GALLIA COUNTY OHIO INFO

GALLIA COUNTY OHIO



SURROUNDED BY:

NORTHWEST
Vinton County

NORTHEAST
Meigs County

EAST
State of West Virginia

SOUTH
Lawrence County

WEST
Jackson County


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

1803

PARENT COUNTY

Washington, Adams

COUNTY SEAT

Gallipolis

MAGGIE'S SKELETON CLOSET AKA PLACES TO SEEK YOUR ANCESTORS

Gallia County Probate Court
18 Locust St.
Gallipolis, OH 45631
740-446-4612

Gallipolis Municipal Court
518 2nd Ave, Gallipolis, OH 45631
740-446-9400

Clerk Of Courts
18 Locust St, Gallipolis, OH 45631
740-446-4612

Gallia County Health Dept
499 Jackson Pike, Gallipolis, OH 45631
740-441-2018

Bossard Memorial Library
7 Spruce St, Gallipolis, OH 45631
740-446-7323

Gallia County Historical/Genealogical Society
P.O. Box 295
430 Second Ave.
Gallipolis, OH 45631-0295
740-446-7200

Mason County Library
508 Viand St, Point Pleasant, WV 25550
304-675-2913


OTHER INFORMATION

Gallia County was established in 1803. It is situated on the Ohio River 80 miles southeast of Columbus. The county takes its name from "Gaul", a Latin word for France.

The county was first settled by the French who established Gallipolis, the county seat, in 1791. The city's waterfront once had active business from trade boats that stopped for supplies. Showboats and passenger boats often moored here.

Agricultural products in Gallia County include; dairy, tobacco, cattle, and calves. Other main industries are; food, processed meats and upholstered furniture.

Probate Court has birth, death, marriage & probate records; Clerk of Courts has divorce & civil court records from 1850; County Health Department has burial records; County Recorder has land records.

If you are interested in Gallia County, Ohio you can get great information from the Ohio Valley Visitors Center at the address:
45 State Street
Gallipolis, OH. 45631
740-446-6882 or 1-800-765-6482

I received a phamplet called Explore Ohio's Southern Shore from them and it has a map with some noted historical sites on it, with information about the sites as well as a history of Bob Evans.

INFORMATIONAL LINKS

Bibliography (Includes detailed sources for all the information on this and the connected pages.)
Covered Bridges - Ohio
Discovering Family Histories - Ohio
Favorite Genealogy Web Links
Genealogy Look Up Forum
Hixson Plat Maps, Ohio Townships W. W. Hixson & Company, Rockford, Illinois (These plat maps were published without dates or copyright notice, but are believed to be from the 1920s and 1930s. The W. W. Hixson Company published an Ohio Atlas around 1925 with individual County maps and Township plat maps.)
Individual Ohio County Selection Table
Join the Maggie_Ohio Mailing List! or the OHROOTS-L Mailing List!
Maggie's World of Courthouse Dust & Genealogy Fever
OHGenWeb Archives
Ohio Clickable Map
Ohio County Courthouse Project
Ohio County Information Page
Ohio Government Mapping System - GNIS for land features, historical places
Ohio Memory An Online Scrapbook of Ohio History
Ohio Migration Trails
Ohio Network of American History and Research Centers (This is a descriptiong of the central storage places for groups of Ohio counties.)
Ohio Tools for Genealogy Researchers
USGenWeb Project - Ohio
Vital Statistics (Includes Birth, Death, Marriage, Divorce, Land, Will & Estate Records.) This is an area that explains where to look for vital records in the state of Ohio.

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