... THE SOCIETY'S STATE MEMORIALS WAHKEENA NATURAL HISTORY PRESERVE by DAVID H STANSBERY OVER 200000000 years ago coarse sand and gravel from a slowly eroding mountain range were washed into a shallow sea that covered what is now south-central Ohio During the millions of years that followed the huge beds of sand that formed along the edge of this ocean were first compressed into solid rock then were slowly lifted above the sea level This rock formation the Blackhand Sandstone forms the bedrock ...
... ANDREW POE'S ENCOUNTER WITH INDIANS ANDREW POE'S ENCOUNTER WITH INDIANS From the Draper Mss Border Forays 5 D-Chap 29 Wisconsin Historical Society Archives Andrew Poe was born the thirtieth of September 1742 in Frederick county Maryland George Poe the father of Andrew died while the latter was in his teens He remained at home until he became of age living with his mother and an elder brother Not long after the termination of Pontiac's War he came to the neighborhood of Pittsburgh where he ...
... SEVEN PREHISTORIC SITES IN NORTHERN OHIO SEVEN PREHISTORIC SITES IN NORTHERN OHIO By EMERSON F GREENMA N Description of the Sites In the summer of 1 929 during excavation of the Reeve village site near Willoughby1 other sites were located mapped and examined Some were found by the use of William C Mills' Archaeological Atlas of Ohio Columbus Ohio 1914 while others have not been mentioned heretofore in archaeological literature Four of these sites are on the tops of hills and the occupied areas ...
... THE BATTLES OF THE MAUMEE THE BATTLES O F THE MAUMEE N B C LOVE D D MOUND BUILDERS Maumee Thou art lovely and bright As if blood had ne'er tinged thy waves And pre-historic tawny braves Had wrought no scene of hellish night Why not a golden sunset smile When thy banks are clothed in green And beauty adorns all the scene When bathed in mellow light the while Thou art gray in the early morn And restful thy summer eveA mirror which cannot deceive And has not since Time was born In ages gone thy ...
... The Harrison Table Rock and Ball's Battlefield The Harrison Table Rock and Ball's Battlefield 363 No other county in the state is so rich in early history as Sandusky A British post was established here during the Revolutionary War Here the first permanent white settlers located and the first marriage between whites was performed Especially during the War of 1812 was it a famous battleground In marking one by one these historical places we as an organization are not only showing patriotism in ...
... JOHN GRAY WASHINGTON'S LAST SOLDIER JOHN GRAY WASHINGTON'S LAST SOLDIER BORN NEAR MT VERNON VA JANUARY 6TH 1764 DIED NEAR HIRAMSBURG O MARCH 29TH 1868 BY PRIVATE DALZELL Read at the Marietta Centennial Celebration One by one the severed links have started Bonds that bound us to the sacred past One by one our patriot sires departed Time hath brought us to behold the last Last of all who won our early glory Lonely traveler of the weary way Poor unknown unnamed in song or story In his western ...
... The Sorrow of the Nations The Sorrow of the Nations 385 THE SORROW OF THE NATIONS IN MEMORIAM WM MCKINLEY BY JOHN P SMITH SHARPSBURG MARYLAND Corresponding Member of the Maryland Historical Society and of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society There's darkness over every land - Man takes his fellow by the hand The hearts of men now almost fail For all the earth is one sad wail There's sorrow in the hut and hall Our land's enshrouded with a pall The bells of death do sadly toll ...
... David Zeisberger Centennial David Zeisberger Centennial 17 5 A SCENE AT ZEISBERGER'S GRAVE C L MARTZOLFF From The Ohio Teacher January 1908 A beautiful November day it is One of those rare last days of the autumn time whose minutes pass too lightly for you want to keep them by you One of those days when you are watching the sun and calculate mentally how much of it you have yet to enjoy You know that you cannot have many more such glorious days and you want every bit of this one This is the ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTHWORKS OF BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTHWORKS OF OHIO THE following bibliography was prepared by Mrs Cyrus Thomas under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution and is published by permission from the manuscript copy Its publication will serve two ends In the first place to impart information already obtained and in the second place to solicit information supplementary to what is here contained Any observers in the State who have facts concerning the earthworks of Ohio in ...
