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 HISTORY OF EICHLAND COUXTY.

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��whfit was known as the "Akron" law, and a fine house, for the times, ■v^as erected. It was a comfortable frame, contained five rooms, and in this, the school was graded. This building served the purpose until 1875, when the pres- ent beautiful and substantial structure was erected, and cost about $25,000. It is of stone and brick, and contains nine recitation-rooms and a hall.

The Sandusk}', Mansfield & Newark Railroad was finished to this place in May, 1846. Before it was fairl}' finished to Mansfield, a large

number of Pl^'m-

outh citizens went ] down on open cars attached to the con- struction-train, to attend a meeting called for the pur- pose of obtaining volunteers for the Mexican war. The same year, a large grain warehouse was erected at Plymouth, capable of storing 300,000 liushels of wheat, and Plj'mouth im- mediately became

a great wheat market. As much as 8,000 bushels of wheat were received per day at this warehouse, for several days in succession. From the east, west, and for awhile, from the south, people came great distances to the wheat- market. Other railroads, after a time, destro^'ed this trade.

When the call for troops in 1861 flashed over the wires, the five church-bells of Pl3-m- outh rang for an hour. The citizens came to- gether, and men within the hearing of the bells came in from the countr}-. In less than three hoiu's, a full compan}- of volunteers was organ- ized and tendered to the Grovernor by telegi-am.

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��and were, in two hours, accepted by him. Plymouth Village and Township furnished their full quota of troops to put down the great rebellion.

Plymouth's first burying-gi'ound was at New Haven, and the first person buried in this ground was Mr. Beymer, gi'andfather of ]Mrs. Thomas Kinney. The first graveyard in the village was Lot 23, donated by Abraham Trux. It soon became apparent that the town would improve around this lot, and it was vacated ; a lot being purchased near the Presljj-terian

Church. In 1874,

a number of citi- zens f o r m e d a n association called "The Green Lawn Cemeter}' Associa- tion," and pur- chased twenty- three acres of land hing near the vil- lage, which was laid out into nine hun- dred and forty lots, with drives and walks. These gi'ounds have been cultivated and beautified, and will, in time, be among the most beautiful in the State,

The first bank was started in 1839, b}- Messer Barker, Avho did a banking business in connec- tion with his mercantile business, and continued to do so until his death in 1859 ; after which Robert McDonough and S. M. Robinson did the banking business for Plymouth until 1870, when the former opened a regular bank of discount and deposit, and continued until hisdeath in May, 1873. Soon after, the First National Bank was organized by John Devin- ne}', Henry C. Breckenridge, H. P. Steutz, E. Sturges, Sr., of Mansfield, T. B. Tucker, and

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