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About Martins Ferry, OH

Martins Ferry is the oldest European settlement in the state of Ohio, having been settled at least as early as 1779, almost a decade before Marietta. The community was a westward extension of the city of Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia), but at that time, settlement on the west bank of the Ohio River was not permitted. Through the years, it has been known as Hoglinstown, Mercertown, Norristown(1785), Jefferson(1795), Martinsville(1835), and Martin's Ferry(1865) (the apostrophe is no longer used). Squatters from across the Ohio were the earliest settlers. The settlement formed in the shadow of Virginia's Fort Henry on the Virginia side of the Ohio, built in 1774.