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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 ...
Logan's War was a 1774 retribution campaign or "mourning war" led by Mingo leader Logan in retaliation for the Yellow Creek massacre. Lord Dunmore's War was a direct result of Logan's campaign. On 30 April 1774, several members of a Mingo village were lured to the house of Joshua Baker, [1] near Yellow Creek in the modern state of Ohio. The ...
The Ohio Country (Ohio Territory, [a] Ohio Valley [b]) was a name used for a loosely defined region of colonial North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and south of Lake Erie. Control of the territory and the region's fur trade was disputed in the 17th century by the Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin, other Native American tribes, and France .
Dotted across Ohio are communities that were once host to thriving Jewish populations. Though some of the members of those communities have moved on, they have left traces of their culture and ...
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 (United States) Hibernia, New Jersey, Ironworks Strike. [1] 1778 (United States) Journeymen printers in New York combine to increase their wages. [1] 1781 (Austria) Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph II, issues the Serfdom Patent of 1781, to abolish serfdom throughout the Habsburg lands. 1791 (United States)