... PYRAMIDS AND BURIED CITIES IN THE LAND PYRAMIDS AND BURIED CITIES IN THE LAND OF THE MONTEZUMAS1 BURIED deep in the wildernesses of Mexico and Central America innumerable ruined cities await in silence the coming of the explorer-deserted temples and crumbling pyramids builded so-far back in the twilight of time that not a tradition remains of their founders In Yucatan alone no less than sixty-seven prehistoric cities have been discovered despite the fact that this wildest territory of Mexico ...
... A Prophecy A Prophecy 351 Wait on the Queen of Arts in her own bowers Perfumed with all the fragrance of the earth From blooming shrubbery and radiant flowers And hope with rapture wed life's calm and peaceful hours Oft as the spring wakes on the verdant year And nature glows in fervid beauty dress'd The loves and graces shall commingle here To charm the queenly City of the West Her stately youth with noble warmth impress'd Her graceful daughters smiling as in MayApollos these and Hebes those ...
... JONATHAN ALDER JONATHAN ALDER COL WM CURRY The tales of adventure and bloodshed related by the early pioneers of Ohio of their dangers and hardships have been familiar to me since boyhood Among others of whom I heard many harrowing stories related by my father and other pioneers was of Jonathan Alder who was at one time a resident of Union county Ohio and a noted pioneer and frontiersman Like Captain Samuel Davis the famous Indian fighter he was taken captive by the Indians and the latter part ...
... 362 Ohio Arch 362 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 4 A DESCRIPTION OF FORT ANCIENT WARREN KING MOOREHEAD The members of the Society and also the readers of THE ARCHAEOLOGIST have a special interest in the earthworks and enclosures of the Mississippi Valley The former are proud to be possessers and preservers in company with the State of Ohio of the most extensive prehistoric fortification of the United States The latter as students of antiquities are interested in facts obtained ...
... THE RELATION OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD TO THE RELATION OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD TO ARCHAEOLOGY IN OHIO As yet no implements have been found in Ohio which can certainly be ascribed to the glacial age The hope that we may yet discover pre-glacial instruments in Ohio as we have discovered pre-glacial wood is however a sufficient justification of this paper if it shall succeed first in making clear the relation of the glacial period to archaeological discoveries in other portions of the world and if in ...
... SQUAW TRAIL SQUAW TRAIL BY GEORGE NELSON HINDS John and Elizabeth Hinds and their three sons had emigrated from the Fen country in England to the New World on board a slave ship arriving in 1808 Traveling in an oilskin-covered wagon drawn by their oxen Thomas and Jeremiah they encamped at a point about thirty miles from Albany New York on the Squaw Trail This trail variously labeled the Iroquois trail King Philip's road and described as a tote road and a trace was known to the Indians as Squaw ...
... 362 Ohio Arch 362 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications dedicatory exercises in honor of the battle which occurred near this spot on July 30 1813 when Major Ball's squadron Second Light Dragoons U S Army while escorting Colonel Wells of the Seventeenth U S Infantry from Major General Harrison's headquarters at Fort Seneca to relieve Major Croghan of the command of Fort Stephenson for alleged insubordination in refusing to evacuate the fort was ambushed by Indians but gallantly charged them ...
... 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 ...
... MUSKINGUM RIVER IMPROVEMENT MUSKINGUM RIVER IMPROVEMENT THE McCONNELSVILLE LOCK-OLD AND NEW IRVEN TRAVIS The beginning of the improvement of the Muskingum dates back to 1827 when on January 17th the following resolution was passed by the General Assembly Resolved That the Board of Canal Commissioners deem it expedient and authorize an examination and survey of the Muskingum River from Marietta to a point most convenient for a connection with the Ohio Canal to ascertain the practicability of ...
... 288 Ohio Arch 288 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ferson to the degree that he declared it compared favorably with any speech of Demosthenes or Cicero It matters little if this is not the exact spot where Lord Dunmore received the oration It could not have been far from here But tradition coming down through several reliable families whose representatives still live near here says this magnificent old elm the largest in all the land which then and for many years after had a fine spring ...
