... settlement and cultivation he made a systematic and thorough survey of these memorials of a prehistoric race the results being published by the Smithsonian Institution in a quarto volume with plates and wood engravings from drawings 43 44 Ohio Arch 44 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications made by himself This work is now one of the ...
... settlement by public opinion at the general election held that year It was ably argued that the revenues derived from the various land grants were inadequate to support the schools and that a general property tax for that purpose was necessary The friends of internal improvements and of common schools stood together and on February 5th 1825 a bill was passed imposing a tax of one-half of a mill upon the taxable property of the state to create ...
... settlements have been settlements have been an settlements have suffered from settlements The time and settlement of any locality and settlements compact enough to
... settlement of the country that a line of mounds would extend due east and west from one river to another Another feature which we do not see here is that on the large streams these earth houses are connected by a covered earthway so that one could go from one house to another There have been two great centers of population known as mound builders viz in Missouri Illinois and Ohio as one ...
... ROBERT WHITE McFARLAND ROBERT WHITE McFARLAND FRANK S BROOKS COLUMBUS If all the men who have been so fortunate as to have come under the benign influence of Professor McFarland were each to pay the tribute of laying one stone in his honor no towering modern structure would overlook the pile Such would be a fitting memorial for while indulgent toward many duller minds patiently helping to mould the characters of boys and men much of his incessant work has been among the stars Reluctantly I ...
... settlements from militia settlement exposed and called settlements from being called settlements were not called settlements because he believed the exemption promoted a decay of the militia in those areas He could obtain relatively ...
... THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOC I ETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO September 25 1918 The meeting was called to order by President G Frederick Wright There were present G Frederick Wright George F Bareis W H Cole B F Prince W L Curry E F Wood Mrs ...
... Comments Notes and Reviews Comments Notes and Reviews 375 Mr Sherman was one of the first members of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and for some years took a personal interest in its proceedings For ten years past and at the time of his death he was one of the trustees JOHN BROWN-A REVIEW In American history there are few if any characters the story of whose life is so erratic dramatic or so tragic as that of John Brown ...
... northwest quarter of Section 34 Harrison township Scioto County It was built as an addition to the saw mill and grist mill erected a few years previously and owned by Samuel B Burt James Keyes wrote in his Pioneers of Scioto County Mr Burt being in possession of a good water power and Frank Valodin Jr his son-in-law having plenty of ready cash formed a partnership and built the forge for the production of bar iron drawn out and refined under ...
... settlement in the Old settlement could afford little settlement on company business settlements which were springing up around the mother community Putnam chose to remain in his Campus Martius quarters When the company sold the blockhouses late in 1795 he purchased the one adjacent for ...
... northwest part of the Union whose history and relationship to the Nation is akin to that of New England Succeeding numbers of the society's periodical have been devoted to papers that were necessarily set aside for the June issue and though not so voluminous each contains within itself material invaluable to the student of our history Of volume I of this publication practically no numbers remain and it is only a question of time when volume II ...
... settlement of Pittsburgh settlement founded by settlement and a former school teacher who speaks for the superiority of the eddicated man Sip the Squire's black servant whose propensity for hunting bear leads him into difficulties Jim Johnson the Indian hater who pouts when the hunting party gives him no chance to collect a single scalp ...
... LOGAN'S CAMPAIGN -1786 LOGAN'S CAMPAIGN -1786 From the Draper MSS Wisconsin Historical Society Archives Mr Henry Hall was out on this campaign Were some 8 or 9 hundred men-Colos James Garrard Benj Harrison Thos Kennedy and Hugh McGary were the principal officers under Logan When Logan reached Meckacheck some 18 or 20 Indians remained and the men rode after and killed them most all Capt Irvine and others were pursuing an Indian with a broken thigh amp did not rush upon him as quick as they ...
... northwestern states In response to a recent letter of inquiry to our Curator Prof Mills he writes me as follows - The facts are we have absolutely outgrown the accommodations provided for us in Page Hall Every nook and corner is filled and I have been compelled within a week to refuse to receive collections as we cannot place them on display I am indeed sorry for this as we have grown so rapidly within the two years or since we occupied our ...
... settlement it was thought to settlement He took a millwright a blacksmith nine laborers and a family in two wagons Worthington's first private school was held in a log cabin It was of course a subscription school In 1808 the school was moved to provide a site for the Worthington Academy This academy of higher education was soon housed in a red-brick twostory building In 1819 the charter of ...
... PRESENTATION OF McGUFFEY READERS PRESENTATION OF McGUFFEY READERS On Tuesday evening February 15 1927 a meeting of unusual interest was held in the audience room of the Museum and Library Building on the Ohio State University Campus The program announced a joint session of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and the McGuffey Society of Columbus
... OLD FORT SANDOSKI OF 1745 OLD FORT SANDOSKI OF 1745 G FREDERICK WRIGHT President Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Mr Charles A Hanna's criticism of the inscription on the tablets placed on the site of Old Fort Sandusky and of the addresses made at the unveiling of these tablets are too serious to be permitted to pass without correction First-Mr Hanna's loose habit of observation may be inferred from his first statement that ...
... Johnny Appleseed Johnny Appleseed 313 To-day the events which stirred the souls and tried the courage of the pioneers seem to come out of the dim past and glide as panoramic views before me A number of the actors in those scenes were of my kith and kin who have long since crossed over the river in their journey to the land where Enoch and Elijah are pioneers while I am left to exclaim Oh for the touch of a vanished hand And the sound of a voice that is still While the scenes of those pioneer ...
... northwest of Circleville Noticed by Caleb Atwater Trans Am Antiq Soc Vol I p 184 Ancient works at Circleville enclosures walls mounds etc Described and figured by Atwater Trans Am Bibliography of the Earthworks of Ohio Bibliography of the Earthworks of Ohio 275 Antiq Soc Vol I 1820 pp 141-145 and 177-179 Pl v Anon writer Am Jour Sci and ...