Autos and Trucks Now Travel Road Which Once Was Hocking Canal Route
Route 33 near Nelsonville shows the old Hocking Canal route now a bricked by pass. The canal was filled in 1938 under the New Deal era CWA work, turning the waterway into a blacktop thoroughfare with bridges locks and warehouses along the two mile city stretch. Noted boats and names include Maggie Case Brooks Packet G W Watson Reform Queen City Hiber nu m Dewey and Captain Dannie Williams with locks at Sugar Grove Stone Quarry Nigger Greens Sheep Pen Fails Mills and Nelsonville.
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C. H. Harris
Nelsonville
Hocking Canal
Canal St
CWA
Fulton St
Board of Public Works
Hocking
Henry Stratton
Fulton St. Caff
Frank Minner
Brooks Mines
Monroe St
Harper St
Vally
Vern Worhes
Maggie Case
Logan
Brooks Packet
Haydenville
GW. Watson
Reform
Queen City
Hibernum
Viola
T. J. Givens
Chauncey
Vitula
M. M. Green
Daniel O'Connell
Dewey
Dannie Williams
Sugar Grove
Greens
Sheep Pen
Fails Mills
Dew
Pioneering Nelsonville Brick Industry Dates
The article traces Nelsonville's brickmaking beginnings 150 years ago in the Hocking Valley. It notes early DIY kilns, later commercial plants started circa 1870 by Thaddeus Longstreth and others, canal shipments, and notable structures built from local bricks. It also covers production milestones and early coal-hauling tramways feeding the industry.
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Hocking Valley
Nelsonville
Hocking Canal
Thaddeus Longstreth
Parkdale
W. H. Vorhes
Stott
Madison St
Vorhes and Crane
Patton
Vorhes & Bates
Longstreth
Chestnut St
Central School
Methodist Church
Presbyterian Church
Opera Ouse
Spray
Poston
Hocking County
Opera House
Steenrod
Steenrods
Locking Canal
Robbins Hill
Kentners Pond
Hocking St
Fort St
Centenarians and centuries in Athens County history
The article notes many residents of Athens County and nearby areas who lived past 100, including Emily Jane Fish Williams who died at 103, Major Littleton Tucker who reached 112, Abraham Graham who died at 99, and ex slave William Payton said to be over 127. Cemeteries across the region preserve these long lives and long memories.
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Athens County
Decatur
Washington County
Pratts Fork
Shade
Lodi
Emily Jane Fish Williams
Meigs County
Henry Williams
Samuel
Major
Littleton Tucker
Athens
New Jersey
George Washington
West State St
State and
High Sts
W. E. Peters
Leonard Tucker
Federal Creek
Canaan Township
Abraham’ Graham
Hebbardsville
Silas Blizzard
Noble Cemetery
Troy Township
Bethel Church
Brooks
Stewart and
Kilvert
Fli (Ale) Brooks
Pennsylvania
Rome Township
Jane Cubbison Means
Andrew Means
Town House
Albany
Lee Township
Margaret Twaddle
Jefferson County
David Redinghouse
Jerseyville
Lodi Township
Burson Cemetery
Nancy Boden Ayers
John Ayers
Race St
West Union Street
Nellie Matyskella
Poland
Jacksonville
Calvary Cemetery
Glouster
McDougal Church
Ames Township
Uriah Tippie
Josephus Tucker
South Canaan
William Payton
Antioch Church
Decatur Township
Antioch Cemetery
Funeral services held for Mrs. Mamie Chadwell at Millfield
Funeral services were held Friday in the Millfield Methodist Church for Mrs. Mamie Chadwell aged 62 with interment in Hilltop Cemetery. Survivors include husband Allen, daughter Marietta Goldsberry of The Plains, and sons Ray and Glenn of Athens Orris of Millfield, plus grandchildren and siblings. She belonged to the Methodist Church Trimble Grange and Order of Eastern Stars in Glouster.
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Millfield
Mammie Chadwell
Hilltop
Chadwell
Allen
Marietta Goldsberry
the Plains
Ray
Glenn
Athens
Orris
Methodist Church
Trimble Grange
Order of Eastern Stars
Glouster
Cincinnati Judge Alexander Marks 82nd Birthday on Bench
Judge William D. Alexander oldest municipal judge in Ohio observed his 82nd birthday Friday by serving his regular time on the police court bench.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
William D. Alexander
Ohio
Albany Social Notes Highlight Joining of Many Visits
Albany notes list visitors and guests from Reynoldsburg Columbus Vineland N J Meadeville Pa Dayton Columbus Stockport Piqua Bluefield W V Logan Parkersburg and others. Families include Pauley Midkiff Gilkey Gatch Swift Sweeney and Radcliffe with local hosts Conn and Lassh. Community events mention garden club meeting July 10 and a Yellowstone trip.
