... Miami and Erie and the Miami and the Wabash The Miami of the Lake Maumee Miami Maumee Miami Maumee Rapids Miami Maumee and its waters The force placed here ought however to be strong ...
... Miami on the present site Miamis Ottawas Wyandottes Illinois and western tribes The Shawnees were the chief constituency of this union and Cornstalk their leader was recognized as the head of the tribal alliances About six miles south of Circleville the county seat of Pickaway county in an open field by the roadside stands an ancient elm tree whose broad branches stretch over a wide space ...
... Little Sandusky Big Sandusky In 184 0 mail was sent by water from Cleveland to the recently re-christened town of Sandusky City where the mail was held to suit the convenience of the citizens of that town but much to the annoyance of the citizens and merchants of the old historic Indian towns of Lower Sandusky and Upper Sandusky until finally the citizens of Lower Sandusky petitioned the court to change the name so that they might promptly ...
... THE BEGINNINGS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE THE BEGINNINGS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY By THOMAS N HOOVER Rufus Putman never attended a university but fathered the first institution for higher learning in the Northwest Territory He seldom if ever went to school but contributed much to the cause of education His mother when Rufus was still a small boy inflicted upon him an undesirable domineering illiterate step-father who required the lad to work all day and denied him a ...
... Miami River The party also visited the monument close by erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution to commemorate the spot of the last battle of The French and Indian War It is a splendid granite rock upon which is this inscription Erected 1898 by the Piqua Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Memory of the Last Battle of the French and Indian War Fought near This Spot 1763 Editorialana Editorialana 475 From this ...
... Miami District17 Other Indians claimed that these cessions were illegal because made by a minority of the contracting tribe or obtained through fraud and the British agents openly or tacitly supported them in resisting the validity of these grants During the conferences between the representatives of the United States and these Indians which resulted in these treaties and in others held before 1795 British representatives assisted sometimes ...
... Miami on the present site Miamis Ottawas Wyandottes Illinois and western tribes The Shawnees were the chief constituency of this union and Cornstalk their leader was recognized as the head of the tribal alliances About six miles south of Circleville the county seat of Pickaway county in an open field by the roadside stands an ancient elm tree whose broad branches stretch over a wide space ...
... THE ADMISSION OF OHIO TO THE UNION THE ADMISSION OF OHIO TO THE UNION by BENJAMIN H PERSHING BRUTAL TRUTH DISCOVERED NEAR 150TH BIRTHDAY OHIO ASKS STATEHOOD With this alarming headline a metropolitan Ohio newspaper on January 14 1953 announced the most unique episode in the history of the admission of territories into the federal Union The article stated that congress had taken no action on the constitution prepared at Chillicothe in 1802 Consequently Ohio had legally been a territory and ...
... Railroad The names of these young adventurers were James Jones and Priscilla Jones nee Blagg After remaining in old Gallia county for about twenty-three years they with a family of nine children of whom your speaker was one removed northward to the great valley lying between the Sandusky and Maumee Rivers and bounded on the north by the beautiful Lake Erie This great forest valley was the hunting grounds of Indian tribes known as the Senecas ...
... Miami and are still known as the Virginia Military Reservation My selection by the Commission has at least one element of fitness for on that reservation I was born Before the great National road was projected Virginia had established a highway from Alexandria to Marietta and Washington urged the opening of communication with the Western country by portages from stream to stream across the mountains So while Ohio comes like all the world to ...
... 374 Ohio Arch 374 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Upon whose bosom snow has lain Who intimately lives with rain Poems are made by fools like me But only God can make a tree' After the formal reading of Logan's Speech by John R Horst from McGuffey's Fourth Reader edition of 1853 informal addresses were made by J W Johnson of Circleville editor of the Democrat and Watchman Professor C C Miller of Lancaster and Mrs Orson D Dryer of Shepard Ohio Mrs Dryer's contribution to the day's ...
... 492 Ohio Arch 492 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications From the ruins of this first estate we have the smiling landscape the green grass the fertile fields of waving grain We have the advantages ease comfort conveniences luxuries of modern civilization For the generation that first came to this goodly land and rough-hewed the way there is lasting remembrance and perpetual honor In their lives there was a seriousness of purpose that is not characteristic of the later generation In the midst ...
... Railroad Alighting from the train one seems to have left the modern American civilization and to have suddenly dropped into a little German village that dates its origin to a century or more ago One of the county highways passes through it and forms its principal thoroughfare called Main street and the only one having a name - and running almost due north and south The village consists of not ...
... Miami where the various Miami Their fields and dwellings had been laid waste and they were drifting about in search of something to live on Many white people also visited Fairfield on their way up or down the river In June 1793 there came first the famous Moravian John Heckewelder and then six Quakers who accompanied the American peace commissioners The latter gave Matthew Dolsen an order ...
... 480 Ohio Arch 480 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications a brief description of the service of each and a roster of officers and men We are told that Fairfield County is credited with a service enrollment of 1821 in the World War There is a complete list of these alphabetically arranged This is followed by a brief account of Women in the Service The concluding chapter After Armistice Day details the return of the soldiers who survived the perils of camp and field the organization of the ...
... Miamis in its upper region and many others in the lower pour themselves from the westward through one of the most fertile countries of the globe3 The region here described in this bicentennial year is our own Ohio and this tribute was paid by George Washington after he had led the Revolution to triumph bade farewell to his fellow officers and retired for a brief 3 Hulbert A B Washington and the West pp 87-88 26 Ohio Arch 26 Ohio Arch and ...
... Miamis of the Lakes 5There was yet another battery in action during the second siege of the fort but I am unable to say whether or not it existed at this time 6 The garrison was upon seeing Proctor and Tecumseh appear one day upon the shore opposite immediately employed in cutting deep traverses through the fort taking down the tents and preparing for a siege The work accomplished in a few hours under the excitement of the occasion was ...
... Little Turtle Tarhe Tecumseh and a score of others renowned in war in the chase and in oratory Within the boundaries of our state moreover were enacted some of the most eventful scenes of the American Revolution The British western headquarters were at Detroit the American western headquarters were at Fort Pitt The sparsely located settlers of Ohio and Kentucky were between the two The war was that of infuriated savages spurred on by ...
... MAJOR-GENERAL ARTHUR ST MAJOR-GENERAL ARTHUR ST CLAIR HON ALBERT DOUGLAS M C A brief synopsis of this address was delivered by Mr Douglas at the annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Page Hall O S U March 22 1907 - EDITOR At the centennial celebration of Ohio statehood held at Chillicothe in May 1 90 3 I had the pleasure of offering the following preamble and resolution Recognizing that the people of Ohio have for one hundred years done injustice to the name ...