... settlement in Virginia Dr settlement at Jamestown and settlements and dates The early efforts for industrial development are treated at length giving a permanent record of the early disappointments and failures and the final triumph of the first steamboat on the Kanawha river in 1819 and the completion of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in ...
... settlements made by the Ohio Company as well as those on the Scioto and Miami rivers and the Lake grew up and flourished under this influence The French on the Wabash the Illinois and Mississippi when they received the Ordinance of 1787 from Governor 187 188 Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 188 Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly St Clair gave assurance of loyal support The selection of the President of the Congress that ...
... settlement which he founded in April 1776 on the eastern bank of the Muskingum river two and a half miles below Goshochkunk Coshocton in accordance with the urgent wishes of the chief of the Delaware Indian Nation Chief Netawatwes whose capital was Goshochkunk the Indian name which has survived in Coshocton Netawatwes selected the site in such proximity to his capital because If the brethren will live near me I will be strong They will make me ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 417 who are interested in this work The undersigned committee will be glad to receive suggestions concerning speakers lists of names and addresses of history workers details concerning local history organizations and patriotic societies and any other sources of information that will assist in rendering the conference a success Address communications to Frank P Goodwin 3435 Observatory Place Cincinnati Ohio HOW GOVERNOR MEIGS GOT HIS NAME Where did the parents of ...
... ORIGIN OF INDIAN NAMES OF CERTAIN STATES ORIGIN OF INDIAN NAMES OF CERTAIN STATES AND RIVERS BY WILLIAM E CONNELLEY Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society Explanations of the origin of certain Indian names are varied and conflicting The writer submits the following authoritative statements relative to the derivation and meaning of the names of the states of Iowa Missouri Mississippi Ohio and Kentucky and the rivers Ohio Mississippi Missouri and Neosha IOWA The Iowa Indians called ...
... THE ANTHONY WAYNE ESSAY CONTEST THE ANTHONY WAYNE ESSAY CONTEST The Anthony Wayne Memorial Legislative Committee during the winter of 1944-45 in cooperation with the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and the Ohio State Department of Education sponsored a contest among the public parochial and private schools in Ohio on the subject of Anthony Wayne and the Indian Wars in Ohio 1790-1795 Several thousand students from all over the State entered the contest Winning essays in the ...
... settlement and the naming of settlement was a matter of settlement It'is not likely settlement witnessed between settlement as a blissful settlements are also marked
... settlement at Marietta settlement we must remember settlement began at Marietta a settlement and also the choice blood of Europe the German the Scandinavian and all the others who have come into it We have its population and prosperity and its institutions all nearer perfect than any ...
... County - At the invitation County The Centennial of County 371 stances embrace County The Centennial of County 373 into all the County The Centennial of
... settlement of Ohio The Chair settlements were made on its banks long before the interior was explored on either side The speaker gave interesting details of a journey made in 1792 by boat from Pittsburg to St Genevieve on the Mississippi by H M Brackenridge He also gave a graphic account of a tour made by Rev Thaddeus Mason Harris from Boston to Marietta In the year 1807 Mr Christian Shultz ...
... Logan When Logan reached Logan's Campaign-1786 Logan's Campaign-1786 521 Miami-but no more fighting At McKee's-his McKee's house was hewed log-had windows amp a porch this with his hay ampc were burned The fighting was confined to Meckacheck and the killing of Moluntha at his own town At ...
... County Pioneer Association County Pioneer Association The occasion can not fail to be of great interest and I regret that my engagements here are such as will make it impossible for me to be present My paternal grandfather Col David Cobb whose compatriots in arms settled Marietta in 1788 was I believe interested personally in that enterprise I can not doubt the coming celebration will be one ...
... County in 1848 At that time the land was still forest Green is buried in a small cemetery just north of the streamlet which forms the northern boundary of Cornish The land is now owned by Mr A S Deeds Part of it is still in timber and Deeds has identified all the species of trees named by the surveyor as still to be found there ...
... settlement of whites To settlement He read from the settlement one hundred years ago We cherish the blessed memory of a man whose life marked him as a co-laborer with God a fellow-helper of his brethren God bless the name and labors of John Heckewelder this Centennial Day God make of us successful co-laborers with Him and fellow-helpers of ...
... County Historical Society County to which he added County at that time Members of the Harrison family have never forgotten the desecration of the grave of their beloved dead and believing that a grateful country is willing to honor one of her most distinguished soldiers and statesmen they proffer the graveyard with the only condition that ...
... settlements on the Wabash and settlements throughout the settlement to the south of the Lakes into the United States and so Canadians shared in clearing the forests of Michigan in turning the prairie sod of the Mississippi states and in building the railroads running into Chicago In every period from the days of the Loyalists of the ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 223 injustices combined with the unfair and oppressive policy of Governor Berkeley and his failure to quell the Indian uprisings led at last to the rebellion of the downtrodden planters under the leadership of Nathaniel Bacon a descendant of Lord Bacon Bacon led the planters successfully against the Indians and protected the frontiers then drove out Berkeley and remained master of Virginia until his death a few months later when Berkeley once more assumed control Then ...
... settlement of the difficulties with the Americans In the late summer of 1795 he saw them returning to their villages laden with trinkets given them by the chief who never sleeps Peace with the Indians had been made Meanwhile news trickled in of the mission of John Jay to the Court of St James Some of the points of difference Jay had been instructed to work out with the British were not resolved but insofar as the frontier was concerned the ...