I’m Watching Seasons, author of Seasons Flow, a blog about nature in the state of Ohio. I’ve always been interested…
George Rogers Clark, the Battle of Piqua, and the Fair at New Boston.
Clark County is in west-central Ohio. Created in 1818, it was named after Brigadier General George Rogers Clark, a hero…
Marietta and the Opening of the Northwest Territory, 1788.
On April 7, 1788, an unusual river craft, the “Adventure Galley” coasted through the early morning mist and landed at…
The First Siege of Fort Meigs- 1813.
Fort Meigs is quite pleasing for the Ohio history buff. Located in Perrysburg, it is a museum and a re-created…
Greenville – Treaty and Personalities.
One day I was out in rural Ohio driving the backroads as I like to do, and I came across…
Bucyrus and its Murals.
I’ve gone up and down Ohio Route 4 a few times, from Springfield to Sandusky up along Lake Erie. It’s…
Southern Ohio’s Hanging Rock Iron Region.
Near the end of spring earlier this year I went on a tour of southern Ohio, roughly in the area…
Jonathan Alder and the Madison County Historical Society.
Foster Chapel Cemetery Jonathan Alder Madison County Historical Society It was May 2020 and the spring migration season was going…
Colonel Crawford Memorial.
A few years ago I was driving up north to do some birding along Lake Erie when I noticed a…
Ohio’s Oldest Existing Settlement and Greatest Frontier Infamy.
Gnadenhutten It’s pronounced ‘NAYD-uhn-huh-ten’. I had it right from a villager, and that’s the final word on that. As for…
Ohio’s Only Revolutionary War Fort.
Fort Laurens was built in the Ohio wilderness in an attempt to bring the war to the British at Fort Detroit- but it didn’t work out that way.
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