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The center was initiated in the 1990s and previously was named the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum. [4] Construction began in 2006, was interrupted in 2012 when state funding ran out, but resumed in 2019, after the responsibility for the museum was transferred from the State of Oklahoma to Oklahoma City. [5] [6]
An 1846 engraving of downtown Steubenville, with the Jefferson County Courthouse visible on the right. In 1786–87, soldiers of the First American Regiment under Major Jean François Hamtramck built Fort Steuben to protect the government surveyors mapping the land west of the Ohio River, [10] and named the fort in honor of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Allen County, Ohio, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]
Two Ohio astronauts completed significant milestones in the space race in the 1960s: John Glenn becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, and Neil Armstrong becoming the first human to walk on the Moon. In 1967, Carl Stokes was elected mayor of Cleveland and became the first African American mayor of one of the nation's 10 most populous ...
Howard Chandler Christy, born in Morgan County, became a leading American artist during this century, as well as composer Dan Emmett, founder of the Blackface tradition. Ohio's mines factories and cities attracted Europeans. Irish Catholics poured in to construct the canals, railroads, streets and sewers in the 1840s and 1850s. [79]
Museum about and house used for the film A Christmas Story: African American Museum: Hough: African American Currently closed ARTneo Detroit–Shoreway: Art website, exhibitions of Northeast Ohio art and architecture of Cleveland and the surrounding region Artists Archives of the Western Reserve: University Circle: Art
The Ohio Country (Ohio Territory, [a] Ohio Valley [b]) was a name used for a loosely defined region of colonial North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and south of Lake Erie. Control of the territory and the region's fur trade was disputed in the 17th century by the Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin, other Native American tribes, and France .
Logan is a city in and county seat of Hocking County, Ohio, United States, along the on the Hocking River about 43 miles (69 km) southeast of Columbus. [4] The population was 7,296 at the time of the 2020 census. The current mayor of Logan is Republican Greg Fraunfelter, who began a four-year term in January 2016 and was re-elected in 2019 and ...