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Marietta could not have been surpassed.
The place and time of the
next annual meeting was left in the
hands of the Executive Committee.
The proceedings in full of the meetings
above, including addresses, etc.,
will be published either in a later
number of The Ohio State Archaeo-
logical and Historical Society Quarterly
or in a separate publication by
the same Society.
PALEOLITHIC MAN IN THE WESTERN RESERVE.
[The following article was written by P.
P. Cherry and published
in the Wadsworth Banner, February
9, 1908. We deem it of sufficient
interest and importance to reproduce in
this Quarterly.-EDITOR.]
Near the highest land in the state of
Ohio, near the great water-
shed, has been found evidences of the
existence of human life during the
ice age in America.
Southern Western Reserve in itself is a
veritable wonderland to
the scientific man, the antiquarian, the
geologist and the student. Here is
to be found the inland lake region of
Ohio with its some 60 odd fresh-
water, inland, glacial lakes whose
bottoms are far below the level of
Lake Erie's deepest depths. These lakes
were ground out by immense
glaciers from one-half to a mile in
depth. The wash of thousands of
years, from neighboring hillsides, have
but served partly to fill up these
ice-plowed grooves.
Commencing at the present site of Akron
and extending to within
14 miles of Lake Erie, was a large
glacial lake containing an area of 55
miles. From the southwest end of this
lake a wide river ran south-
wardly through Summit lake, and entered
the Tuscarawas river on its
way to the gulf. Summit lake today lies
396 feet above Lake Erie and
empties its waters therein.
The rock bottom of the old Cuyahoga
channel lies 200 feet below
its present muddy bottom.
When we consider that Lake Erie's
average depth is not over 200
feet we realize that that body of water
did not, could not exist in those
days. It was probably at that time a
wide and fertile valley with a
stream running through it which emptied
into the Tuscarawas.
With the recent discoveries of Dr. Metz
at Madisonville, W. C.
Mills in the Tuscarawas valley, and
Prof. G Frederick Wright in Wads-
worth, it has been fully established
that man did exist in Ohio during
the ice age; not only in the southern
part of the state, but in the Western
Reserve as well.
For several years, Capt. T. D. Wolbach
had in his collection what
he believed to be a paleolith from the
ice age. Placing himself in com-
munication with Prof. G. Frederick
Wright, who occupies the chair of
Geology in Oberlin College, member of
the U. S. Geological survey, and
author of the "Ice Age in
America," who is probably the greatest living