Ohio History Journal


MARIETTA CENTENNIAL NUMBER

MARIETTA CENTENNIAL NUMBER.

OHIO

Archaeological and Historical

 

QUARTERLY.

 

 

Vol. II.           JUNE, 1888.               No. 1

 

 

THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AT MARIET-

TA, APRIL SEVENTH, 1888.

PRELIMINARY MOVEMENTS.

THE Washington County Pioneer Association, as early

as their annual meeting held April 7th, 1881, decided to

undertake a Centennial Celebration of the first organized

and permanent settlement of the Territory Northwest of

the River Ohio, to be observed in Marietta, April seventh,

1888. Further attention was given to the subject at the

ninety-fifth anniversary of the settlement, held April sev-

enth, 1883, at which time Hon. George B. Loring delivered

the leading address.

At the first meeting of the Ohio Archaeological and His-

torical Society, held in Columbus, March 13, 1885, it was

resolved, "That this Society will gladly participate in the

proposed celebration to be held in the city of Marietta on

the seventh of April, 1888, to commemorate the application

of the principles of the Ordinance [of 1787] in the first per-

manent occupation of the soil of Ohio by systematic colo-

nization."

An invitation was extended by the Washington County

 

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