Ironton

City of Ironton, Ohio

By a proclamation of Gov. John Brough, this village, town, county seat or whatever you may call it, has been advanced to a City of the second class. We have therefore, the rights and titles of a city. What we have not: 1st. We have no city wharf, merely the right of way of the width of a street.

Storms Creek Baptist Ironton, Ohio

In the year 1811, Rev. John Lee, relative of the famous General Robt. Lee, came from Virginia with his family, a wife and five daughters, and bought a farm near the mouth of Storms Creek. He with other Baptists, who had settled on farms along the river in the community, cut logs and built a large log church house on the river side of the road near the present Storms Creek bridge. Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio

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