PIKE COUNTY'S HISTORIC SITES

PIKE COUNTY'S HISTORIC SITES

Unknown Civil War Soldier's Grave, Pike Lake State Park

Ohio's Most Perfect Tree (hard maple, est. 200 years old), Stockdale

Eager Inn, 1797 Underground Railroad stop

Governor Lucas Mansion (circa 1800s), Gov. of Ohio & Gov. of Iowa Territory

Ohio Eric Canal (wall exposed in Pike County Library)

Ohio Erie Canal, 1831, remnants throughout Pike County

Barnes House, place where Abe Lincoln slept

Pike County Courthouse, circa 1865, Waverly

Pike County Courthouse (first), Piketon

Emmitt House, circa 1861, former Inn on Ohio Erie Canal recently restored for dinning. Madison Hemmings, son of Sally Hemmings (a slave of Thomas Jefferson), who claimed until his death to be Thomas Jefferson's son, was a master carpenter on this structure.

Lake White Club sits on the shore of the state park by the same name, open today as a dinning place. The foyer is a log cabin built on that spot in 1820's

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Pike Co. Genealogy Society a Chapter of O.G.S.

P. O. Box 224, Waverly, Ohio 45690