Ohio History Journal

OHIO

Archaeological and Historical

PUBLICATIONS.

BIG BOTTOM AND ITS HISTORY.

CLEMENT L. MARTZOLFF.

The history of Big Bottom has no claim on being unique,

unless the recent action of Mr.

Obadiah Brokaw, in erecting a

monument at his own expense

to mark the site of the block-

house can demand such dis-

tinction.      The        events con-

nected         with       this  historic

ground are decidedly type

studies. Its early history is

but representative of and

part of that general conflict

between the Indian and the

white man. Its later history

typifies what ought to be done

with all the similar sites in

Ohio.

The history of Big Bottom

can therefore be divided into

two distinct periods, separated

by an interval of one hundred

and fifteen years. The first

story of Big Bottom is a

chapter in the narrative of the

conquest of America.     It

forms one step in the onward

march of the intrepid Anglo-

Saxon as he pushed toward the setting sun. It also exemplifies

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