Thirty-five episodes from the history of the Buckeye State, including memorable events such as the Kent State Riots, but also featuring lesser-known tales.
Thirty-five episodes from the history of the Buckeye State, including memorable events such as the Kent State Riots, but also featuring lesser-known tales.
Carol Cartaino has been an Ohioan for over forty years, and in a lifetime of working on books—twenty years as a staff editor, including as Editor in Chief of Writer’s Digest Books—has written and edited a wide range of nonfiction. She lives and works in rural Seaman, Ohio.
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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction The Mystery Beneath the Mystery—Adams County, 250 Million Years Ago A Trip to the Indian Arsenal—Licking County, AD 800 The Birth of Tecumseh—Southwest-Central Ohio, 1768 Massacre at Gnadenhutten—Tuscarawas County, 1782 A Royal Christening—Marietta, 1788 St. Clair’s Shame—Fort Recovery, 1791 The Battle of Fallen Timbers—Toledo, 1794 Raccoons Build a Bookshelf—Amesville, 1803 The Great Apple Planter Arrives in Ohio—Jefferson County, 1806 Flatboating to the Future—Ohio River, 1810 “We Have Met the Enemy, and They Are Ours”—Put-in-Bay, 1813 The Great Groundbreaking—Licking Summit, 1825 Troubled Bridges Over the Waters—Norwich, 1835 On Thin Ice—Ripley, 1838 The Snowball Rebellion—Oxford, 1848 The Grim Fate of the Griffith—Lake Erie, 1850 West Point or a Pony?—Clinton County, 1861 The Great Raid—1863 Little Sure Shot Gets Started—Darke County, 1868 An Intemperate Temperance Woman—Shelby County, 1880 Ohio Gives Flight to the World—Dayton, 1900 The Con Woman of Millionaires’ Row—Cleveland, 1904 The Drowning of Dayton—Montgomery County, 1913 Ohio’s Onion Field War—Hardin County, 1934 The Nadir of Elliott Ness—Cleveland, 1938 A Storybook Setting Comes to Life—Lucas, 1945 Putting a Match to Prejudice—Hillsboro, 1954 Rendezvous at the Zoo—Columbus, 1957 “Not a Particularly Bad Fire!”—Cleveland, 1969 The Kent State Catastrophe—Kent, 1970 To the Cellar! (If You Have One)—Xenia, 1974 The Champions Come Home—Cincinnati, 1976 Bicentennial Barnstorm—1997 Found! The Biggest Buckeye—Huron County, 2004 Two Worlds Collide—Ashtabula County, 2008 Ohio Facts and Trivia Bibliography Index About the Authors
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction The Mystery Beneath the Mystery—Adams County, 250 Million Years Ago A Trip to the Indian Arsenal—Licking County, AD 800 The Birth of Tecumseh—Southwest-Central Ohio, 1768 Massacre at Gnadenhutten—Tuscarawas County, 1782 A Royal Christening—Marietta, 1788 St. Clair’s Shame—Fort Recovery, 1791 The Battle of Fallen Timbers—Toledo, 1794 Raccoons Build a Bookshelf—Amesville, 1803 The Great Apple Planter Arrives in Ohio—Jefferson County, 1806 Flatboating to the Future—Ohio River, 1810 “We Have Met the Enemy, and They Are Ours”—Put-in-Bay, 1813 The Great Groundbreaking—Licking Summit, 1825 Troubled Bridges Over the Waters—Norwich, 1835 On Thin Ice—Ripley, 1838 The Snowball Rebellion—Oxford, 1848 The Grim Fate of the Griffith—Lake Erie, 1850 West Point or a Pony?—Clinton County, 1861 The Great Raid—1863 Little Sure Shot Gets Started—Darke County, 1868 An Intemperate Temperance Woman—Shelby County, 1880 Ohio Gives Flight to the World—Dayton, 1900 The Con Woman of Millionaires’ Row—Cleveland, 1904 The Drowning of Dayton—Montgomery County, 1913 Ohio’s Onion Field War—Hardin County, 1934 The Nadir of Elliott Ness—Cleveland, 1938 A Storybook Setting Comes to Life—Lucas, 1945 Putting a Match to Prejudice—Hillsboro, 1954 Rendezvous at the Zoo—Columbus, 1957 “Not a Particularly Bad Fire!”—Cleveland, 1969 The Kent State Catastrophe—Kent, 1970 To the Cellar! (If You Have One)—Xenia, 1974 The Champions Come Home—Cincinnati, 1976 Bicentennial Barnstorm—1997 Found! The Biggest Buckeye—Huron County, 2004 Two Worlds Collide—Ashtabula County, 2008 Ohio Facts and Trivia Bibliography Index About the Authors
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