Warren County, Ohio Warren County, Ohio Springboro is a city in Warren and Montgomery counties in Ohio. It is in Clearcreek Township, Warren County, Ohio, Franklin Township, Warren County, Ohio, and Miami Township, Montgomery County. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 12,380, up from 6,574 in 1990 and 8,000 in 1980. ...more on Wikipedia about "Springboro, Ohio"
The Symmes Purchase, also known as the Miami Purchase, a section of land in Southwestern Ohio in what is now Hamilton, Butler, and Warren Counties. It was purchased by Judge John Cleves Symmes of New Jersey from the Continental Congress. In the 1780s, Benjamin Stites, a friend of Symmes', was visiting Limestone (now Maysville, Kentucky), and had some of his horses stolen by Indians. He pursued them through the wilderness of southwestern Ohio as far north as Xenia. He was so impressed with the fertility of the country he informed Symmes of its prospects and Symmes gathered a syndicate to buy the land. ...more on Wikipedia about "Symmes Purchase"
The Lebanon Gazette, now defunct, was the name of two weekly newspapers published in Lebanon, Ohio, both of which were absorbed by The Western Star. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Lebanon Gazette"
The Lebanon Patriot, now defunct, was an American newspaper published weekly at Lebanon, Ohio, the seat of Warren County. The paper was founded by General Durbin Ward as a Democratic paper and first published on January 16, 1868. Warren County being ardently Republican, the paper was to take the place of the previous Democratic paper in the county, the Democratic Citizen, which was destroyed by a mob at the outbreak of the Civil War. Ward sold the paper to Edward Warwick who sold it to A. A. Roland (born February 11, 1853) in April 1878. Circa 1883 it was owned and edited by Mary V. Proctor Wilson. The paper was last issued in December 1936 when it merged with The Western Star, another weekly in Lebanon. The combined paper was published as The Western Star and Lebanon Patriot from January 7, 1937, to June 30, 1938. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Lebanon Patriot"
The Western Star is Ohio's oldest weekly newspaper and second oldest of any sort after the daily Chillicothe Gazette. It is published Thursdays at Lebanon, the seat of Warren County, by Cox Enterprises, the communications company founded by former Ohio Governor James Middleton Cox. The Western Star, which claims a circulation of about 21,000 each week, is also the oldest paper bearing its original name published west of the Appalachian Mountains. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Western Star"
Turtlecreek Township is one of eleven townships of Warren County, Ohio. It is in the central part of the county and surrounds the county seat of Lebanon. It was named for the Turtle Creek, a stream named for Indian chief Little Turtle. Turtlecreek is the largest township in the county, originally containing sixty-three whole and seven fractional sections. It had a population of 12,617 in 2000, up from 10,383 in 1990. Of those, 12,114 lived in the unincorporated part of the township, 456 in Middletown, and 47 in Monroe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Turtlecreek Township, Warren County, Ohio"
Twenty Mile Stand is an unincorporated place of southeastern Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio on the 3C Highway in Town 4 East, Range 2 North, Section 21 of the Symmes Purchase. It is about three miles south-south west of Kings Mills and two miles southwest of Fosters, and twenty miles northeast of Cincinnati. There was a post office there in the 19th Century. Twenty Mile Stand is often considered part of Landen. ...more on Wikipedia about "Twenty Mile Stand, Ohio"
Union Township is one of eleven townships of Warren County, Ohio, located in the central part of the county. It is bounded on the south by the Little Miami River and across the river by Hamilton Township; on the east by Salem Township; on the north by Turtlecreek Township; on the west and south by Deerfield Township. It was established January 3, 1815 and named Union as it was formed from parts of Deerfield and Turtlecreek Townships. The 2000 census found 4,668 people in the township, up slightly from the 4,631 in 1990. Of those, 2,230 lived in the unincorporated part of the township and 2,438 lived in the village of South Lebanon. ...more on Wikipedia about "Union Township, Warren County, Ohio"
The Virginia Military District was an approximately 4.2 million acre (17,000 km²) area of land in what is now the state of Ohio that was reserved by Virginia to use a payment for veterans of the Revolutionary War. Virginia had claimed sovereignty over much of the region as part of its territory. Cession of Virginia's (and all the other states') claims over western lands was a condition for ratification of the U.S. Constitution. In return for ceding its claims in 1784, Virginia was granted this area to provide military bounty land grants. The Ohio district was a surplus reserve, in that military land grants were first made in an area southeast of the Ohio River, in what is now Kentucky. The Ohio land was to be used only after the land southeast of the river was exhausted. ...more on Wikipedia about "Virginia Military District"
