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Andrews, Martin R.: History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, Biographical Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois (1902). Barker, Joseph: Recollections of the First Settlement of Ohio, Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio (1958) original manuscript written late in Joseph Barker's life, prior to his death in 1843.
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 ...
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]
John McIntire (October 15, 1759 – July 29, 1815) was the founder of the city of Zanesville, Ohio.. McIntire was born in Alexandria, Virginia.He married Sarah Zane, the daughter of Colonel Ebenezer Zane, in December 1789.
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 ...
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 ...
James McBride (1788–1859) was a prominent pioneer statesman in Butler County, Ohio.He was Hamilton's first Mayor, and a prominent State Representative associated with the canals, archaeologist who supplied a considerable number of sketches of earthworks for early texts on the Mississippi Valley, Ohio's leading pioneer author and antiquarian, Miami University Secretary and President of the ...
Prehistory of Ohio provides an overview of the activities that occurred prior to Ohio's recorded history. The ancient hunters, Paleo-Indians (13000 B.C. to 7000 B.C.), descended from humans that crossed the Bering Strait. There is evidence of Paleo-Indians in Ohio, who were hunter-gatherers that ranged