... DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS A STATE MOTTO By Harlow Lindley The recent appearance of a book published by the Ohio Development and Publicity Commission entitled Ohio an Empire within an Empire offers an opportunity to make some comments concerning a state motto This title is purported to be taken from the State's motto the State of Ohio however has no official motto In 1866 a law was passed providing for the inscription of a motto on the State seal The motto adopted was Imperium in Imperio--an empire ...
... HOMES OF THE MOUND BUILDERS HOMES OF THE MOUND BUILDERS WILLIAM JACKSON ARMSTRONG Col W J Armstrong was inspector of the United States consulates under the administrations of President Grant He is the author of Siberia and the Nihilists The Heroes of Defeat etc - EDITOR The Mound Builder is still a mystery His story has not been told He is not yet intelligibly tangent to any known race He is not only prehistoric but unconnected His clues are shy and evasive lacking the thread of either written ...
... Dedicatory Exercises May 30 1914 Dedicatory Exercises May 30 1914 357 REPORT OF LEWIS F SCHAUS Chairman Building Committee Mr President and Members of the Society In June 191 2 the contract for the erection of this beautiful building was let at which time the plans and specifications prepared for its erection were placed in the hands of your building committee with instructions to carry out the designs to a successful completion How well this duty has been performed the building speaks for ...
... 262 Ohio Arch 262 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Fort Miami -- We regret to report that this property is still in the hands of owners who do not seem much interested in its historic value Fallen Timbers-- At this writing the State Architect is engaged in landscaping the site chosen for the future monument to honor the memory of a great soldier and mark an historic spot It will be recalled that two years ago the Legislature appropriated 2000 for this purpose We had asked for 40000 for ...
... FOWKE'S BOOK AGAIN FOWKE'S BOOK AGAIN The following review of Mr Fowke's volume appears in the Nation of December 25 1902 As it is the policy of the Nation to expose defects wherever they exist and to speak well only of that which deserves high praise its general approval of Mr Fowke's work is something upon which he is to be congratulatedE 0 R Archaeological History of Ohio The Mound Builders and Later Indians By Gerard Fowke Published by the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society ...
... THE MOUNDS OF FLORIDA AND THEIR BUILDERS THE MOUNDS OF FLORIDA AND THEIR BUILDERS REV J F RICHMOND Mr Richmond now resident of McConnelsville Ohio was born and educated in New York in which city he was for many years pastor of a prominent Methodist Episcopal Church He is the author of several books For twenty years he made his home in Florida where he improved the opportunity of giving thoughtful investigation to the so-called Indian Mounds and the various theories concerning the race that ...
... ADDRESSES BEFORE THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEADDRESSES BEFORE THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY AT MARIETTA APRIL 5 AND 6 IN CONNECTION WITH THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION ANNUAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT F C SESSIONS THE invitation to hold the third annual meeting of this Society in Marietta came with singular appropriateness It is certainly gratifying to those of us who have seen the movement to celebrate this occasion properly to be permitted to participate in these exercises The few ...
... Fortieth Annual Meeting 253 Fortieth Annual Meeting 253 186--addition Mrs Gardiner adds 13 dolls to collection 103-'25 NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTION 9--addition Mastodon and elk teeth presented by Mr C M Ault Piketon O 2-20-'25 29--Collection of mussel shells presented by Mrs F L Cornell Black Lick O 3-24-'25 30--Specimen of coral presented by Mr E P Wilson Columbus O 5-16-'25 31--Fossil shark tooth presented by Mr H C Baird Pataskala O 8-24-'25 32--Stalactite presented by Mr E W Eley New Orleans ...
... FORT HILL INDIAN CEMETERY FORT HILL INDIAN CEMETERY BY FELIX J KOCH Antiquarians and others interested in the lost races of this continent have been delighted recently at the news of the discovery of still another Indian burial ground on Ft Hill at the mouth of the Big Miami River in the very southwest corner of Ohio Workmen building a road through the territory found arrow-heads and other Indian implements such as to indicate the proximity of a pre-historic cemetery and proceeding with care ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue PAUL R GRIM has been research assistant in the Bureau of Educational Research in Ohio State University for two years and is principal-elect of the Junior High Training School of the Western Washington College of Education at Bellingham Washington B H PERSHING is dean of men and professor of history at Wittenberg College JAMES H RODABAUGH author of Robert Hamilton Bishop is a graduate of Miami University and has recently completed his degree of Doctor of ...
