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REVOLUTION TRAILMARKER CONTRACTAWARDED THURSDAYLocal Markings May Sup-plement State SignPostsThat official state marking of the Revolutionary Trail, which passes through Greene County, will start this summer is revealed in the letting of the contract for the markers to the Sewah Studios, Marietta, Thursday.Seven hundred miles of the trail through thirty-five counties will be marked, and the original contract calls for approximately 300 markers, which will be constructed of a special aluminum alloy, bronze treated and with the lettering in gold relief.Because of the original request for $250,000 to finance the project was cut down to $50,000 in the appropriation, only one marker designating points of historic interest will be assigned to each county, it is revealed by E. M. Hawes, of the Sewah Studios, who conferred with Dr. W. A. Galloway, president of the Greene County Historical Society, here Friday.The other markers will simply designate the trail and indicate the intersections, and will be placed at approximate four mile intervals along the trail. These markers show the name plate against abackground of Revolutionary War soldiers in relief. The signB will be placed at right angleg to the road so that they will always be in the line of vision of the motorists.Greene County’s marker designating points of historical interest will be placed at Old Town, near the point where the Daughters of American Revolution marker shows where Simon Kenton ran the gauntlet. Because only one such marker is available, Dr. Galloway points out that it will be impossible to designate on the single marker, all of the places of historic interest that would attract the tourist in and around Xenia.According to Mr. Hawes manyNorthNthe locfirmedburnecsteamsPivesselwhereThe i June 25 about Jia crewsengerI /ONE tic rriid-!iIsenger the ereLloyd fifrom de day whsank 80 The 1 952 tor tween i sengers fices ofline her only on addition The i Britishtered atNews talned from ttwhich a help laICHI(Continued on Page Eight)Dl API/ll All I TTTrn
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Xenia Evening Gazette
Xenia, Ohio, US
Fri, Jul 18, 1930
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