Qualla: Pomeroy https://qualla.com/pomeroy-ohio en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Pomeroy https://qualla.com/pomeroy-ohio Pomeroy: Introduction https://qualla.com/pomeroy-ohio/ There are no cross streets in Pomeroy. The village is so tightly wedged between the Ohio River and the steep bluff behind it that nineteenth-century planners could only ever lay down one long parallel street, with shops, the courthouse, and houses crammed against either side. Ripley's Believe It or Not noticed and put it in the column. The courthouse made the column too: because of the hill, you can enter the building at ground level on each of its three floors. Pomeroy is small - 1,573 residents at the 2020 census - and seems even smaller when you walk down its single mile of Main Street, but the geography that squeezed it into that shape also gave it a strange completeness. It is a village that has nowhere to expand and so just keeps being itself.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/w/pomeroy-ohio-wp/dnvw-pomeroy-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pomeroy: Coal, Then County Seat https://qualla.com/pomeroy-ohio/ Coal mining began here in 1819, before the village even had a name. The first settlers arrived around 1806 at what is now Kerr's Run; by the 1820s, taverns and a wharf-boat anchored the riverfront, and in 1827 a town was laid out as Nyesville. It was renamed Pomeroy for landowner...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/w/pomeroy-ohio-wp/dnvw-pomeroy-coal-then-county-seat.mp3 0:06 2 full Pomeroy: Kerr's Run and the Two Presidents https://qualla.com/pomeroy-ohio/ In the late 1880s, a school known as the Kerr's Run Colored School operated in the oldest part of town. It served Black children from first through eighth grade. Two of its students - James Edwin Campbell and James McHenry Jones - went on to complete their secondary education at ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/w/pomeroy-ohio-wp/dnvw-pomeroy-kerrs-run-and-the-two-presidents.mp3 0:06 3 full Pomeroy: Floods, Fires, and Morgan's Raiders https://qualla.com/pomeroy-ohio/ Pomeroy's history is marked by repeated disasters. Major fires destroyed its older wooden buildings in 1851, 1856, 1884, and 1927. The Ohio River flooded the village catastrophically in 1884, 1913, and 1937 - the last of these being one of the worst floods in Ohio River history. ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/w/pomeroy-ohio-wp/dnvw-pomeroy-floods-fires-and-morgans-raiders.mp3 0:06 4 full Pomeroy: Notable Names and Surviving Quirks https://qualla.com/pomeroy-ohio/ For a village of fewer than two thousand people, Pomeroy has produced an unusual catalog of notable people. Ambrose Bierce - journalist, Civil War veteran, author of The Devil's Dictionary - was born in Meigs County in 1842, though his family moved to Indiana when he was a child....

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/w/pomeroy-ohio-wp/dnvw-pomeroy-notable-names-and-surviving-quirks.mp3 0:06 5 full Pomeroy: Flying Over the One-Street Town https://qualla.com/pomeroy-ohio/ From the air, Pomeroy's geometry is immediately obvious: a single ribbon of buildings pressed against the Ohio River, with the bluffs rising sharply behind. The Meigs County Courthouse, a tall masonry building with the famously three ground-floor entrances stacked vertically, occ...

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