Colonel Crawford

Historical marker location:

Crawford, Ohio

( Marker is on Township Highway 300, 0.2 miles north of County Route 29, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1994

In Memory of.

Ohio was the site of a major oil boom in the late 19th century, with oil wells producing millions of barrels of oil per year. The town of Lima, Ohio, became known as the "little giant of the oil industry" because of the large number of oil companies headquartered there.