... THE MAKING OF PINE TAR IN HOCKING THE MAKING OF PINE TAR IN HOCKING COUNTY BY PASCAL A BRIGHT One of the primitive industries in southern Ohio where pine trees are found native was the making of pine tar In the summer of 1929 in company with Mr Emory Bainter who then lived on Big Pine Creek Mr A L Burgess of Columbus whose photographs have done so much to help popularize the state parks and his son I was on a trip in the park region of Hocking County We were in the hollow which contains Sand ...
... 34 Ohio Arch 34 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications search history other than that of our own state for noble ideas The story of the foundation of our state and its progress is like a romance Well did Washington say in the dark days of the Revolution when he was questioned as to what he would do if he met defeat that he would come out here and settle in the valley of the Muskingum Several years ago a friend of mine a lady of Ohio met an English woman whose whole idea of America was based ...
... LOUIS WEEKS LOUIS WEEKS John P Parker Black Abolitionist Entrepreneur 1827-1900 As historians attempt to set the record straight--to recite for Americans the involvement of black people in all aspects of our national life--they will since the recovery of his Autobiography now be able to include more on the contributions of yet another outstanding Negro John P Parker of Ripley Ohio1 To be sure a few students of American history have already mentioned Parker Henry E Baker of the United States ...
... A LETTER OF RUFUS PUTNAM'S TO NEHEMIAH A LETTER OF RUFUS PUTNAM'S TO NEHEMIAH HUBBARD ESQUIRE A NON-RESIDENT PROPRIETOR OF MARIETTA OHIO Contributed by FRANK ANKENBRAND JR This letter written by Rufus Putnam1 the founder of the city of Marietta Ohio gives but an inkling of the many petty annoyances that beset a man of vision Here are all the little irksome things the exasperating delays and hindrances the mosquito bites of adversity such as irritated the men who hewed from the vast American ...
... 288 Ohio Arch 288 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications erected their temple on the hilltop to the day of the traction car But that car like the one of Juggernaut is the irresistible chariot of the present that ruthlessly rolls over the veneration for the past The pamphlet prospectus in question devotes several pages to the history and description of the mound and properly presents it as one of the leading features which will make the proposed traction line a valuable and paying institution ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Women and the American Labor Movement From Colonial Times to the Eve of World War I By Philip S Foner New York The Free Press Macmillan Publishing Co Inc 1979 xi 621p illustrations notes bibliography index 1595 The wealth of material on American working women in Philip Foner's new book should convince even the most intransigent critic of women's history that working women do have an active lively and moving history Foner making use of the growing body of excellent ...
... THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY In the Ohio Centennial at Columbus September 4 to October 19 1888 THIS department was organized to embody a distinctive feature in the Ohio Centennial i e to exhibit in one place articles illustrative of the growth made in Ohio's history To do this properly it was decided to group all articles into classes regardless of ownership each class typical of a distinct idea This made a collective exhibit and hence all ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments and retirements within the academic community of Ohio historians include Lester Lee appointed as an Assistant Professor at Antioch College Gary R Hess will succeed Edmund J Danzinger as Department Chair at Bowling Green State University William R Rock has been named as a Graduate Advisor and Michael Moore as an Undergraduate Advisor at Bowling Green State University Virginia B Platt Professor Emeritus was recently appointed to ...
... GIRTY'S ISLAND GIRTY'S ISLAND BY N B C LOVE DESHLER O Girty's Island in the Maumee River a hundred years ago was the headquarters of the Indians and was the home for a time of Simon Girty Rich in verdant foliage of varied green And many kindred growth of stately trees Plants flowers and vines with nectar for bees Blended in a quivering summer sheen And around the waters ebbying tide Bending low long boughs with vines interlace And reflect in the liquid mirror's face Scintillating like moving ...
... COUNCIL ROCK COUNCIL ROCK C C SHERWOOD Council Rock is located on a farm owned by Mr E M Sherwood five miles south-east of McConnelsville county seat of Morgan county on the east side of the Muskingum river The visible portion of the rock is twenty feet in length and ten feet in height The rock itself is one of the most prominent among many in its immediate vicinity and from its location one obtains a fine view of the valley and river in the foreground It projects out of the base of the ...
