| CHAPTER I. |
WHEN THE NEW
WORLD WAS FIRST SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED. |
17 - 32 |
| |
Verging on Ancient
History
- What the Ancients Knew
- DeSoto, the
Spirit of the Sixteenth Century
- Marquette, Joliet
and La Salle
- 1776 and 1983
- Louisiana Territory
-
The Ground of Dispute
- Ownership of the Northwest
French and Indian War
- The Dunmore War
- Lord
Dunmore's March
- The Treaty of Paris, France
- The
Government owned it
- Ordinance of 1787
- The Author
of Ordinance of 1787
- Scioto Land Company
- Judge
Cutler's Letter. |
|
| CHAPTER II.
|
PROGRESS OF EVENTS -
GROUPING OF INTERESTING FACTS. |
33 - 41 |
| |
The First Settlement
-
Governor Appointed
- The Indian War
- Wayne's
Campaign
- A Treaty
- Indian Annuities
- Progress of
the New Northwest
- The First Territorial
Legislature
- Location of Bounty Lanes
- Formation
State Constitution. |
|
| CHAPTER III. |
THEY FOUND A WILDERNESS
AND LET IN THE SUNLIGHT OF CIVILIZATION. |
42 - 59 |
| |
Pioneer Life
- Home of
the Indians
- From Whence they Came
- The Log Cabin
- Dress and Manors
- Market Prices
- Milling
-
Native Animals
- Agricultural Implements
- Education
- The Bright Side
- What the Pioneers have done
-
Women Pioneers. |
|
| CHAPTER IV. |
SCIENTIFIC VIEW OF
SCIOTO VALLEY. |
60 - 82 |
| |
Its Topography
- The
Scioto River
- Its Drainage System
- The Geology of
Scioto Valley
- Fire Clay, etc.
- Archaeology of the
Scioto Valley
- The Mound Builders
- Piketon Walls
-
The Fauna of Scioto Valley
- The Beasts of the
Valley
- The Reptiles of Scioto Valley
- The Flora
of Scioto Valley
- Conclusion
- The Future of Scioto
Valley
- Its Mineral Resources
- The Future
Population of the Scioto Valley. |
|
| CHAPTER V. |
MATERIAL WEALTH -
OFFICIAL LIFE - PATRIOTISM |
83 - 91 |
| |
A Chapter of Material
Wealth
- Internal Improvements
- The Ohio Canal
-
Mils of Railway in 1882
- Governors
-
Representatives, Scioto, Pike and Jackson Counties
-
The State of Ohio
- State Senators, Scioto, Pike and
Jackson Counties
- Common Pleas Court
- Election of
1840
- Presidential Campaign |
|
| CHAPTER VI. |
THE BEAUTIFUL VALLEY
OF THE SCIOTO - THE FERTILE BANKS OF THE OHIO. |
92 - 110 |
| |
Before Organization
-
The Pioneer Settlement
- The First Surveys
- Scioto
County Pioneer Life
- Names of Pioneers, 1796 to
1806
- The Settlement of the French Grant. |
|
| |
|
|
|
SCIOTO COUNTY,
OHIO
(See
Scioto
County, Ohio) |
| CHAPTER VII |
ORGANIZATION,
CHANGES, TOPOGRAPHY AND PROGRESS. |
111 - 126 |
| |
Habitation and Name
-
Act to Establish the County of Scioto
- Its
Topography
- Scioto River Navigation
- Scioto River
Bridges
- Change in Township Lines |
|
| CHAPTER VIII. |
AGRICULTURAL
RESOURCES OF SCIOTO COUNTY - HER RAILROADS AND
POPULATION |
127 - 135 |
| |
Introductory
-
Agriculture
- Township and County Finances
- Melange
- Progress
- Township and Changes
- Court House and
Turnpike
- Fine-Grained Sand Rock
- An Act for
Altering the Boundary Line Between Scioto and Gallia
Counties
- An Act to Erect the County of Lawrence
-
Act to Attach Part of Lawrence County to Scioto
County
- The Loss of the County Records
- The
Townships
- Water Supply
- Mineral Resources
- Iron
Ore Deposits
- Bituminous Coal
- Boundaries of the
Coal Field
- From 1814
- Valuation
- Population of
Scioto County, Area 640 Square Miles
- Population
Since 1840
- Scioto & Hocking Valley Railroad
-
Portsmouth Branch of the M. & C. R. R.
