Friendship Methodist Church, Friendship, Scioto County, Ohio

ID: 717 ~ Source: Scioto Historical Collection, Center for Public History, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Creator: Vaughn Wascovich ~ Date: 2022

This file appears in: James M. Ashley and the Underground Railroad in Friendship, Ohio

Friendship Methodist Church, Friendship, Scioto County, Ohio

This file appears in: James M. Ashley and the Underground Railroad in Friendship, Ohio

James M. Ashley and the Underground Railroad in Friendship, Ohio

By Andrew Feight, Ph.D.

Marked today as the intersection of US Highway 52 and Ohio State Route 125, Friendship is the southern gateway to the Shawnee State Forest and Park, and is recognized as the site of the first permanent American settlement in Scioto County. In the…