Hardin

Ada, OH

Ada grew alongside the tracks of the Ohio & Indiana Railroad, completed in 1854 between Crestline, Crawford County, and Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Upon this site, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, stood Chief Roundhead’s Wyandot Indian village.

Approximately 1000 feet east of this marker lies the graves of sixteen American soldiers from Fort McArthur who gave their lives during...

Comprising 8,000 acres of Brookston-Crosby soils, the marsh is named for Hog Creek which drains it.

Hull’s Trail was a rough passageway through Ohio to the Canadian border, used by General William Hull’s army during the War of 1812 on...

Jacob Parrott who is buried here.

Kenton, OH

First organized as the Kenton Lock Manufacturing Company in 1890, the Kenton Hardware Company became one of the world’s largest cast iron...

Kenton, OH

In 1832 a charter was granted by the state of Ohio for construction of a railroad between Sandusky City and Dayton.

Ada, OH

Henry Solomon Lehr founded Ohio Northern University in 1871 as the Northwestern Ohio Normal School.

County Road 265 follows an old Indian trail which connected the Wyandot villages at Upper Sandusky with the Shawnee Mac-o-chee towns to...

Alger, OH

Raymond “Ray” Brown was a star in the Negro Leagues 1930-1948.

Built in 1886 by direct descendants of slaves, the Black and White schoolhouse provided education for local youth until 1928.

Kenton, OH

One of Ohio’s larger courthouses, this structure, completed in 1915 at a cost of $275,000, is the third courthouse to be built in this...

McGuffey, OH

The Village of McGuffey was named for John McGuffey, who in the 1860s first attempted to drain the Scioto Marsh.

Wheeler Tavern was built by Portius Wheeler, an early pioneer of Hardin County, around 1835 near the Shawnee Ford of the Scioto River.