... settlements whose people in settlement aside from those settlement is it not equally settlement and its establishment affected the State in which it was founded Has it left an impress that can be shown through the first century of our history Can we read it on the pages of our history of ...
... northwest of the river Ohio' And yet we have within our borders a population of nearly four millions of people Our forty thousand square miles of area are covered with all the improvements conveniences facilities beauties and adornments of the most advanced modern Christian civilization and Ohio in these respects is but typical not only of ...
... settlement of Plymouth settlements with earth walls and raised earth platforms for the council house or medicine tent They had corn fields and garden beds but no domestic animals Their mode of life clothing houses implements their religious ideas were those of the Indian at the time of Columbus They belonged to the stone age but had passed out of the lowest stage of barbarism to the somewhat ...
... settlements of the James and Potomac in Virginia Sir Galahad upon his white charger adventuring forth in search of the Holy Grail does not lay stronger hold upon the imagination than does this lone woman upon her black horse riding in sunshine and darkness in frozen bleakness or dewy spring dawns through rugged canyons and beautiful valleys over lofty mountains and densely wooded hills in the holy cause of freedom Such is the instinctive ...
... northwest of the mound by northwest corner of the old city at the depth of six feet below the surface Large quantities of broken earthenware was found when Marietta was first settled lying on the surface and especially in the bottom of an excavation called 'the well' about one hundred yards from the lesser pyramid in a southerly direction It was sixty or eighty feet wide at the top narrowing ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA NEW TRUSTEES On February 28 1907 Governor Harris appointed Hon Myron T Herrick Trustee of the Society to serve for three years This appointment will certainly meet the hearty approval of the members of the Society as few governors have taken the active interest in the progress and welfare of our Society that Governor Herrick did during his encumbency The readers of the QUARTERLY will doubtless be interested in a brief sketch of Mr Herrick as his career is an ...
... settlement of Ohio and the settlement begun at the mouth of the Muskingum The River of the Elk's eyes and its junction with the Ohio the beautiful river on April 7th 1788 was so rapid that the wilderness soon was peopled to such degree that the state with its present boundaries was ...
... FOUR CYCLES A CENTENNIAL ODE FOUR CYCLES A CENTENNIAL ODE Prepared in commemoration of the centennial anniversary of Pickaway County The Poem is descriptive of Circleville the county seat MAY LOWE PRELUDE The grape vine and the sycamore Cast shadows long and deep On the surface of the river Near whose banks the thousands sleepMen of mystery who from silence Of the dim past settled here Wrought their mighty deeds of valor Left a record written clear Of their learning and their prowess In the ...
... settlement and first decade of the French colony at Gallipolis That most romantic and unique project of the Scioto Company in which an American syndicate sought to exploit what Mr Sibley calls An unholy enterprise among the Parisians just previous to the outbreak of the French Revolution As the writer says the story of the deception of these people by American land speculators is of touching interest The Bastile had been destroyed and the dark ...
... northwest wind all day The northwest wind all day A northwest wind in the evening northwest wind all this northwest wind The fort which northwest A detachment of
... Editorialana Editorialana 471 July sixth was known as Military Day A large section of the state militia under the command of Brigadier General William V McMaken paraded the streets of the city headed by the Eighth Regiment Band and the Marietta Guards Governor Herrick and his military staff reviewed the movements of the troops This was followed by a gathering at the fair grounds where speeches were made by Col W R Warnock Governor Myron T Herrick and Senator C W Dick In the evening there was ...
... northwestern territory forever to freedom But no dream of fortune or of empire could blind those men of New England as to the path of duty nor bribe them to depart from that path and so they frankly said to the committee of Congress with whom the negotiations were being carried on We will not buy your land unless slavery is forever prohibited in that territory And so it came about that this nation and the world is indebted to those brave ...
... JOHNSON'S ISLAND JOHNSON'S ISLAND BY HEWSON L PEEKE This island lies three miles north of Sandusky in the bay It is nearly a mile long half a mile wide and contains about three hundred acres rising gradually in the center to a height of fifty feet It was originally covered with heavy timber and was a favorite resort of the Indians who came there to fish feast and torture their captives Its first owner was E W Bull and it was originally called Bull's Island until 1852 when it was called ...
... settlements for brief labors settlement of the majority of settlement of the Muskingum settlement Like father like settlement do we find any settlement We have the record
... 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 ...
... settlements and subsequent war settlement more or less settlement are all ingredients settlement in North America1 Perhaps it was not unnatural that England should claim not only the coast that the Cabots had discovered but all of the country back of it At all events six of her thirteen ...
... settlement was begun in 1789 on land purchased the previous year by Judge John Cleves Symmes from the government John Filson the early 1 A complete list of petitioners may be found in Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Quarterly Columbus 1887I 39-46--Editor's note NAMING OF CINCINNATI 87 NAMING OF CINCINNATI 8 7 historian of Kentucky who is responsible for that state's having ...
... 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 ...
... northwest to the mountains which no explorer had yet been known to traverse The southern boundary was certainly the Gulf-that was perhaps the only thing fixed in all the province save the Mississippi which in its upper course fixed the limit on the east but on the southeast the uncertainty also prevailed for this pertained to the territory known as the Floridas The territory however when made definite was discovered to be in extent more than ...
... settlement was performed by Zachariah Stephen Esq of Franklinton the nearest Justice of the Peace It was a double wedding uniting Abner Putnim Pinney and Polly Morrison and Levi Pinney and Charlotte Beach in the holy bonds of matrimony amid the rejoicing of assembled neighbors and friends Previous to the erection of St John's church in 1830 the oldest Protestant Episcopal church west of the Allegheny mountains services were held in the academy ...