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1798 Settlers from Pennsylvania and Virginia established small farms along the Ohio river in what is today Lawrence County.
1818 Welsh immigrants in Jackson County began mining the region's valuable coal deposits.
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.
1865 Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman of Lancaster, Fairfield County, marched his troops through Georgia from Atlanta to the sea.
1925 The naval dirigible USS Shenandoah broke apart and crashed during a storm over Noble County. Fourteen of the 43 man crew died.
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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