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It is a non-profit entity which operates several important historic sites in and around the Zanesville, Ohio, area, including the Dr. Increase Mathews House, built in 1805 by a founder of the town; [1] and the Stone Academy, erected in 1809 as a possible state capitol, which was also a meeting place for abolitionist societies, [2] and once the ...
(1825) Return J. Meigs, Jr., a pioneer Indian fighter, first chief justice of Ohio, governor during the War of 1812, and the man for whom Megis County is named after, dies in Marietta, Ohio at age 60.
Postcard depicting Navarre, based on a drawing from Henry Howe's History of Ohio (1888) Peter Navarre (c. 1785–1874) was an early settler of the Maumee valley. He was said to be the grandson of a French army officer, who visited this section in 1745. Navarre was born at Detroit in about 1785, where his father before him was born.
The Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen, or S&D, is an historical organization operating out of Marietta, OH. According to its website, it "was established in 1939 to perpetuate the memory of pioneer rivermen and for the preservation of river history."
The Deerslayer was the most successful of an early series, the Leatherstocking Tales, about pioneer life in New York. Little House on the Prairie, a century later, typified a later series of novels describing a pioneer family. Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett are two real-life icons of pioneer history. [citation needed]
Ohio: A History of the Buckeye State (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), 544pp; Knepper, George W. Ohio and Its People. Kent State University Press, 3rd edition 2003, ISBN 0-87338-791-0; Murdock, Eugene C. and Jeffrey Darbee. Ohio: The Buckeye State, An Illustrated History (2007). popular; Roseboom, Eugene H.; Weisenburger, Francis P. A History of Ohio ...
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Map of Ohio showing the boundaries of the Ohio Company Purchase on the lower right. Rufus Putnam 20th-century artist’s impression of a pioneer wagon bound for the Ohio country in the late 1700s. The Ohio Company of Associates , also known as the Ohio Company , was a land company whose members are today credited with becoming the first non ...