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Below is a complete listing of all Ohio Historical Markers. To find a detailed marker listing including text, photographs, and locations, click on a county below. Our listing is updated by the markers program as new markers are installed and older markers are reported damaged or missing.

ALERT: Marker was mis-numbered with a Butler County #19-9. To show in the Belmont County listing it has been assigned a later Belmont # and will be fixed at a future date.

21-7 Watt Car and Wheel Company

Side A: Joseph Watt and son James H. started a small foundry in 1862 making plow points, window sash weights, and heating stoves. Later, brothers Stewart, Ross, and John W. joined and the name became J.H. Watt and Brothers. Securing a patent for a self-oiling mine car wheel, the business expanded to this 27-acre site. In 1891, Ohio gubernatorial candidate, and later U.S. president, William McKinley, dedicated the buildings. By 1901, over 135 were employed by Watt Mining Car Wheel Company producing mine and rail cars for U.S. and foreign markets. The Watt Car and Wheel Company was sold in 1966 to German interests and closed in 1996, ending an era of employment for generations of local people.
Side B: Same
Sponsors: The Ohio Bicentennial Commission, The Longaberger Company, The Watt Center for History and the Arts, and The Ohio Historical Society
Address: 511 Watt Avenue, 
Barnesville, 
OH, 
43713
Location: The Watt Center for History and the Arts
Latitude: 39.9909991
Longitude: -81.1704724