Gallipolis
| Gallipolis | |||
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 State Route 7 downtown |
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| Location in Ohio | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1790 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Ohio | ||
| County : | Gallia County | ||
| Coordinates : | 38 ° 49 ′ N , 82 ° 12 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 4,180 (as of: 2000) | ||
| Population density : | 444.7 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 9.9 km 2 (about 4 mi 2 ) of which 9.4 km 2 (about 4 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 175 m | ||
| Postal code : | 45631 | ||
| Area code : | +1 740 | ||
| FIPS : | 39-29204 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1077526 | ||
| Website : | www.gallianet.net/Gallipolis/index.htm | ||
Gallipolis is a municipality on the Ohio River in the southeast of the American state Ohio . Gallipolis is located in Gallia County , whose county seat is in Gallipolis. In the 2000 census , the place had just under 4,200 inhabitants, a decrease of 18% since 1990, when the place still had just under 5,100 inhabitants. Places with less than 5000 inhabitants lose in Ohio's status as City and then count again as a village ( Village ), but applies in Gallipolis administratively continue its town charter. Gallipolis is thus a Chartered Village .
There are a number of listed buildings and ensembles in Gallipolis . Built in 1819, the three-story Our House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1970 , and is now operated as a museum by the Ohio Historical Society . 1978 was the water tower of the Ohio Hospital For Epileptics found in NHRP listed. In 1980 the historic center was included in the NRHP as the Gallipolis Public Square and Garden Lots Historic District, in 2001 this listed area was expanded by several blocks and is now called the Gallipolis Historic District . Columnist OO McIntyre's Gatewood home was listed as a Historic Monument in 1986.
history
Gallipolis was founded in 1790 by French settlers who had bought the passage and land in Ohio from the Scioto Company for 20 guineas per person. When the settlers arrived, it turned out that the Scioto Company had only had an option to buy instead of real estate, and only primitive huts had been built instead of a settlement. Shortly thereafter, the Scioto Company went bankrupt and the purchase option expired - the land was again wholly owned by the Ohio Company . After several years, the number of settlers in Gallipolis was greatly decimated by illness, emigration and violent death in the course of the Indian wars. In 1792–93 the settlement was enclosed by Indian tribes. In 1794 the Ohio Company bought 912 acres for $ 1,100 . In 1795, the US Congress awarded the settlers an additional 20,000 acres as compensation.
In Gallipolis was the Silver Bridge built in 1928 over the Ohio River, which connected the place with Point Pleasant in West Virginia . In 1967 the bridge collapsed, killing 46 people. In 1969, the Silver Memorial Bridge was built to replace the collapsed bridge .
Personalities
- Samuel Finley Vinton (1792–1862), member of the US Congress from 1823 to 1837 and from 1843 to 1851. The nearby Vinton County is named after him.
- Robert M. Switzer (1863–1952), Republican Congressman
- OO McIntyre (1884-1938), columnist and book author
- Bob Evans (1918–2007), entrepreneur and founder of the Bob Evans Restaurants chain
- Skip Battin (1934–2003), country rock singer and bassist
- Brereton Jones (* 1939), Democratic Governor of Kentucky 1991–1995
- Frank Cremeans (1943–2003), entrepreneur and Republican Congressman
- Geoffrey D. Miller (* 1949), General of the US Army, commanded the Joint Task Force Guantanamo in 2002 and, from 2004, the Abu Ghuraib prison
- Jenny Holzer (* 1950), concept artist
- Lionel Cartwright (* 1960), country musician
literature
- Theodore Thomas Belote: The Scioto speculation and the French settlement at Gallipolis . University of Cincinnati Press, Cincinnati 1907. (New edition by B. Franklin, New York 1971. ISBN 0833702211. )
Individual evidence
- ^ Ohio Revised Code , TITLE 7 VII: Municipal Corporations, CHAPTER 703: Classification.
- ^ Ohio Secretary of State: The Ohio Municipal, Township and School Board Roster 2006–2007 ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . File Villages , Entries on Gallipolis.
- ^ OHIO - Gallia County on the National Register of Historic Places, Entry # 70000494.
- ↑ Museum homepage ( Memento of the original dated December 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. to Our House , history of the house ( Memento des Originals from August 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ OHIO - Gallia County on the National Register of Historic Places, Entry # 78002069.
- ^ OHIO - Gallia County on the National Register of Historic Places, entry # 80003027 for Gallipolis Public Square and Garden Lots Historic District , or entry # 01000899 for Gallipolis Historic District .
- ^ OHIO - Gallia County on the National Register of Historic Places, Entry # 86002877.
- ^ Robert W. Richmond: A Nation Moving West: Readings in the History of the American Frontier . University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 1966, pp. 20-21. ISBN 0803251572
Web links
- Gallipolis, Ohio entry at Ohio History Central