... FORTS MIAMI AND FORT INDUSTRY FORTS MIAMI AND FORT INDUSTRY With Mention of Other Forts in and Near the Maumee River Basin BY CHARLES E SLOCUM M D PH D DEFIANCE OHIO There were at least five forts or stockades of defense in the Territory Northwest of the Ohio River in its earlier history that were called Fort Miami namely 1 The first one was built in November 1679 by ReneRobert Cavelier Sieur de la Salle by the River St Joseph of Lake Michigan on rising ground near its mouth Parkman's La Salle ...
... ORIGIN RISE PROGRESS AND DECLINE OF THE ORIGIN RISE PROGRESS AND DECLINE OF THE WHITEWATER COMMUNITY OF SHAKERS LOCATED IN HAMILTON COUNTY OHIO BY J P MAC LEAN While engaged in collecting the material for the article on West Union I engaged in a correspondence with Elder Charles H Sturr general manager of the Whitewater community He invited me to make him a visit and I should have the freedom of all the archives of the society I determined at ...
... compiled by compiled by HELEN M THURSTON A Survey of Publications on the History and Archaeology of Ohio 1969-1970 ARCHAEOLOGY BRITT CLAUDE JR The Hopkins Sites Multi-Component Sites in Miami County Ohio Ohio Archaeologist XVIII October 1968 124-128 GOODMAN KENNETH C A Proposed Standard for Denoting Loci of Features and Artifacts in Archaeological Explorations and Excavations Ohio Archaeologist XVIII October 1968 134-135 HOFFMAN MICHAEL Archaeological Surveys in the Central Ohio River Valley ...
... compiled by compiled by HELEN M THURSTON A Survey of Publications on the History and Archaeology of Ohio 1970 to 1971 ARCHAEOLOGY Central States Archaeological Journal 1970 published by several archaeological societies Ohio Archaeologist 1970 published by the Archaeological Society of Ohio A quarterly devoted to the discussion and illustration of artifacts found primarily in Ohio PRUFER OLAF H and ORRIN C SHANE III Blain Village and the Fort Ancient Tradition in Ohio Kent Ohio Kent State ...
... INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN OHIO INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN OHIO BY S S KNABENSHUE Ever since the civilized nations of the world began to occupy lands peopled by savages they have based their claims upon the right of discovery followed by occupation This principle has been judicially affirmed by the United States Supreme Court which declared that discovery gave an exclusive right to extinguish the Indian title of occupancy either by purchase or conquest and also to sovereignty Johnson and Graham's ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA A CHAPTER OF CORRECTIONS R W MCFARLAND History is never free from imperfections Particularly is this true of the collected and collated records and data of pioneer periods--the beginnings of history This is most natural as the memoranda are furnished by different authorities who discern the events recorded from various points of view or who are not accurate in their method of statement The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society endeavors to gather and ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 101 under discussion the tide was against the enactment on the ground that the Society did not merit the State's aid Mr Griffin hastily summoned the writer to the cloak-room of the House and asked a full explanation of the situation It was given Mr Griffin returned to the floor and in a most vigorous argument and enthusiastic plea changed the prevailing sentiment and carried the bill through He was the friend of the Society and deserves the kindliest thought and most ...
... REFUGEES TO AND FROM CANADA AND THE REFUREFUGEES TO AND FROM CANADA AND THE REFUGEE TRACT BY EDWARD LIVINGSTON TAYLOR All that part of the City of Columbus which lies east of the Scioto River and between Fifth Avenue on the north and Steelton on the south a distance of four and one-half miles is on what is known in law and history as the Refugee Tract which was as we shall hereafter see set apart by the government for the benefit of Refugees from Canada and Nova Scotia This territory comprises ...
