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Description: Original description reads: "General Nathaniel Massie." The plaque on this marker reads: "Home of General Nathaniel Massie Built 1800, One Fourth Mile South Nathaniel Massie, Born Goochland County Virginia, December 28, 1763. 1800 Married Sarah Everard Mead. Died November 13, 1813. Revolutionary Soldier, Surveyor of wilderness then known as Northwest Territory and location of Revolutionary War land grants. 1786-87 Cut road Lexington, Kentucky to Great Kanawha River 1791 Founded Manchester, Ohio 1790-94 Explored Little Miami and Scioto Rivers to their sources April 1796 Founded Chillicothe, Ohio Massie was member of convention framing first Ohio constitution, was first speaker of state legislature 1799 organized first militia Northwest Territory, Commissioned Major General 1805 Founded Bainbridge Ohio, one of fourteen towns founded by him. Erected: Sept. 23, 1938" Nathaniel Massie was a frontier surveyor in the Ohio Country who became a prominent land owner, politician, and soldier. He founded fifteen early towns in what became the State of Ohio, including its first capital, Chillicothe. In 1807, the Ohio General Assembly declared him the winner of the election for governor, but he refused the office. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F10_026_1
Subjects: Historical markers--Ohio; Massie, Nathaniel (1763-1813)
Places: Bainbridge (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)