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1798
Settlers from Pennsylvania and Virginia established
small farms along the Ohio river in what is today Lawrence County.
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1818
Welsh immigrants in Jackson County began mining
the region's valuable coal deposits.
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1852
Buckeye Furnace built in Jackson County.
This was one of 17 charcoal iron furnaces that operated in the
Hanging Rock Iron Region from 1826-1906.
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1865
Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman
of Lancaster, Fairfield County, marched his troops through Georgia
from Atlanta to the sea.
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1925
The naval dirigible USS Shenandoah broke apart
and crashed during a storm over Noble County. Fourteen of the
43 man crew died.
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1963-1971 & 1975-1983
James A. Rhodes, born in Jackson County,
in 1909, presided as the longest serving governor in Ohio history.
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