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Report of the 44th Annual Meeting 637

Report of the 44th Annual Meeting          637

associated with not only academic work but state historical work

in years past, an officer of the Indiana Historical Society, and

editor of the Indiana Magazine of History, who for a time left

the state of Indiana and was engaged in educational work in one

of the colleges of Pennsylvania.

It was an opportunity that came to me a few years ago, when

leaving the state historical work in Indiana, to recommend Dr.

Coleman as my successor, feeling that he was eminently qualified

to advance the work in certain lines that needed to be developed.

He is acquainted with the problems of the State Historical. So-

ciety and their relation to the educational interests of the state.

In more recent years he had been closely associated with a move-

ment that had its inception in Indiana and which has grown to be

a national movement, promoted by the George Rogers Clark Me-

morial Commission, which has received, as most of you doubtless

know, an appropriation from the Federal Government looking

forward to one memorial to George Rogers Clark at Vincennes,

Indiana.

Dr. Coleman has been Secretary of this Commission prac-

tically from its beginning and I say it is a matter of particular

pleasure that I have an opportunity of introducing to my newly

made friends of the past year in Ohio, a former friend and asso-

ciate in Indiana who is at the present time Director of the In-

diana Historical Bureau, which corresponds to the state phases

of the work in this state, and the Secretary of the Indiana His-

torical Society, and who is quite at home in meeting our prob-

lems. Dr. Christopher B. Coleman, who will address you on the

subject of "Rediscovering the Old Northwest."

 

REDISCOVERING THE OLD NORTHWEST

 

BY DR. CHRISTOPHER B. COLEMAN

Some five years ago certain members of the Indiana His-

torical Society were led by accounts of celebrations of anniver-

saries of early revolutionary events in the East and by contrast-

ing neglect of an important historical site in their own state to

propose a movement for the observance of the one-hundred-and-

fiftieth anniversary of events connected with the acquisition of

the Old Northwest by the United States. After considering such

projects as an industrial exposition, a series of historical pageants

and the publication of historical literature, they finally adopted as

their goal the erection of an artistic and permanent memorial