The Old Pike County Courthouse in Piketon, Ohio, the location of the Anti-Abolition Meeting of 1836.

ID: 318 ~ Creator: Image courtesy of Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D., from the Scioto Historical Series, private collection, Friendship, Ohio.

This file appears in: Rev. Edward Weed & the Piketon Anti-Abolition Resolutions

The Old Pike County Courthouse in Piketon, Ohio, the location of the Anti-Abolition Meeting of 1836.

This file appears in: Rev. Edward Weed & the Piketon Anti-Abolition Resolutions

Rev. Edward Weed & the Piketon Anti-Abolition Resolutions

By Andrew Feight, Ph.D.

The Piketon Anti-Abolition Resolutions originated in a public meeting held on the 29th of July, 1836, not far from the banks of the Scioto River, at the original courthouse of Pike County, Ohio, in the village of Piketon. By the summer of 1836,…