| 1755 |
First
records of a white man within borders of what is now Ashland
County. Captive James Smith and his adopted brother, Tontileaugo
pass, over trail to Lake Erie. [Hill p. 23-24] |
| 1755-1761 |
Small
village of Mingoes located along east bank of Jeromefork. |
| 1761 |
January
6-7. Major Robert Clark and Rangers here. First armed troops
in Ashland County. |
| 1762 |
Mohican
John and 200 Mohegans locate on the west side of Jeromefork. |
| 1781 |
September.
Half King, Capt. Pipe with John and Mary Heckewelder and other Moravians
pass through county over trail to Sandusky. |
| 1782 |
Colonel
William Crawford, friend of General Washington, in county on ill-fated
expedition which resulted in his being burned at the stake. |
| 1783 |
Greentown
established. [Hill, p. 34] |
| 1795 |
Old
Captain Pipe located at Jerometown about this date. |
| 1796 |
August
15. Governor St. Clair by proclamation created Wayne County, third
county in Ohio. |
| 1797 |
Jean
Baptiste Jerome and some Delaware Indians settled near site of
Jeromesville. |
| 1806-7 |
Survey
of townships by General James Hedges, Jonathan Cox and Mansfield Ludlow. |
| 1808 |
January
16 -- Richland County created. |
| 1809 |
First
settlers appear near Greentown and at site of Lakefork. |
| 1811-12 |
First
cabins erected in Montgomery Township. |
| 1812 |
August
27 [?] -- Burning of Greentown |
| - |
September
10, Ruffner-Zimmer massacre |
| - |
September
15, Rev. James Copus and three soldiers, George Shipley, John Tedrick
and William Warnock killed by Indians at Copus Hill. |
| 1814 |
August
6 -- Loudonville laid out. |
| 1815 |
February
14 -- Jeromesville laid out |
| - |
June
10, Perrysville founded |
| - |
July
28, William Montgomery laid out Uniontown, now Ashland. |
| 1816 |
March
-- Benjamin Cuppy built grist mill, northeast of Uniontown |
| -- |
April
-- Martin Mason built mill 4 miles north of Uniontown |
| -- |
Rev.
Thomas Beer and William Mathews come to Hopewell congregations west of
Uniontown |
| 1817 |
John
Raver built mill quarter of mile northeast of site of Rows |
| - |
Hopewell
congregations organized; Constance Lake built mill near
Jeromesville. |
| 1818 |
December
25 -- Savannah laid out. |
| 1821 |
First
school in Uniontown. |
| 1822 |
Ashland
post office established. |
| 1827 |
January
11 -- Rev. John Cox appointed postmaster at Hayes Crossing. |
| 1828 |
April
22 -- Orange laid out. |
| 1830 |
October
13 -- Perrysburg, now Albion, founded |
| - |
October
20, Hayesville laid out. |
| 1833 |
July
2 -- Mohicanville laid out. |
| 1834 |
October
-- Mohican Advocate and Hanover Journal, first newspaper in Ashland
County, started at Loudonville |
| - |
December
20, Ashland Herald established by J.C. Gilkison. |
| 1835 |
[Spring]
-- Lafayette, now Red Haw, laid out |
| --- |
April
15, Rows laid out |
| --- |
Ohio
Globe established in Ashland by Joshua H. Ruth. |
| 1836 |
Western
Phoenix, first Whig paper in Ashland, started; Sullivan laid out. |
| 1838 |
Benjamin
Staman built the Staman mill, Mifflin Twp. |
| 1838-9 |
Ashland
Academy built. |
| 1840 |
General
Harrison at Loudonville and Mifflin |
| 1844 |
March
12 -- Ashland incorporated |
| - |
May
21 -- Council passes ordinance for laying sidewalks on Main Street |
| 1845 |
John
Chapman [Johnny Appleseed] died at Ft. Wayne, Ind. |
| - |
July
4 -- Cornerstone laid for Vermillion Institute at Hayesville |
| 1846 |
Feb.
24 -- Act creating Ashland County passed; April 6 -- Ashland
selected as county seat; Ashland Standard established; first
issue of Ashland Democrat; Ashland Woolen Mills established by
Judge Northorp, operated by Reznor, Risser and Co. |
| 1848 |
Old
stone jail built; Consolidation of Standard and Democrat as
Ashland Union |
| 1849 |
May
4 -- Polk laid out. |
| 1850 |
Second
McNulty House built; Miller house started about the same time. |
| 1851 |
March
10 -- Ohio's second constitutional convention met at Cincinnati;
Construction of Ashland County Court House begun, finished in 1853 |
| - |
Troy
Center, now Nova, laid out. |
| 1852 |
Jan.
