The dramatic stone home on a hill north of Chillicothe, Ohio, was the home of Thomas and Eleanor Swearingen Worthington and their ten children. Sometimes referred to “as the father of Ohio statehood,” Thomas Worthington (1773-1827) was one of Ohio’s first U.S. senators (1803-1807) and there he lobbied for Ohio’s statehood.
The museum is on the site of the fortification built by the Ohio Company of Associates, as their headquarters, in 1788 when they founded the first organized American settlement in the Northwest Territory.
The birthplace of Ulysses S. Grant is a restored one-story, three-room cottage, built in 1817.
The Grant Boyhood Home in Georgetown was the home of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States, from 1823, when Grant was one year old, until 1839, when he left to attend West Point.
The schoolhouse of Ulysses S. Grant was built in 1829, and consisted of only one room at that time.
William Henry Harrison, ninth president of the United States, was born in Virginia, but as an adult he settled in North Bend, Ohio, on land overlooking the wide, northward sweep of the Ohio River.
Harding became the 29th president of the U.S, (1921–1923) and the first president elected after women were allowed to vote in national elections.
The Harding Tomb is a circular monument of white Georgia marble containing the remains of President and Mrs. Harding. The monument, set in 10 acres of landscaped grounds, is similar in appearance to a round Greek temple.
The Hayes Presidential Center contains the residence of Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States, a library and museum, and the tomb of the president and his wife Lucy Webb Hayes.
Founded by the German religious dissenters called the Society of Separatists of Zoar in 1817 as a communal society, Zoar today is an island of Old-World charm in east-central Ohio.