Champaign
1950 National and Ohio Plowing Matches
Benson Road and the North Urbana Lisbon Road (SR 54) in Champaign County was the site of the 1950 National and Ohio Plowing Matches and...
Addison White
Mechanicsburg, OH
Congress passed Fugitive Slave Laws in 1793 and 1850, allowing federal marshals to arrest slaves that had escaped to the North and take...
Bailey and Barclay Halls / Johnny Appleseed
Urbana, OH
Urbana University was established by the Swedenborgian Church in 1850.
Billy “Single” Clifford / Clifford Theater
Urbana, OH
Clyde Shyrigh, better known as Billy Clifford, was born in this house on January 24, 1869, to Levi and Sarah Shyrigh.
Cedar Bog Nature Preserve
In 1942 Cedar Bog became the first nature preserve in Ohio purchased with state funds.
Friends Church / Friends Cemetery
North Lewisburg, OH
Among the earliest settlers to Rush Township were members of the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers, who emigrated from the eastern...
General Robert Lawrence Eichelberger
Urbana, OH
Robert L. Eichelberger was born in Urbana on March 9, 1886, the youngest of the five children of George Maley Eichelberger, an Urbana...
Harmony Lodge No. 8 Free and Accepted Masons
Urbana, OH
A group of Freemasons, inspired by the concepts of a new country, of Freedom with Responsibility, Brotherly Love, and Truth, formed...
Harvey Haddix
Baseball great Harvey Haddix was born on September 18, 1925, and grew up on a farm just south of Westville.
In Memory of Marion A. Ross
Christiansburg, OH
Born here October 9, 1832.
In Memory of Simon Kenton (1755-1836)
Urbana, OH
Simon Kenton who is buried here.
James Roy Hopkins
Mechanicsburg, OH
James R. Hopkins was born May 17, 1877, in Irwin and graduated from Mechanicsburg High School in 1895.
John Anderson Ward Farmstead / John Quincy Adams Ward 1830-1910, Edgar Melville Ward 1839-1915
Urbana, OH
John Anderson Ward had this Federal style house constructed from 1823-1825 on land inherited from his father, Urbana’s founder Colonel...
Joseph E. Wing
Joseph E. Wing was one of the first persons to identify, promote, and grow alfalfa as a forage crop east of the Mississippi River.
Kings Creek Baptist Church
The founders of what would become the Kings Creek Baptist Church first met on June 29, 1805 in the log home of local residents James and...
Lincoln Funeral Train
St. Paris, OH
President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1865, created a national tragedy, and the nation mourned as his body was...
Lincoln Funeral Train (Cable)
President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1865, created a national tragedy, and the nation mourned as his body was...
Lincoln Funeral Train (Woodstock)
President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1865, created a national tragedy, and the nation mourned as his body was...
Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad
Urbana, OH
Champaign County residents Joseph Vance (1786-1852) and John H. James (1800-1881) were among the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad’s first...
Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad
Urbana, OH
The Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad Company was chartered by the State of Ohio in January 1832 to connect west central Ohio with...
Mechanicsburg United Methodist Church
Mechanicsburg, OH
The Mechanicsburg United Methodist congregation was founded in the early nineteenth century and met first in open-air camp meetings...
Mt. Tabor Church / Mt. Tabor Cemetery
The first Mt. Tabor Church, a log meetinghouse, was erected on this site in 1816.
Old Grave Yard / War Council of 1812
Urbana, OH
In 1805, a burial ground was dedicated to Champaign County at the intersection of Ward and Kenton Streets, which was then at Urbana’s...
President Lincoln’s Funeral Train in Urbana
Urbana, OH
The nine-car funeral train for President Abraham Lincoln departed Washington, D.C. on April 21, 1865.
The Johnson Manufacturing Company
Urbana, OH
The Johnson Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1902 by brothers James B., J. Will, Isaac T., and Charles F. Johnson, all of Quaker...
The Underground Railroad In Champaign County / Lewis Adams
Urbana, OH
The inhumanity of slavery and the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850 motivated anti-slavery activists to operate a covert network, the...
Universalist Church
Woodstock, OH
Rev. George Messenger and his congregation built the first Universalist Church on this site.
Warren G. Grimes / Grimes Field
Urbana, OH
Raised in an Ohio orphanage, Warren G. Grimes (1898-1975) ran away after finishing the ninth grade and at age 16 went to work for the...
Warren Sibley Cushman 1845-1926
Warren Cushman was a respected painter, sculptor, photographer, musician, and inventor.
William Owen
Virginia native William Owen, 1769-1821, is credited with being the first American to settle in Mad River Township, Champaign County...