... LOGAN'S CAMPAIGN -1786 LOGAN'S CAMPAIGN -1786 From the Draper MSS Wisconsin Historical Society Archives Mr Henry Hall was out on this campaign Were some 8 or 9 hundred men-Colos James Garrard Benj Harrison Thos Kennedy and Hugh McGary were the principal officers under Logan When Logan reached Meckacheck some 18 or 20 Indians remained and the men rode after and killed them most all Capt Irvine and others were pursuing an Indian with a broken thigh amp did not rush upon him as quick as they ...
... 634 Ohio Arch 634 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS O SEPTEMBER 9 1922 12 o'clock noon Present Messers James E Campbell George F Bareis B F Prince E F Wood J Warren Keifer Edward Orton Jr Frank L Packard Webb C Hayes Director Mills and Secretary Galbreath were also present The meeting was called to order by President Campbell On motion of Mr E F Wood President James E Campbell was reelected President of the Society Mr ...
... 568 Ohio Arch 568 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The report was received and the committee given authority to receive the donation WARREN COUNTY SERPENT MOUND Mr Cole read the following report furnished by Dr Charles H Hough The mound property is in statu quo except that the wood lot has been somewhat marred by a gravel pit opened along the creek The field is now in grain-stubble All land in that locality is held at very high prices I think it unwise to negotiate with anyone until we ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to this Issue Robert C Wheeler at one time a member of the staff of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is at present with the fighting forces in North Africa Helen M Dudley great-granddaughter of Governor Thomas Worthington resides in Morrow Ohio Ray Baker Harris librarian of the Supreme Council of the Thirty-third and Last Degree Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Southern Jurisdiction located at Washington D C is now in the armed ...
... DARNELL'S LEAP FOR LIFE DARNELL'S LEAP FOR LIFE It will be recollected by students of history that in the year 1778 during the Revolution Daniel Boone with twenty-seven others was taken prisoner in Kentucky and brought to Old Town or Old Chillicothe as the Shawanese called it Through the influence of Hamilton the British Governor Boone with ten of his party was taken to Detroit while the remaining seventeen prisoners were left with their savage captors Among the latter number was a man whose ...
... 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 ...
... THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE EARTH THE three stages of geographical knowledge are these 1 The observation of facts 2 The deduction of a theory of the earth from these facts 3 The adjustment of facts discovered later to this theory The early difficulties in the way of establishing a true theory of the earth were 1 Men's limited knowledge of the earth 2 Their lack of scientific discipline and habit 3 The misleading character of geographical appearances It ...
... STONE GRAVES IN BROWN COUNTY OHIO STONE GRAVES IN BROWN COUNTY OHIO BY GERARD FOWKE On both sides of the Ohio river from Manchester Ohio to Dover Kentucky a distance of twenty-five miles were formerly many stone graves or cairns A few stood at varying intervals for some miles below Dover and as far up the river as Huntington West Virginia and some remain along North Fork of Licking river in Mason county Kentucky They were most abundant from Manchester to Ripley on the Ohio side of the river ...
... 402 Ohio Arch 402 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications 6 Stuart James-Three Years in North America Edinburgh 1833 Vol II 7 Shirreff Patrick-A Tour through North America Edinburgh 1835 8 Steele Mrs Eliza RA Summer Journey in the West New York 1841 9 Buckingham J S-Eastern and Western States of America London 1842 Vol II 10 Godwin Parke-Prose Writings of Wm Cullen Bryant Vol II Bryant Wm C--Illinois Fifty Years Ago New York 1901 11 Dickens Charles-American Notes London 1903 12 Fordham Elias ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 653 Forty-First Annual Meeting 653 change in Logan Elm during the past year The famous old tree continues to hold its own against the elements More than four thousand visitors registered at the park during July and possibly as many or more in August could they have been checked Some time during the first week of August a sneak thief carried away the register and either the same party or another ran an automobile through the wire fence near the creek This makes it ...