About five miles up Symmes Creek from its mouth is situated the village commonly known as Getaway. Unincorporated, and therefore legally but a community of Union Township, it had an interesting history and one of sufficient importance to deserve recording and preserving. It is a village in which several descendants of pioneers still dwell, one of whom, Mrs. W. H. Waldeck has been kind enough to go to a great deal of trouble in collecting many facts for us regarding this historic old place.
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Defender Chapel
18 Sept. 1955-Defender Chapel, named after a riverboat which suffered a disaster at a point on the Ohio [River], overlooked by the church, will celebrate
Fashions of Past
Peep into Past -Miss Anna Fitziu a native of Huntington, WV was a soprano who sang with the Metropolitan Opera Co. and with traveling opera companies.
A Silver Find in South Point, Ohio
A rich vein of silver has been discovered on the hill land of Samuel Edgell of South Point. It will be extensively worked by Mr. Edgell,
At The Penitentiary
Last week, we commissioned a special reporter to take a look at the boys now serving a term in the penitentiary from this county. He reports as follows:
Prisoners of Lawrence County, Ohio
1834 – 1898 Lawrence County Ohio Prisoners were abstracted from the original Penitentiary’s Register of in Columbus. 1834-1905 can be found
Getaway Ohio History Part Three
Rev. Thacker was not favorably impressed with Getaway, Ohio and asked, in derision, “What is the name of this CITY?” Whereupon, he exclaimed “Get Away!”
Lawrence County, Ohio Mill Explosion
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
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.
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.
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...
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:-
Collier and Davis Kidnapping
Two persons, named Collier and Davis, kidnapped a colored man in Lawrence County, Ohio, a few days ago.