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Human history in Ohio began a few millennia after formation of the Bering land bridge about 14,500 BCE – see Prehistory of Ohio. By the mid-18th century, a few American and French fur traders engaged historic Native American tribes in present-day Ohio in the fur trade. The Native Americans had their own extensive trading networks across the ...
Fanny Mills (August 30, 1860 – May 3, 1899), known under the stage name as the "Ohio Big Foot Girl", was a British-American woman who achieved fame as an entertainment attraction in dime museums throughout the 1880s. Mills suffered from the rare disease called Milroy's disease that caused her lower limbs to grow to enormous size.
(1919) Leslie Irvin tested the first military free-fall parachute when he jumped from a de Havilland DH-9 biplane flying at 100 mph while 1,500 feet (460 m) over McCook Field in Dayton, Ohio. April 29
The mound today stands 30 feet (9.1 m) in height and is the sole intact feature of the earthworks. [2] The ditch surrounding the mound is 15 feet (4.6 m) in width and 4 feet (1.2 m) deep, with its surrounding embankment measuring 20 feet (6.1 m) across its base and 585 feet (178 m) in circumference.
Until the mid-19th century, the area that is now Grove City was a wilderness filled with oak, beech, maple, walnut, dogwood and other trees. The area's first European settler, Hugh Grant, operated a gristmill in Pittsburgh and transported excess goods down the Ohio River for sale, returning to Pittsburgh on foot.
The 1,200-foot (370 m)-wide Newark Earthworks Great Circle (located in Heath, OH) is one of the largest circular earthworks in the Americas, at least in construction effort. A 5-foot (1.5 m) deep moat is encompassed by walls that are 8 feet (2.4 m) high; at the entrance, the dimensions are even more grand. [6]
Early pioneers in the Ohio Valley were already known as buckeyes when Dr. Daniel Drake, a physician and historian in Cincinnati, presented a speech on Dec. 26, 1833, extolling the virtues of the ...
7:00 am—After a day and night of heavy rains, with precipitation between 8 and 11 inches (200 and 280 mm), the river reaches its high stage for the year at 11.6 feet (3.5 m), and continues to rise. Tuesday, March 25, 1913