... architecture having a ribbed architecture and one which will far exceed anything the Spaniards can show on the Mississippi But these were never intended to be seagoing craft and probably were never in salt water And now to return to the claim long made that the first sea-going vessel built west of the Allegheny mountains sailed from Elizabeth and was commanded by Capt John Walker Various ...
... 82 Ohio Arch 82 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 CONTEMPORARY DESCRIPTION OF OHIO IN 1788 In 1888 Mr John H James of Urbana Ohio whose collection of historical works is hardly excelled published a translation of a French pamphlet used by Mr Barlow and his associates in Paris when engaged in the sale of lands in the Ohio country The pamphlet says Mr James in his introduction was published in French and English the French copy being a translation of the English copy first published ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Assn Fifth Annual Meeting 10 1 that will stop short of nothing that is humanly possible China is arousing herself to a new national life that contains possibilities of the most tremendous scope America and China are natural complements to each other The Yangtse and Mississippi Valleys have more in common than any other two equal tracts of country in the world The concluding paper of the morning was read by George Cowles Lay of New York The portion relating to ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Ass'n Fifth Annual Meeting 27 with after the first half of the year 1818 the state grant remaining on the statute book a dead letter and the whole matter receiving adjudication by the decision of Chief Justice Marshall in 1824 in the well known case of Gibbons vs Ogden Even before the trials of April 1817 boats had been springing up everywhere By 1819 there were over sixty in western waters and from this period the west with the changes wrought by the ...
... BLAST-FURNACES OPERATED BY THE BLAST-FURNACES OPERATED BY THE SEPARATIST SOCIETY OF ZOAR OHIO BY E J BOGNAR A most important contribution to the success of the Separatist Society of Zoar was iron ore The village of Zoar was founded in 1817 by 300 or more Separatists who had embarked early that spring from Wurtemburg1 Germany The party was led by one Joseph M Bimeler2 and the desire for religious freedom brought them to this country where they settled in the inviting wooded region of the ...
... The Scioto Company and its Purchase The Scioto Company and its Purchase 109 THE SCIOTO COMPANY AND ITS PURCHASE The history of the founding of Gallipolis now turning in its career into its second century is one of the most interesting and at the same time one of the saddest studies in American annals It is the story of a disappointing and impracticable scheme and were it not for the fact that the blood of its founders mingling with the American stock of their day and generation has given ...
... 40 Ohio Arch 40 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ring a man's relationship to the God who made him and the home over which he presides has a political significance You might as well talk of removing politics from business as to talk of asking the sun to stop shining as long as a human being votes upon the election of a man who will vote for a law there is always politics and there always should be politics Instead of there being too much politics in this country there is too little ...
... THE ECONOMIC PROGRESS OF OHIO THE ECONOMIC PROGRESS OF OHIO INTRODUCTORY NOTE In the preparation of this paper certain government statistics particularly the Report of the Census for 1800 1810 1820 and 1830 and the Report on Manufactures in the United States 1832 have proved especially valuable Useful too have been the contemporary state histories particularly Caleb Atwater's History of Ohio Cincinnati 1838 and the Farmers' Centennial History of Ohio published at Columbus in 1903 by the State ...
... FLAT BOATING ON THE OHIO RIVER FLAT BOATING ON THE OHIO RIVER BY REV ISAAC F KING In the early settlement of Ohio the pack horse was first used on which to transport merchandise The American Indian left us no high-way for wheeled vehicles A wagon road is a thing he never made and if given to him he seldom used As soon as the white-faced Emigrant reached the Northwest territory he projected wagon roads to bring his goods and supplies from the East These roads were hard to make over the ...