- Scioto
Valley Railroad
- Cincinnati & Eastern Railroad
-
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. |
|
| CHAPTER IX. |
SOCIETIES -
INFIRMARY - FLOODS - ITEMS - COUNTY OFFICES. |
136 - 146 |
| |
Agricultural Societies
- First Organization
- Grange
- County Infirmary
-
The Waters and the Floods
- 'The Flood of 1883
-
Itemized
- Oil Excitement, 1861
- Common Pleas
-
County Officers. |
|
| CHAPTER X. |
THE MILITARY HISTORY
OF SCIOTO COUNTY FROM 1812 TO 1865. |
147 - 178 |
| |
The War of 1812
- The
March and Surrender
- Captain Roop
- The Mexican War
- Civil War, 1861 to 865
- Portsmouth Rifles
- The
First Battle
- Home Relief
- Distribution
- The
Fifty sixth Ohio Infantry
- The Organization
- The
Gallant Thirty-third Ohio Infantry
- The
Ninety-first Regiment
- The Fifty-third Ohio
Infantry
- The Seventy-second Regiment
- The Grosbeck Regiment
- The Second Kentucky
- The One
Hundred and Seventeenth Regiment
- Battery L
-
Eighty-first Regiment Ohio Infantry
- Thirtieth
Regiment O. V. M.
- The Scattered. |
|
| CHAPTER XI. |
THE CITY OF
PORTSMOUTH - THE HOME OF BEAUTY, CULTURE, REFINEMENT
AND WEALTH |
179 - 193 |
| |
Rank and Classification
- Alexandria
- Portsmouth Platted
- City Officials,
etc.
- Improvements
- Business and Banking
- From
1830 to 1840
- Portsmouth Dry Dock and Steamboat
Basin Company
- The accession of Wayne Township
-
Additions to the City of Portsmouth. |
|
| CHAPTER XII. |
EDUCATIONAL
IMPROVEMENTS AND GENERAL PROGRESS |
194 - 204 |
| |
Portsmouth Public
Schools
- Sanitary
- Medical Societies
- Hempstead
Memorial Academy of Medicine
- Sewerage
-
Post-Office
- Fire Department
- Portsmouth Water
Works
- Gaslight Company |
|
| CHAPTER XIII. |
THE CHURCHES OF THE
CITY OF PORTSMOUTH |
205 - 220 |
| |
Presbyterian
-
Episcopal
- Methodist Episcopal
- Baptist
- Catholic
- Miscellaneous
- Cemetery |
|
| CHAPTER XIV. |
PRESS - CHILDREN'S
HOME - LIBRARIES AND SOCIETIES |
221 - 233 |
| |
The Press
- Children's
Home Association
- Public Library
- City Reading
Rooms
- Independent Order of the Harugari
- Masonry |
|
| CHAPTER XV. |
BANKS, TELEGRAPHS,
TELEPHONE AND MANUFACTURES - COMMERCIAL ARTERY OF
THE CITY. |
234 - 243 |
| |
Banks
- Portsmouth
Street Railway
- Canal Business
- Telephone Exchange
- Western Union Telegraph Company
- Adams Express
Company
- Baltimore & Ohio Express
- Manufactures |
|
| CHAPTER XVI.
-
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PORTSMOUTH |
244 - 311 |
| CHAPTER XVII.
- PORTER, CLAY AND
HARRISON TOWNSHIPS. |
312 - 238 |
| |
Porter Township
- The First Settled
-
Area and Valuation
- When Formed
- Early Settlers
-
Items of Interest
- Sciotoville
- Its Business
Interests, 1883
- Wheelersburg
- The Business of
1883
- Societies
- Wait's Station
- Schools
-
Churches
- Township Officers
- BIOGRAPHICAL
Clay Township
- Its
Metes and bounds
- Organization
- Official
- The
Richest Township
- Churches - Schools
-
BIOGRAPHICAL
Harrison Township
- Over One-fourth Century Later
- Its Organization
-
Old Pioneers
- Boundary Changes
- The Dixon Mill
-
Harrisonville
- Business, etc.
