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Remnants: Kenton Memorial Cemetery on the north side of Millerstown Road west of River Rdĭescription: The town was originally settled in the first decade of the 1800s and had several grist and saw mills on Mad River and Muddy Creek over the decades.

On Millerstown Rd at the intersection of River Rd along Mad River Concord Mills – Concord, Mad River, Salem, and Urbana Township Coffin donated land for a train station on the Ohio Southern Railroad.

On Thackery Rd at the railroad crossing between the intersections of Coffin Station Rd along Chapman Creekĭescription: Eliza J. Coffin Station (Coffins) – Mad River Township However, it’s unknown if Anna and James continued their relationship. Anna reportedly sent a note to James stating he would be welcome if he still wished to visit her. They later made amends and gave consent to the courtship between their children. Solomon and Philip were treated by doctors and eventually recovered. The onlooking crowd feared Solomon and Philip dead as they laid lifeless on the ground, neither able to move a muscle. The fight lasted about an hour with both men sustaining substantial wounds. A large crowd gathered around the battle circle in the public square. After getting into a heated argument, William Kelly, who was also the constable, suggested Solomon and Philip duke it out to end the dispute once and for all. Solomon and Philip had an encounter at William Kelly’s tavern in Mechanicsburg where an election was being held on November 8, 1837. The fathers didn’t care for each other at all simply because of where they lived, the Groves family on Clover Run and the Weaver family on the Darby Plains, an ongoing feud between residents of both areas for several years. Solomon’s oldest daughter Anna was 18 at the time and was courted by one of Philip’s sons, James Groves. Remnants: Hopewell Cemetery on private property on the north side of Brigner Rd just southwest of the GPS coordinatesĭescription: Its only notoriety was from a brutal brawl between Solomon Weaver and Philip Groves, due to a sort of Romeo and Juliet type of relationship between their children. On SR 56 at the intersection of Brigner Rd James and Mary were buried with relatives in Black Cemetery on the north side of Dunn Burton Rd. Louis Railroad (Panhandle Route), but was likely just a flag stop. It was on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, & St. Brush Lake was a fine farming town but didn’t have much else other than a local township school and a picnic ground south of the lake across the former railroad tracks. Shortly after that, they purchased 155 acres surrounding Brush Lake. James Glendening (1795 – 1876) and Mary (Van Horn) Glendening (1793 – 1858) moved to Ohio from Virginia in 1829. On Brush Lake Rd at the former railroad track crossing between McCarty Rd and Urbana Woodstock Pikeĭescription: The earliest known settlement was by William Pickerell who built a grist mill on the stream leading out of the lake in 1803. Although the buildings from Baker’s heyday are likely all gone now, there is still some semblance of its original housing cluster when looking at the area on satellite maps. The Talbot surname is also spelled Talbott in some records. Most of the town’s residents, including John Baker and Harvey Talbot, were laid to rest in Hills Cemetery 2 1/2 miles east of the GPS coordinates on the west side of Creek Rd. The office was reestablished in 1882 but didn’t last long. Harvey Talbot (1799 – 1879), or Hervey as his tombstone reads, from Mason County, Kentucky held the office until it was discontinued in 1862.

He was succeeded by John Baker (1806 – 1896) from Rockbridge County, Virginia. On St Paris – New Carlisle Rd along Blacksnake Creek between SR 55 and Troy Urbana Rdĭescription: This farming town just had the post office and a small cluster of houses. Concord Mills – Mason Arrowsmith’s Gravestone In Kenton Memorial Cemetery Baker – Jackson Township

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