Settling the Scioto Valley
Southern Ohio, in the minds of many Americans, was part of a larger "Promised Land," whose settlement followed quickly on the heels of the United States' victo…
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How Pee Pee Creek Got Its Namelocation_fillPee Pee Creek, whose waters fill Lake White, derives its name from one of the settlers who, just before the de…
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Tecumseh Comes of Age on the Allan W. Eckert Traillocation_fillOne need not refer to well-known bestseller lists to appreciate that more Americans are familiar with Allan Ec… -
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Nathaniel Massie and Indentured Servitude at Buckeye Station, Adams County, Ohiolocation_fillBuckeye Station, the one-time home of Nathaniel Massie and his brother-in-law, Charles Willing Byrd, lays in r… -
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Major John Belli and the First American Settlement on Turkey Creeklocation_fillTypical of Virginia Military District surveys, which were conducted with the old metes and bounds method (some… -
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Abandoned Alexandria, Ohiolocation_fillThe confluence of the Scioto and Ohio Rivers has long been the site of human habitation, from the ancient Aden… -
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Gharky & Waller at Carey's Run Cemeterylocation_fillThe lives of David Gharky and Dr. Thomas Waller are forever intertwined. These two pioneer settlers first ma… -
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Joe Logan & the Fugitive Slave Experience in Southern Ohiolocation_fillThe Olde Wayside Inn in West Union, Adams County, has gone by many names over its two-hundred plus years of ex… -
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Mitchell-Morrison Cemetery at Moore's Runlocation_fillWhere Moore's Run exits the river hills of Shawnee State Forest, just off modern-day US Highway 52, near the "… -
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Treber Inn, Henry Clay, & the "Self-Made Man" on Old Zane's Tracelocation_fillZane's Trace, the first Federally funded road through frontier Ohio, ran from Wheeling, in modern-day West Vir…
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