- Official
- Churches
- Schools
- BIOGRAPHICAL.
|
|
| CHAPTER XVIII.
- GREENE, VERNON, AND
BLOOM TOWNSHIPS. |
|
| |
Greene Township
- French Grant, Valuation and Population
- The
Township and Changes
- Old Settlers
- Haverhill
-
Churches
- Powellsville
- Churches
- Schools
-
Township Officers
- BIOGRAPHICAL
Vernon Township
- Description and Area
- Old
Settlers
- Churches
- Schools
- Official
-
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Bloom Township
- Its Mineral Deposits
- Petition for Organization
-
Area and Valuation
- Its Early Settlement
- Webster
- School Districts
- Churches
-
BIOGRAPHICAL |
|
|
CHAPTER XIX. -
MADISON, JEFFERSON AND VALLEY TOWNSHIPS. |
389 - 407 |
| |
Madison Township
- Topography
- Settlement
- Churches and Schools
- Township Officers, 1883
- Wallace Mill
-
BIOGRAPHICAL
Jefferson Township
- Metes, Bounds and Area
-
Population
- Old Settlers
- Township Officers, 1851
- Churches
- Schools
Valley Township
- Next to the Youngest
-
Organization
- Area, Boundary and Valuation
- Old
Settlers
- Township Officers
- Churches
- Schools
-
Business Interests
- Lucasville Lodge, No. 465
-
BIOGRAPHICAL.
|
|
| CHAPTER XX.
- MORGAN, RUSH AND
BRUSH CREEK TOWNSHIP |
408 - 423 |
| |
Morgan Township
- When Settled
- Organization
- Churches
-
Schools
- Township Officers, 1883
- Oil Wells on
Bear Creek
- BIOGRAPHICAL
Rush Township
- Area, Valuation and Population
- Freestone
- How and when Organized
- Township
Election
- Schools
- Churches
- BIOGRAPHICAL
Brush Creek Township
- Organization
- Old
Pioneers
- Official
- Schools
- Hamlets of Brush
Creek
- Churches
|
|
| CHAPTER XXI.
- NILE, WASHINGTON AND
UNION TOWNSHIPS |
424 - 456 |
| |
Nile Township
-
Valuation, Bounds and Population
- Old Settlers
- Schools
- Items of Interest
- Township Officers
and Voting Precincts
- Buena Vista
- Churches
-
Friendship
- BIOGRAPHICAL
Washington Township
- The Old Pioneer
-
Schools, 1883
- A Change and More Territory
- Area,
Valuation and Population
- Tempervale
- Churches
-
Township Officers
- BIOGRAPHICAL
Union Township
- Villages - Officers
|
|
|
JACKSON COUNTY,
OHIO |
| CHAPTER XXII.
-
JACKSON COUNTY FROM
DATE OF ORGANIZATION
- PARTIALLY DONE |
457 - 468 * |
| |
The Misty Ages of the
Past
- Topography
- County Organization
- "An Act to
Erect the County of Jackson
- Meeting of the County
Commissioners
- First Road
- Townships and Taxation
- First Jail
- Townships, etc., 1824
- Court House
-
Land Sales
- Vote on Sale of School Lands
- Decade
Between 1840 and 1850
- Old Scioto Salt Works
-
County Infirmary
|
|
| CHAPTER XXIII.
-
THE OLD PIONEER -
SKETCHES OF EARLY SETTLERS - OFFICIAL LIFE - ITEMS
- PARTIALLY DONE |
469 - 481 * |
| |
Old Settlers
- Items of
Interest
- Officers of Jackson County from its
Organization to the Present Time
- Commissioners
-
Auditors
- Treasurers
- Recorders
- Probate Judges
-
Surveyors
- Sheriffs
- Prosecuting Attorneys
-
'Clerk of Courts
- Judges
- Population of Jackson
County by Townships from 1840.
|
|
| CHAPTER XXIV.
