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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEIZ_the-red-brick-schoolhouse_Frankfort-OH.html
Typical of many schoolhouses in the Frankfort area during the 1800s, this school, with its pot-bellied stove and flip-top desks, was part of the public school system of that era. The building and its contents have been restored by the citizens of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDUV_ancient-monuments_Chillicothe-OH.html
When Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, and Jesus lived, the Hopewell culture built and used Mound City Group. We do not know what the Hopewell called this sacred place, but early archeologists named it for the great number of mounds found here. In 1846 Ep…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDUB_a-flourishing-culture_Chillicothe-OH.html
On Mordecai Hopewell's Ohio farm archeologists excavated Indian mounds in 1891 and found copper ornaments, stone tools, effigy pipes, obsidian spear points, ornamented bear teeth, shark teeth, intricately carved bones, mica cutouts, and much more.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDU8_mica-splendor_Chillicothe-OH.html
With the building of Camp Sherman, the army leveled this mound-Mound 13-to three feet above ground and built a barrack over it. In 1920 Ohio archeologists led by William Mills excavated the mound and were astonished to uncover the cremated remains…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDU6_effigy-pipes_Chillicothe-OH.html
Although small and rather ordinary, this mound (Mound 8) contained a remarkable find. Nearly 200 pipes-mostly broken-were discovered here. Skillfully carved from stone, the pipes faithfully detailed human heads and indigenous animals. The pipe bow…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDQB_a-scared-purpose_Chillicothe-OH.html
Some 2,000 years ago the Mound City Group contained the highest density of mounds of any of the Hopewell earthworks, 24 in a 13-acre area. Today 22 can be counted. One of the missing mounds (Mound 15) is present in outline only, marked by the post…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9L8_first-court-of-ross-county_Chillicothe-OH.html
Here stood the two-story log house in which sat the first court of Ross Co., 1798. Here met the Legislature of the N. W. Territory, 1800-1801-1802. In the War of 1812, this was the U. S. Arsenal and Barracks.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9J9_burton-egbert-stevenson_Chillicothe-OH.html
[Marker Front]:Born in Chillicothe in 1872, Burton Stevenson's life was devoted to the written word as a prolific author and anthologist, and as a librarian. Following stints as a journalist while a student at Princeton University and then at news…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9J8_the-statehood-riots-the-enabling-act-1802_Chillicothe-OH.html
Side A: The "Statehood Riots"The first Northwest Territory assembly formally met in Cincinnati in September 1799 to initiate self-government. The legislators were deeply divided politically. The Republicans (antifederalists or "Jeffersonians"), l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9IX_arthur-st-clairs-headquarters_Chillicothe-OH.html
Gen. Arthur St. ClairFirst Governorof the N.W. Territory,had his headquarters here,1800 - 1802