... INDUSTRIAL BEGINNINGS IN OHIO INDUSTRIAL BEGINNINGS IN OHIO By WILLIAM ALEXANDER MABRY The abundance of fertile land was unquestionably the lodestone which attracted most of the early settlers to the Ohio Country But along with the pioneer farmers came numbers of skilled mechanics to build the boats and erect the little mills and shops that were so much needed to furnish those necessities that could not be profitably brought from the East No tariff was necessary to protect the infant ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Ass'n Fifth Annual Meeting 79 main opponents Clark to President Reed August 4 1781 post p Marshall advised the people to pay no attention to the drafts ordered for Clark and offered protection to those who refused He had told Clark that while he could do nothing for the expedition as an official that as a private person he would give every assistance within his power Penna Archives 1781-1783 p 318 71 See post p 72 See post p 73 See post p 74 Mich Pioneer and ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Ass'n Fifth Annual Meeting 31 engaged strong and able men at all points along the river Pittsburgh ever at the front in enterprise has contributed her full share It is our good fortune to have homes in this Valley dear to many of us as our birthplace and to all of us by fond memories and cherished associations We who love the Valley and the River here pay tribute to all who have labored for and through their labors have advanced the improvement of the greatest ...
... ADDENDA ADDENDA TO THE PATHFINDERS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY The time allotted the compiler by the Society in which to prepare the matter foregoing precluded the possibility of examination of original papers to the extent necessary for an absolutely correct historical statement and the demand for delivery of copy into the hands of the printer forced completion of manuscript before the compiler could receive information for which he had applied to authorities and consequently the addenda following ...
... HENRY L HENRY L TAYLOR On Slavery's Fringe City-Building and Black Community Development in Cincinnati 1800-1850 Scholars of the antebellum black urban experience have ignored the issue of the relationship between the city-building process and the development of the black community Most studies of the antebellum black experience published since Leon Litwack's North of Slavery have instead focused on legal aspects of racial discrimination the relationship between race and politics the ...
... THE EVOLUTION OF OHIO COUNTIES THE EVOLUTION OF OHIO COUNTIES By J F LANING It is probable that the people who read this article will all know that the State of Ohio was not always divided into the number of counties there now are and that to evolve the present map a long period of time and many mutations of county outlines were necessary But few people however know the extent of the evolution that has been going on in bringing Ohio counties within their present environments From the erection ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS THE BEGINNING OF THE OHIO COMPANY AND THE SCIOTO PURCHASE BY MAJOR E C DAWES The beginning of the year 1783 saw the Revolutionary war virtually at an end although the final treaty of peace was not signed until September third The colonies had achieved their independence at the price of the lives of many and the fortunes of all of their defenders The Continental currency despite the fiat of the government had long since ceased to be of value ...
... THE OHIO RIVER THE OHIO RIVER ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT Professor of American History Marietta College President of the Ohio Valley Historical Association author of Historic Highways of America The Ohio River etc The mountain ranges of this Continent generally trend from North to South The greatest rivers trend in the same general direction particularly the St Lawrence Mississippi and Hudson all of which were to play an important role as avenues of approach for the races which fell heir to the ...
... ZANE'S TRACE ZANE'S TRACE CLEMENT L MARTZOLFF The first road maker in our country was the buffalo His successor was the Indian Instinct told the buffalo where to make his path Nature which is another name for instinct prompted the red man in marking his trail The white man came and reason told him that the red man and the buffalo had selected the driest shortest and most practicable routes of migration This is only another way of saying that the geography of any country determines its history ...
... EARLY CINCINNATI EARLY CINCINNATI JOSEPH WILBY CINCINNATI The following article was written by Mr Joseph Wilby and read before The Optimist Club Cincinnati March 1st 1902 Mr Wilby is at present the president of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio -EDITOR The first council meeting of the town of Cincinnati is said to have been held on the 5th of March 1 80 2 The present occasion lacks a few days of being the one hundredth anniversary of that date but affords a fitting opportunity ...
... INFLUENCE OF PENNSYLVANIA ON OHIO INFLUENCE OF PENNSYLVANIA ON OHIO BY W H HUNTER The celebration of the Centennial of the State has led to much discussion regarding the ethnological history of Ohio As a contribution to this subject we present the address delivered by W H Hunter of Chillicothe at a banquet given in Philadelphia several years ago by the Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish society which has for its object the preservation of historical data - E O R THE PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN - While in ...