It was in Sec. 15 on the Fox ' s Bottom Road to Adena. The school had a large enrollment all its life. A reward of merit scroll was given in 1845 by John Norman Steel to John Kyser replete with eagle and banner done with a steel point pen. John Kyser was a well known Civil War veteran. This reward was found years after it had been given and created quite a stir. The last teacher was Iona Smith - 1934.

NO. 16--It was in Sec. 11 near Harrisville. The name is probably from the regulation setting aside Sec. 16 in every township for educational purposes in

o Sho~ c~eek Twp. - 1893 Sc.le.nee Hill Schoo~ - 93 92 ,,

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94 95 Moyer 's home and across the Co . Rd. 22 on the corner was a filling station STOCK TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS built in the summer of 1926 by Frank Edgar and his son Lewis. This station DOE RUN- came with the automobile. Besides gas they sold a few necessities and Sec. 34. On Twp. Rd . 392, ~ mile of Co . Rd. 45. Named this because the eatables. Laceyville is remembered as a cold place-cold. Yes , but colder at deer came to this spring to drink; last deer seen in the early times were here. Laceyville. The logs of the first building were made into a sheep house still on the SMITHDALE- Hartzell Davis farm. Mike Palmer' s father, Lewis, attended the log school in A post office in the Smith home . On St. Rt. 250 between Laceyville and the 1860's sitting on slab benches. The second building was sold to Wesley Tappan. Ferrell for $25, torn down , and lumber used in the house on the hill a little way above t he spring. The third building which was below the spring at the foot of Doe Run Hill was torn down by Dave Birney and lumber used in the house at the end of the road where it joins Co. Rd . 45. The School was a community center with programs, cakewalks, and last day dinners. Families: Curry, Wells, Dodson, Wright, Kellar, Davis, Linch. Teachers: J.E. Nichols, J.D. Sommerville, Bernice Cole, Olive Kane, Alvie Craig, Mildred McGinnis. Lace.yvW.e No . 5 Last teacher - Elizabeth Hendricks 1951.

GRAPE VINE , NO. 3 S. E. point of Sec. 31 . Up north of St. Rt. 250 near line between sections 31 and 32. First it was on t he Spiker Farm, t hen it was on the Mizer Farm. Now it is remodled and used as a dwelling by a Mizer boy. Early families: Kent, Carson, Pickering, Haverfield, Gilbert; later, Walker Spiker, Humphry, Grimes, Hines, Rogers, Merryman, Anderson, Mizer, Addy. Teachers: Allie Adams , Herman Kennedy , Ruth Jolley, F.M. Holland, Esther Anderson, W.A. Givens. Last teacher - Mary Beckley 1938.

LACEYVILLE- NO . I. S.W. corner of Sec. 8. One half mile east of Laceyville on road to Deers- ville. Building was moved when dam was put in, toward Deersville and used as a machinery shed by John Patterson. Families: Anderson, Lacey, McKinney , Brough, Adams, Blair, Fisher, Coultrap , Smith, Laport; later, Johnson, Given, Moyer, Stroud, Henderson, Bargar, Cope, Cramblett, Barr, Str aley; Teachers: John E. Nichols, Lewis Edgar, Frank Rogers, Maxine Fowler, Sarah Patton , Mrs. Harold Rogers. Last teacher - Adele Skipper 1935.

