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President:  Ronald Reagan

Start Point: Ashland - 10km Walk (YR1732) Jan 2 - Dec 30

Sponsoring Club:  AVA-OH, Ohio Volkssport Association

History Lesson:  President Reagan dedicated the Ashbrook Center on May 9, 1983, which is on the campus of Ashland University, which is part of the trail.

President:  William McKinley

Start Point: Canton - 10km Walk (YR1727) Jan 2 - Dec 30

Sponsoring Club:  AVA-OH, Ohio Volkssport Association

History Lesson:  President McKinley Library and Museum is the start point.

President:  Abraham Lincoln

Start Point: Cleveland - 10km Walk (YR1082) Jan 2-Dec 31

Sponsoring Club:  AVA-0049, Valley Vagabonds, Inc.

History Lesson:  The trail will pass landmarks -- Terminal Tower, Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Science Center, Jacobs Field, Gund Arena, the Flats, The Warehouse District and many more.   A plaque on the Rockfeller building on this walk signifies the importance of Abe Lincoln giving a speech here on his way to his inauguration."On this site Abraham Lincoln was a guest here on his way to his first inauguration, February 15, 1861. In a speech made at that time from the balcony, he said: "A devotion to the constitution, to the union and to the laws, to the perpetual liberty of the people of this country. It is, fellow citizens, for the whole American people and not for one single man alone to advance a great cause." also from the speech: "If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage." -- February 15, 1861 - Speech at Cleveland, Ohio. Also -- Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession passed through Cleveland -- In late April, 1865, Lincoln's remains lie in state in Monument Square (now Public Square) where 150,000 paid their respects. A pagoda-like catafalque was built for this.

President:  James Monroe, Abraham Lincoln

Start Point: Columbus - 10km Walk (YR1614); 12 km Walk (YR0680) Jan 1-Dec 31

Sponsoring Club:  AVA-0733, De'Fence Walkers Volkssport Club

History Lesson:  In the latter part of August, 1817, President Monroe and suite passed through this county, on their return from Detroit after his northern tour of inspection of the public fortifications, etc. They were met at Worthington by the Franklin Dragoons, commanded by Captain Vance, and escorted to Columbus, where proper arrangements had been made for the reception; and the President was received in the state house, and welcomed to the capital by a neat and appropriate speech from Honorable Hiram M. Curry, then treasurer of state. To which the President made a suitable reply, complimenting the "infant city," as he called it, and his inhabitants.

President:  James Monroe, Abraham Lincoln

Start Point: Columbus - 10km Walk (YR1230) Jul 1 - Dec 31

Sponsoring Club:  AVA-0522, Heart of Ohio Hikers

History Lesson:  In the latter part of August, 1817, President Monroe and suite passed through this county, on their return from Detroit after his northern tour of inspection of the public fortifications, etc. They were met at Worthington by the Franklin Dragoons, commanded by Captain Vance, and escorted to Columbus, where proper arrangements had been made for the reception; and the President was received in the state house, and welcomed to the capital by a neat and appropriate speech from Honorable Hiram M. Curry, then treasurer of state. To which the President made a suitable reply, complimenting the "infant city," as he called it, and his inhabitants. On the loop around the State House note the Lincoln Historical Marker and the Soldiers Wall of Letters. The three times that Lincoln appeared at the State House qualifies this walk as a PRESIDENTIAL EVENT.

President:  Rutherford B. Hayes

Start Point: Delaware - 10km Walk (YR0199) Jan 1-Dec 31

Sponsoring Club:  AVA-0229, Bulls Run Ramblers

History Lesson:  This walk starts and finishes at the Manchester Inn in Middletown, Ohio where both President Kennedy and Ford visited.

President:  John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford

Start Point: Middletown - 10km Walk (YR1729) Jan 1-Dec 31

Sponsoring Club:  AVA-OH, Ohio Volkssport Association

History Lesson:  The walk will pass Hayes's birthplace, torn down long before he became great, but a marker is there, designing that location as such. A block away, where a chuch now stands, is where he grew up, but again the house was torn down before he became well known. There is no plaque or anything marking it, but it is listed in community brochures. The walk continues across the Ohio Wesleyan campus where he and Lucy Webb would meet, and past the building where he proposed to Lucy. These two spots are also pointed out, although thete are no markers.

President:  Woodrow Wilson

Start Point: Urbana - 10km Walk (YR1823) Jan 3 - Dec 31

Sponsoring Club:  AVA-0245, Tecumseh Trailblazers

History Lesson:  The time is just after the end of the first World War. President Wilson is trying to forge an agreement about the start of a League of Nations, whose purpose would be to prevent such a terrible war from every occurring again. Wilson was faced with stron opposition from his political opponents, headed by Senator Lodge. On Wednesday, September 3, 1919, President Wilson departed Washington, DC to begin a DC to West Coast train trip where he will take his proposal for the League of Nations to the American people. A stop was made at the Urbana Depot and he addressed a large crowd at the Depot on September 4, 1919. "You will beat them," a man called out. "Their case is so weak they are not hard to beat," the President answered.

Updated November 13, 2009