Great Stone Viaduct Lecture Focuses on Early Belmont Landowners
The series takes place at the Bellaire Public Library over a two month period.
The first Great Stone Viaduct Lecture will take place Wednesday, February 5 at 6:00 when Belmont County Recorder Jason Garczyk and Belmont CIC Director Crystal Lorimor will present Mapping the First Landowners of Belmont County Ohio at the Bellaire Public Library.
The presentation quickly describes our process of using the Bureau of Land Management Records to map out the names of the first landowners. Hear about the surveying process used and how this new territory expanded as well as how county and the township boundaries changed over time.
Those who are not able to attend in person, you can check may view the presentation online on the library’s Facebook page.
Other lectures in the eight-week series that runs through March 26 are:.
- February 12 – Bellaie native and author Kurt Turner
- Febraury 19 – Why we went to War in 1812
- February 26 – A historic district for downtown Bellaire
- March 5 – The peopling of North American and beyond
- March 12 – Untangling Wheeling history
- March 19 – Backyard flora and fauna
- March 26 – West Virginia mining history
