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PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AND TERRITORIES
#8 - OHIO
Size: 5" x 3"
Copyrighted: 1892
Lithographer: Donaldson Bros.
  
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Left section:
GRIND
YOUR COFFEE AT HOME
Right section: |
| OHIO. |
| THE valley of the Ohio
was in very remote days occupied
by an active and widely scattered
race, whose remains show that in
many respects they were more
advanced than the modern Indians.
The mounds and ancient works at
Circleville, Marietta and many
other places commemorate this
mysteriously vanished race. In
Adams County is the great Serpent
Mound, an embankment in the form
of a winding snake many rods in
length. This wonderful memorial
of antiquity belongs to Harvard
University. |
| After
the mound-builders vanished, the
Ohio tribes--the Wyandottes, the
Shawnees and others--suffered
from the ferocity of the Iroquois
confederacy. In 1669 Joliet,
returning from his explorations,
became the first white man to see
and travel on Lake Erie, and
early in 1680 French fur-traders
were sent out, who established
their first station near Maumee
City. In 1788 General Rufus
Putnam founded the fortified town
of Marietta (named from Marie
Antoinette), at the mouth of the
Muskingum. For many years the
Indians of Ohio endeavored to
check the white invaders by
murderous frays and massacres. In
1794 General Wayne advanced with
the famous legion of the United
States and crushed the Indian
power forever at the battle of
the Maumee. Within a few years
Marietta built at her ship-yards
a score of sea-going vessels and
sent them to foreign ports down
the Ohio and Mississippi, and out
over the Atlantic. At the
outbreak of the Secession War,
60,000 Ohioans volunteered, and
at the end of 1863 the State had
200,000 soldiers in the field. It
sent in all more than 300,000
men, or more than one-tenth of
the National armies. |
| ILLUSTRATIONS. |
First
Settlement at Marietta, 1788;
Early Emigrants to the
Western Reserve; Anthony Wayne;
Garfield Monu-
ment at Cleveland; The Serpent
Mound. |
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