... 486 Ohio Arch 486 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications NOTES - GEOGRAPHICAL BY R W MCFARLAND LL D These notes are intended to draw attention to errors or slips which manage sometimes to get into print and which may mislead the unwary Attention is called to four such points FIRST It has been stated in the OHIO STATE AR CH A E OLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY that the United States military tract extended to the Ohio river This is an error See Vol 2 U S Laws page 565 act of June 1 1796 The ...
... ORATION OF HON ORATION OF HON GEORGE F HOAR THERE are doubtless many persons in this audience who have gathered here as to their Father's house They salute their Mother on her birthday with the prayer and the confident hope that the life which now completes its first century may be immortal as liberty If we were here only to do honor to Marietta-to celebrate the planting of this famous town coeval with the Republic seated by the beautiful river her annals crowded with memories of illustrious ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE ADOPTION OF OHIO'S FIRST CONSTITUTION The Centennial of the adoption of the Constitution of Ohio was celebrated at Chillicothe Saturday November 29 1 902 by the unveiling of a tablet marking the site of the first state house of Ohio which is the site of the present court house The weather was very inclement snow and rain interfering with the ceremonies to the extent at least that the audience was small and the ...
... Miami's green-clad shores And by Sandusky's side And where Scioto's hill-crowned flood Greets grand Ohio's tide WAR OF 181 2 During the war of 1812 Alder resided near Pleasant Valley now Plain City Ohio in the territory now within the bounds of Union county A military company was organized at Pleasant Valley in the summer of 1812 of which Alder was elected captain and Frederick Loyd lieutenant There were 70 men in all and one Daniel Watkins ...
... Miami valley nine miles Miami river more than one Miami just below the iron Miami It was the custom Miami and was picketed on Miami On the 8th Saturday
... Boundary Line Between Ohio and Virginia Boundary Line Between Ohio and Virginia 67 ARGUMENT CONCERNING BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN OHIO AND VIRGINIA BY SAMUEL F VINTON May it please your honors I cannot but regret that my learned friend the Hon John M Patton who opened this case for the Commonwealth of Virginia has somewhat impaired the value of so good an argument by the introduction into it both at its commencement and conclusion of a topic so very foreign to the subject now under consideration To ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY DECEMBER 1887 THE WESTERN LAND POLICY OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT FROM 1763 TO 1775 THE ink with which the treaty of Paris was written was hardly dry when Great Britain took a very important step in the line of a new land policy Just how much this step meant at the time is a matter of dispute but the consequences flowing from it were such as to mark it a distinct new departure Previous to the French and Indian war England had virtually affirmed ...
... Miami tribes settled on the rivers of that name and the Delawares on the rivers of Eastern Ohio they held sway over a little empire of their own At first their Long House or capitol was situated on the west bank of the Scioto river at its confluence with the Ohio but they were driven by floods to locate this council house directly opposite in Kentucky The Shawnees were of Algonquin stock the ...
... Railroads Pioneer 263 Railroad to Serpent Mound Railroad 248 est Point Custer at 343 Finney's part in 189 Wharton Mrs Mary Sketch of 408 aFiney's part in 189 Whittier J G Mention of 209 Richland county station on 189 Wl ' of Underground Railway Baughman 189 Wild at Prehistoric use of 68 Union County War of 1812 B 380 1 Wilkinson Gen St ...
... Miamies all of whom at times lived and energized on the soil of Ohio remain monumentless and the exact places of their burials unknown It would seem not only fitting but just that these chiefs and tribes who were the original occupants and possessors of the soil should have suitable and enduring monuments to commemorate their names placed in public parks or on grounds owned and cared for by the State of Ohio so that our children and our ...
... Railroad bridge This bridge stood over thirty-five years until the present iron bridge supplanted it in I877 at a cost of 20357 A long communication on Sandusky river improvement signed by James Justice John R Pease R P Buckland and A J Dickinson appeared in the Freeman October I850 in which these eminent citizens say that as commissioners of the river improvements they had received over 7600 and expended 6400 The unexpended money was loaned ...
... Miami and Scioto LittleMiami called Todd's Miami has a gristmill a saw-mill and a fulling-mill and many hundred acres of capital land and a sweet daughter about seventeen or eighteen years old who gains the praises of all who have had the happiness to be acquainted with her We have four ...
... MEMOIR OF ANTOINE LAFORGE MEMOIR OF ANTOINE LAFORGE A Gallipolis Manuscript 1790 Translated from the original French by Laurence J Kenny S J St Louis University The accompanying document is a copy of a manuscript heirloom that has been cherished for more than a century among the descendents of Pierre Antoine Laforge one of the early French settlers of Gallipolis It brought them into possession of the modest inheritance referred to at its close and it has given substance and vraisemblance to ...
... Miami valley It is the largest and most extensive prehistoric remains now in Ohio The move was most commendable and will result in its preservation whatever may be the use of the grounds enclosed by the embankments The Society was invited by the Legislative Committee to visit the place with them and many members did so The Society will assume the care of the Fort and place it under such use as the General Assembly may direct We would also say ...
... CATHERINE GOUGAR CATHERINE GOUGAR Probably the Earliest Pioneer Resident of Ohio Who Has Descendants Living Upon the Original Place of Settlement BY FRANK WARNER M D D SC COLUMBUS OHIO On the farm of Alfred Immell situated on the pike from Columbus to Chillicothe some ten miles north of the latter city lies buried Catherine Gougar Her remains have lain here since 1801 when she died at the age of sixty-nine years She died within two years of the establishment of Ohio as a State and within view ...
... Miami I will only observe further that our situation is truly distressing and I do therefore most earnestly implore the protection of Government for myself and friends inhabiting the wilds of America-to this we consider ourselves entitled Notwithstanding such appeals the burden of this defensive war was thrown upon the Ohio Company They accepted it and held their forts through the war The following is an exact statement of account as between ...
... Miami River where the Miami Purchase42 By the time of his death in the early 1800's he had surveyed more land in the Ohio country than any other federal surveyor After a considerable delay due to the failure of the Indians to send an answer to Hutchins' invitation and due as well to Colonel Harmar's reluctance to provide an armed escort surveying began again on August 9 1786 From that date ...