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The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for ...
Catawba Island - Name of a Siouan speaking tribe from North Carolina who participated in many wars and conflicts, some of which being in Ohio. [24] Chickasaw - name of a tribe from Kentucky and Tennessee. Chillicothe - Shawnee. Chalakatha, one of the Shawnee bands. [25] Chippewa Lake; Choctaw Lake - name of a tribe from Mississippi. Conneaut
There are currently 253 cities and 673 villages in Ohio, for a total of 926 municipalities. Municipality names are not unique: there is a village of Centerville in Gallia County and a city of Centerville in Montgomery County ; there is also a city of Oakwood in Montgomery County as well as the villages of Oakwood in Cuyahoga County and Oakwood ...
Located at the intersection of Pleasant Avenue and Nilles Road it now serves as Fairfield's town center. The hamlet of Fair Play was located on the east bank of the Great Miami River. It was known for its mills, including Ohio's first paper mill. The community was destroyed by a flood in the late 1800s.
SunWatch Indian Village / Archaeological Park, previously known as the Incinerator Site, and designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 33-MY-57, is a reconstructed Fort Ancient Native American village next to the Great Miami River.
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 .
A Kispoko Sept of Ohio Shawnee (Hog Creek Reservation) was listed as residing in Cridersville, Ohio as of 2013, according to the 500 Nations website. [5] But, an 1880 source states that the Shawnee, including those formerly living in the Hog Creek Reservation (present-day Shawnee Township), were removed to eastern Kansas in 1832, receiving payment of $30,000 in fifteen annual installments for ...
Town hall Location in Summit County and the state of Ohio . Coordinates: 41°17′45″N 81°31′46″W / 41.29583°N 81.52944°W / 41.29583; -81