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6-11 Cedar Bog Nature Preserve

Side A: In 1942 Cedar Bog became the first nature preserve in Ohio purchased with state funds. Efforts to set this wetland aside began in the 1920s through the efforts of Florence Murdock and her daughter. Efforts intensified in the mid 1930s with help from Walter Brigham Evens, Jr., and finally came to fruition in 1941 due to the interests of Champaign County Common Pleas Judge Owens, Governor John Bicker, and Dr. Edward S. Thomas of the Ohio Historical Society. This relatively small parcel is an outstanding example of a prairie/fen complex known as Cedar Swamp that once covered 7,000 acres of the Mad River Valley. Approximately one quarter of the plant species in Ohio are found here. Cedar Bog also has a large number of rare species, two of which, the Small Yellow Lady’s Slipper Orchid and Prairie Valerian, occur in Ohio only at Cedar Bog or one other site.
Side B: Same
Sponsors: The Cedar Bog Association, Chapaign County Bicentennial Historical Marker Committee, and The Ohio Historical Society
Address: 980 Woodburn Road, 
Urbana, 
OH, 
43078
Location: At entrance to the Preserve
Latitude: 40.0556800
Longitude: -83.7921680