... 148 Ohio Arch 148 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications Really of what value to any one are the opinions of Mr Fowke The society cannot afford to become sponsors for Mr Fowkes' eccentricities It is far better that the entire edition be suppressed and all the books sent out recalled than that the society should suffer from this most inconsiderate of books If the Executive Committee will take such action it will not only meet with my approval but I will advocate the same before the entire Board ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries A number of scholarly meetings of interest to Ohio History readers will be held in April The Ohio Academy of History holds its annual spring meeting April 28-29 at the Fawcett Center for Tomorrow on the Ohio State University campus Ashland College hosts the regional-state meeting of the history honorary society Phi Alpha Theta on April 22 and a week later on April 29 the Ohio Academy of Medical History holds its annual meeting at the Howard Dittrick Museum ...
... THE MIDDLE WEST AND THE COMING OF THE MIDDLE WEST AND THE COMING OF WORLD WAR II by JEANNETTE P N ICHOLS Such a topic as The Middle West and the Coming of World War II admits the premise that public opinion in a particular section of a nation can importantly affect the foreign policy of the central government particularly in a country run on the representative principle This premise has received endorsement repeatedly in the history of the United States and other countries and especially among ...
... MARY DEAN VINCENT MOUND MARY DEAN VINCENT MOUND A B COOVER Mr Coover is a Life Member of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and has assisted Prof W C Mills in many of the archaeological explorations made by the Society Mr Coover acted as Curator of the Museum of the Society during the absence of Prof Mills while in charge of the Society's exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition It was during this time that Mr Coover made the explorations herein described - EDITOR Under directions ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Little Cities of Black Diamonds Urban Development in the Hocking Coal Region 1870-1900 By Ivan M Tribe Athens Athens County Historical Society and Museum 1988 vii 130p tables notes index and Sprinkled with Coal Dust Life and Work in the Hocking Coal Region 1870-1900 By Ivan M Tribe Athens Athens County Historical Society and Museum 1989 viii 168p tables notes index Tribe's two books constitute a history of the Hocking Valley coal mining towns in the corners of Perry ...
... Book Reviews Winter-Spring 2002 pp 65-93 Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page BOOK REVIEWS A Social Contract for the Coal Fields The Rise and Fall of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund By Richard P Mulcahy Knoxville Tenn The University of Tennessee Press 2000 xiv 274p notes ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Spring Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held April 21-22 1995 at Otterbein College in Westerville Ohio For further information contact Donna L Van Raaphorst History Department Cuyahoga Community College Western Campus Cleveland Ohio 44130-5199 The Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies of Saint Mary's University will be holding its 7th North American Fur Trade Conference in Halifax Nova Scotia on May 24-28 1995 The ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Peace Heroes in Twentieth-Century America Edited and with an Introduction by Charles DeBenedetti Bloomington Indiana University Press 1986 276p illustrations notes index 2250 The publication of this book serves to remind us of the great loss the historical profession suffered in the death of Charles DeBenedetti at so young an age An edited work with eight chapters written by various authors it is a book that should have a large readership both inside and outside the ...
... ORIGIN AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PENNSYLVANIA ORIGIN AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH BARN SYMBOLS By AUGUST C MAHR On a great number of Pennsylvania Dutch barns there are geometrical ornaments painted on the outside walls ornaments which as a rule show some sort of star within a circular disk Figs 1 2 8 10b They occur most frequently in Berks and the neighboring counties less frequently in other parts of Pennsylvania and locally even in Ohio and other states of the Union where Pennsylvania ...
... JOSEPH A JOSEPH A HOWELLS Joseph A Howells was born at St Clairsville Belmont County Ohio September 1 1832 He was the son of William C and Mary Dean Howells and a brother of William Dean Howells For fifty-seven years he was foreman editor and proprietor of the Ashtabula Sentinel He was appointed American Con549 550 Ohio Arch 550 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications sul to Turk Islands British West Indies October 30 1905 He died August 10 1912 On July 19 1913 there was placed at the head ...