Conru~ay Ceme-tVty. Cha~lv.i and MJ..c.hae.l ConaPJay wVte Revolu;U.ona~y SolclleA~ Voe Run School Hou-0e 97 % CHURCHES MT HOPE- On the mid point of the south line of section 10 . On St. Rt . 646. The "The Pleasant Valley Methodist Church, built in 1856, was the principal ground was bought in 1888 . The building was one half mile south of Mt Hope f the townshi p because of its central location and i t s religious Center O Church on the opposite side of the road. Families were: Givens, Nixon, They were a choi ce people, not perfect, but, men numerous membership , the Laceys, the McFaddens Hendricks, Fowler, McDivitt, Palmer, Cole, Bucey, Henderson, Myers, McLaughlin, and women of integrity and char acter. There were Sampsons , Gallaghers, the Evans, the Givens, Christian. the Johnsons , the Simpsons , Last teacher - Edna A. Griffith H W'll'am P Smith and sons McDevitts , Spi 'kers and sons Geor ge and enry, 1 1 • Christys, John Miller, the POSEY HILL- James and Richard, the Fowlers and Pattersons , and others, whom I can not recall. Two S. E. corner of Sec. 20 on Twp. Rd. 810. Existed f rom 1840 t o 1930. Fir st Buxtons, John Smiths, Jonas Turney M Hope Methodist and a church on the building was torn down and made into a house-the f irst house on this side other churches were in t he township- t Matthew Simpson lived for a time of the sharp turn into Deersvill e. Second building was bought by Bill Kelley and ridge f or the colored people. --- Bishop member of the Mt Hope congregat ion. made into a dwelling for his family. Families: Tiptons, Pattersons, Wagers , with a rela tion by the name of Si mpson, Mcllroys, Coultraps, Kelleys. Homer Poulson taught here 1896 to 1899. ver churched, and was mi nistered to by many Stock Township Was not O 1 identified with t hese or SAMPSONS- able and Bodly men. The people as a rue wer e .:; ,l\7ers~ . The se ol d sa i nts of for mer days have gone On south cor ner of Sec. 22 on Twp. Rd. 228, two miles northwest of La cey­ some ot h er b o d Yo f bel""". shares the r esponsibility aod j oy of ville. This area is drained by Edgington Run. Edgington is the name of a to their rest, and new congregation line of Indian spies who came from Brook County, West Virginia and were emp loyed of keeping up the good work." .;n the Maki ng as I Knew It" by Rev. E. Laypor t by the government from 1815 t o 1895. Probably one of the Edgington sons had Taken from "Stock Township • a camp site in the northeast part of Stock Township. Archibald Sampson in the Cadiz Republican of June 19, 1930. attended school here and later he was in the American Consular Service. in N.W. corner of Stock Township. Little Zion Church and Cemetery- Located Children from the slave settlement came to the Sampson School. At one time 30 Beagle Club Road f r om St. Rt. be found by turning up the Willow Brook of the 60 pupils were black. The first log building sat on a hill above the It may h Families Settlement of emancipated slaves ere . second one and was used from 1852 to 1870. Earl Buxton' s mother, Mary Ellen 250 . Once there was a h. h land was held in. t rus t the two 80 acre grants w ic Smith Buxton attended school in the first building. Roy and Jim Smith lived here for years On F . d' Ladd and Henry Grew of Smithf ield, Trustee s of the rien s att ended here in 1880 in the second building. Families: Evans, Whittaker, by Benjamin k d to establish homes for Manumitted slaves . Here Society (Quakers) who wore d th r Cramblett, Gallager, Turney, Sampson, Smith; then Buxton, Rogers, and Simpson. Blues , Adki ns , Wi lliams, an o e was the home of the Christians, Binfords, Teachers: Earl Buxton, Anthony Sampson, Pearl Simpson, Vesta Czatt, Lewis Binf ord. Each f amily was given freed by their owner, Edgar, Arthur Smith, Bernice Cole, Mildred Smith, Wilma Snyder, Mary Buxton slaves who had been and helped t o make a a pig, and chickens Beckley about 20 acres, a horse, a cow, establ ished their d • 1822 and history home . The colony was organize in are buried Last teacher - Mary Koval 1938. as 1829 . Here i n Zion Cemeter y presence in the county as early ears is buried there. Jordan age d 107 Y the manumitted slaves. Charley

