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These five acres of land are given by Dr. H. L. Mikesell, his wife Helena, and daughters, Lydia Jo and Jane (Younkman). Dr. Mikesell, a physician in the United States Army and in West Liberty, believed that experiencing the great out-of-doors was …
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(Side A) Underground Railroad A name given to a manner of piloting negro slaves to freedom. Pilots of this area were largely Quakers, the most active of whom were the Pickerells, Paxtons, and Williams. (Side B) Underground Railroad Station At …
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Squaw Rock Of Indian Legend Site Shawnee Village Mac-A-Cheek and home Chief Moluntha Destroyed 1786 by Col. Logan Simon Kenton Gauntlet 1778
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTGX_west-liberty-glover-hall_West-Liberty-OH.html
[Front Side of Marker]: "West Liberty" The West Liberty area, in the Mad River Valley, was the location of at least seven Shawnee Indian villages. This elevated site was the location of one of those villages. Several septs or divisions of the S…
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The first permanent Sunday School in the "Old" Mennonite Church, founded by the authority of the church, was organized in the Logan County Amish Mennonite Church, now the South Union Church, one and seven-tenths miles, northwest of this location, …
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[North Side of Marker]:"Shawnee Nation in Logan County" From the 1770s until 1832, the Logan County area was the homeland to much of the Shawnee Nation. Ten villages known as the Upper Mad River towns included the homes of influential leaders M…
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Chief Moluntha, Grand Sachem of the Shawnees, lived near this place. His wife, the Grenadier Squaw, was a sister of Chief Cornstalk. In 1786 Col. Logan destroyed the town, and Moluntha was murdered by one of the soldiers.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD1J_mackachack-town_West-Liberty-OH.html
Nearby stood the Shawnee village of Mackachack or Mac-A-Cheek. This village was the first of the Shawnee towns to be attacked by Gen. Benjamin Logan's mounted Kentucky militia in the fall of 1786. In all the American forces destroyed eight Shawnee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD14_hulls-trace_West-Liberty-OH.html
A trail over which General Hull's army marched to Detroit in 1812. At this point a company of scouts recruited by Capt. Wm. McColloch of Zanetown joined Hull's army.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8XP_ohio-caverns_West-Liberty-OH.html
In 1897, a farm boy investigating the disappearance of water into a sinkhole in a nearby field discovered this system of subterranean passageways. Digging down a few feet, he found an opening to a cave that had begun forming perhaps several thousa…
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