How Well Do You Know Warren County?

Issue 6: March 2022 - June 2022

1. In 1840, the Warren County Canal was a feeder canal, or branch, of what major canal in Ohio? The Miami and Erie Canal
2. On August 8, 2013, pop singer, and then MTV reality star, Ke$ha spent the night at what famous Warren County attraction? The Golden Lamb
3. What Warren County town was known as the Jersey Settlement in 1804? Carlisle. It was called the Jersey Settlement because of all the pioneers from New Jersey who had settled there!
4. The Fort Ancient people did not build the prehistoric community of Fort Ancient. Who built it? The Adena
5. The land east of the Little Miami River was originally set aside for veterans who fought in the Revolutionary War from which colony/state? Virginia 

Issue 5: November 2021 - February 2022

  1.  Palmyra;
  2. Harlan Township
  3. Ridgeville
  4. Mounts Station
  5. The Bunker Hill Monument.

Issue 4: Fall 2021

  1. Harlan Township
  2. ​John Lincoln was the president’s great-uncle
  3. The Twenty-Millionth Car
  4. Shropshire, England  
  5. The Black Horse Tavern located on the northeast corner of Broadway and Mulberry Street in Lebanon

Issue 3: March 2021 - June 2021

  1. In 1803, Jeremiah Morrow, from newly formed Warren County, was elected as Ohio’s first and, for ten years, only what? US congressman
  2. Neil Armstrong lived in Warren County longer than any other place in his entire life. How long was he a resident of Turtlecreek Township? 23 years
  3. In March 1860, Salem Township’s name was briefly changed to what? Corwin Township
  4. The Fort Ancient People did not build the prehistoric community center of Fort Ancient. They lived on that site about 1,000 years after it was constructed. Which prehistoric culture did build Fort Ancient? the Hopewell People
  5. On Dixie Highway near Towne Mall in Warren County, between Blue Ball and Franklin, is a monument to what? the Poland-China hog

Issue 2: November 2020 - February 2021

  1. Where will you find the 1811 Miami Meeting House, the oldest regularly attended Quaker Meeting House west of the Allegheny Mountains? Waynesville, Ohio
  2. On January 3, 1815, Union Township was created by a “union” of which two Warren County townships? Deerfield and Turtlecreek townships
  3. The Harmon Museum is named after Warren County born real estate magnate William Elmer Harmon. His brother was a famous early aviator. What is his name? Clifford Burke Harmon
  4. In the 1993 movie Milk Money  Lebanon, Ohio pretended to be what town in what other state? Middleton, Pennsylvania
  5. On SR 123 near Exit 32 on I-71 you will find southern Ohio’s largest what? (HINT: It is estimated to weigh 275 tons.) boulder (rock)

Issue 1: ​July - October, 2020

  1. On April 28, 1890, the Ohio General Assembly purchase what piece of land to make into Ohio’s first state park? Fort Ancient
  2. What Warren County village, laid out on November 13, 1852, was known by some early settlers as Plum Sock? Pleasant Plain
  3. Carl Sandburg, in his Pulitzer Prize winning book, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, called which Warren Countian “the best wit and storyteller in Washington”? Thomas Corwin
  4. The founder of which Warren County city or village died in February of 1830 by falling head first into a well? William Mason
  5. After Ownly Furman bought what is now the Golden Lamb in 1914, what did he call his four-story hotel? Ownly Hotel