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Hell Town is the name for a Lenape (or Delaware) Native-American village located on Clear Creek near the abandoned town of Newville, in the U.S. state of Ohio. [1] The site is on a high hill just north of the junction of Clear Creek and the Black Fork of the Mohican River.
In 1902, that camp became Bisbee, Arizona, a quintessential old west mining town. Today, Wild West enthusiasts can take guided walking tours throughout Bisbee, where there were once bustling ...
Here's a list of sites to learn more about Native American culture in the Buckeye State. It's Native American Heritage Month. Check out these heritage sites around Ohio
The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few ...
According to the local histories, by 1808-09 early European-American settlers to the area of what is now Jeromesville in Ashland County, Ohio, on the Jerome Fork of the Mohican River found Delaware people living about three-fourths of a mile south-by-south-west of the present site of Jeromesville. Near that native village of "Jerometown" was ...
Related: 18 Towns Where You Can Still Experience the Wild West Dan Kaplan/shutterstock This Native American community of adobe homes and buildings traces its origin to as early as 1000 A.D.
The Tremper Mound and Works are an Ohio Hopewell (100 BCE to 500 CE) earthen enclosure and large, irregularly shaped mound. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The site is located in Scioto County, Ohio, about five miles northwest of Portsmouth, Ohio, on the second terrace floodplain overlooking the Scioto River.
Pressure from the growing European populations on the east coast of North America and in southern Canada had caused Native American populations to concentrate in the Ohio River Valley, [11] [19] and Lower Shawneetown was situated at a convenient point, accessible to many communities living on tributaries of the Ohio River.