Winchester, Ohio, was founded on November 8, 1815, by General Joseph Darlinton and named for his Virginia birthplace. It was incorporated in 1864 and later became the eastern terminus of the Cincinnati and Eastern Railway from 1877 to 1880, with the first locomotive to enter Winchester, the “Dick Thomson,” named for a local businessman who was largely responsible for building the railroad. Winchester was also the birthplace of Evelyn (Longman) Batchelder, the first woman sculptor to become a full academician at the National Academy of Design in 1919. On July 15, 1863, during Morgan’s Raid, 3,000 Confederate cavalrymen under Gen. John Hunt Morgan stopped in Winchester, occupied homes, ransacked businesses, and seized horses and firearms; amid the turmoil, a Union officer captured earlier in the raid escaped and was hidden under the floor of a local dwelling. The next day, Union cavalrymen under Gen. Edward Hobson were fed as they passed through town in pursuit of Morgan's Raiders.