Goshen High School - Yearbook (Damascus, OH)

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named the town Damascus. The sneer -1 Y .. G O b :I O History of Damascus, Ohio is a quaint old we will through the years have fond N 11 A N .--------- Damascus. town. To some of us it is home: memories of our life here. In- terest in our village implies a desire for knowledge of its settle- ment and history. Because there was a church here before any town existed, let us first think of the founding of that church. In the early years of our country the consciences of the Society of Friends were awakened to the wickedness of Many of these Friends living in the Territory. where slavery did not exist. A group of these members of slavery . South migrated to the Northwest people in the fear of God founded Upper Springfield Honthly Meeting of Friends They first met for worship in a little log cabin. This cabin was soon replaced by a brick church, built on the site of the present Damascus Friends Church. The locust grove just west of the church was used as a burial ground. In the beginning of the eighteenth century the land in this vi- cinity was a vast wilderness of forests, inhabited by Indians. The French and the English came to this section, and each group raised its flag not far from the present site of the Bethel Reformed Church Years passed, and finally in l?w5 Ohio was admitted as a state into the United States. A few years large tract of land, which inciwded with his wife from North Gasolina and later a man named Howard Horton came bought from the government a the site of Damascus. The land was surveyed, and a town was laid cut. In 1808 Mr. Horton officially running along the south side of the village he named Pharpar, and the creek running past the present site of the Damascus Lumber Company he named Abana, after the rivers of the Oriental Damascus mentioned in the Bible CII Kings 12:51. The exact location of the first house in Damascus is not known. The next two are the present Marianna Pim and Leslie Atkinson houses respectively. The former is just west of Ferguson's filling station and the latter two houses west of the present telephone exchange. In 1819 a young man named James Bluff came to this town from the East. He later operated the town's first store and post office in the Spencer house. He would ride to Philadelphia on horseback to order his goods and have them brought here on a wagon. Every Thurs- day morning he would close his store and go to Nfifth day morning meetingn at the Friends Church. The name of the post office was Damascaville. Years ago a large house stood on the location of Gil's Garage. In this house a young couple operated a very elaborate store The building, with its contents, was later destroyed by fire of in- cendiary origin. A group of families of the community organized a Wesleyan Methodist Church and built a church building. This building now houses Gil's Garage. The house which Hhoomyu calls home in times -- 5 --