-
GEOLOGY AND THE
MINERAL RESOURCES, COAL AND IRON INTERESTS.
- PARTIALLY DONE |
482 - 500 * |
| |
Geology of Jackson
County
- Limestone Ore
- The Mines and Furnaces
-
Early Coal Mining in Ohio
- The Development of Coal
in Ohio
- Jackson County Coal Notes
- Discovery of
Smelting Coal
- Coke
- Iron Smelting Coals
- Jackson
Shaft Coal
- Jackson Hill Coal
- Blast Furnaces
-
Jackson County Railroads
- Two Other Lines
- Narrow
- Gauge
|
|
| CHAPTER XXV.
-
AGRICULTURE, CEREALS
AND STOCK
- PARTIALLY DONE |
501 - 504 * |
| |
Material Wealth
- The
Crop of 1854
- Valuation of Chattel Property
-
Agricultural Products of Jackson County
- Stock
Statistics, Jackson County
- Value of Real Estate,
1848 to 1883
- Agricultural Societies
|
|
| CHAPTER XXVI.
-
MILITARY HISTORY OF
JACKSON COUNTY, OHIO
-
FINISHED 6/25/2016 |
505 - 519 * |
| |
The Pioneer Movements
-
1812 - Mexican War
- The War of the Rebellion
-
Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry
- Twenty-seventh
Ohio Volunteer Infantry
- Thirty-third Ohio Infantry
-Thirty-sixth Ohio Infantry
- Fifty-third Ohio
Infantry
- Fifty-sixth Ohio Infantry
-
Eighty-seventh Ohio Infantry
- Seventh Ohio Cavalry
- Ninety-first Ohio Infantry
- First Regiment Ohio
Heavy Artillery
- Second Ohio Heavy Artillery
-
Seventy-third Ohio Infantry
- One Hundred and
Twenty-ninth Ohio Infantry
- One Hundred and
Seventy-second Ohio Infantry, O. N. G.
- One Hundred
and Seventy-second Ohio Infantry, O. N. G.
- One
Hundred and Seventy-third Ohio Infantry,
- One
Hundred and Seventy-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry
-
One Hundred and Ninety-fourth Ohio Volunteer
Infantry
- Second West Virginia Cavalry
- Colored
Troops
- Miscellaneous Organizations
-
Re-capitulation
- The Morgan Raid
- Francis Smith
-
Robert W. Caldwell
- Pensions and Pensioners
- Grand
Army of the Republic.
|
|
| CHAPTER XXVII.
-
CITY OF JACKSON -
ITS RUGGED FEATURES IN 1823 - ITS CULTURE,
REFINEMENT AND WEALTH IN 1883
- PARTIALLY DONE |
520 - 530 * |
| |
Capital City of the
Salt Creek Valley
- When Laid Out
- Act
Incorporating the Town of Jackson
- Items
-
Newspapers
- Banks
- Telephone System
- Reading Room
- Silver Cornet Band
- Fire Department
- Express
Companies
- Manufacturing Interests
- Jackson in
1883
|
|
| CHAPTER XXVIII.
-
RELIGIOUS,
EDUCATIONAL, SOCIETIES AND THE BAR OF JACKSON.
- PARTIALLY DONE |
531 - 542 * |
| |
Churches
-
Fairmont Cemetery
- Sabbath Schools
-
Nationalities
- Jackson and Jackson County Schools
-
The Jackson and Jackson County Schools
- The Jackson
County Literary Association
- The Bar of Jackson
County
- Masonic
|
|
CHAPTER XXIX.
-
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF JACKSON CITY
( ) |
543 - 585 * |
| CHAPTER XXX.
-
LICK, LIBERTY,
SCIOTO AND FRANKLIN TOWNSHIPS.
- UPDATED
5/7/2020 |
586 - 614 * |
| |
Lick Township
- Once a Township in Ross County
- Topography
- The
Pioneers
- Its Growth
- Assessed Valuation and Area
- Township Officers
-
BIOGRAPHICAL
Liberty Township
- Topography and Minerals
- Population and Improvements
- Schools and Churches
-
BIOGRAPHICAL
Scioto Township
- Topography and
Streams
- Organization
- Settlement
- Population and
Valuation
- Schools and Churches
- Villages
-
BIOGRAPHICAL
Franklin Township
- Surface and
Minerals
- The Old Pioneer
- Churches an Schools
-
Bounds, Area and Wealth
-
Franklin Township
Officers, 1842, 1860, 1883
-
BIOGRAPHICAL
|
|
| CHAPTER XXXI.
