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PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AND TERRITORIES
#8 - OHIO

Size: 5" x 3"
Copyrighted: 1892
Lithographer: Donaldson Bros.

Ohio - First Settlement at Marietta; Anthony Wayne; Garfield Monument, Cleveland; Serpent Mound

Reverse - Text
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.