30 -- Charles Steingraver hanged |
| - |
Private
bank of Luther Crall & Co. established. |
| 1856 |
March
6 -- Ashland woolen mills burned, company reorganized with Hulbert
Luther, Jacob Crall, J.O. Jennings, L.J. Sprengle, Joseph Wasson,
Leander Carter and James Boyd, principal stockholders - new building completed
Sept., 1856 and resumed operations Jan. 11, 1857 with Jonas Stevens as
superintendent of the weaving dept.; machinery sold in 1862. |
| - |
May
31 -- Ashland electors vote to pay $2,300 for Franklin Tavern [Slocum
property] as site for Town Hall |
| - |
Sept.
17 -- Savannah Academy opened. |
| 1857 |
July
26 -- Ashland Cemetery dedicated |
| - |
Dec.
26 -- Ashland lighted by gas for the first time |
| 1858 |
July
28 -- Old Town Hall dedicated |
| 1861 |
Ashland's
population 1,748 |
| - |
April
23 -- Co. B., 16th. O.V.I. from Ashland rendezvoused at Camp Jackson
near Columbus, Roller's brass band played at Capitol |
| - |
June
7 -- Co. G., 23rd. Ohio marched up Main Street on way to war;
other companies left later for war |
| 1863 |
May
7 -- Ordinance to pave Main Street with cobblestones |
| 1864 |
February
-- Atlantic & Great Western opened between Ravenna and Galion |
| 1872 |
Epizootic
among horses |
| 1873 |
Feb.
20 -- McNulty House fire |
| - |
April
1 -- First National Bank acquired present site. |
| 1874 |
March
1-14 -- Big temperance crusade at Ashland |
| - |
Aug.
13 -- Firemen's tournament here |
| 1878-82 |
Atlee
Pomerene, now U.S. Senator, attended school at Vermillion Institute at
Hayesville |
| - |
Feb.
22 -- Ashland College charter obtained |
| - |
Nov.
6 -- Susan B. Anthony in Ashland |
| 1879 |
Feb.
22 -- Francis Murphy, temperance lecturer here |
| - |
Sept.
17 -- Ashland College opened |
| - |
Dec.
23 -- Flax mill burned |
| 1880 |
Feb.
14 -- C. Hamman won big match on tan bark track at old Town Hall |
| - |
June
6 -- Town Hall burned |
| - |
Aug.
25 -- General Garfield here for 42nd. Regiment reunion |
| 1881 |
June
7 -- Big Dunkard meeting began here |
| - |
June
9 -- Francis Graham died |
| - |
July
1 -- Contract awarded for opera house |
| - |
July
2 -- Garfield assassinated at Washington |
| 1882 |
April
10 -- Old Stone Corner burned |
| - |
May
30 -- Opera House opened |
| 1883 |
April
26 -- Twenty buildings burned including Lutheran Church |
| - |
June
3 -- Presbyterian Church dedicated |
| 1884 |
February
-- Corporate limits of Ashland extended |
| - |
Feb.
14 -- Dr. Sanders Diefendorf of Vermillion Institute died |
| - |
May
16 -- Horn and Gribben hanged in court yard |
| 1885 |
Salvation
Army began its work here |
| - |
May
10 -- Sarah Vail, witness of Copus Hill massacre, died |
| - |
July
22 -- J.M. Gorham killed at Marion |
| - |
Aug.
11-17 -- Encampment of 17th. Reg't. O.N.G. at Semple's Grove |
| - |
Aug.
13 -- Mardi Gras |
| 1886 |
Sept.
15 -- Dow liquor election, Ashland, wets won. |
| 1887 |
Oct.
29 -- Editor William H. Reynolds killed at Orange. |
| 1888 |
June
15 -- Rev. Dr. John Robinson died |
| - |
Nov.
15 -- Soldiers' Monument dedicated, former President Hayes here |
| 1889 |
Congregational
Church in Ashland organized, cornerstone of church laid on April 17,
1890 |
| 1891 |
Jan.
6 -- Old Methodist Church burned |
| |
Apr.