-
MILTON, COAL,
WASHINGTON AND JACKSON TOWNSHIPS
- PARTIALLY DONE |
615 - 656 * |
| |
Milton Township
- Topography
- Settlement
- Furnaces
- Wellston
-
Postoffice
- Public Schools
- Churches
- Societies
-
Newspaper
- Professions
- Business Interests
-
Stores
- Berlin
- Middleton
-
BIOGRAPHICAL
Coal Township
- Settlement
- Coalton
- The
Business
- The Schools
- Postoffice
- Valuation
-
Churches and Societies
-
BIOGRAPHICAL
Washington Township
- Topography
- Schools
-
Ellsworth
-
BIOGRAPHICAL
Jackson Township
- Topography
- Canter's
Cave
- Settlement
- Schools
- Raysville
-
Swiftsville
-
BIOGRAPHICAL.
|
|
| CHAPTER XXXII.
-
BLOOMFIELD, MADISON,
JEFFERSON AND HAMILTON TOWNSHIPS.
- UPDATED 5/7/20202 |
657 - 688 * |
| |
Bloomfield
Township
- Topography
- Old Settlers
-
Population, Valuation, etc.
- Township Officers
-
Schools and Churches
- The Keystone Furnace
-
Winchester
-
BIOGRAPHICAL
Jefferson and Madison Townships
- Schools and
Churches
- Oak Hill
- Manufactures
- Oak Hill in
1883
- The Welsh Settlement in Jackson and Gallia
Counties, Ohio
- Churches
- Oak Hill Public Schools
- Oak Hill Academy
-
BIOGRAPHICAL
Madison Township -
-
BIOGRAPHICAL
Hamilton Township
- Settlement
- Schools and
Churches
- Post office
- Bounds, Valuation, etc. -
-
BIOGRAPHICAL
|
|
|
PIKE COUNTY,
OHIO
(See Pike County, Ohio) |
| CHAPTER XXXIII.
- THE HISTORY OF PIKE
COUNTY - ITS PHYSICAL FEATURES - ITS SETTLEMENT AND
ORGANIZATION. |
689 - 702 |
| |
The Dawn of
Civilization
- Early Settlers
- Governor Robert
Lucas
- Items of Interest
- Before it Became Pike
County
- When Organized
- Court Records
- Eli Sargent's Report
- From the Journal
- Geology of
Pike County
- Waverly Stone
- Topography
- Origin of
Names
- Zane's Trace
|
|
| CHAPTER XXXIV.
- BOUNDARY, AREA,
PROGRESS, COUNTY SITE |
703 - 710 |
| |
Boundaries and Area
-
County Business
Peeble Township
- The Lost Records
-
Advancing
- Population of Pike County by Townships
from 1840
- Removal of County Seat
- The Gift of the
Town of Waverly
- The Deed Copy
Centre Township
- Infirmary
- Postoffices
of Pike County
- County Indebtedness.
|
|
| CHAPTER XXXV.
- AGRICULTURE, STOCK
AND WEALTH OF PIKE COUNTY |
711 - 721 |
| |
Valuation of Real and
Personal Property
- Pike County Medical Society
-
'The First Hanging
- Kuklux in Pike
- Witchcraft in
Pike County
- History of the Press in Pike County
-
Railroads
- The Narrow Gauge
- Turnpikes
- Official
- Commissioners
- Auditors
- Sheriffs
- Treasurers
-
Probate Judge
- Recorders
- Clerk of Courts
-
Prosecuting Attorney
- Judges Second Judicial
District.
|
|
| CHAPTER XXXVI.
- PIKE COUNTY ACTORS
IN THE GREAT CIVIL WAR. |
722 - 734 |
| |
The Signal Given at
Sumter
- The County Calls Again
- The Seventy-third
Ohio
- The Sixty-third Infantry
- What Ohio did for
the Union.
|
|
| CHAPTER XXXVII.