99 98 h There are We will see the rest of the ouse. Come away from the fire now . of which are living rooms . Little Zion A.M.E . Church was the scene of many stirring religious meetings. in it, downstairs. and up• half bout twenty rooms An immense brick ovm forms in a corner. Many of the White people attended these services. In the sununer they had "bush a down stair s , away off Here is a room meetings", all day affairs with picnic dinners. These services continue d into - its east wall now . " llouse" This was t aken f r om the twentieth century. But now the church is gone, the cemetery remains and the part or About the Old Farm *"The Woolly Editor Wr ites d . the "Cadiz Republican" i n 1936 names of these black people linger in the county. d" an article publishe in editor o( the "The Moyer Romes t ea . by Louis S. Lacey , Conaway Cemetery-Up above Co . Rd. 22 jus t before it is j oined by Co . Rd. 45 . of an arti cle written which was a reprint . a eared March 8, 1894 . is a small family grave yard in which are buried two Revol utionary War soldi~rs, Grant, Nebr ., which PP woolly West", Of Charles and Michael Conaway. These graves are stil l we ll marked. Charl e s wa s also a Circuit Rider who is said to have preached the first Methodi st sermon west of the Ohio River. He was working under Bishop Asbury. A memorial monument was supposed to have been placed in Scio College at one time but we have no trace of what happened. THE LACEYVILLE INN *"In 1838, my grandfather, John S. Lacey, purchased the land. It i s a 230- acre tract, and at that time it was nearly all covered with timber.---So my grandfather erected a very large brick building and named it the" "Laceyville House" . The word "house" was soon dropped, and it became known as Laceyville, which name it still retains. Th~ building was erected in 1842, fif teen years before the railroad penetrated the country. It is L-shaped, 58 by 28 and 60 by 20. It was furnished for hotel purposes and did a wonderful business befor e the railroad absorbed travel. Even today it is the bivouac of many a stranger. The house stands where three roads come together in crow-foot fashion, and i t years ago attracted to itself a grocery, a blacksmith shop, and a few residence houses.--- Let's get back to the house again. There are some things yet to say about it. Are you ready? yes. Get the old brass candlestick and fire up with a tallow illuminator. Now we will go into the cellar. It is sixty f eet long and about thirty feet wide. It is walled all around the nicely dressed sand­ stone, and those crosswalls of which there are four, are of the same substantial material. Now look at those supports under the floor . You will notice that they are not two-by-fours nor two-by-sixes, but logs that will square ten inches. There fifty of them under the ground floor. - - - -It constant l y reminds you of its antiquity. There are five great chimneys 7two of which are for the accommodation of wood fires. One of these is three feet ~ide by two deep; the ot her, four f eet by two. ~he back s tick for the latter would make four or f ive quite r e spectable f ence post in Perkins Co. Nebraska.

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100 STOCK TOWNSHIP WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP TOWNS SCHOOLS VILLAGES CEMETERIES TIPPECANOE- Information furnished by Elizabeth Clark. 12 . MT. HOPE I. DOE RUN 7. LACEYVILLE This early settlement in the valley of Stillwater Creek was known as 2 . GRAPE VINE 8 . SMITHDALE 13. CONAWAY Norristown until it was platted by Alfred Heacock in 1840. The name was 3. SAMPSONS CHURCHES 14. DEERSVI LLE changed to Tippecanoe in honor of the new president whose campaign slogan 4. LACEYVILLE 9. ZION a CEM . was "Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too . " *When romantically-minded Eleanora Knype left her castle home by way 5 . MT. HOPE 10. MT. HOPE of a bed cord suspended from her bedroom window to join the lover of whom 6. POSEY HILL II. PLEASANT VALLEY a CEM. her uncle disapproved, she little dreamed just what the results of that elopement-marriage would be,or that Destiny would not only lead her to the New World, but , that she would help to found and populate a village in that America, from which England had so recently been severed politically. When James Brown Norris and Eleanora Knype Norris left their home in