... THE WYANDOT CHIEF LEATHER LIPS THE WYANDOT CHIEF LEATHER LIPS HIS TRIAL AND EXECUTION BY WM L CURRY Away back in the thirties of the 19th century a literary magazine of high order called The Hesperian of the West was published in Columbus Ohio In fact it is the only literary periodical that ever was published in the Capital City of Ohio In the publication of this magazine William D Gallagher and Otway Curry both men of high literary attainments were associated together as editors Poems from ...
... THE MAKING OF PINE TAR IN HOCKING THE MAKING OF PINE TAR IN HOCKING COUNTY BY PASCAL A BRIGHT One of the primitive industries in southern Ohio where pine trees are found native was the making of pine tar In the summer of 1929 in company with Mr Emory Bainter who then lived on Big Pine Creek Mr A L Burgess of Columbus whose photographs have done so much to help popularize the state parks and his son I was on a trip in the park region of Hocking County We were in the hollow which contains Sand ...
... Minutes of the Annual Meeting 561 Minutes of the Annual Meeting 561 listened to some arguments I made there and now he will get even by forcing me to listen to him He holds a policy in the same life insurance company in which I hold a policy but I will not give the name of the company myself but I will say that this man has a great gift of getting into good company and I want to congratulate him this afternoon on getting into this company here He belongs to a race that is a hundred per cent ...
... EXPLORATION OF THE GINTHER MOUND EXPLORATION OF THE GINTHER MOUND H C SHETRONE CURATOR OF ARCHAEOLOGY The type of prehistoric tumuli known variously as Temple mounds Platform mounds Truncated mounds and Flat-topped mounds has furnished substance for much speculation in the archaeological literature of Ohio The early attitude of writers on the subject may be summarized in the words of Squier and Davis whose opinion is expressed as follows So far as ascertained they cover no remains and seem ...
... THE ULRICH GROUP OF MOUNDS THE ULRICH GROUP OF MOUNDS BY TRUMAN B MILLS The Ulrich group of mounds have been so named by reason of the location of two of the mounds upon the farm of Mr Joseph Ulrich situated about two and one-half miles west of Farmersville in Jackson township Montgomery county Ohio Six or more mounds comprise the group four of which were examined by the writer during the summer months of 1916 and 1917 Except for one mound-that located upon the farm formerly owned by Mr J H ...
... CORNSTALK THE INDIAN CHIEF CORNSTALK THE INDIAN CHIEF BY MRS ORSON D DRYER Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top When the wind blows the cradle will rock A certain queer little cradle hanging from a limb of a tree in a great green forest about the year 1720 is rocking to and fro as the soft summer wind sways the branches above it It is a gay and pretty cradle soft and warm with the skin of the moose and gorgeous with bird feathers and brightly colored quills of the porcupine and from it shine out ...
... Ohio Day at the Jamestown Exposition Ohio Day at the Jamestown Exposition 187 An honored picture his who built so fair The soldier-statesman who in days of stress Toiled 'midst the brave high-hearted pioneers To make a garden of the wilderness From old Virginia he blessed with her dower Of courage high Could nobler gift be given 'Twas on her shore that our fair freedom's flower Raised its first bravely shining bud toward heaven Ah those who went to brave the Western wilds To fell the forest ...
... 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 ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 109 Marietta could not have been surpassed The place and time of the next annual meeting was left in the hands of the Executive Committee The proceedings in full of the meetings above including addresses etc will be published either in a later number of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Quarterly or in a separate publication by the same Society PALEOLITHIC MAN IN THE WESTERN RESERVE The following article was written by P P Cherry and published in ...