... THE EXPEDITION OF CELORON THE EXPEDITION OF CELORON BY C B GALBREATH The journals of Celoron and Bonnecamps with the paper by O H Marshall are here published in order to bring together in convenient form the accounts of this remarkable expedition sent by the Marquis de la Galissoniere Governor-General of New France and the Country of Louisiana to establish more firmly the French claims to the Ohio country particularly that portion of it which lies within the present boundary of our state A ...
... PIPE'S CLIFF PIPE'S CLIFF A J BAUGHMAN MANSFIELD Pipe's Cliff is the highest point of a ledge of fragmentary rocks that for a mile or more skirt Pleasant Run Valley on the north nine miles southeast of Mansfield Richland county Ohio The cliff is named for Captain Pipe a chief of the Monsey branch of the Delaware Indian tribe Captain Pipe's home was at Jeromeville on the Jerome Fork of the Mohican from 1795 to 1812the period between the signing of the treaty of Greenville and the war of 1812 He ...
... THE INDIAN VILLAGE OF CUSH-OG-WENK THE INDIAN VILLAGE OF CUSH-OG-WENK BY THOMAS H JOHNSON COSHOCTON The generations who were active participants in the events which constitute the early history of Ohio having passed away it seems to me the imperative duty of those now living whose early life overlapped the survivors of the active participants in the stirring events of that earlier period to place on record any recollections they may have of the stories told by those old survivors tending to ...
... TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY JUNE 2 1905 The Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the lecture room of the Y M C A Building Columbus Ohio at 230 P M June 2d 1905 The following members were present Rev J W Atwood Columbus Judge J H Anderson Columbus Prof M R Andrews Marietta Mr E H Archer Columbus General R Brinkerhoff Mansfield Mr George F Bareis ...
... THE OHIO HERITAGE THE OHIO HERITAGE by WALTER HAVIGHURST Research Professor of English Miami University The past is a short word with a long meaning Once a tropic ocean covered Ohio and now the limestone ledges of our rivers are crusted with sea shells skeletons of fish and stems of coral from the profuse life of that ancient sea Three times a continental glacier crept over Ohio covering as much as three-fourths of the state with a vast carpet of ice Once a race of men raised burial mounds ...
... 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 ...
... THE PROBLEM OF THE PROBLEM OF THE HISTORIC INDIAN IN THE OHIO VALLEY THE HISTORIAN'S VIEW by DWIGHT L SMITH Sometime early in the morning of October 12 land having been sighted a party debarked for shore Presently they descried people who were naked Possession of the island was taken in the presence of witnesses from the ship and a number of the people of the island who had collected there1 As I saw that they were very friendly to us and perceived that they could be much more easily converted ...
... 148 Ohio Arch 148 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications Really of what value to any one are the opinions of Mr Fowke The society cannot afford to become sponsors for Mr Fowkes' eccentricities It is far better that the entire edition be suppressed and all the books sent out recalled than that the society should suffer from this most inconsiderate of books If the Executive Committee will take such action it will not only meet with my approval but I will advocate the same before the entire Board ...
... COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS Ohio Land Patents by KENNETH W DUCKETT NOT LONG AGO the public relations office at a United States Air Force base wrote a press release describing a nineteenth century land deed owned by one of its civilian employees According to the release a local authority had appraised the document signed by Thomas Jefferson as president of the United States and James Madison as secretary of state at 25 Autograph collectors the release continued had subsequently made offers of up ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Beginnings of the U S Army 1783-1812 By James Ripley Jacobs Princeton New Jersey Princeton University Press 1947 497p including bibliography and index 500 This handsomely bound beautifully printed and heavily footnoted volume relates in considerable detail and in extremely readable form the military history of the United States from the end of hostilities with Britain in 1783 to their outbreak again in 1812 It is the first of several volumes that will carry the ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 68 NUMBER 2 A P R I L 1 9 5 9 The Survey of the Seven Ranges By WILLIAM D PATTISON THE AMERICAN RECTANGULAR LAND SURVEY SYSTEM established in the land ordinance of 1785 was first put into effect in the Seven Ranges of eastern Ohio Despite the publication of important contributions to the history of Ohio which have dealt with various aspects of the Seven Ranges interesting and significant parts of the survey story have remained ...
