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The Yellow Creek massacre was a killing of several [note 1] Mingo Indians by Virginian settlers on April 30, 1774. The massacre occurred across from the mouth of the Yellow Creek on the upper Ohio River in the Ohio Country, near the current site of the Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack and Resort.
[130] [131] A 2016 study on immigrants in Ohio concluded that immigrants make up 6.7% of all entrepreneurs in Ohio although they are just 4.2% of Ohio's population, and that these immigrant-owned businesses generated almost $532 million in 2014. The study also showed that "immigrants in Ohio earned $15.6 billion in 2014 and contributed $4.4 ...
Lord Dunmore's Little War of 1774: His Captains and their Men who Opened Up Kentucky & the West to American Settlement. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books. ISBN 0-7884-2271-5. Smith, Thomas H., ed. Ohio in the American Revolution: A Conference to Commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the Ft. Gower Resolves. Columbus: Ohio Historical Society, 1976.
Joseph Galloway's Plan of Union debated September 1774, calling for the creation of a Grand Council for the American colonies, with each having representation and hold and exercise power within the British Empire; rejected by the Continental Congress. [3] Declaration and Resolves, also known as Declaration of Rights (October 14) [4]
1774 – March: Boston Port Act passed. [3] May: Massachusetts Government Act passed. June: Quartering Act passed. [3] September–October: First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia. [3] 1775 – March: "Give me liberty or give me death!" speech. [3] March–April: Parliament passes the Restraining Acts. April: Battles of Lexington and ...
Reid has documented the Jewish history of 20 Ohio cities and towns, 15 of which are digitally published on the Columbus Jewish Historical Society's website. Some are still home to active Jewish ...
This is an incomplete list of military confrontations that have occurred within the boundaries of the modern US State of Ohio since European contact. The region was part of New France from 1679–1763, ruled by Great Britain from 1763–1783, and part of the United States of America 1783–present.
In the early years of the war, the Virginians had attempted to defend their western border with militiamen garrisoning three forts along the Ohio River—Fort Pitt, Fort Henry, and Fort Randolph. Defending such a long border proved to be futile, however, because American Indians simply bypassed the forts during their raids.