Butler

Oxford, OH

“The Poet’s Shack” was built as a writing studio for the prolific poet Percy MacKaye, who held the position of writer-in-residence at...

On April 20, 1857, the trustees of Morgan Township met in Okeana to obtain a lot for the township house.

Hamilton, OH

Abraham Lincoln spoke from the rear of a Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad passenger train on Saturday, September 17, 1859, to about...

William Holmes McGuffey, author of the Eclectic Series of Readers, was ordained a Presbyterian minister in a log meeting house on this...

Edward Bebb, father of William Bebb and first Welshman to settle in Paddy’s Run, Morgan Township, Butler County purchased this cabin in...

The Bunker Hill Society was organized about 1845 and fellowshipped in 1854.

In 1833, Robert Busenbark deeded land to the directors of School District No. 6 for Busenbark School.

Hamilton, OH

The Civil War created orphaned and impoverished children across the nation.

Hamilton, OH

Butler County was created on March 24, 1803, about three weeks after Ohio became a state.

Hamilton, OH

The Champion Coated Paper Company began production April 15, 1894, with less than a dozen employees under the direction of Peter Gibson...

Monroe, OH

Nathanial Sackett (1768-1854) and John H. Piatt (1781-1820) platted Monroe in 1817, naming it for President James Monroe.

Hamilton, OH

Clark Lane (1823-1907), industrialist and philanthropist, was a son of John Lane (1793-1880) and Rosanah Crum (1795-1877).

Thomas Burk Sr. purchased a quarter section of federal land here in 1804.

Fairfield, OH

Elisha Morgan purchased 48.6 acres in Fairfield Township, part of the Symmes Purchase, in 1817.

Hamilton, OH

Raised and educated in St. Louis, author Fannie Hurst (1885-1968) was born in Hamilton at 918 Central Avenue, the home of her maternal...

The Jain Center of Cincinnati and Dayton was established on April 22, 1979 as a non-profit tax-exempt organization under the laws of the...

Oxford, OH

In what was called the “Freedom Summer” of 1964, more than 800 volunteers, most of them college students, gathered at the Western College...

Fairfield, OH

The Hogan Family owned and operated what was known as the Hamilton Airport for over 52 years.

The Indian Creek Regular Baptist Church was established in 1810 as an arm of the Little Cedar Creek Church of Brookville, Indiana.

Hamilton, OH

James Elrick, a local carpenter, built the Lane-Hooven House in 1863 for Clark Lane (1823-1907), a Hamilton industrialist and...

Oxford, OH

Reverend Lorenzo Langstroth, renowned as “The Father of American Beekeeping,” lived in this simple two-story, eight-room house with his...

Lewis-Sample Farmstead.

Fairfield, OH

Around 1843, local Methodists organized a new Methodist Episcopal church at Fair Play and later erected a brick chapel.

Middletown, OH

At Middletown, Ohio, on July 21, 1825, ground was first broken for the Miami-Erie Canal, which eventually linked Cincinnati and Toledo.

Oxford, OH

In 1833, Samuel Eells founded Alpha Delta Phi (ΑΔΦ), the first fraternity west of the Allegheny Mountains and the first fraternity at...

The foundation for the first Welsh settlement in Ohio was laid on June 29, 1801, when William and Morgan Gwilym purchased land in what is...

Hamilton, OH

On January 9, 1919, a group of eight men and three women, being led by the Holy Spirit, met at a house on Wallace Street to form a new...

Hamilton, OH

Rossville was settled in April 1801 shortly after the U.S. Government initiated land sales west of the Great Miami River.

Hamilton, OH

The Soldiers, Sailors, and Pioneers Monument was planned and promoted by Butler County Civil War veterans and financed by a county levy...

Oxford, OH

Built by “Old Miami” University President Robert L. Stanton, D.D. (1810-1885) as his private home and president’s office, Stanton’s 1868...

A cemetery was established on the site in 1811 and became the final resting place for many of the area’s early pioneer families.

Oxford, OH

Zachariah Price DeWitt was born of a Dutch family in New Jersey in 1768.

As Oxford Township was developing in the mid-1800s, a cluster of farmsteads near its northern border developed and was designated the...

Construction began in 1825 on the 20-mile segment of the Miami Canal from two miles north of Middletown to the head of Mill Creek.

In the early years of the nineteenth century, a religious unrest known as the Second Great Awakening spread across much of the American...

Trenton, OH

Trenton’s founder, Michael Pearce, came to the area in 1801.

During the height of World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt turned to the innovative engineers of the Crosley Broadcasting...

The village of Miltonville, located along the banks of Elk Creek, was platted in 1816 by George Bennett, Theophilus Eaglesfield, and...

Hamilton, OH

Warren Gard (1873-1929), son of Samuel Z. Gard and Mary Duke, was born in Hamilton, Ohio.

Oxford, OH

William Holmes McGuffey (1800-1873) was a Miami University faculty member in 1836 when he compiled the first edition of the McGuffey...

This hamlet, located one mile southwest from here, was never platted, but was named after William Woods, president of the three-story...

Oxford, OH

Established as the Oxford Township Cemetery in 1880, this public graveyard replaced the original one at the corner of College Avenue and...