25 -- Electric light plant began operations |
| 1892 |
March
24 -- Stull & Charles Block burned |
| - |
Aug.
3-9 -- 17th. Reg't. O.N.G. encampment at fair grounds |
| - |
Sept.
10 -- Ashland Daily News started |
| 1893 |
Feb.
22 -- Fire at Rhoads & Hess' store |
| - |
April
1 -- Standard time adopted in Ohio |
| - |
May
24 -- Anti-saloon League movement initiated at Oberlin |
| - |
July
17 -- Bricking of Orange Street completed |
| - |
Erie's
new depot in Ashland completed |
| 1894 |
April
30 -- Petitions presented for paving of Center and Claremont |
| - |
June
15 -- One of Ike Saner's famous baby parades |
| - |
Nov.
-- W.L. Strong, native of southern Ashland County elected mayor of New
York City |
| 1895 |
March
11 -- Contract awarded for Ashland Water Works |
| 1897 |
Sept.
27 -- Ashland's first homecoming celebration |
| 1898 |
April
24 -- Ashland soldier boys went to Polk to join Company C., 8th. Reg't.
for Spanish-American War |
| - |
Nov.
21 -- The regiment mustered out at Wooster |
| - |
Free
deliver of mail established in Ashland |
| - |
Resolution
to brick Main Street, cobble stones removed |
| 1899 |
Oct.
12 -- Big celebration in Ashland to mark completion of Ashland &
Wooster Railroad |
| 1901 |
May
2 -- $75,000 fire in Loudonville |
| - |
July
13 -- Death of Mrs. Mary F. Freer |
| 1902 |
Ashland
sewer system built |
| - |
December
-- Natural gas turned on in Ashland |
| 1903 |
Feb.
18 -- Opera House fire |
| - |
Consolidation
of Times and Gazette |
| 1905 |
Ashland
Bank & Savings Company organized |
| - |
Feb.
6 -- Local option election, drys won |
| - |
Nov.
19 -- Tabernacle revival began |
| - |
Y.M.C.A.
movement started in Ashland; building erected and dedicated June
15, 1909 |
| 1906 |
Jan.
19 -- F.E. Myers & Bro's. shipping building burned |
| - |
March
10 -- 2-cent fare law effective in Ohio |
| 1907 |
April
12 -- First spike driven in Ashland for Southwestern Trolley line |
| - |
June
2 -- Flat car trip over new line to Mansfield |
| - |
June
22 -- Local option election, drys won |
| - |
Aug.
5 -- Trolley schedule began |
| - |
Oct.
17 -- Ashland County Children's Home opened |
| 1908 |
September
-- New Arthur Street building occupied |
| - |
Dec.
01 -- Commercial Club organized |
| 1909 |
December
-- First producing gas well in county struck near Hayesville |
| - |
December
-- Ashland's first Boy Scout troop organized |
| 1910 |
Feb.
28 -- Contracts for Lincoln and Pleasant Street Schools awarded. |
| 1911 |
July
24 -- Ashland voted to remain dry |
| - |
Sept.
30 -- Aviator Rodgers few over Ashland |
| 1912 |
May
28 -- Samaritan Hospital dedicated |
| - |
June
23 -- Re-dedication of M.E. Church |
| 1913 |
March
25 -- Unprecedented flood in Ohio, much damage here |
| - |
April
21 -- L.A.&S. construction contracts awarded |
| - |
June
19 -- Ashland charter commission chosen |
| - |
Aug.
19 -- Ashland's first chautauqua began |
| 1914 |
Feb.
3 -- $100,000 bond issue for new high school authorized |
| - |
Feb.
5 -- Lincoln Highway Booster Day in Ashland |
| - |
Feb.
22 -- New Evangelical church dedicated |
| - |
May
4 -- William H. Gates succeeds George Hildebrand as postmaster |
| - |
July
21-22 -- Loudonville centennial celebration |
| - |
Oct.
4 -- First regular passenger runs on L.A. & S. northern |
| - |
Oct.
31 -- Notable address at Opera House by Senator Pomerene |
| - |
Nov.
11 -- Committee on organization chosen, marking beginning of centennial
preparations |
| 1915 |
March
13 -- Johnny Appleseed Society formed |
| - |
May
27 -- First class graduated from Samaritan Hospital School of Nurses |
| - |
July
26-31 -- Ashland Centennial Homecoming events |
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