This is the old Whipple, Ohio, railroad station. Whipple, Ohio, is a 17-minute drive north from Marietta, Ohio. Commodore Abraham Whipple settled in Marietta after the close of the Revolutionary War. He is buried in Marietta.

The community of Whipple is near Whipple's run:

"In early days, it is said, Abraham Whipple and a party of surveyors, finding the stream too high to be crossed, felled a tree across it, and while using that for a foot log, the old sea captain fell in and nearly met his death. The unnamed stream was afterward described as the 'run Whipple fell in,' and this soon became condensed into 'Whipple's run.'" — History of Washington County, Ohio (H. Z. Williams & Bro., 1881), "Commodore Whipple for Once Gets Too Much of the Water"

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