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Upper Mercer flint or Upper Mercer chert is a type of flint, or a pure form of chert, found in Coshocton, Hocking, and Perry counties of Ohio. Made of forms of silica and quartz , the hard and brittle stone was used by prehistoric people to make tools and weapons.
Location of Warren County in Ohio. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Warren County, Ohio, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Located in Coshocton County, Ohio, [1] it was a site for quarrying stone in the Upper Mercer chert source area. Based upon the microwear analysis of stone tools, it is believed to be a base camp where people learned and shared Clovis tool-making techniques, ate, exchanged information, and perhaps found mates from others groups. [2]
A piece of flint 9–10 cm (3.5–3.9 in) long, weighing 171 grams. Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, [1] [2] categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Historically, flint was widely used to make stone tools and start fires.
Water flowed out of it into two 24-inch (610 mm) and one 36-inch (910 mm) mains. [4] However, as the city grew ever outward and newer water towers were built, the old standpipe was rendered obsolete and it was discontinued from service in 1916. [5] A public observation deck that once operated is no longer accessible to visitors. [6]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Gallia County, Ohio, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
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Mount Washington was laid out in 1846 and received its city rights in 1867. The community was annexed by the City of Cincinnati in 1911. [2] [3]A major local landmark for Mount Washington is the Mount Washington Water Tower, a concrete water tower that went into service in November 1940.