... MAUMEE VALLEY TRAVEL TOUR MAUMEE VALLEY TRAVEL TOUR By MAUMEE VALLEY INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL CONVENTION From From Toledo Fort Wayne Miles Miles 000 Commodore Perry Hotel Toledo 1069 Superior Street entrance South 12 block to Monroe Street Turn right W 2 blocks to Erie Street Turn left S on Erie Street 5 blocks across Swan Creek to Anthony Wayne Memorial Trail 09 Anthony Wayne Memorial Trail 1060 Turn right on Anthony Wayne Memorial Trail which is a new super-highway constructed upon the bed ...
... AN INDIAN CAMP MEETING AN INDIAN CAMP MEETING REV N B C LOVE The greater part of the following data the writer had from Levi Savage in 1885 He was at this time old and blind but in possession of his mental faculties His memory seemed clear and tenacious I wrote down at the time what he said word for word and from this written account I draw also from government and church publications A camp meeting was held by the Christian Wyandots on the east side of the Sandusky river opposite the big ...
... ADDENDA ADDENDA TO THE PATHFINDERS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY The time allotted the compiler by the Society in which to prepare the matter foregoing precluded the possibility of examination of original papers to the extent necessary for an absolutely correct historical statement and the demand for delivery of copy into the hands of the printer forced completion of manuscript before the compiler could receive information for which he had applied to authorities and consequently the addenda following ...
... NEWS FROM THE MUSKINGUM1 NEWS FROM THE MUSKINGUM1 SALEM September 9 Extract of a letter from a gentleman at the new settlement on the Muskingum to a person in this town dated July 20th We had a beautiful passage down the Ohio from Pittsburg in company with 3 Kentucke boats Without sails or oars we glided down the fair river and in 48 hours arrived at the enchanting spot It is really a delightful situation The first thing which presented itself when we ascended the bank by a grand and easy pair ...
... 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 ...
... ST ST CLAIR'S DEFEAT FRAZER ELLS WILSON GREENVILLE OHIO Author of the valuable little volume entitled The Treaty of Greenville published 1894-E 0 R Probably the most disastrous defeat ever suffered by the Americans at the hands of the Red Men was that of the army of Gen Arthur St Clair on the east branch of the Wabash near the present western boundary of Ohio November 4th 1 791 Both for the number of men killed and the blighting effect on the frontier settlements was this disaster noted and ...
... FIRST BATTLE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FIRST BATTLE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BY W H HUNTER CHILLICOTHE This article was prepared for and read by author at the Banquet of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the American Revolution held at the Neil House Columbus April 19 1902 It is herewith published at the request of the editor of the Quarterly-E 0 R At the time the dreadful battle of Point Pleasant was fought at the mouth of the Kanawha river on October 10 1774 the American colonies were in ...
... SHAKER MISSION TO THE SHAWNEE INDIANS SHAKER MISSION TO THE SHAWNEE INDIANS BY J P MACLEAN A B PH D INTRODUCTION It is but a slight exaggeration to state that the aborigines of this country have been made the objects of conversion from all the religious sects that have found a domicile within our borders Under the civilizing influence of the dominant exotic race the American savage has constantly gone down It is not the fault of Christianity nor of the civilization of the nineteenth century ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 64 Ohio Arch 64 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications and of course there is a constant demand for new vessels Further along after traversing a portion of the Ohio river the same author writes The boats which float upon the Ohio river are various--from the ship of several hundred tons burden to the mere skiff Very few if any very large vessels however are now built at Pittsburgh and Marietta but the difficulties incident to getting them to the ocean have rendered such undertakings infrequent ...
... DAVID ZEISBERGER CENTENNIAL DAVID ZEISBERGER CENTENNIAL NOVEMBER 20 1908 E O RANDALL As the result of the plans of a committee appointed several weeks previous to the event by the Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society a celebration was held commemorating the Centennial Anniversary of the death of David Zeisberger which occurred November 17 1808 at Goshen Tuscarawas County Ohio The day selected for the celebration was Friday November 20th 1908 It proved a most ...
... 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 ...
... THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TREATY OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TREATY OF GREENE VILLE BY PRESTON SLOSSON To Voltaire is ascribed the remark that Penn's Treaty with the Indians was the only treaty not sworn to and the only one not broken No doubt he did not intend his epigram to be taken too seriously but it is tragic truth that most treaties whether signed in European palaces or in rough frontier forts with great civilized nations or with primitive savage tribes have been broken But if Voltaire had ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XXVI No 2 APRIL 1917 FORT LAURENS PURCHASED It will be recalled that the autumn winter and spring of 1777-8 was the period of the low ebb of the cause of the Colonial Revolutionists In the late spring of 1778 while Washington was just emerging from Valley Forge George Rogers Clark entered upon the daring expedition to save the Northwest to the Colonies The British-Canadian authorities were planning not only to circumvent Clark but to carry the war into Africa by ...
... LOGAN -THE MINGO CHIEF LOGAN -THE MINGO CHIEF 1710-1780 The Ohio tribes of Indians produced an extraordinary number of illustrious chiefs who figured large in the history of their race Among these were Pontiac Tecumseh Cornstalk Little Turtle Blue Jacket and a score of others who left distinguished records as warriors orators and tribal leaders Among these perhaps no one gained a fame so wide as that acquired by Logan the Mingo chief who refused to attend the Treaty of Camp Charlotte and at ...
... OUR GLAMOROUS HISTORY OUR GLAMOROUS HISTORY By R CL YD E FO RD A long time ago Pericles once said in a memorial day address outside the walls of Athens that it was fitting to remember the dead who had fallen on the fields of battle but also Athenians must never forget by what principles of action and deeds of valor Athens had risen to power and become great When we turn to our own history we can discover principles of action and deeds of valor to defend them that stir our souls It's that ...
... Unveiling of the Cresap Tablet Unveiling of the Cresap Tablet 141 vation of their historic sites mounds circles squares and the tokens of a bygone civilization found therein To you and to your keeping we present this Tablet and are happy in so doing We realize that you and the great State of Ohio are leading in the procession of progress To you the custodian of the glories of the past peoples records and their trophies of valor we consign this Tablet and leave it under your protection and that ...
... arrayed in the uniform of a French officer which apparel had been given him many years before by the Marquis of Montcalm His footsteps were stealthily dogged by a Kaskaskia Indian who in the silence and seclusion of the forest at an opportune moment buried the blade of a tomahawk in the brain of the Ottawa conqueror the champion of his race The murderer had been bribed to the heinous act by a British trader named Williamson who thought to thus ...