... HULL'S TRACE OR TRAIL HULL'S TRACE OR TRAIL BY GEN ROBT P KENNEDY In the early times the roads or passages cut through the heavy timber of the country were called traces or trails and thus we read about Zane's trace the roadway cut by Ebenezer Zane his brother Jonathan and his son-in-law John McIntyre from Wheeling on the Ohio River in Virginia to the Limestone on the Ohio River in Kentucky the first trace roadway or passage from the East to this section of the great northwest The trace which ...
... Report of the 44th Annual Meeting 637 Report of the 44th Annual Meeting 637 associated with not only academic work but state historical work in years past an officer of the Indiana Historical Society and editor of the Indiana Magazine of History who for a time left the state of Indiana and was engaged in educational work in one of the colleges of Pennsylvania It was an opportunity that came to me a few years ago when leaving the state historical work in Indiana to recommend Dr Coleman as my ...
... LETTER OF HON LETTER OF HON GEORGE B LORING READ AT THE C ELE BRATION BY R R DAWES WASHINGTON D C April 5 1888 SIR I have been requested by His Excellency Gov ernor Ames of Massachusetts to represent that Commonwealth at the Centennial Celebration of the first settlement of the Northwest Territory under the Ordinance of 1787 at Marietta Ohio I regret exceedingly that at a late hour I am compelled to deny myself the pleasure of being present on the occasion I feel it to be my duty however to ...
... JOHN LEWIS ROTH JOHN LEWIS ROTH The First White Child Born in the Moravian Mission at Gnadenhutten1 By HARLOW LINDLEY The Ohio Society Daughters of the American Colonists at least must be given credit for arousing a group of Ohio's citizens from an unusual state of disinterestedness to one of profound interest and concern as to who was the first white child born in Ohio and some of these seem to have gone out of their way to misinterpret what it is all about I hold in my hand a clipping ...
... Miamis and St Mary's-was then on the waters of St Mary's Colonel Serjant had been in front came up while they were chatting informed them that the advance guard had chased four or five Indians from a fire out of a thicket and got part St St Clair's Defeat 3 79 of a venison at the fire The chat turned upon the movements of the Indians as they had been more seen that day than on any day previous The gen'l observed that he did not think the ...
... THE FIRST REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNTHE FIRST REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA BY EX-JUDGE DAVID DAVIS Mr William M Pettit in the Archaeological and Historical Quarterly of July 1931 has written an able article setting forth that Rev John Wheelwright of Boston and later of Exeter Massachusetts was the first man to form a Republican Government in America The records and history of the Colonies by many authors attribute that honor to Rev Roger Williams Rev Wheelwright came to the Colonies ...
... Miami Soon after LittleMiami amp was then Miami Maj Bedinger was careful to place several sentinels in the rear to guard against surprise one of these Thornton Farrow saw an Indian dog at a distance-which was considered at the time satisfactory evidence that the Indians not being able ...
... Miami University 1823 Miami University became Miami University because Miami though in that same Miami University Original Miami University of 1838
... Miami and Lake Erie Canal runs through the city to Manhattan and its route is clearly indicated Loaned by the Toledo Public Library Pictures -- 1 U S Army and Navy Uniforms in the War of 18121815 Wood William and Gabriel R H -- The Pageant of America v 6 p 2 91 2 Blockhouse of Fort Defiance as Restored Van Tassel C S -- Book of Ohio v 2 p 156 3 Soldiers' and Sailors' Pioneer Monument Hamilton O Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society ...
... Miami University which Miami University another Miami Valley a New Jersey Scotchman promulgated the theory of concentric spheres holding that the earth is hollow inhabitable within and widely open at the poles Reynolds undertook the expedition with a view of proving the Symmes theory Adams' administration fitted out a ship for the ...
... RailroadLittleMiami one of LittleMiami but I must hasten to the end Accosting one of the workmen a homely little man in a red flannel shirt and with a smutch of charcoal across his ...
... THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE E 0 RANDALL In that striking and stirring century known as the sixteenth began the voyages of discovery and the expeditions for occupancy by the Anglo Saxon and the Gaul of the North American continent The French were led by Jacques Cartier who in 1534 entered the Gulf of St Lawrence Other chivalrous and adventurous Frenchmen followed with various experiences until 1608 when Samuel Champlain encamped upon the Heights of Quebec and established a ...
... SIGNIFICANCE OF PERRY'S VICTORY SIGNIFICANCE OF PERRY'S VICTORY BY ISAAC J COX On the evening of February 23d 1910 the Ohio Perry's Victory Commission appointed by the Governor of Ohio to make suitable arrangements for the celebration of Perry's Victory on Lake Erie September 10 1913 had a hearing before a special joint meeting of both houses of the Ohio Assembly On this occasion Dr Isaac J Cox professor of American History in the Cincinnati University and President of the Ohio Valley ...
... 174 Ohio Arch 174 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications of Ohio had ever received He pointed out that the convention allowed two weeks discussion on the proposition of a bond issue for good roads and permitted without limitation a discussion for nearly three weeks of the liquor question 18 In spite of this appeal for fairness the convention gave less than two days to the question which most delegates considered the most important one before them19 Lastly most of the delegates were of the ...
... THE OHIO PROSPECTUS FOR THE YEAR 1775 THE OHIO PROSPECTUS FOR THE YEAR 1775 BY A J MORRISON TOLEDO The extended advertisement given below in part1 although not strictly applicable to the whole of the territory of Ohio today is of interest for several reasons This statement skilfully colored as it is brings out very well the idea of the Ohio country as it must have been in many minds at the beginning of the Revolution The imagination is afforded material - what would have been the result if ...
... Miami and Fallen Timbers FORT MEIGS The Secretary has also received from George J Munger Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Fort Meigs Memorial Commission a communication which reads in part as follows We have in our care and charge on the old Fort Meigs Grounds and Park which is state property a large number of Vol XXXVI--40 ...