City of Lebanon, Ohio history

The City of Lebanon was founded on a little spring affectionately called Sinking Springs in 1802.

The Golden Lamb, founded in 1803 by Jonas Seaman, who spent $4 on a license to "keep a house of Public Entertainment," is the Ohio's longest continuously operating business.

In 1807, The Western Star, Ohio's oldest weekly newspaper, began publication.

When the War of 1812 began he raised a company and went into the service of the government as Captain in the first army that was raised in Ohio.

According to Federal Land office records in Crawfordsville, on March 1, 1830, Drake and Kinnard applied for deeds to the land.

Lebanon was selected as the county seat later in 1832.

In 1839, a two story brick courthouse was built.

By 1846, six churches, two newspaper offices, fifteen stores, one gristmill, two sawmills, and a woolen factory were in the town.

They found it in late autumn of 1847 when Jeremiah Ralston halted his train of three wagons in what is now Lebanon, Oregon.

The National Normal University, founded in 1855, had nearly two thousand students enrolled.

In 1856, the foundations of the courthouse began to crumble so the building was replaced with a larger more stately brick building costing $40,000.

The city directory for 1886 listed no manufacturing businesses in Lebanon.

He built a large eight room school on Kings Mills Road around 1888 when one room schools were the norm.

Under the Ottoman vilāyet administration and the French mandate, the growth of Beirut was planned, but after independence in 1943 it was as haphazard as it was rapid.