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OLD BAPTIST CEMETERY

Old Baptist cemetary is located in Georgetown ohio, And is the burial place of Thomas L Hamer  Who was a Brigadier General in the Mexican War, and also in the Ohio State House of Representatives  for several years.

Thomas L Hamer Memorial

Thomas L Hamer Memorial located in the Old Baptist Cemtery in Georgetown. Hamersville  In Clark Township Brown County Ohio was named in his honor


U. S. Congressman from Ohio 1833 - 1839. Killed in action in the Mexican War.

 

THOMAS L HAMER HISTORICIAL MARKER

General

Thomas Lyon Hamer  -  1800-1846

Teacher, Lawyer, Congressman, Soldier

Master Mason (1824)  Georgetown Lodge No 72

Free and Accepted Masons

"Hamer was one of the ablest men Ohio ever procuded... I have always believed that had his life been spared, he would have been President of the United States

                  Ulysses S. Grant Memoirs Vol 1



ULYSESS S GRANT HISTORICIAL MARKER

 

219 EAST GRANT AVE

This house was built in 1823 by Jesse and Hanna Grant,After they moved to Georgetown fron Point Pleasant Ohio.Ulysess lived in the home until 1839 when he left to attend  West Point

 


Grant school house 508 South Water street

This one room school house was built in 1829  And served the community for 30 years.

The schoolmaster at the time was John D White. He also taught school for Brigadier General Jacob Ammen and His brother Navy Admiral Daniel Ammen


.Brown County Courthouse-Designed by Hubbard Baker, the courthouse was completed in 1851 .The north and south wings were added in the early 1900's.



Georgetown Presbyterian Church-established in 1803, had been housed in five other locations before the present church was built in 1853.

604 SOUTH MAIN

Dr. Phillip Buckner  `Built in 1845