Warren High School - Shield Yearbook (Vincent, OH)

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prominent names of the area were James Harvey, Daniel Shaw, William Fleming, Samuel Drain of Argylshire, Edward Henderson Cemployed by the pioneers as a scoutb, and Hugh Mitchell. VETO was named because of a successful veto in 1802 of a clause that would have permitted slavery in Ohio. The first post office was established in Veto in 1850. Thevillage of CONSTITUTION received its name in honor of Ephraim Cutler, who was a prominent member and last survivor of the convention that framed the Con- stitution of Ohio. Judge Cutler settled here in 1806 and was first postmaster in 1842. Over 90070 of the industrial grindstones in the United States were quarried and proc- essed at Constitution. PATTEN'S MILL, a grist mill, was located about 3 miles north of Bartlett on Wolf Creek. DALE was probably named for T. D. Dale, who was responsible for the completion of the extension of the T. and O.C. R.R. in 1884, which connected Washington County with the North and West. Dale was first named Hebron and later Fairview. West of Dale is a natu- ral rock formation, called Devil's Tea Table. BARTLETT was founded in 1832. The west end of the village was called Plymouth and the east end Plea- santon g then it was renamed after Amos Bartlett, the first postmaster. Station No. 2 for the Underground Railroad was located outside of Bartlett. The Bartlett Academy was established in 1856 and the academic building is now the auction house, and the dor- mitory is the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Goddard. Bartlett Farmers Bank was started in 1919. This is the only bank located in Warren School District, and in 1961, tl1e Barlow Branch of the bank was constructed to serve more people living in the area. LAYMAN was first called Fishtown , then later was named for Amos Layman, who started the first successful Democratic newspaper in Washington County, called the Marietta Republican, in 1849. BARLOW was originally known as White Oak Settle- ment, then by the name of Wooster, and after that it was named Wesley. Not until 1818 was the settlement incorporated and organized as a separate township with the name of Barlow: given by the county commissioners, in memory of Joel Barlow, a poet and statesman. The first settlers in Barlow township were the Proctor, Lawton, Vincent, Green, Houghland, and McGuire fam- ilies. The first school house in Barlow C1808-093, known as Old Hickory, was built entirely of rough hickory logs. VINCENT. The Vincent area was settled mainly by

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Hocking Trestle CBuilt in 18573 I ,Nm ms, JM? at W ,W J - , ,J -wwf ' Lg,' x'i L ' lie'm1'11 f 1 V! ' 'ML . Nl ul' QE- , it Nqr: f Q,'fW!Q:r t,tlq'lId ,121-' '::5 L,'in,. lfriyl ll 1'lE' ' Y W-' 'FV . ff ., te X g W ' 25:11 iff . -L .ig ' . -' ' Z J HJWL-v.g IJ ,I A MW: 30, 0 f ., ,. ,tl ' 1 , + Q gii gk,-'Juv I ,El-i M yn llf f: 1. .ff ,, nth? VI .J 'lk 5 ' at JA- , - iw' ,RFQ at , QL 7 1 741 'A Little Natural Bridge CLocated near Cutlery people of Scottish ancestry in the early 182O's. Vincent was laid out in lots in 1853 by Henry Earle Vincent, the proprietor, who was also station agent and telegrapher. John Vincent, a brother of Henry, became a famous gunsmith, as he and his son manufactured the muzzle- loading Vincent Rifle, now a valuable collector's item. The original gun-making equipment used by the Vincents is in the Ohio Historical Museum at Columbus. The railroad was started in 1852 and completed in 1875. The name was changed many times from the Balti- more and Ohio Railroad Co. to eventually become the Marietta, Columbus and Cleveland. From the initials M.C. and C. the railroad was nicknamed mighty crooked and cramped. The schedule provided for two daily passenger trains but at times the track was in such condition that it took a week to make a round trip between Marietta and Athens. In 1916, the Vincent to Amesville run was abandoned, but was still used by the Cleveland Stone Co. to haul stone from the quarries at Vincent. The first store in Vincent was called Farmers Exchange, and was kept by C. B. Tuttle. FLEMING, a station on the Marietta and Cincinnati R.R. , was named for John Fleming, a Scotsman. Thomas Breckenridge built a store at Fleming about 1860 . TUNNEL. A post office was opened in Thomas Moore's general STOIC in 1855 and given the name Tunnel because of the plans of the Marietta and Cincinnati R.R. to build a tunnel toward the Ohio River. Moore and Wil- liam P. Cutler had the contract to build this tunnel but work was abandoned in 1861 due to lack of funds because Moore raised a company of volunteers to go fight with the 36th Ohio Regiment. Colonel Moore was back in 1862 to complete the tunnel. This tunnel eliminated a slow switch-back system for getting the trains over the hills. Pioneer kitchen in the Campus Martins Museum at Marietta .