The Warren Correctional Institution is a prison operated by the State of Ohio's Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections in Warren County's Turtlecreek Township. ...more on Wikipedia about "Warren Correctional Institution"
The Warren County Canal was a branch of the Miami and Erie Canal in southwestern Ohio about 20 miles (30 km) in length that connected the Warren County seat of Lebanon to the main canal at Middletown in the mid- 19th Century. Lebanon was at the crossroads of two major roads, the highway from Cincinnati to Columbus (later U.S. Route 42) and the road from Chillicothe to the College Township ( Oxford), but Lebanon businessmen and civic leaders wanted better transportation facilities and successfully lobbied for their own canal, part of the canal fever of the first third of the 19th Century. The Warren County Canal was never successful, operating less than a decade before the state abandoned it. ...more on Wikipedia about "Warren County Canal"
Warren County is a county located in the state of Ohio. As of 2000, the population is 158,383. The 2003 population estimate ** for the county is 181,743. Its county seat is Lebanon 6. Warren County was erected May 1, 1803 from Hamilton County, and named for Dr. Joseph Warren, a hero of the Revolution who sent Paul Revere on his ride and who died at the Battle of Bunker Hill. ...more on Wikipedia about "Warren County, Ohio"
Washington Township is one of the eleven townships of Warren County, Ohio. Located in the east central part of the county, it is the only one of the eleven that does not contain a municipality. The population in 2000 was 1,855, up from 1,354 in 1990, the second smallest population of the eleven. ...more on Wikipedia about "Washington Township, Warren County, Ohio"
Wayne Township, one of eleven in Warren County, Ohio, is located in the northeast part of the county and includes the village of Waynesville, Ohio. Its population in 2000 was 7,250, up from 5,744 in 1990. Waynesville is noted for its antique stores and is the home of the sauerkraut festival. Caesar Creek State Park is located here. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wayne Township, Warren County, Ohio"
Waynesville is a village located in Wayne Township, Warren County, Ohio. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 2,558, up from 1,949 in 1990. It is named for General "Mad" Anthony Wayne. The village, located at the crossroads of U.S. Route 42 and State Route 73, is known for its antique stores and its annual sauerkraut festival. Caesar Creek State Park is located five miles east of the village. ...more on Wikipedia about "Waynesville, Ohio"
William H. P. Denny (born circa 1811) was an American newspaper editor and publisher and politician in Ohio. ...more on Wikipedia about "William H. P. Denny"
Wilson Edgar Terry, the last Kentucky veteran of the Spanish-American War, was born in Crockettsville, Kentucky, in Breathitt County, Kentucky, in 1874, the son of Isaac Terry. He attended Lee College in Jackson. His first wife was Ida Kidd, who died when their first child, a daughter was an infant. He then married Ruse Wilder and had seven children with her, among them the writer Berniece T. Hiser. He lived at Cow Creek, Kentucky, in Owsley County, Kentucky, until 1927, when he moved to Kings Mills, Ohio, where he ran a general store. He was a staunch Republican all his life. He was also a notary public and licensed to preach by the Baptists. Governor Bert T. Combs appointed him a Kentucky colonel. He died in 1968 at age 92 and was buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Mason, Ohio. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wilson Edgar Terry"
WLW is a radio station located in Cincinnati, Ohio, run by Clear Channel Communications and is located at 700 AM. The station runs under the talk format and is the flagship station for The Truckin' Bozo, a popular nationwide, overnight program especially for truckers. In addition, WLW is the flagship radio station for the Cincinnati Reds. Its studios are in the Towers of Kenwood building next to I-71 in the Kenwood section of Sycamore Township and its transmitter is located in Mason. The station frequently uses its nickname, "The Big One", as a tagline. It also uses the original tagline, "The Nation's Station", very infrequently. ...more on Wikipedia about "WLW"
Woody Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor. Born Woodrow Tracy Harrelson in Midland, Texas to Charles Voyde Harrelson and Diane Lou Oswald, he grew up in Lebanon, Ohio. ...more on Wikipedia about "Woody Harrelson"
Zoar is an unincorporated place of Hamilton Township, Warren County, Ohio, located on the 3C Highway about one mile east of Hopkinsville and three miles west of Morrow in Virginia Military District Military Survey 1546. It was one of the earliest settlements of Hamilton Township, occurring before 1847. ...more on Wikipedia about "Zoar, Warren County, Ohio"
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