01/17/17

Fireworks light up the night sky during a past Independence Day celebration in Marysville. Community Fourth of July festivities have been a local tradition since 1828, when about 75 people gathered in the village’s tiny frontier settlement for Marysville’s first Independence Day celebration. (Journal-Tribune file photo)

Jonathan Alder’s cabin at the Madison County Historical Society’s Museum of History. (Photo submitted)

The grave of Col. James Curry, shown above at Oakdale Cemetery, marks the final resting place of one of Union County’s founders and a Revolutionary War veteran. Originally buried on his Jerome Township farm after his death in 1834, Curry and his wife were reinterred at Oakdale Cemetery in 1883, where the monument stands as one of the county’s most significant links to the American Revolution. (Journal-Tribune photo by Kevin Behrens)

Pictured above is a map of the Virginia Military District appearing on the Ohio Historical Marker on the Union County Courthouse lawn. The map shows the portion of the district that became Union County, in the upper portion. (Photo submitted)