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Map of the Ohio Country between 1775 and 1794, depicting locations of battles and massacres surrounding the area that would eventually become Ohio. The area including modern-day Columbus once comprised the Ohio Country, [2] under the nominal control of the French colonial empire through the Viceroyalty of New France from 1663 until
The Scioto River flows beside downtown Columbus. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a land area of 220.04 square miles (569.9 km 2). [1] Unlike many other major US cities in the Midwest, Columbus continues to expand its reach by way of extensions and annexations, making it one of the fastest growing large cities in the nation, in terms of both geography and population ...
Jordan, Philip D. Ohio Comes of Age: 1873–1900 Volume 5 (1968) online; Roseboom, Eugene. The Civil War Era, 1850–1873, Volume 4 (1944) online; Utter, William T. The Frontier State 1803–1825, Volume 2 online; Weisenburger, Francis P. The Passing of the Frontier, Volume 3 (1941), detailed history of the 1830s and 1840s online "Timeline of ...
The Ohio History Center is the headquarters of the Ohio History Connection, which also operates dozens of state historic sites across Ohio. [1] [2] Extensive exhibits cover Ohio's history from the Ice Age to the present. The Center includes state archives and library spaces, a gift shop, and administrative and educational facilities.
Historical Collections of Ohio is a work of history published in one volume in 1847 by Henry Howe (1816–1893). Howe had spent more than a year traveling across the state of Ohio making sketches, interviewing people, and collecting data. The first edition sold more than 18,000 copies. [1]
This crimson flower: In Flanders fields, an answer, and other verse; (Columbus, OH: Stoneman Press, 1919; ISBN 978-1-140-31899-6; The Logan Elm and the Dunmore War (Columbus, OH: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1924) History of Ohio (5 volumes); (Reprint Services Corp., 1925) ISBN 978-0-7812-5367-3
Ohio transitioned to dryland conditions in the Pennsylvanian, forming large coal swamps and the region has been dryland ever since. Until the Pleistocene glaciations erased these features, the landscape was cut with deep stream valleys, which scoured away hundreds of meters of rock leaving little trace of geologic history in the Mesozoic and ...
The following is a bibliography of Columbus, Ohio. It includes selected publications specifically about the city of Columbus , Franklin County , and the Columbus metropolitan area . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.