... 276 Ohio Arch 276 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications his pedantry King James little understood the hidden meaning of the sea-to-sea extension Under this charter of 1609 modified by that of 1612 Virginia held until the formation of the federal constitution in 1788 In reading of Mr Avery's work we are tempted to halt and linger at particularly important and interesting events The reader reluctantly leaves his story which we again commend to both the general reader and the close student Both ...
... 46 Ohio Arch 46 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications LAUNCHING THE SHIP BY IDA ECKERT-LAWRENCE This poem was written by Mrs Lawrence and read by her as she stood by President McKinley upon the occasion of the launching of the Ohio at San Francisco May 18 1901 Mrs Lawrence is a native of Richland county Ohio and now a resident of Toledo She is the author of the well-known little volume of poems entitled Day Dreams I Oh Star of empire thou that went before The pilgrim in the misty days of yore ...
... Philip Bevan -- Minor Poet of Ohio 213 Philip Bevan -- Minor Poet of Ohio 213 Although Bevan's verse was modeled after the English school and so was representative of that period of imitation in poetry which possessed American poets at the opening of the nineteenth century his frank avowal of love for the new nation and his delight in the beauty of the frontier states are reason enough to mark him as one of the important members of the minor school Then too the reprinting of America will ...
... THE CINCINNATI TABLET AN INTERPRETATION THE CINCINNATI TABLET AN INTERPRETATION By CHARLES C WILLOUGHBY The Great Horned Serpent of our American tribes was usually considered a god of waters lakes and streams His anger was manifested through storms thunder and lightning Forked lightning was the darting of his tongue The Algonquians of the Great Lakes believed that a monster serpent Gitche-Kenebig dwelt in these waters who unless appeased with offerings raised a tempest or broke the ice beneath ...
... FORT HILL OHIO FORT HILL OHIO FORT HILL is situated in the southeastern corner of Highland county Ohio one and a half miles west of Pike county line and three miles north of the village of Sinking Springs The base of the hill is bounded on the north and west by the East Fork of Ohio Brush Creek Its elevation is about five hundred feet above the bed of the stream and thirteen hundred feet above the level of the sea The base of the hill rests upon one hundred and fifty feet of Niagara limestone ...
... 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 Wisconsin Archaeological Society The Wisconsin Archaeological Society 341 about Madison describing the locations of the camps trail and fur-trade stations as described by early travelers He was followed by Mr Emilius O Randall secretary of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society who protested that he was not a professional archaeologist history being his bent if he had any bent at all and regretted that his place on the program was not filled by Prof W C Mills the successful ...
... An Ohioan's Letter from the California GOLD Fields in 1850 The discovery of gold at Sutter's mill in California's lower Sacramento Valley in 1848 precipitated one of the most massive and spontaneous westward migrations in American history Responding to the avalanche of propaganda emanating from the California gold fields and spurred on by numerous exaggerated newspaper and magazine accounts of the alleged untapped and unlimited yellow treasure of the Far West thousands of easterners left ...
... TARHE-THE CRANE TARHE-THE CRANE EMIL SCHLUP UPPER SANDUSKY Probably no other Indian chieftain was ever more admired and loved by his own race or by the outside world He was either a true friend or a true enemy Born near Detroit Michigan in 1742 he lived to see a wonderful change in the great Northwest Being born of humble parentage through his bravery and perseverence he rose to be the grand sachem of the Wyandot nation This position he held until the time of his death when he was succeeded by ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 283 and calls out 'Let them go' and the superb roan leaders that have been prancing waiting for the word dash off But after all Kirkersville attained to something more than local fame It was in the summer of 1865 just after the end of the Great Rebellion when I was stationed at Watertown arsenal near Boston Colonel Kingsbury our commanding officer was a classmate of General Sherman and when the latter came to Boston he hurried out to the arsenal to see his old cadet ...