A few minutes before 8 o’clock, last Monday morning, a battery of six boilers at the Lawrence County Ohio Mill Explosion, hurled their immense fragments high in air, into the valley of Storms creek
Martha J. Martin
Getaway Ohio History Part Four
Getaway Ohio in Lawrence County, Ohio has never been the site of any “big business” as we generally use that term today although a number of local industries have flourished there from time to time.
Edgerton Family of Chesapeake, Ohio
J.T. Edgerton, 70 years old, former Lawrence County [Ohio] surveyor, died this morning in an Ironton [Ohio] hospital. He had
Kellogg Powder Mills Works Explosion
It really seemed as if an earthquake had passed; but no, it was the explosion of the Kellogg Powder Mills, located in West Va., between Huntington and Ceredo, 14 miles distant from here.
Ironton Ohio Fires
Last Sunday morning a few minutes before one, the fire whistle shrieked and told off Third Ward; again it blew long and angrily, and then followed a general alarm.
Random Thoughts about Ironton, Ohio
The Irontonians are a “peculiar people.” Shut out from the world, except by the Ohio river, their ideas of social etiquette are strange to a person who
Foster Stove Company Ironton, Ohio
In 1848, William Clark Davis invented cooking stoves made from iron ore and began selling them at his business W. C. Davis in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Colonel Henry Adam Marting
Colonel Henry Adam Marting was born 17 Dec. 1850 in Greenup County, Kentucky. His parents were Henry Marting and Mary E. Knaper,
Lawrence County, Ohio 1890-1938
Chronological Year of Events of Lawrence County, Ohio1890 - 1938 [unsure of the date and the source from newspaper-mm] 1890 Ironton Elks organized - D.T. Bush, the only living charter member here...
William Russell Letter to Samuel Russell
This letter was recorded in the Lawrence County, Ohio Deeds. I transcribed it the best I could and changed the misspelled words, except one (something I never do, but made an exception to this document for easier reading). I am not quite sure which William Russell he is referring to in this letter that had died, that will require a little more research on someone else’s part.
Civil Rights Bill 1874
the suspension of the public schools in Proctorsville, [sic] Lawrence county, we have received the Ironton Commercial, which confirms our report, only it shows that the imbroglio was even more complicated than we had at first supposed.
An Industrious Census Taker in 1860
Mr. J. L. Barber, Assistant Marshall, in Lawrence county, Ohio, thus sums up his week’s labor in a note to the U.S. Marshal:-
Ironton, Ohio and the Tax Tariff of 1846
Ironton, on the Ohio River, the capital of Lawrence county, Ohio, was begun four years ago next month, by a company of associated capitalists, who bought 350 acres of river bottom and 4,500 acres
Collier and Davis Kidnapping
Two persons, named Collier and Davis, kidnapped a colored man in Lawrence County, Ohio, a few days ago.
John Robinson’s Circus Fifty Years Ago
If you saw John Robinson’s circus fifty years ago you too can be a guest. All is necessary is that you fill out the coupon in this paper