Did you know...
Coleraine Township was established in 1794. It was first settled in 1790 by a surveyor, John Dunlap, from Coleraine, Ireland, along with 23 other settlers in families. The settlement, Fort Coleraine, was commonly called Dunlap's Station. The "e" in Coleraine was dropped sometime later, Americanizing the name Colerain.
The Coleraine Township Historical Society, Inc. was founded in 1964 by a group of citizens wishing to preserve the history of Colerain Township and the influence this township had on the development of Hamilton and Butler Counties in Ohio.
Did you know...
That Colerain Township has 18 historic cemeteries containing about 5,000 graves? A historic cemetery on East Miami River Road is the Dunlap's Station cemetery. The cemetery is well marked as "Colerain Historical Cemetery" by a sign courtesy of the Township. It contains the graves of original settlers and early soldiers and was near the original site of the first settlement in Coleraine Township, Dunlap's Station.
The original location of Fort Coleraine is known, and future plans of this historical society are to reconstruct the fort as it was in 1790.
