Friday, April 11, 2025

OLD HOUSE/LOGAN COUNTY

 


BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP

LOGAN COUNTY RD. 13 .3 MILE EAST OF LOGAN COUNTY RD. 21
LEWISTOWN, OHIO
GPS: 40.410487, -83.932884
(April 2, 2012)
This home was just around the corner of where an old schoolhouse use to sit. Also, it is within a couple of miles from where a couple other schools are now. Likely, perhaps children who lived here attended those schools.

CUMMINS SCHOOL #3/LOGAN COUNTY




STOKES TOWNSHIP #3
BUILT - 1902

ELM GROVE RD. (COUNTY RD.T-86) .3 MILE NORTH OF IDLE RD. (COUNTY RD. 88)
LAKEVIEW, OHIO
GPS: 40.516877, -83.975092
(July 17, 2010)
{Unlikely to have survived} 

SCHOOL #1/LOGAN COUNTY




STOKES TOWNSHIP #1
BUILT - 1906

OHIO SR-235 1 MILE EAST OF MAIN ENTRANCE TO INDIAN LAKE STATE PARK
4250 OHIO SR-235 LAKEVIEW, OHIO 43331
GPS: 40.522346, -83.880726
(July 17, 2010)

Thursday, April 10, 2025

CR-21 BRIDGE - LOGANSVILLE, OHIO

 





PLEASANT TOWNSHIP
BUILT - 1882

CR-21, which was originally called Logansville and Muchinippi Free Turnpike bridge, over the Great Miami River, in Logansville, in Logan County, Ohio. Construction Date-1882. Length - 143'. Structure Type: Single span, Metal 10 Panel Pin-Connected Whipple (Double-Intersection Pratt) Through Truss, Fixed. Builder/Contractor: Massillon Bridge Company of Massillon, Ohio. Rehabilitation date 1997. Inventory Number-4631838. Bridge was realigned, parallel on the southern side of the new bridge. GPS: 40.351200°N, -83.938510°W. It was determined eligible for the inclusion on the National Register of Historical Places.
{This bridge was one of the main crossings of the Great Miami River, especially when the river was high. Several old schools are close by and it is quite obviously that the students and their families would cross this bridge almost daily.}

ELLIS SCHOOL #6/LOGAN COUNTY




 PLEASANT TOWNSHIP #6
BUILT - 1885

COUNTY RD. 77.5 MILE WEST OF COUNTY RD. 21
LOGANSVILLE, OHIO
GPS: 40.354618, -83.950898
(July 17, 2010)

FLATWOODS SCHOOL #10/LOGAN COUNTY




BOKES CREEK TOWNSHIP #10

N. MAIN ST./LAKE ST. IN WEST MANSFIELD, OHIO
GPS: 40.405535, -83.546648
(July 9, 2010)

PIATT CASTLE/LOGAN COUNTY


MAC-O-CHEE CASTLE
MONROE TOWNSHIP
BUILT - 1879

OHIO SR-245/COUNTY RD. 1
2319 OH-287 WEST LIBERTY, OHIO 43357
GPS: 40.258359, -83.716889
(May 31, 2010)
{Castle was across the street from one school and within three miles of four other schools.} 

LOGAN COUNTY

THERE ARE STILL 14 OF THE REMAINING OLD ONE ROOM SCHOOLHOUSES IN LOGAN COUNTY AND THEY ARE SHOWN ON THIS SITE. THE ERA OF THE ONE ROOM SCHOO...