DARKE COUNTY OHIO
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COUNTY INFORMATION
1895 Map of Ohio
(Click on Thumbnail
for Large Map)
Map modified with permission
of Ray Sterner from http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states
DATE CREATED
1809
PARENT COUNTY
Miami
COUNTY SEAT
Greenville
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MAGGIE'S SKELETON CLOSET AKA PLACES TO SEEK YOUR ANCESTORS |
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Darke County Probate Court
4th & Broadway (300 Garst Ave.)
Greenville, OH 45331
937-547-7300
Darke County Health Dept
300 Garst Ave, Greenville, OH 45331
937-548-4196
Greenville Public Library
520 Sycamore St, Greenville, OH 45331
937-548-3915
Miami Valley Genealogy Online
Robot for Wright State University Archives
Special Collections and Archives
Paul Laurence Dunbar Library
Wright State University
Dayton, OH 45435
937-775-2092
At the Darke County OHGenWeb Page are various maps that have been collected about migrations into Ohio. The URL is http://members.tripod.com/~DarkeMan/getting.htm.
There have also been installed information about the signing of the Treaty of Greenville (text of treaty and artist's versions of the event) which occurred in Darke Co. in 1795 and officially opened Ohio to settlement.
OTHER INFORMATION
Darke County borders the state of Indiana about 30 miles northwest of Dayton. The surface is level and the soil productive with the Stillwater River crossing the county.
On the site of present-day Greenville, the county seat, General Anthony Wayne constructed Fort Green Ville. He invited 1,100 Indians to the fort to conclude the famous Treaty of Greene Ville.
The county was the home of Annie Moses, better known as Annie Oakley, the world's best woman marksman. She was later the star attraction of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
Agricultural products in the county include; poultry, eggs, corn, and wheat. Other industries include; transportation equipment, machinery, stone-clay-glass, apparel, food, glass lenses and reflectors, poultry incubators, precision gauges and kitchen appliances.
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