,-~ !W!_P:..__ - "°"TH TWP. England in the ear ly part of the nineteenth century, or about 1809, with ~, ,. ~ --ti-- -- ~--Tl~,-----~ their eight children, they immigrated to Prince Edward Island, off the nor­ t thern coast of Nova Scotia where they sojourned a few years, immigrated to I / ✓ I • ., the United States with nine children, one having been born on the Island. : / / ' I /./ ( : - ~ I Journeying westward about 1814 or 1815 in their Conestoga wagon, they \ I ~/ Z2 ; ~'=118 -I ,o arrived in that partof the Northwest Territory known as the state of Ohio, I I / \ @ / • I \ / I lfJ-.[ and settled on Stillwater Creek founding the town of Norrisville. Previous : ii) I!!} \ I I I to this, original grants of land had been made to several families, who clear­ ( ed it for agri cultural purposes. A few families had built homes on the site

I of the village, but not until the Norris family settled there, married and es- , I \ ' \U tablished homes , did it become known as a village. \ About 1820 a grist mill was built by Alfred Heacock of Pennsylvania, ·-I 'I its construction was I the supervision of I and carpentry of the new mill a period of eighty- \- The 1925, stood until about men. It from ' undertaken by the Norris to William Boyd, Sr. , / \ sold the structure IO 2 In 1846 Mr . Heacock the hands S2 I five years . and thence into - . ,,. of George Boyd, @./"' ,,. I it passed into those the possession Ii) - ·~ whose hands it having been in I Auld, / and later to H. M. : of William Boyd , Jr . • the building to P. L. ,. Mr. Auld sold sixty years . In 1925 I of the Boyd family I Stewart who had it torn down and removed to his farm, where he used the lum­ /. 11 /: ber for building purposes. · h ill ntil 1889, when it was supplan- '-..... I d e l The ol d burr system was use int em u I- · ------_)_ ted by the roller process. * Taken from "History of Tippecanoe and Washington Townships" Bicentennial

Edition. 103 102 Mr. Heacock also purchased land and laid out f orty-one l ots on the south building which still stands today on the original site near the Ti ppecanoe side of the town i n 1840 . These lots sold for ten doll ars each, or were given High School building. It is believed Lhat the Associate Reformed Or ganization to anyone who would build a two-story house. The town was renamed Tippecanoe had a group if not a building in the early days. The mail was brought in a t this time . first by pony express from Steubenville then from Uhr:i.chsvilleabout twice a Of the original village only one building stands t oday- one built by the week. The mail was thrown on a table from which the postmaster di stribu- Norris men-the log part of t he dwelling occupied by John R. Baker, son-in-law t ed i t by calling the names of the recipients. As the building was too of William Albert Boyd on the west side of town. It wa s built about 1833." small to accommodate many some of the mail had to be passed along until it In the early times goods were shipped by flatboat to Wate rford, now reached the person for whom it was intended. The town was made up of many called Uhrichsville Wagon loads of grain, f ruit, or tobacco were taken to good r esidences, two hotels, more than one general merchandise and grocery , Wheeling with four horses. They started at sunset to arrive i n the morning to har dware, farm implement dealer, feed store with a play hous~ above it, drug sell the produce. This mode of travel continued until the railroads came store, restaur ant , livery stable, lumber yard, cream station, ice cream fac­ about 1880 or 1881 bringing much business and new settlers. At fir st the rail­ t or y , funer al dir ect or , doctor, and veterinarian. r oad was knownas the CTV&W , later the CL&W, now the B&O . An early coal mine was Today Tippecanoe is a group of houses, a post office, church and grade opened at the Irons place and one on the J . W. Baker farm. Several coal s chool . People work away at a distance. companies, as the Hatch Coal Company , f urnished employment . Af ter the r a ilroad CLENDENING LAKE- was built the stone quarrying business grew. Robert Hosey of Cleveland oper­ Buil t by Muskingum Water shed Conservancy in 1936 covering about 2700 ated a quarry two and a half miles south of town on the Miller farm. Several acr es. On i t i s located Camp Tippecanoe , built by the Canton Y.M.C. A. in quarries produced pulp, grin.Ji $tones, flag stones, and builders materials . A 1957. Als o the Akr on Boy Scouts selected a site on Clendening Lake in 1960 . saw mill was operated at the east end of the mill dam and one on the s i t e and They own 168 acr es, a chalet , a boathouse, and the camp , dedicated in 1962 , is foundation of the old lock. A tannery was operated her e which fur nished boys known as Camp Rich ie. employment at 25c a day for cutting up the oak bark. A wagon and buggy shop MAY ' S FALLS- was opened by Albert Green and blacksmit h shops were as numerous as filling Be low May ' s Cemeter y is a wet weather falls providing a beautiful cas- th stations today. cade i n t o a deep gulch. Once it provided security for Indian travel wi Bridges were important. Several , even the famous Boyd covered bridge, prisoner s t o For t Detroi t . This is close to Devil ' s Den . were washed away by floods. The Indian stor ies should not be f or gotton. Two Johnson boys, living on what i s now the John Kinsey far m, were kidnapped and taken. But they marked the route and feigning s l eep one night rose, stole their capt or's weapons.killed these drunken Indians, and found their way home . Also the Indians captured James Johnson (father) and took him to Detroit where he was sold. This same James Johnson returned to Tippecanoe, established a home and lived t o be III years old. The churches , too , were important. The first one established was the Wesleyan Methodist Chur ch built when the t own was known as Norrisville. It stood on lot 41, at the south end of town, where Route 8 turns sharply southeastward. In 1945 a Methodist Church replaced the first building in 1902. The United Presbyterian Congregation built a

