Burdine Blake built the three story brick below the Sheridan House Hotel in Ironton, Ohio, in 1850. The frame house adjoining the Sheridan House was built in 1851 by or for John Ward.
Ironton
Gold Rush of ’98 and Ironton, Ohio Men
These stories were printed in the fall of ’97 and before Christmas that year a company known as the Ironton Ohio Mining and Trading Company had been organized with the late Col. H. A. Marting
Ironton House
Ironton House was a Hotel located in Ironton, Ohio and built in 1850 for Ohio Iron and Coal Co.. Steven White did the brick work.
Former Irontonians
Former Irontonians Where did they go from Here?
Something about them, where they are now-1875
Dr. Briggs, one of the founders of Ironton, and its first Postmaster, is now living at Long Plain, Mass.
William Colvin, the secretary of the company that built the Ironton Rolling Mill, also member of the firm of Yard and Colvin, in the furniture business, where Devine & Bryne’s shoe store now is, has recently been elected Professor of Political Economy of the State Agricultural College at Columbus, Ohio.
Yellow Poplar Lumber Company
John Ferguson was struck and fatally injured by a board at the sawmill of the Yellow Poplar Lumber company, below here Tuesday.
Ancient History of Ironton, Ohio
South of the Ohio Iron & Coal Company’s land, which became the plat of Ironton, lay the land owned by the late W. D. Kelly, which extended to a point probably near Fifth and Oak streets, and back to the hills in the rear of the fair grounds,
Ironton, Ohio Depot
When Ironton, Ohio was laid out in 1849, the depot for the Iron Railroad was the first building and the passenger waiting room became the first place in the new town for public meetings
Ohio Iron and Coal Company Dissolves
IR May 26, 1859 - The Ohio Iron and Coal Company - the Company which received its charter from the Ohio Legislature early in the year 1849 -the Company which laid out and established the town of...
W.E.R. Kemp
W. E. R. Kemp carries a pocket comb that he has had 47 years. He bought it in June 1843, on the steamboat Mary Ann, on his way to Ironton, Ohio
Ironton Bank, Ironton, Ohio
The Ironton Bank Gives Down – 'calls Ironton a mob city' Buffalo Daily Republic, Buffalo, NY Nov. 28, 1857, p2. The Ironton Bank, through an organized mob called to its aid, repulsed Gen. E. B....
Lombard Football Team
(Ironton’s Lombard football team was one of the best in the region In the early days of local football in the early 1900’s. The following article is
Ironton Ohio History of Parades
Newspaper files of the past hundred years tell the parade story and Ironton, Ohio’s love of a parade was only disputed once, according to this writer’s knowledge. That challenge was quickly withdrawn during the city centennial celebration in 1949, when Jim Mace, a representative of the company, came to town to produce the pageant told Matt Cloran that the committee was crazy to think six parades in a single week could be a success.
St. Joseph Catholic Church
IR June 2, 1887 The laying of the cornerstone of St. Joseph’s church has been put off until the 26th of June, which date has been agreed upon if it will
C. A. Alderman
Mr. C. A. Alderman, the senior member of the firm of C. Alderman & Son, has had a practical experience in the dry goods business covering a period of
Nannie Kelly Wright
Nannie Kelly Wright was the daughter of Washington and Catherine L. “Kate” Kouns Crawford Honshell. She married Lindsey Kelly on 08 Oct 1879, Nannie and