Gallipolis, Ohio
Gallia County
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Gallipolis is a town on the Ohio River in the southeast of the U.S. state of Ohio. Gallipolis is located in Gallia County, whose county seat is located in Gallipolis. In the 2000 census, the town had just under 4,200 inhabitants, a decline of 18 % since 1990, when the place had just 5,100 inhabitants. Places with fewer than 5,000 residents lose in Ohio 's status as City and then count again as a village ( Village ), but administratively applicable in Gallipolis continue the municipal law. Gallipolis is thus a Chartered Village.
In Gallipolis there are a number of listed buildings and groups of buildings. Built in 1819 three-story Our House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places ( NRHP) in 1970, and is today operated by the Ohio Historical Society as a museum. 1978, the water tower of the Ohio Hospital For Epileptics was placed in NHRP listed building. In 1980 the historical center was included as Gallipolis Public Square and Garden Lots Historic District in the NRHP in 2001, this listed area around several blocks has been extended and is now called Gallipolis Historic District. The house Gatewood columnist OO McIntyre was declared a National Monument in 1986.
History
Gallipolis was founded in 1790 by French settlers who had acquired by the Scioto Company for 20 guineas per person, the ship's passage and land in Ohio. When the settlers arrived, it turned out that the Scioto Company had held real property possessed only an option to purchase, and instead of a settlement primitive huts were erected only. Shortly thereafter, the Scioto Company went bankrupt, and the call option lapsed - the country was again quite the Ohio Company. After several years, the number of settlers in Gallipolis was decimated by disease, migration and violent death during the Indian Wars. 1792-93, the settlement was enclosed by Indian tribes. 1794 finally succeeded in the acquisition of 912 acres for $ 1,100 from the Ohio Company. 1795 were awarded to the settlers by the U.S. Congress an additional 20,000 acres as compensation.
In Gallipolis, built in 1928, the Silver Bridge over the Ohio River was that connected the place with Point Pleasant in West Virginia. 1967 collapsed the bridge, where 46 people died. 1969 was built to replace the collapsed bridge, the Silver Memorial Bridge.
Personalities
- Samuel Finley Vinton (1792-1862), Member of the U.S. Congress from 1823 to 1837 and from 1843 to 1851 after him., The nearby Vinton County is named.
- Robert M. Switzer (1863-1952), Republican congressman
- OO McIntyre (1884-1938), columnist and author
- Bob Evans (1918-2007), entrepreneur and founder of the restaurant chain Bob Evans Restaurants
- Skip Battin (1934-2003), country-rock singer and bassist.
- Brereton Jones ( b. 1939 ), Democratic governor of Kentucky from 1991 to 1995
- Frank Cremeans (1943-2003), businessman and Republican congressman
- Geoffrey D. Miller ( b. 1949 ), general of the U.S. Army, commanded 2002, the Joint Task Force Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib from 2004, the Prison
- Jenny Holzer ( b. 1950 ), conceptual artist
- Lionel Cartwright ( born 1960 ), country musician