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George B. Gooding's tavern was also known as "Halfway House," reflecting its strategic location halfway between Worthington and Delaware. Given the difficulties of stagecoach and wagon travel over the Columbus Pike, the Gooding Tavern was a principal and popular stop on the route between these two towns. [3]
The house remained in the Putnam family until 1933. 1981 saw the restoration of the house by the Putnam House Partners. [1] Marietta's leading abolitionist, David Putnam, Jr. was born in this house in 1808. [2] David Putnam, Jr. used another nearby house as his "station house" on the Underground Railroad, that house was torn down in 1953. [3]
The Rufus Putnam House, also known as Campus Martius or Campus Martius Museum State Memorial, is a historic building in Marietta, Ohio. It was built as part of the Campus Martius fortification by General Rufus Putnam , during the early settlement of Ohio by the Ohio Company of Associates .
The Marietta Historic District is a historic district in Marietta, Ohio, United States that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.Among the buildings in the district are ones dating back to 1788, [1] the year in which Marietta was founded as the first white settlement in what is now Ohio. [2]
October 3, 1973 (232 3rd St. Marietta: 12: Harmar Historic District: Harmar Historic District: December 19, 1974 (Roughly bounded by the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers and the rear property line of Lancaster, George, and Franklin Sts.; also roughly bounded by Lancaster, Harmar, Putnam, and Franklin Sts. and the Ohio River, Fort Harmar Dr., and the Muskingum River
Sep. 2—MARIETTA — After years of jockeying by community members over the future of the 180-plus-year-old Oakton house in Marietta, site work has begun on three houses to be built on a slice of ...
Campus Martius was the second fortification in Marietta, Ohio and the first primarily for civilian defense. The Rufus Putnam House, incorporated in the Museum, is the only remaining part of the fortification. [2] The museum also includes the Ohio Company Land Office. Both are National Register of Historic Places properties.
Dahmer murdered his first victim, Steven Hicks, in this very house back in 1978 before scattering Hicks' remains around the property. Dahmer later moved to Wisconsin where he murdered 16 more ...