... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS PREHISTORIC EARTHWORKS IN WISCONSIN A B STOUT University of Wisconsin In presenting this subject it seems best to the writer to treat somewhat in detail the various classes of earthworks and then to give a summary for the state as a whole with a brief discussion of the archaeological area to which it belongs With this plan in view the various artificial earthen structures in Wisconsin of prehistoric origin at least the greater number are ...
... Mills and Josiah Barber a committee on school lands To that committee was referred a great number of petitions from occupants of school lands in almost every part of the state This committee devoted nearly 252 Ohio Arch 252 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications all its time to the subjects submitted to its charge All the acts of the legislature relative to the school land were carefully examined and this committee came to the conclusion ...
... WASHINGTON'S OHIO LANDS WASHINGTON'S OHIO LANDS BY E O RANDALL Secretary Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society On June 15 1775 the Continental Congress passed the enactment establishing the Continental army and after fixing the pay of the commander-in-chief at five hundred dollars a month proceeded by ballot to elect that officer Washington was unanimously chosen and this result was formally announced to him on the next day when the newly elected general had taken his seat Rising in ...
... Mills 9 93 98 James Allen 65 69 96 Nathaniel W Little 25 71 75 118 144 157 158 Ichabod Plumb 101 James Kilbourn and others Committee 10 35 64 76 134 The owner of the lots could erect a dwelling thereon and occupy it or sell the lots as he saw fit The cost of the entire tract sixteen thousand acres was twenty thousand dollars This divided among forty persons made each share of purchase money five hundred dollars The preliminaries were all ...
... Mills the Y M C A building situated upon the tract was secured to the Society for use in its park plans In common with other buildings of the cantonment it has suffered seriously as a result of exposure neglect and van- 276 Ohio Arch 276 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications dalism since the abandonment of the cantonment The building consists of two parallel structures connected by an enclosed passage-way Either of the two would be a ...
... 1902 when the State 1902 Its membership was 1902 the district came back into use by the Ohio State Medical Association as a basis for membership in the Council The struggle between the county society and the district society was resolved by using the county society as the basis for membership in the State association and the creation of ...
... REPORT ON THE PRESENT CONDITION OF REPORT ON THE PRESENT CONDITION OF MOUNDS AND EARTHWORKS OF OHIO HAVING been appointed by the Ohio Arch ae ological and Historial Society Chairman of a Committee to consider the necessity and the means of preserving the prehistoric mounds and earthworks of Ohio I arranged last summer to spend a week in company with Judge C C Baldwin of Cleveland in making a tour of inspection which should enable us to supplement investigations which we had previously made ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY JUNE 1887 THE BEGINNINGS OF THE COLONIAL SYSTEM OF THE UNITED STATES1 THE formation of this society comes at an opportune moment In a little more than three years a century will have elapsed since the first permanent white settlement was made within the limits of the great region Northwest of the River Ohio That settlement was the beginning not only of this good State of Ohio but also of Indiana Illinois Michigan and Wisconsin which have all ...
... Mills excavated the whole Mills' complete Mills discovered a most Mills kept at that early date and a detailed discussion of the situation in which the implement was found was made by myself and a committee of the Western Reserve Historical Society and published in the Popular Science ...
... THE MIAMI CANAL THE MIAMI CANAL BY JOHN J GEORGE JR Much of the politics and planning of the early decades of the nineteenth century centered around internal improvements a topic made possible and popular by the expansion of the West This expansion and development the tidewater political leader recognized the representative of the frontier capitalized it Fruitless appeals for aid were made to a central government whose executive laboring under strict construction denied the constitutionality ...
... LUCAS SULLIVANT TABLET DEDICATED LUCAS SULLIVANT TABLET DEDICATED On Saturday December 9 1927 the Franklin County Pioneer Association founded in 1866 met in the southwest room of the Franklinton Public School Building for the purpose of unveiling and presenting to the city a bronze tablet marking the home of Lucas Sullivant founder of Franklinton The house that Lucas Sullivant built or a part of it is now incorporated in the larger buildings of the House of the Good Shepherd and it was by the ...
... Mills The Feurt Mounds and Village Site The Feurt Mounds and Village Site 405 making awls as were many of the wing bones of wading birds like the blue heron Polishing stones and whetstones used in the manufacture of bone awls were frequently met with in the tepee sites An excellent example of these polishing stones is shown in Fig 62 They are mere slabs of waverly sandstone showing great use some having grooves worn into their faces from use ...
... Mills in his Archaeological Atlas of Ohio says Sandusky County was one of the most strategic and important sections of Ohio in aboriginal times It was chiefly remarkable as being probably the most important trail center in the state Around Sandusky Bay there were a number of aboriginal towns and at this point the greatest trails centered Among these was the so-called Great Trail from the Allegheny region which passed on around the lake and ...
... Millstone Major William Lawrey Alexandria George Cotnam Oxford Thomas Anderson Newtown Major William Holmes Hackettstown Joseph Lewis Morristown James Henry Lamerton Daniel Marsh Rahway Rev Rune Runyan Piscataqua Doctor Elmer Westfield Elias Dayton Junior17 Elizabethtown John Burner Newark Nehemiah Wade Hackensack Timothy Day Chatham Benjamin Stites Scotch Plains and probably Elias Boudinot Jonathan Dayton received military warrants and issued ...
... FINANCING OHIO'S PRE-CIVIL WAR RAILROADS FINANCING OHIO'S PRE-CIVIL WAR RAILROADS by EUGENE 0 PORTER Associate Professor of History College of Mines and Metallurgy University of Texas The financial history of early railroads in the United States is nowhere better illustrated than in the history of railroad building in Ohio The lack of trained engineers and the consequent indefiniteness of plans the insufficiency of the original capitalization the use of state county and municipal credit and ...
... JOHN FITCH INVENTOR OF STEAMBOATS JOHN FITCH INVENTOR OF STEAMBOATS BY MIRA CLARKE PARSONS By a coincidence of which the writer was not then aware while the article on the Steamboat was in type the name of Robert Fulton was brought to public notice for the purpose of bestowing further honors upon the memory of a great inventor The object of this paper is to offer additional proof of the validity of the prior claim of John Fitch as the inventor and originator of steam navigation While all due ...