The Clinton County History Center building was a home purchased by German immigrant and businessman Matthew and Catherine K. Rombach in 1855. It had been built in 1835 by Robert Wickersham. Their only daughter Louise in 1856 married Gen. James W.…

The Wilmington Commercial Historic District is centered at Main and South Streets, and is bounded roughly by Columbus, Walnut, Sugartree, and Mulberry Streets.

The Meetinghouse: Springfield Friends arrived in 1806-10 in large family and Meeting groups, mostly from North Carolina, with others from Virginia and Pennsylvania, and a few came from New York. The extended Harvey/Hale/Hadley family, of five…

Eli Harvey (1803-1872) came as a child with his family and the six other Harvey families from North Carolina in 1806-1807. He married Sarah Fallis in 1824, bought part of his father's land, and established his household on the newly laid out…

Many of the preserved or relocated log buildings were built by early Quaker settlers in the Waynesville area. Caesars Creek Friends Meeting was established in 1805. This Meeting House was built in 1849 on a bluff on the west bank of the Caesar's…

The Caesars Creek Spillway offers a good opportunity to enjoy the interesting geology of the region, and to look for fossils (please follow the rules and obtain a permit first at the Visitors Center). The largest trilobite (Isotelus) on display at…

Caesar Creek State Park offers a large lake with beaches and boat docks, plus trails, campsites, picnic grounds and playgrounds. The Visitors Center offers an interesting museum — spend some time to learn about the natural history of the area. Take…

Waynesville retains many of its 19th century buildings and its small-town flavor. Main Street is lined with antique shops, specialty shops, restaurants and cafes. This is a great place to stop for lunch, tea, or a snack.

The Burial Ground was established in 1804 and contains the graves of many of the earliest Quaker pioneers in the area. In the early days Quakers did not use gravestones, so there are many unmarked graves. After 1828, due to the Orthodox-Hicksite…

Quakers arrived here by the thousands, beginning in 1799 from North and South Carolina and Virginia, leaving behind the slave economy and society. Friends also came from Pennsylvania and Virginia. Miami Meeting was founded in 1803, a log…

The 1905 Friends Boarding Home was opened by local Quakers to provide care for elderly Friends and “those in sympathy with them,” and operated into the 1990s. It was the predecessor of Quaker Heights Care Community, a ministry of Ohio Valley Yearly…

In 1866 the Miami Cemetery Association was formed with several prominent Quakers as Trustees. It was dedicated in 1867 “as a burial place forever”. Leopold Weltz of Wilmington landscaped the grounds, making it into a beautiful park-like setting, one…

Elizabeth Burgess Harvey (1801-1888), wife of Dr. Jesse Harvey, opened this school for free black children in 1831. The students were from local free black families, plus some children sent here by their plantation owner fathers. Some of the…

In 1806, Mr. Preserved Fish Dakin (1749-1835) came from the borderlands of New York and Connecticut and purchased 2000 acres, about half of the J. Crain Survey #1994 for his “colony”. In addition to Preserved Dakin and three sons and one daughter,…

Beginning as an Indulged Meeting under Center Meeting in 1824, Chester Friends first met on the Thomas McMillan farm. In 1828 land was donated and a log Meeting House was built and a burial ground established. Many of the McMillan family are buried…