105 104 Clark, Foster Stevens, Clyde Boyd, Ola Wil]iamson, Mable Teachers: Verna Baker Welling. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS . Willis, Mable Betts, Marie Jarvis, Ell. raig E. Tetrick 1931. BILLINGSLY- Last teacher C Sec. II. It was near the Canton YMCA property-a frame building. Families: IPPECANOE After having two Billingsly, Malernee , Frank Stewart, Stephen Rose, John McConnell, Theodore T - . h greased paper windows . The first building was log wit h site of the present erected on t e McConnell, Jessie Davidson, Timothy LaPort, Cecil Hicks, Willoughby, Teachers: a two story structure was frame structures building was used for a consol- Verna Boyd Baker, Martha Tetrich Hicks. ilding in the village. This year high sc h oo1 bu . 1948 the charter for the two- Last teacher Helen McConnell 1938. idation center for Washington Township . In b ilt on land 1951 a modern brick structure was u f L ke- BIRNEYS- high school was revoked. In h. b came a part o a In 1957 Washington Towns ip e On Co . Rd . 6. First educational structure in the township; first called purchased from w. E. Spear. . . anoe School as an elementary center. School District with T1ppec Fulton' s School. Then name was changed to Birneys. Teachers : Harry Birney, Jim land Union Local Downs , Denver Simpson, Tom Bargar, Fannie Walker Whittier.

BRICK- Sec. 9. The first building was brick, also, and set a little lower on the hill than the last one. Their literary society programs were very worth­ while as parents as well as pupils took part. Mrs. J. W. Haverfield played for The Brick School Literary Society. Some of the Debaters were Hon. Jesse Forsythe, Harrison Forsythe, Alex Cole. Teachers: Alex Davidson, John E. McPeak William ~ House, Ophelia Eaton, E. B. McNamee . Last teacher Grace Chaney 1939.

FRIENDLY RIDGE- Sec. 27-SW. quarter . The first log building was a subscription school, there being an agreement between Joseph Phillipar and ten families to teach two months and begin December 1 and 24 days a month. The second building was log near the eastern edge of the quarter section and north of the road. It burned in 1850 and a frame replaced the log. Then another School and G~ade School TJ..p p ec.a.no e 1-U.,g h building was built in 1880 on the south side of the road . It had a wonderful bell, was made of the best lumber, had a roof of double slate, had large slate black boards , all of which the community was proud. Teachers were: John Randall, William Stewert, Robert Lyon, Jessie Hayes, Odel Ripley. Closed by consolidation. Last teacher Grace Chaney, 1940.

MAYS- Sec. 9. Near May ' s Cemetery. Built on land from 3 farms- Clark's , Minney's, and Milhorn's. Warner Clark startec, here in 1911 as did his father in U385.

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