Erastus Kimber Ridenhower and his wife, Orpha Jane Blackman Ridenhower arrived in Hamilton County in a heavy snowstorm in 1877.  In 1879 they purchased all of the land now at the intersection of HWY 281 and FM 219 (the Carlton Road). Mr. Ridenhower donated land in the northeast corner of the intersection to be a post office which he named for his son, Olin. He also designated land for a Methodist Church and a Baptist Church--land on which the Olin Baptist Church is located

Copyright © March, 1998
by Elreeta Crain Weathers, B.A., M.Ed.,  
(also Mrs.,  Mom, and Ph. T.)

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