Abner Enoch, buried beside that of his wife.
Before Abner Enoch dies he and his brother David were trustees in the old Salem Baptist church which stood about three hundred feet back from the road. It is said that records of the old church show liberal contributions of whiskey for upkeep and maintenance. The whiskey, of course, was for resale.
Abner Enoch was a man of great wealth and influence at the time the church was in existence. A short time before the War of 1812, he owned six or seven hundred acres of rich farming land near this end of the Poasttown bridge, and there, by an elaborate system of canals, he laid out a little Holland with waterways for alleys and one hundred foot streets.
He called this cherished ambition which was about to be realized, Manchester, after the great English manufacturing center of that name. For a long time it was very doubtful whether Middletown or Manchester would be the greater city. Enoch was a man of great ability.
He erected a large grist mill, a distillery, and succeeded in locating several other small mills and quite a community of houses in his ideal city. He had secured, in some unknown manner, the privilege to use all of the water form the Miami river above the State Dam, which was not needed by the Miami and Erie Canal Company. Land owners in Middletown determined that this privilege was unconstitutional.
After long and expensive lawsuits, and almost complete demoralization of Enoch’s plans, they succeeded in reaching define results in the formation of the Middletown Hydraulic Company, which under the directorship of such men as John W Erwin, Joseph Cooper, Charles Thomas and Thomas Sherlock, succeeded in inducing several papermakers, such as Wrenn & Ogelsby, to locate on the banks of their Hydraulic.
Enoch was keen to realize Middletown’s determination to be the greater of the two cities. By judicious sales of land, he was able to realize considerable value from his holdings. After he had almost entirely sold out, misfortune fell upon him and his little colony, the mill burning down and many of the houses of the colonist with it.
Mr. Enoch himself died a short time later and was buried in this little graveyard which gives modest shelter to the remains of so important a personage.
Source - From the 1917 ARMCO Bulletin pages 113 – 115, Unmarked Graves by John S Roney. This bulletin is available at the Middletown Library Ohio room or the Middletown Historical Society, 56 South Main Street.
Before Abner Enoch dies he and his brother David were trustees in the old Salem Baptist church which stood about three hundred feet back from the road. It is said that records of the old church show liberal contributions of whiskey for upkeep and maintenance. The whiskey, of course, was for resale.
Abner Enoch was a man of great wealth and influence at the time the church was in existence. A short time before the War of 1812, he owned six or seven hundred acres of rich farming land near this end of the Poasttown bridge, and there, by an elaborate system of canals, he laid out a little Holland with waterways for alleys and one hundred foot streets.
He called this cherished ambition which was about to be realized, Manchester, after the great English manufacturing center of that name. For a long time it was very doubtful whether Middletown or Manchester would be the greater city. Enoch was a man of great ability.
He erected a large grist mill, a distillery, and succeeded in locating several other small mills and quite a community of houses in his ideal city. He had secured, in some unknown manner, the privilege to use all of the water form the Miami river above the State Dam, which was not needed by the Miami and Erie Canal Company. Land owners in Middletown determined that this privilege was unconstitutional.
After long and expensive lawsuits, and almost complete demoralization of Enoch’s plans, they succeeded in reaching define results in the formation of the Middletown Hydraulic Company, which under the directorship of such men as John W Erwin, Joseph Cooper, Charles Thomas and Thomas Sherlock, succeeded in inducing several papermakers, such as Wrenn & Ogelsby, to locate on the banks of their Hydraulic.
Enoch was keen to realize Middletown’s determination to be the greater of the two cities. By judicious sales of land, he was able to realize considerable value from his holdings. After he had almost entirely sold out, misfortune fell upon him and his little colony, the mill burning down and many of the houses of the colonist with it.
Mr. Enoch himself died a short time later and was buried in this little graveyard which gives modest shelter to the remains of so important a personage.
Source - From the 1917 ARMCO Bulletin pages 113 – 115, Unmarked Graves by John S Roney. This bulletin is available at the Middletown Library Ohio room or the Middletown Historical Society, 56 South Main Street.
