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

History of Ironton, Ohio

F. G. Leete’s documents give an interesting story of the founding and naming of the city of Ironton, Ohio. Contained in it, are numerous papers relating is the founding of Ironton.  Following is a quotation from a characteristic letter by John Campbell in 1846 when projecting the establishment of a town in the neighborhood of Hanging Rock, which indicates his vigor and vision.  “We could soon have a town of 10,000.  It would be far enough from any other city to become one of the largest in the west.  On our own energy, all would depend.  Why should it not go on?  why should we not be the actors in this?  We have the capital, we have the capacity, why should we not have the energy?”

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