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An 1846 engraving of downtown Steubenville, with the Jefferson County Courthouse visible on the right. In 1786–87, soldiers of the First American Regiment under Major Jean François Hamtramck built Fort Steuben to protect the government surveyors mapping the land west of the Ohio River, [10] and named the fort in honor of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben.
Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio.As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,249. [2] Its county seat is Steubenville. [3] The county is named for Thomas Jefferson, who was vice president at the time of its creation.
Burials at Union Cemetery-Beatty Park (16 P) Pages in category "Steubenville, Ohio" ... Holy Name Cathedral (Steubenville, Ohio)
The factory closed in March 1830. Wells's business ventures were not successful and led him to go to debtors' prison in Steubenville. [1] [2] [5] He also built a distillery at Rockville in Steubenville. [2] His son Alexander gave Wells a farm and he lived on the farm in Steubenville until his death. [1] In 1819, Wells built a steamer named ...
Hamtramck named the fort for military officer Baron von Steuben on January 2, 1787, and completed construction January 8. [1] On May 23, 1787, Hamtramck was ordered to evacuate, as the surveyors were by then closer to Fort Harmar. Troops were sent to Fort Harmar, while supplies were sent to Fort Henry in Wheeling. The fort was destroyed by fire ...
Named after the Parisian bank Emile Erlanger & Co. that was founded by Frédéric Émile d'Erlanger (born Friedrich Emil Erlanger), a German-French banker originally from Frankfurt. Eshbach: Pennsylvania: Ettersburg: California: Named after Albert Felix Etter, the locality's founder and a horticulturalist known for his work on strawberry and ...
Steubenville City School District: Superintendent: Melinda Young: Principal: Ted Gorman: Teaching staff: 37 (FTE) [1] Grades: 9-12: Enrollment: 627 (2017-18) [1] Student to teacher ratio: 16.95 [1] Campus type: Small City [2] Color(s) Crimson and Black Athletics conference: Ohio Valley Athletic Conference: Team name: Big Red: Accreditation
The first state park with the designation of "state park" was Itasca State Park in Minnesota, established in 1891. [ 11 ] Many state park systems date to the 1930s, when around 800 state parks (and several national ones) across the country were developed with assistance from federal job-creation programs like the Civilian Conservation Corps and ...