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The Village is located in the western portion of Belmont County and is home to approximately 1400 residents. In town there is the Epworth Park which hosts the Chautauqua Days Festival in July. Total Area: 0.64 square miles (1.66 km2) Water: 0.02 square miles (0.05 km2)
Land: 0.62 square miles (1.61 km2) Elevation:1,220 ft. (372 m) Population: 1400
* Bethesda has had three names: Burrs Mills, Fairmount, and Bethesda. When the railroad reached the village in 1852, the Central Ohio Railroad built a station and named it Burr’s Mills in honor of Merrick S. Burr, who operated a sawmill in the area. In 1855, [10] Burr laid out a village which he called Fairmount because of its high and beautiful location. Epworth Park
Bridgeport
Bridgeport is a village in Belmont County. It lies across the Ohio River from Wheeling, West Virginia, and is connected by two bridges, one to Wheeling Island and one to Wheeling, West Virginia across the Ohio River. Total Area:1.38 square miles (3.57 km2) Water: 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2)
Land: 1.37 square miles (3.55 km2) Elevation: 656 ft. (200 m) Population: 1,831
* Bridgeport is the hometown of Bobby Douglas, Olympic wrestler and John Havlicek, Hall of Fame basketball great for Ohio State and Boston Celtics; member of OSU's 1960 championship team and Boston Celtics 1960's NBA championship dynasty.
Blaine Bridge
Brookside
Brookside is a village located in eastern Ohio close to the Ohio River. Brookside is incorporated. As of the census of 2010, there were 632 people, 282 households, and 193 families residing in the village.
Colerain
Colerain, although unincorporated, has a post office, with the ZIP code of 43916. It lies along U.S. Route 250. It is located on the county’s north-east border. Colerain was originally built up chiefly by Quakers from North Carolina and Virginia, who left those states due to their opposition to slavery. * The community was named after Coleraine, Northern Ireland, the ancestral home of a share of the first settlers. A post office called Colerain was established in 1825, and remained in operation until 1907. Colerain was originally built up chiefly by Quakers from North Carolina and Virginia, who left those states due to their opposition to slavery.
Imperial Glass Museum
Flushing
Flushing is a village in Belmont County platted in 1813, incorporated in 1849. Flushing was laid out by Jesse Foulke, who named the town. He taught the first school and kept the first store. In the early 1900’s it was a “boom town” because the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railway entrance into the southwest end of town made the small coal mines that dotted the area into commercial ventures with the railway shipping out their coal.
Underground Railroad Museum
* Home of the Underground Railroad Museum.
Martins Ferry Martins Ferry is a city in Belmont County. It enjoys the honor of being the oldest settlement in the state of Ohio, having been settled at least as early as 1779. The community was a westward extension of the city of Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia). Directly across the river lies the city of Wheeling, West Virginia, and just miles to the east is the Pennsylvania state line. The city of Columbus, Ohio, is 125 miles to the west, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is 59 miles northeast of the city. On the southern end of town, Martins Ferry is directly connected to the village of Bridgeport. Total Area: 2.33 square miles (6.03 km2)
Elevation: 709 ft. (216 m)
Population: 6,915
* Martins Ferry was the birth place of James Wright - Pulitzer Prize winning poet and author. One of Wright’s most celebrated poems captures some of the nuances of his hometown, titled "Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio".
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Concord Quaker Meeting House