... THE KIRTLAND PHASE OF MORMONISM THE KIRTLAND PHASE OF MORMONISM By W J MCNIFF Kirtland Ohio was but a stepping stone for the Mormons as they restlessly pushed on towards the setting sun Somewhere in the West they planned a city of Zion Their leader prophesied a land of milk and honey gleaming with alabaster towers where righteousness would reign in the hearts of man The Kirtland phase came as an interlude between the future Zion of Missouri and the scornful attitude of the New Yorker In 1 827 ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XIV INDEX TO VOLUME XIV A NArticles - Concluded Robert White McFarland 170 Aborigine use of word 474 Song Writers of Ohio 62 180 291 Adams J Q Cincinnati in 464 428 Agassiz Louis 83 Tarhe the Crane 132 American Historical Association 219 Tarhe the Wyandot Chief 313 Account of 219 The campaigns of the Revolution in Society at 94 Ohio Valley 39 Andrews M R Big Bottom at 467 The conquest of the Indian 139 Antioch College - The Indian Mound Miamisburg Building of 17 Ohio 496 Code ...
... SELECT LIST OF MATERIALS ON OHIO HISTORY IN SELECT LIST OF MATERIALS ON OHIO HISTORY IN SERIAL PUBLICATIONS Compiled by WILLIAM D OVERMAN This list is the outgrowth of an Index to Materials for the Study of Ohio History which comprised an index topically arranged of the leading articles in the OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Vols I-XLIII The present list not only affords an index to articles in the QUARTERLY Vols I-XLIX but also selected articles on Ohio history in ...
... FORTS LORAMIE AND PICKAWILLANY FORTS LORAMIE AND PICKAWILLANY BY R W MCFARLAND LL D One of the functions of an Historical Society is or at least ought to be to criticize doubtful and inexact statements in works professing to be History and where practicable to make known the truth Let us apply this principle to some of the statements made by different writers in reference to the places named at the head of this article But first it is well to give the location of the forts both of which were ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA THE AMERICANISTS AT FORT ANCIENT The International Congress of Americanists made up of delegates from the leading states of Europe and nearly all of the Countries of the Americas held their biennial meeting in New York City beginning October 22 1902 At this meeting many addresses were made and papers were read by distinguished scholars pertaining to the Archaeology of North and South America The full proceedings of this meeting with the addresses will be published in ...
... FORT INDUSTRY--AN HISTORICAL MYSTERY FORT INDUSTRY--AN HISTORICAL MYSTERY BY WALTER J SHERMAN Upon the south wall of an old brick mercantile building at the northeast corner of Monroe and Summit Streets Toledo hangs a faded inscription reading as follows viz This building stands on the site of Fort Industry a stockade erected by General Anthony Wayne in the year 1794 as a safeguard against the British who then held Fort Miami It was garrisoned by a company of United States troops under the ...
... 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 ...
... GENERAL SIMON KENTON GENERAL SIMON KENTON By ALBERT L SLAGER Introduction By ORTON G RUST There are Homeric men in every age men filled with the spring of life superabundant a perpetually flowing fountain of youth men whose every action attracts the attention of their fellow men and whose lives count for human progress Simon Kenton was such a man Tradition as well as history has placed him among the strong the swift the brave an explorer of hitherto unexplored regions and a pathfinder for the ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XVII INDEX TO VOLUME XVII A Twenty-third annual meeting of O Adena 185 189 A amp I S 132 Description of 191 Washington's Tour of the Ohio Distinguished visitors to 191 and articles of The Mississippi Allread James I Address of 120 Company 431 Amos J O Sketch of Loramie village Atwater Caleb mention of 254 by 9 B ArchaeologyBacon David - Collection in 144 Cabin site of 289 Mound Builders and the Lost Tribes Death of 292 208 Discomfiture of 290 Some Ohio Investigations in 94 ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA PURCHASE OF FORT ANCIENT The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is to be heartily congratulated over the final accomplishment of its efforts extending through many years of securing entire possession of Fort Ancient It has been a long and stubborn siege with many vicissitudes and delays and dis couragements but the last walls of the enclosure have finally been taken and the Society now holds the fort It is necessary to repeat some ancient history in ...
... JOHN STEWART JOHN STEWART PIONEER MISSIONARY OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH N B C LOVE DD The Methodist Episcopal Church from its organization in 1773 was missionary in its spirit It made continuous efforts towards the conversion of the w hites and blacks but the red men of the forest were passed by The minutes of the annual conferences at the beginning of the last century reported in separate columns the numbers of whites and blacks in each society but no figures for the Indians The ...