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Albany
Sidney Parker
Reynoldsburg
Ohio
Dennis Pauley
Marie Midkiff and
Gary Lee
Jimmy
Charleston
Jesse Gilkey
Vineland
N. J
Walter Swift
Robert Gatch
Columbus
Parkersburg
John Ingram, Jr
Spencer
W. Va
J. L. Ingram
George Sweeney
Clarence Sweeney
George Albert Sweeney
Dayton
Patsy Sweeney
al Kovak
Nettie Milligan
Fred O'Neal
J. W. Spencer
Scott
Stockport
W. A. Throckmorton
Cecil Throckmorton
Yellowstone National Park
Lowell Lewis
Connie
Piqua
Mis. Lewis
Annie Minear
Rita Clark
LF. Miller
Ralph
Buckeye Lake
Clyde Hill
Harold Cunningham
Ngham
Ala
Funeral rites for Mrs. Margaret Hettick held at EUB church
Services conducted at the EUB church with Rev. Gerald Koster officiating. Burial followed at Millertown Cemetery. Mrs. Hettick died at the county home after a four week stay as a patient. She is survived by two sons and a brother.
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EVB
Gerald Koster
James L. Riley
St. Bernard
Zaleski
Mr Eley
Earl Wilson
Clarence Hodgson
Michigan
Lawrence Losey
John Baird
Tennessee
Gypsy Wagner
William Wetzel
Good Samaritan Hospital
Zanesville
Arthur Richardson
Ralph Richardson
Columbus
Harry Hoffman
Hoffman
Robert Parsons
Ricketts
Parsons
Emmett Levering
Russell Tippett
Carolyn Tippett
Chauncey
Christine Baldy
Rendville
J. Richardson
Reverend Griffin's model railroad program empowers youth
The East Los Angeles pastor Andrew Griffin leads an anti delinquency effort by engaging teens aged 10 to 17 in building an Ho gauge railroad. A community push, including a donated store building and club support, funds artistic expansion and hands on learning, offering a constructive activity that keeps youths occupied and building skills.
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Lloyd Settle
Andy
Andrew Griffin
Little Church
Eastside
Los Angeles
Hig
Griffin
Dad
Andrew
Casey) Griffin
Elan
Emanuel Methodist Church
New Hobby Kits Highlight Fun At Home
The Messenger previews model airplanes, teleware, dolls, and artificial flowers in kit form. Readers can match paint vials to ware numbers and assemble items such as the Helloplane radio model and foreign dolls from 12 nations. Send ideas to Fun At Home with a self addressed envelope.
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Teleware
Wanderer returns to his Ohio home Fred Coleman 74
Fred Coleman, last of the Coleman family in Olive Township Meigs County, is settled in Reedsville Ohio after a life of wandering across the West. Born near Long Bottom in 1875, he traveled 53 years across states west of the Mississippi and beyond, never marrying, and now recalls encounters with frontier life, Indians, outlaws, and vast plains, living now in Reedsville with neighbors calling him Uncle Fred.
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C. H. Harris
Maysville
Wanderer
Ohio
Fred Coleman
Goodby
DeKalb County
Reedeville
Fred Clayton Coleman
Olive Township
Meigs County
Reedsville
Colemans
Long Bottom
Samuel Coleman
Marietta
John
Pittsburgh
Packard
New West
Mississippi River
Ohio River
West Virginia
A Coleman
Lydia Sprae Coleman
Coleman
Teo
Jacob Kimes
Orange Town
Shade River
John Coleman
Forked Run
Athens County
Thomas Coleman
Jane Barldon
Olive
Hannan Colemman
Northwest Territory
Meigs
Kansas
Nebraska
Kotas
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
Missouri
Indian Territory
South Dakota
Billy the Kid
West
T Genet
County
Fred
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Brooks Coal Mining
H. Harris
Tippie
Millfield Social Notes
Bill
E. Sanders
Bob Sanders
Air Force
Elizabeth Robinett
Bill Sisson
Trimble
Clare Sayers
Pvt
David Sayers
Harold Werner
Mike
Mark
Bessie Werner
John Theisen
Susie Bell
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Mabel Shaner
Mary Ellen McCormick
Myrtle Wilcox
Olive Brookins
Helen Howard
C. M. Sanders
Albany News Notes
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Corning
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