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| Market Street, 1908 | Aberdeen Shell Service a.k.a. The Aberdeen Truck Stop |
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| Chloe's Delux Motel, Aberdeen | Fenner's Motel, Aberdeen |
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| Frisch's, Aberdeen, c. 1965 | Jerry's, Aberdeen, c. 1960 |
Phillips Market
From a Facebook post by
Norma Lea Thomas, whose Mother is in the picture.
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| Fenner's Motel, Aberdeen, Ohio |
Brown's Motel, Aberdeen, Ohio |
Brown's Motel, Aberdeen, Ohio |
Jolly's Gulf Service
From a Facebook post by Brown County, Ohio History
The Aberdeen Cottonwood Tree
From a Facebook post by Lareina Bierley
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| From a Facebook post by Brown County, Ohio History | From a Facebook post by Connie Mingee | |
| J.M. Stuart Station was a 2.3-gigawatt (2,318 MW) coal power plant located east of Aberdeen, Ohio in Adams County, Ohio. The power plant had four units and was operated by Dayton Power and Light. It began operations in 1970 and ceased on May 24, 2018. On Sunday November 6th the stacks were demolished. | ||
The end of the Stuart Power Plant
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| Clyde Barbour's Grand Opening, September, 1962 From a Facebook post by Ron Bailey |
Clyde's From a Facebook post by Brown County Ohio History |
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| Aberdeen Service Center John Browing is the man second from the left. from a Facebook post by Kelley Faris |
Aberdeen Flood, March 12, 1964 |
| Susan Hamilton Tilley writes on Facebook: “When I was a kid, once of twice a year, several of the local pilots would give 19 minute flights for a penny a pound, $1.00 or less for just about any child.” Photo from a Facebook post by Mark Savage |
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| Aberdeen end of the Simon Kenton Bridge Construction | Aberdeen School, 1913 |
J.M. Stuart Station was a 2.3-gigawatt (2,318 MW) coal power plant located east of Aberdeen, Ohio in Adams County, Ohio. The power plant had four units and was operated by Dayton Power and Light. It began operations in 1970 and ceased on May 24, 2018. On Sunday November 6th the stacks were demolished.
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| Bisotti's | America's Gretna Green | Riverside Drive-In from a Facebook post by Ron Bailey |
| The Aberdeen Methodist dedicates a new building. | |
| Cockfighting on the river in Aberdeen broken up. | Aberdeen in the 1907 flood. |
| Toll roads were despised by most citizens, and by 1900 or so, many communities were in open revolt against them, as was Aberdeen, as shown in this newspaper clipping. | |
The Gretna Green reference above is about a town in Scotland famous as a destination for couples eloping to get married. Read more about the original Gretna Green, in Scotland, at Wikipedia. Aberdeen was known as the Gretna Green of America in the 1800's because of two “marrying” squires: John Shelton and Massie Beasley. The squires performed marriages for couples that didn't have a license. Shelton was elected Justice in 1816 and is credited with marrying more than 4,000 couples: he died in 1869. His successor, Beasley, shown in the image above, held the position until his death in 1892; he is credited with marrying 7,228 couples between 1870 and 1892. Massie Beasley, “the most celebrated matrimonialist of this age,” from 1886. Which is why news stories like this are fairly common: “The Maysville Republican records the marriage at Aberdeen in the past two weeks of four couples from Fleming, two from Mason, an one each from Lewis, Nicholas, Fayette and Bracken.” Courier-Journal, January 1, 1877 |
Marla Toncray wrote a nice history of Aberdeen, originally from
the Maysville Ledger-Independent, here.
