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ALERT: This marker was inadvertently given a non-Adams County number, 1-7. There is another 1-7 in Belmont County, 'Mile Marker.'
- Title, side A
- Seaman
- Text, side A
- Founded 1887 by John Q. Roads on the Cincinnati & Eastern Railway (1881) and the Old West Union Road (1807). Incorporated 1911. Named after Franklin Seaman who donated land to the railroad for a station. Home of Will Rogers, "The Black King of the Air," the only black hot air balloonist in the U.S. in the 1890's. "Adopted hometown" of Daniel Homer Webster (1878-1943), poet, humorist and Dayton, Ohio, journalist.
- Sponsors
- Adams County Historical Society and The Ohio Historical Society
- Address
- 17851 OH 247
Seaman, OH 45679 - Location
- Front left side of 1st State Bank
- Coordinates
- Latitude: 38.9414590, Longitude: -83.5720420.
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