Conesville, Ohio
History
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==History== |
==History== |
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Conesville is most likely named after Beebe Stewart Cone, who with three other men in 1847, erected a sizable distillery near the local west side of the Muskingum River. A grouping of houses for workers was built near the distillery accompanied by several small businesses. The distillery burned down in 1857. Afterward, Cone gave up that business venture and moved on to Muscatine County, Iowa. The distillery was rebuilt by a man named James Beebe but it also burned down a few years later. Prior to 1840, a man named Delaney |
Conesville is most likely named after Beebe Stewart Cone, who with three other men in 1847, erected a sizable distillery near the local west side of the Muskingum River. A grouping of houses for workers was built near the distillery accompanied by several small businesses. The distillery burned down in 1857. Afterward, Cone gave up that business venture and moved on to Muscatine County, Iowa. The distillery was rebuilt by a man named James Beebe but it also burned down a few years later. Prior to 1840, a man named Delaney purchased land in the same area and planned for it to be named Delaneysville, but it failed as an incorporated entity.{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/historyofcoshoct00hill | quote=coshocton county ohio history. | title=History of Coshocton County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, 1740-1881 | publisher=A. A. Graham | author=Graham, Albert Adams | year=1881 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofcoshoct00hill/page/499 499]}} |
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The [[Conesville Power Plant]], located just east of the village, started operations in 1957.{{cite news|url=https://www.coshoctontribune.com/story/news/local/2017/08/24/we-work-team-and-were-family/598197001/|title=AEP Conesville still fired up after 60 years|last=Hayhurst|first=Leonard|newspaper=Coshocton Tribune|date=August 24, 2017|access-date=June 18, 2018}} |
The [[Conesville Power Plant]], located just east of the village, started operations in 1957.{{cite news|url=https://www.coshoctontribune.com/story/news/local/2017/08/24/we-work-team-and-were-family/598197001/|title=AEP Conesville still fired up after 60 years|last=Hayhurst|first=Leonard|newspaper=Coshocton Tribune|date=August 24, 2017|access-date=June 18, 2018}} |
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