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Point Pleasant is a small community on the Ohio River, southeast of Cincinnati. It is the birthplace of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant and has a restored cottage museum.
Pleasant City is a village in Guernsey County, Ohio, with a population of 400 in 2020. It was originally called Point Pleasant and platted in 1829.
Ray-Ban is a brand of luxury sunglasses and eyeglasses created in 1936 by Bausch & Lomb. The brand is best known for its Wayfarer and Aviator lines of sunglasses. In 1999, Bausch & Lomb sold the brand to Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica Group for a reported $640 million.
Learn about the historic house where U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant was born in 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio. The site is a museum with period furniture and archaeological remains of an 1810s tannery.
The Silver Bridge was a suspension bridge that connected Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and Gallipolis, Ohio, until it collapsed in 1967, killing 46 people. Learn about the bridge's design, construction, failure, investigation, and replacement from this Wikipedia article.
U.S. Route 35 (US 35) is a highway that runs from West Virginia to Indiana, mostly as a freeway or expressway. It has various junctions with state routes and interstates, and crosses the Ohio River on the Silver Memorial Bridge.
Rio Grande was established on July 6, 1874. The name of Rio Grande was chosen to commemorate the Mexican–American War. [5]Despite Gallia County being named for its original French settlers, [6] Welsh immigrants began to arrive to the area in 1818, and during the 1830s and 1840s, more than 3,000 more arrived from the parishes of Pennant, Tregaron, Llangeitho, Trefilan, Llangwyryfon, and ...
The Grant Boyhood Home is a historic house museum at 219 East Grant Avenue in Georgetown, Ohio.Built in 1823, it was where United States President and American Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant (1822–85) lived from 1823 until 1839, [3] when he left for the United States Military Academy at West Point.