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Title
Constitution
,
Ohio
Post
Office
Photograph
Subject
Ohio Government
Post offices
Place
Constitution (Ohio)
Washington County (Ohio)
Description
This
6.75
" by
9.75
"
(17.15
by
24.77
cm)
image
depicts
the
post
office
in
Constitution
,
Ohio
circa
1900
. The
first
post
office
in
Constitution
was
opened
and
operated
from
1842-1853
by
Judge
Ephraim
Cutler
from his
stone
house
by the
Ohio
river
. The
Constitution
office
closed
in
1974
. The
last
postmistress
there was
Mrs
.
Naomi
R
.
Morris
,
who
operated
the
Constitution
post
office
from
1954-1974
.
Cutler
(1767-1853)
left
Connecticut
with
three
shares
of
stock
in the
Ohio
Company
lands
, and
arrived
at
Marietta
,
Ohio
on
September
18
,
1795
. In
May
1799
,
Cutler
moved
to his
1800-acre
farm
on
Federal
Creek
,
where
he
erected
a
mill
.
Shortly
thereafter
Cutler
was
appointed
judge
of the
court
of
common
pleas
and
justice
of the
peace
by the
Northwest
Territory
governor
,
Arthur
St
.
Clair
. He was also
appointed
a
member
of the
Northwest
Territorial
legislature
and in
1802
he
became
Washington
County's
delegate
to the
Ohio
constitutional
convention
. In
1806
,
Cutler
established
his
family's
home
on the
bank
of the
Ohio
river
,
six
miles
below
Marietta
, at
Constitution
.
Cutler
was a
leader
of the
Ohio
Company
,
co-founder
of
Ohio
University
, a
prominent
abolitionist
, and was
active
in
forming
the
Underground
Railroad
in
Ohio
.
Date of Original
1900
circa
Source
Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution
Washington County Public Library
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om2157_2593313_001.tif
Image Height
2671
Image Width
3896
File Size
2794.407 KB
Format
picture
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