HISTORY OF HOCKING VALLEY
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Bounds---Some of the Early Settlers---Min- eral Deposits---Transportation Only Needed ---Churches---Cemeteries---Schools, and Ma- terial Prosperity---Biographical 701-713 CHAPTER XXVI. CARTHAGE TOWNSHIP---THE BEAUTY OF ITS LANDSCAPE. The Act which organized It---Taken from Troy Township In November,1819---Area--- Lost Records---Officeholders---The Pioneers ---First Mill---First Postmaster---Population by Decades---Growth Slow but Substantial ---Churches and Schools---Biographical 714-730 CHAPTER XXVII. DOVER AND TRIMBLE TOWNSHIPS. Outline---Early Settlers---Township Officials ---Sunday Creek Valley---Mineral Resources ---Social Periods---Biographical 781-789 CHAPTER XXVIII. LODI TOWNSHIP---AN AGRICULTURAL TOWN- SHIP MIXED WITH PETRIFACTIONS AND IN- DIAN TRADITIONS. Organization and Bounds---Population--- Topography---Petrifactions---First Election, Fourteen Votes---The Pioneers---Schools and Some Few Remarks---Churches, Villages, Business---Township Officers from 1827 to 1883---Biographical 790-812 CHAPTER XXIX. HISTORY OF HOCKING COUNTY---THE HOCKING VALLEY---THE WHITE MAN'S ADVENT AND RED MAN'S EXIT. Those Who Led the Van of Civilization--- The First Pioneers---The County Organiza- tion Act---Early Records---Eagle and Salt Creek---County Commisioners' First Meet- ing---First Grand Jury---Green and Laurel--- Townships Organized and Numbered---Items ---Falls Gore and Jackson---Marion---Benton ---Jail and Court-House---Mineral Talk--- Progress---Population, 1840---Taxation---Ex- tracts from Sentinel, 1842---Something of Early Days---Something about a Name---To- pography---Metes and Bounds 813-834 CHAPTER XXX. AGRICULTURAL AND MINERAL---LOCAL EVENTS. Iron Manufacturers---Progress and Flood--- Yield of 1859---Local History---Valuation and Taxation---1867 to 1875---Jail---Births and Deaths, 1873---County Infirmary---Its Cost and Officers---Assessment Returns, 1874 and 1876---Agricultural Products and Stocks for 1870, 1875, and 1880---Hocking County As- sessment, 1882---Coal Output---Two Items--- Hocking County Agricultural Society---From 1853 to 1882---The Record of a Crime---Mur- der of the Weldon Family---Patrons of Hus- bandry---Oil Well---Postal Routes and Tally Ho---Normal Institute---From 1868 to 1881 835-851 CHAPTER XXXI. POLITICAL HISTORY. Governors of Ohio and Hocking County's Vote ---County Officials---Commissioners---Other County Officers---The Vote of Hocking Coun- ty, 1818 to 1882--- Population from 1820 to 1880 ---Seventh Judicial District---Sub-Districts 1, 2, and 3---Judges from 1818 to 1883---Counties Comprising the Districts and Sub-Divisions ---Ten Judicial Districts in the State 852-861 CHAPTER XXXII. WAR HISTORY OF HOCKING COUNTY---THE GLO- RIOUS RECORD OF THE GALLANT SONS OF HOCKING. They Were Born So---Michigan and Ohio Boundary Troubles---Mexican War and Lit-	tle Hocking---What Ohio Did---The Gallant Seventeenth---A Series of Marches---New Or- ganization---The Slain---The Glorious Thirty- first---Ordered to Travel---The Gallant Dead ---The Noble Fifty-eighth---The Sixty-third, Seventy fifth, and the One Hundred and Fifty-first---The End 862-883 CHAPTER XXXIII. FALLS TOWNSHIP---THE PIONEER TOWNSHIP AND ITS STEADY GROWTH. From 1798---Something of Its Important Changes of Territory---Railroad, Canal, and River---Timber, Coal, and Iron Ore---Assessed Valuation---Schools---Streams---The Falls of the Great Hockhocking---Under the Surface--- Churches---When Located---Cemeteries--- Population---Falls-Gore---Railroad and Fur- naces---Church---Schools---Societies---Towns Industries---Business---Land---Water--- Boundary---Name 884-893 CHAPTER XXXIV. THE CITY OF LOGAN---THE PRIDE OF THE VAL- LEY AND OF THE HOCKHOCKING. To the Memory of the Mingo Chief, Logan--- The Beauty of its Location and Surroundings ---From 1825 to 1830---Incorporation of Logan ---What She Was---Bridges---the Culver Prop- erty---Purchase and Price---Logan Postoffice ---Mayors of Logan---Logan Graded School--- Business Interests in 1859 and 1888---Pro- fessional 894-902 CHAPTER XXXV. REFERRING TO RELIGIONS, MORALS, POLITICAL AND BUSINESS INTERESTS. Presbyterian Church---Methodist Episcopal Church---Catholic Church---Lutheran Churches ---People's Bank---First National Bank---The Logan Press---Manufactories---Iron and Steel ---Furniture---Woolens---Sash, Doors, and Blinds---Fire Brick---Foundry and Machine Shop---Lodges and Societies 903-917 CHAPTER XXXVI. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF FALLS TOWNSHIP, INCLUDING FALLS-GORE AND CITY OF LOGAN 918-1011 CHAPTER XXXVII. WARD AND GREEN TOWNSHIPS---WARD TOWN- SHIP, THE SEAT OF WEALTH, OF COAL AND IRON. Mineral but not Agricultural---About Ninety Per Cent---Shawnee Ore---Gardner's Trace--- Interesting Situation---Dew Farm Organiza- tion---Carbon Hill---Orbiston---Murray City--- Population and Area---School, etc.---Holocaust ---Biographical---Green Township---Organi- zation and Area---Topography---Its Wealth of Waters---Coal and Iron---Craft's Furnace, Saw and Grist Mills---Early Settlement--- Haydensville---Churches---Greenland Lodge ---Assessed Valuation---Schools---Population ---Its Relative Progress---Biographical 1018-1035 CHAPTER XXXVIII. STARR TOWNSHIP---A TOWNSHIP THAT HAS A HISTORY. Boundary---Name---Water Courses---Timber ---Pioneers---Who They Were---Starr Post- office---New Cadiz---Haydensville---Schools ---Mills---Societies---Political---God's Acre--- Religious---Churches---Township Officers--- Biographical 1036-1070 CHAPTER XXXIX. WASHINGTON AND BENTON TOWNSHIPS---A COMBINATION OF HILLS AND VALLEYS, CAVES AND RAVINES. Washington---Its Name, Topographically Speaking---Soil and Production---Old Settlers
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