Ohio History Journal


550 Ohio Arch

550     Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications

 

LITTLE LOGAN ELMS

Sometime early in the current year it was suggested

that possibly under the spreading branches of the Logan

Elm might be found some seedling baby Logan Elms

that with proper care would grow up through the years

into sturdy trees like the parent. The little park sur-

rounding the Elm is mown every year and the young

seedlings fall before the scythe. Upon investigation,

however, a number of stubs were found with good live

roots. On April 21, several of these were raised by Mr.

Frank Tallmadge and the writer and placed in prepared

positions by Miss Margaret E. Ritchie, who christened

them "Logan Elms of the New Generation." They

were planted in a row by the fence at the north side of

the Park, where they will be safe from the keen edge

of the caretaker's scythe. They have put out leaves and

apparently every one of them will grow.

 

 

NEW LAWS OF INTEREST TO THE SOCIETY

On a previous page of this issue of the QUARTERLY

will be found a statement in regard to the appropriation

of $15,000 for real estate and other improvements at

old Fort St. Clair, in Preble County, Ohio. Other acts

of interest to the Society were passed at the recent ses-

sion of the Legislature as follows:

A bill introduced by Honorable Joseph H. Ebright

of Tuscarawas County appropriates $10,000 for "the

purpose of acquiring and preserving the site of the vil-

lage of Schoenbrun situated in Goshen Township, Tus-

carawas County, Ohio." In this village was built 150

years ago, by the Moravian Missionaries, the first school