This is a one-volume history of the Ohio and Erie Canal. By linking Ohio's two major bodies of water - the Ohio River and Lake Erie - Ohio's canals, built in the early nineteenth century, caused unprecedented growth and wealth for the fledgling state. The canals opened up Ohio to new markets, new settlers, agriculture, and industry, depositing large sums of money into the region and giving Ohioans ...

Manufacturer: Kent State University Press
Written By: Terry K. Woods

Exceptionally rare and valued by book collectors, Otto A. Rothert’s riveting saga of the outlaws and scoundrels of Cave-in-Rock chronicles the adventures of an audacious cast of river pirates and highwaymen who operated in and around the famous Ohio River cavern from 1795 through 1820 (adventures featured in Disney’s Davy Crockett and the film How the West Was Won). ...

Manufacturer: Southern Illinois University
Written By: Otto A. Rothert

The community of Zoar has been a tourist attraction since it was founded in 1817, due in part to its uncommon experiment in Christian communal living, its German heritage, and its location on the Ohio & Erie Canal. Unlike many 19th-century communal societies, Zoar did not discourage tourism and "gawkers." As a result, there is an unusually rich photographic record of the community and its people ...

Manufacturer: Kent State University Press
Written By: Kathleen M. Fernandez

This richly illustrated and engagingly written book tells the story of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal from its origins in George Washington's decision to link the nation's new capital with the western frontier; through the beginning of construction in 1828 (fatefully, on the same day that the cornerstone of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad was set); to the "completion" of the project. Planned to ...

Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Written By: Elizabeth Kytle

This richly illustrated volume tells the story of the home that has served as Ohio’s executive residence since 1957, and of the nine governors and their families who have lived in the house. Our First Family’s Home offers the first complete history of the residence and garden that represent Ohio to visiting dignitaries and the citizens of the state alike. Once in a state of ...

Manufacturer: Ohio University Press

Ohio has an abundance of sources available for genealogical research. In addition, numerous Ohio records have been published by genealogical and historical organizations, and many records and indexes are available on microfilm, microfiche, and even compact disc and the Internet. These sources and many others are described in great detail in this new work by noted genealogical scholar ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: Kip Sperry

"The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History", provides a comprehensive review of Cleveland, Ohio, over its 200-year history. It contains more than 2000 entries, 150 photographs, maps, and charts. Interpretive essays explore the major facets of the community's history, including the environment, rock 'n' roll, women's history, funerals and funerary practices, aviation, the aerospace industry, and ethnic ...

Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
Written By: Ohio) Cleveland Bicentennial Commission (Cleveland

This book was originally published in 1995. It contains biographical and genealogical information on the ancestors and descendants of Baltzer and Mary (Buss) Young, early settlers in Columbiana County, Ohio

Manufacturer: The Apple Manor Press
Written By: William Brooke Fetters

Manufacturer: Kent State University Press
Written By: Andrew R. L. Cayton

The minute books of the old Virginia courts herein transcribed cover the District of West Augusta and Yohogania and Ohio counties during the period when Virginia claimed and exercised jurisdiction over what are now the Pennsylvania counties of Washington, Greene, Fayette, Westmoreland, and Allegheny. The minute books contain, in addition to land titles, transcripts of legal instruments of ...

Manufacturer: Clearfield Co
Written By: Boyd Crumrine