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Winchester was laid out in 1815 by Joseph Darlinton. It was named for Darlinton's former hometown of Winchester, Virginia. [3] There is also an Ohio Historic Site in Winchester, the Dr. A. C. Lewis House. The Dr. A. C. Lewis home was built between 1845 and 1848. Dr. Lewis is considered the first resident physician of Winchester.
The first group of these early settlers is sometimes referred to as "the forty-eight" or the "first forty-eight", and also as the "founders of Ohio". [1] [2] These first 48 men were carefully chosen and vetted by several of the co-founders of the Ohio Company of Associates, Rufus Putnam and Manasseh Cutler, to ensure men of high character and ...
Canal Winchester, Ohio This page was last edited on 11 December 2020, at 13:44 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...
The Ohio and Erie Canal brought passengers, freight and a means to transport grain to market. The first canal boat floated through Winchester in 1831. The village was named Canal Winchester when the post office was established in 1841, because there were five other locations in the state named Winchester. [6]
Why are people from Ohio called buckeyes? Historian S.P. Hildreth reported the story of the first use of the buckeye nickname in 1788 when Col. Ebenezer Sproat arrived at Marietta, Ohio, the first ...
Agricultural scene west of Winchester Location in Adams County and the state of Ohio . Coordinates: 38°57′4″N 83°38′51″W / 38.95111°N 83.64750°W / 38.95111; -83
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