... THE ORDINANCE OF JULY 13TH 1787 THE ORDINANCE OF JULY 13TH 1787 TH E intrinsic merits of that organic law which was enacted by the old Continental Congress on the 13th of July 1787 for the Government of the Territory Northwest of the river Ohio have been so fully discussed and are so well understood that any attempt in that direction would be little more than a repetition of views already familiar to an intelligent audience Its merits can now be measured by its fruits Results are its monument ...
... Dedication of Ohio's World War Memorial 445 Dedication of Ohio's World War Memorial 445 closer relationships they can now be put aside The spirit of the times has changed The suggestion is offered stripped of details but in its larger aspect it carries no thought of physical or financial consolidations no thought of interference no abandonment of individual activities May we not hope that in the very spirit of this meeting here today there will be shown the seed of united unselfish wellordered ...
... TOURS INTO KENTUCKY AND THE NORTHWEST TOURS INTO KENTUCKY AND THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY Three Journals by the Rev James Smith of Powhatan County Va 1783-1795-1797 SKETCH OF REV JAMES SMITH BY JOSIAH MORROW LEBANON OHIO The writer of the following journals was born in Powhatan county Virginia September 17 1757 and died near Columbia in the Northwest Territory July 28 1800 He resided in his native county nearly all his life his removal to the north side of the Ohio having been made less than two ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE MOUND BUILDERS AND THE LOST TRIBES THE HOLY STONES OF NEWARK The following article from The Daily Oklahoman published at Oklahoma City Oklahoma of the date Sunday May 3 1908 was forwarded to us with the inquiry whether the statements therein contained concerning the Holy Stones of Newark or Jackstown were authentic To this we reply that the statements as to the finding of such alleged relics are correct but as to the genuineness of the relics we are compelled to ...
... REVIEWS REVIEWS History of Ohio By Eugene Holloway Roseboom and Francis Phelps Weisenburger New York Prentice Hall Inc 545 pages Price 500 What at least two other authors told in four or five volumes these two assistant professors of history in the Ohio State University have put into a single volume a unit in the series edited by Carl Wittke head of the department Moreover as the bibliography at the end of each chapter shows they have consulted numerous books and documents bearing as they say ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORIOHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION AND PROCEEDINGS FOR THE YEAR 1885 WITH ABSTRACTS OF ADDRESSES AND PAPERS PRESENTED BEFORE THE SOCIETY PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE A PRELIMINARY conference to take steps towards the organization of a State Archaeological and Historical Society was held at Columbus on the evening of February 12 1885 Prior to this time there had been in existence a State Archaeological Association which had however ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR UNVEILING OF MEMORIAL TO ELIZABETH ZANE An event of more than passing interest in the pioneer history of the Ohio Valley was appropriately celebrated at Walnut Grove Cemetery Martins Ferry Ohio May 30 1928 This was the unveiling of a statue as a memorial to Elizabeth Zane--Heroine of Fort Henry Fort Henry named in honor of Patrick Henry was built on a hill within ...
... Peter Cartwright's CIRCUIT RIDING Days in Ohio by CHARLES TOWNSEND A famous historian referring to the people on the American frontier once wrote Whether Scotch-Irish Presbyterian Baptist or Methodist these people saturated their religion and their politics with feeling Both the stump and the pulpit were centers of energy electric cells capable of starting widespreading fires They felt their religion and their democracy and were ready to fight for it1 Peter Cartwright one of the most ...
... THE PURITANIC INFLUENCE IN THE THE PURITANIC INFLUENCE IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY 1788-1803 BY WINFRED B LANGHORST After the close of the Revolutionary War the rapid movement of settlers over the Appalachian range brought the frontier to eastern Tennessee and Kentucky and to the Monongahela and the Ohio Rivers East of this ever-shifting frontier land values were rising and land speculators and emigrants were searching the West for cheap and fertile lands1 The reports of the Indian traders had ...