Abner Enoch, buried beside that of his wife.
Before Abner Enoch dies he and his brother David were trustees in the old Salem Baptist church which stood about three hundred feet back from the road. It is said that records of the old church show liberal contributions of whiskey for upkeep and maintenance. The whiskey, of course, was for resale.
Abner Enoch was a man of great wealth and influence at the time the church was in existence. A short time before the War of 1812, he owned six or seven hundred acres of rich farming land near this end of the Poasttown bridge, and there, by an elaborate system of canals, he laid out a little Holland with waterways for alleys and one hundred foot streets.
He called this cherished ambition which was about to be realized, Manchester, after the great English manufacturing center of that name. For a long time it was very doubtful whether Middletown or Manchester would be the greater city. Enoch was a man of great ability.
He erected a large grist mill, a distillery, and succeeded in locating several other small mills and quite a community of houses in his ideal city. He had secured, in some unknown manner, the privilege to use all of the water form the Miami river above the State Dam, which was not needed by the Miami and Erie Canal Company. Land owners in Middletown determined that this privilege was unconstitutional.
After long and expensive lawsuits, and almost complete demoralization of Enoch’s plans, they succeeded in reaching define results in the formation of the Middletown Hydraulic Company, which under the directorship of such men as John W Erwin, Joseph Cooper, Charles Thomas and Thomas Sherlock, succeeded in inducing several papermakers, such as Wrenn & Ogelsby, to locate on the banks of their Hydraulic.
Enoch was keen to realize Middletown’s determination to be the greater of the two cities. By judicious sales of land, he was able to realize considerable value from his holdings. After he had almost entirely sold out, misfortune fell upon him and his little colony, the mill burning down and many of the houses of the colonist with it.
Mr. Enoch himself died a short time later and was buried in this little graveyard which gives modest shelter to the remains of so important a personage.
Source - From the 1917 ARMCO Bulletin pages 113 – 115, Unmarked Graves by John S Roney. This bulletin is available at the Middletown Library Ohio room or the Middletown Historical Society, 56 South Main Street.
Before Abner Enoch dies he and his brother David were trustees in the old Salem Baptist church which stood about three hundred feet back from the road. It is said that records of the old church show liberal contributions of whiskey for upkeep and maintenance. The whiskey, of course, was for resale.
Abner Enoch was a man of great wealth and influence at the time the church was in existence. A short time before the War of 1812, he owned six or seven hundred acres of rich farming land near this end of the Poasttown bridge, and there, by an elaborate system of canals, he laid out a little Holland with waterways for alleys and one hundred foot streets.
He called this cherished ambition which was about to be realized, Manchester, after the great English manufacturing center of that name. For a long time it was very doubtful whether Middletown or Manchester would be the greater city. Enoch was a man of great ability.
He erected a large grist mill, a distillery, and succeeded in locating several other small mills and quite a community of houses in his ideal city. He had secured, in some unknown manner, the privilege to use all of the water form the Miami river above the State Dam, which was not needed by the Miami and Erie Canal Company. Land owners in Middletown determined that this privilege was unconstitutional.
After long and expensive lawsuits, and almost complete demoralization of Enoch’s plans, they succeeded in reaching define results in the formation of the Middletown Hydraulic Company, which under the directorship of such men as John W Erwin, Joseph Cooper, Charles Thomas and Thomas Sherlock, succeeded in inducing several papermakers, such as Wrenn & Ogelsby, to locate on the banks of their Hydraulic.
Enoch was keen to realize Middletown’s determination to be the greater of the two cities. By judicious sales of land, he was able to realize considerable value from his holdings. After he had almost entirely sold out, misfortune fell upon him and his little colony, the mill burning down and many of the houses of the colonist with it.
Mr. Enoch himself died a short time later and was buried in this little graveyard which gives modest shelter to the remains of so important a personage.
Source - From the 1917 ARMCO Bulletin pages 113 – 115, Unmarked Graves by John S Roney. This bulletin is available at the Middletown Library Ohio room or the Middletown Historical Society, 56 South Main Street.
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