- THE CITY OF WAVERLY. |
735 - 744 |
| |
The Beauty of Its
Surroundings
- Additions
- Postoffice
- Sanitary
- A
Most Fatal Epidemic
- Waverly Public Schools
-
Adoption of Graded System
- Churches
-
Cemeteries
|
|
| CHAPTER XXXVIII.
- BUSINESS INTERESTS
OF WAVERLY - PEE PEE TOWNSHIP |
745 - 774 |
| |
Manufactures - Banks
-
Telegraph Office
- Express Office
- Lodges
- Bands
-
Waverly in 1883
- Pee Pee Township
- Area and Wealth
- Churches
- BIOGRAPHICAL
|
|
| CHAPTER XXXIX.
- SEAL TOWNSHIP. |
775 - 792 |
| |
Geographically Located
- Topography
- Line Changed
- Piketon Bridge
-
Schools of Seal Township
- Waverly Sandstone
-
Official
- Jefferson
- Reminiscence of David Ware
-
Piketon Agricultural Society
- Early Incidents
-
Flouring Mill
- Piketon Public School
- Piketon
Lodge, No. 323, I. O. O. F.
- Churches
- Business of
Piketon
- Official
- BIOGRAPHICAL
|
|
| CHAPTER XL.
- JACKSON, BEAVER,
MARION AND UNION TOWNSHIP |
793 - 825 |
| |
Jackson Township
- Organization and Bounds
- Township Officers
-
Educational
- Transportation
- Sharonville
- Its
Business Interests
- Churches
- BIOGRAPHICAL
Beaver Township
- Area, Metes and Bounds
-
Drainage System
- Name
- Organization
- Township
Officers
- 1883
- Schools
- Beavertown
-
Churches
- Population
- BIOGRAPHICAL
Marion Township
- Size and Location
-
Topography
- California
- Township Organization
-
Officers, 1843
- 1883
- Schools
- Churches
-
BIOGRAPHICAL
Union Township
- When and by Whom Settled
-
Topography
- Mineral Development
- Early Facts
-
Organization, Bounds, etc.
- Township Officers
-
Churches
- Educational
- BIOGRAPHICAL
|
|
| CHAPTER XLI.
- SCIOTO, NEWTON,
SUNFISH AND CAMP CREEK TOWNSHIPS. |
826 - 847 |
| |
Scioto Township
- Topography
- Big Run
- Old Settlement
-
Educational
- Churches
- Postoffices
- Township
Organization
- Boundary Changes
- Official
-
Valuation
- BIOGRAPHICAL
Newton Township
- Soil, Production and Bounds
- Timber
- Population and Valuation
Jasper Village
- Public School
- Bethel
-
Churches
- BIOGRAPHICAL
- Sunfish Township
- Something of its Early Days
- Topography
- Old Settlers
- Boundary Line Changes
- Population
- Churches
- Schools
- Offices
-
BIOGRAPHICAL
Camp Creek Township
- Bounds and Area
- Timber
and Water
- Coopersville
- Educational
- Churches
-
Township Officials
- Population
-
BIOGRAPHICAL.
|
|
| CHAPTER XLII.
- MIFFLIN, PERRY,
BENTON AND PEEBLE TOWNSHIP |
848 - 872 |
| |
Mifflin Township
- Its Advent to Independence
- Bounds, Valuation and
Population
- Soil, Timber and Topography
- Byington
- Latham
- Some of the Old Pioneers
- Churches
-
Schools, 1888
- Official
- BIOGRAPHICAL -
Perry Township
- Its Topography
- Bounds,
Acreage and Valuation
- Pioneers
- Cynthiana
-
Schools
- Churches
- BIOGRAPHICAL
Benton Township
- Its Form and Area
- When
Organized
- Population and Politics
- Morgantown
-
Schools
- Churches
Peeble Township
- Organization and Election
- Valuation and Population
- Old Settlers
- Buchanan
- Idaho
- Schools
- Churches
- Official
-
BIOGRAPHICAL
|
|
| APPENDIX |
|
872 |
