As readers of these columns know, we have referred quite often in the past to the early settlement of Friends, commonly known as “Quakers” on the site now occupied by the village of Proctorville, Ohio.
As I now write you, I am sitting up, watching the corpse of Dr. Clark, who was killed to-day by the rebels. We were waiting for the mail this morning up
Stories about the northernmost tracts of Lawrence County and the booming furnaces of Washington Township to the Ohio River.
Upper Township is the southernmost one of Range Eighteen although it is not a full sized township in Lawrence County, Ohio, it is where Ironton is located.
Lawrence Township is centrally located in Lawrence County, Ohio, and was settled in 1806 by the Webbs, Willis, and Pancake families. James Webb, Sr., is said to have built the first cabin in 1806....
In the year 1850 Elizabeth Township was the largest township in Lawrence County, with a population of 2,529.
Hamilton Township Once Was Booming, But Now It’s Being Bypassed. The integral history of Hamilton Township is not to be forgotten. The village of
Fayette Township was settled in 1798. The Davidson families, Kouns, Crawfords, Freemans and Wards were among those who settled here between 1798 and 1828. Dr. C. S. Hall came in 1837. Many descendants of these families still live in the area.
The first school was built on Section 3, in 1812. Its seven or eight pupils were taught by John Phillips.
T. A. Walton Walks Through Rome Township. in 1869. Going northward from modern Rome, by the way of the new road, I found it dry traveling until I
A large portion of Perry Township fronting on the Ohio River warranted the early settlement of the township, with the first settler coming into the area
The County Commissioners granted the petition for the incorporation of the village of South Point. It is understood that an effort will be made to change it into a village school district. This will bring up a question as to whether the law gives that right.
Photo from David Milem collection, taken around 1944 at Solida Grade School. The teacher was Irene Stewart, she only missed one day of work in seven years, which was when her husband, Stanley Stewart
Symmes Township Pioneers Having received so many favorable comments upon our recent articles about some of the pioneers of various townships in Lawrence
When the famous Wright brothers – Orville and Wilbur – agreed to perform at a country fair near their Kitty Hawk, N.C. airplane testing grounds a year after their first flight in 1903, they didn’t know that a man who now resides near Waterloo would play a major role in their earning $300.
Union township, Lawrence County, Ohio, lies on the Ohio River just below the Ohio Company’s Purchase. It belonged originally – that is, originally