... The Croghan Celebration The Croghan Celebration 35 HISTORICAL ADDRESS BY BASIL MEEK ESQ FREMONT OHIO We have met today on this ground famous in history because of the victorious defence of Fort Stephenson then standing on this spot by Major George Croghan and the band of heroes under his command ninety-three years ago--not only to commemorate that brilliant achievement but also to further consecrate and make sacred the spot by the ...
... settlement and through their settlement the English by settlements except under settlements of Kaskaskia settlements The British settlements in the southern
... settlement at Pittsburg before Braddock's defeat and it was through his means and efforts that the first path was traced through that vast chain of mountains called the Alleghenies Colonel Cresap with the assistance of a friendly Indian named Nemacolin surveyed a road from Cumberland to Pittsburg It was this road that General Braddock used with his army and it was afterwards known as Braddock's road which does not materially differ from the ...
... settlement in the newly settlement but the official building of the new western government Besides being the residence of many families including the offices of the territorial governor and commissioners Governor Arthur St Clair and his secretary Winthrop Sargent here resided The site of these build- ...
... settlements along the seaboard settlements to such a distance settlements should lie within settlements were all south of settlements were made about settlements On the Mississippi ...
... settlements hoping to thus settlement impossible The settlement that had been made settlement along this border settlements began to extend settlement of the Scioto
... settlement was made within the settlement was the beginning settlement that was made on settlement was made was the settlement at Marietta The settlement After the
... settlement of Chillicothe The D A R of Cincinnati with other patriotic societies erected a monument to mark the location of Fort Washington one of the earliest historic spots in the Northwest Territory Twenty-five miles up the Miami River General St Clair built a fort which he named after Alexander Hamilton A powder magazine was erected at the south end of the fort The building on the fort ...
... settlement which was located settlements at Blanchard Fork settlements In the War of 1 81 settlement for the same he deeded to Mr Piatt a portion of his land in this famous valley A part of the Enoch land is still owned by members of the Enoch family The Piatt family came to the banks of ...
... CAMP CHARLOTTE SITE MARKED CAMP CHARLOTTE SITE MARKED A granite monument erected near the site of Camp Charlotte bears a bronze tablet with the following inscription CAMP CHARLOTTE Near this spot -- the famous Treaty was made between Lord Dunmore Governor of Virginia and Chief Cornstalk of the Shawnees and Allied Tribes in October -- 1774 This Camp was named Charlotte after the Queen of England Erected by the Pickaway Plains Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution 1774 1928 This monument ...
... THE TOWNS CALLED CHILLICOTHE THE TOWNS CALLED CHILLICOTHE In Volume XI page 230 of the Society's Publications was a valuable article by Prof R W McFarland of Oxford Ohio on the Chillicothes This article led to an interesting discussion in the Chillicothe News-Advertiser of which Mr W H Hunter one of the trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is editor We reprint the ...
... settlement at Forts - 368 Ancient 489 Cuylei Lieut Captain of 387 Auglaize 24 Cuyahoga River on 402 D Dunlap 64 71 Erected by St Clair 115 Dalyell Capt avenges tragedy at Ft Greenville 27 Sandusky 387 Hamilton 125 Dayton Beginning of 29 62 Harmar 121 Denman Matthias 30 Jefferson 112 De Lery Erection of 116 120 Discovery of Journals of 866 Reminiscences of 129 Expedition of to Sandusky country Junundat 357 370 Building of 382 Extracts from ...
... northwesterly direction and at length arrived at their place of destination Here in dark and filthy huts ornamented with the scalps of their parents and friends separated from each other did these lonely captives spend the long and tedious months of winter in a state of almost perfect starvation The Indians would never go abroad to obtain new supplies of food so long as one morsel remained and then sometimes returned with little success ...
... settlements or attempted settlementsto the dangers the settlements were thin and the settlement on Cheat river one settlement Here Kenton fell in settlements in the Greenbrier
... settlement by an eye witness settlement at Gallipolis he settlement The money and settlements in Washington settlements at Point Pleasant settlement I believe it will
... settlements in Ohio Captain Bowman with Captain Logan as second in command enrolled one hundred and sixty Kentucky volunteers marched from Harrodsburg crossed the Ohio at the mouth of the Licking and proceeded up the Little Miami Valley to Old Chillicothe the Indian stronghold of the Shawanese The Indian town was burned and much devastation ...
... northwest of the Ohio River northwest of the Ohio River except so much of this land as was located between the headwaters and courses of the Scioto and Little Miami Rivers This land was specifically reserved for the legal bounties and rewards of General George Rogers Clark his officers and ...