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The Mount Pleasant Historic District encompasses the historic center of the village of Mount Pleasant, Ohio. Founded in 1803 by anti-slavery Quakers, the village was an early center of abolitionist activity and a well-known haven for fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad. The village center is relatively little altered since the ...
The Benjamin Lundy House is a historic house at Union and Market Streets in Mount Pleasant, Ohio.It was home in 1820 to abolitionist Benjamin Lundy (1789–1839), where he established the influential anti-slavery newspaper The Genius of Universal Emancipation, one of the first anti-slavery publications in the United States.
Lancaster (locally / ˈ l æ ŋ k (ə) s t ər / LANK-(ə-)stər) is a city in and the county seat of Fairfield County, Ohio, in the south-central part of the state. [3] As of the 2020 United States census, the city population was 40,552.
Mount Pleasant was laid out in 1803. It was named for its scenic landscape. [4] An early variant name was Jesse-Bobtown. [5] In 1802 [6] Nathan Updegraff of the Pennsylvanian Op den Graeff family settled north in Mount Pleasant. [7] His family belonged to the 19th-century Quaker families of Ohio [8] and produced a lot of Quaker Ministers and ...
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Spans Fetters Run on the Ohio University Lancaster campus [6 39°44′15″N 82°35′05″W / 39.737595°N 82.584731°W / 39.737595; -82.584731 ( John Bright Covered Lancaster
Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house near OH 150 in the village of Mount Pleasant, Ohio.It was built in 1814 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and was the first Quaker yearly meeting house west of the Alleghenies.
This is a list of National Historic Landmarks in Ohio and other landmarks of equivalent landmark status in the state. The United States' National Historic Landmark (NHL) program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance. [6]