Historic Tales of Meigs County, OhioOrganized in 1819, Meigs County rests in the Appalachian foothills of southeastern Ohio along the beautiful Ohio River. The land's deep reservoirs of coal and salt provided early residents work in mines and in shipping the goods via steamboat and railroad. Local communities also nurtured talented scholars like James McHenry Jones and poets and writers such as James Edwin Campbell and Ambrose Bierce, as well as Dr. Brewster Higley VI, whose poetry inspired the American classic "Home on the Range." The county is home to Ohio's oldest standing courthouse in Chester and to Pomeroy, the only town in America with no cross streets. Join historians Jordan and Calee Pickens as they recount times of prosperity and hardship that have been engrained on the timeline of Meigs County. |
Contents
Meigs Countys Townships | 9 |
Rutland the Higleys and the Roots of Home on the Range | 14 |
Levi Stedman | 19 |
Great Kidnapping of Adam Smith 1824 | 23 |
Joshua Gardner and the Slave Case in the Ohio Supreme Court | 27 |
Early Pioneer Hunting Stories | 30 |
Cholera Epidemics | 34 |
The Cross Familys Businesses | 39 |
Walter Mother Watson | 76 |
James Edwin Campbell | 79 |
The Columbia Township Tornado of 1886 | 85 |
W G Sibley | 88 |
Meigs County and Steamboats 91 | 91 |
Railroad of Meigs County | 102 |
Meigs County Streetcar Line | 106 |
Weaver Skiffs | 110 |
Nelson Story | 45 |
Carmi Alderman | 48 |
Dr Selim Day | 51 |
Buckeye Rovers | 53 |
The First Meigs County Fair and the History of Harness Racing at the Rock | 56 |
James McHenry Jones | 64 |
One Mans Price for Freedom | 69 |
Civil War Letter 1864 | 73 |
Sundown Town 116 | 116 |
The Betzing Fire of 1917 | 119 |
James Bridgeman | 124 |
PomeroyMiddleport Football Rivalry | 129 |
Pomeroy Bend Bridge | 134 |
Early Salt Mining History in the Ohio Valley | 138 |
About the Authors | 143 |
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