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Apr 6, 2017 · The University opened in 1808, with one building, three students, and one professor, but it grew into what is now Ohio University in Athens, Ohio's oldest educational institution. Rufus Putnam, who led the first 48 to Ohio, was an early trustee of the university. In 1926, Ohio University's Putnam Hall was named in honor of this early Ohio pioneer.
Jan 26, 2017 · During the Ice Age, melting, mile-thick glaciers slid south from Canada into Ohio. We know this because they left behind a trail. Kelleys Island in Lake Erie has some of the best and biggest grooves left by glaciers, and they're 400 feet long, 35 feet wide, and up to 15 feet deep. As the glaciers slid over the area, the soft limestone was ...
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After discussing the settlement of Ohio, the students will then read about Ohio’s first settlement, The Public Land Act of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance. The students will search for what the Land Act and the Ordinance were and what they did for the settlement of Ohio. They will organize their new found information in a graphic organizer.
The Quaternary Period began 2.6 million years ago and continues to this day. The Pleistocene Epoch, commonly referred to as the Ice Age, represents most of that period, ending about 11,600 years ago. During much of the Ice Age, Ohio’s environment was similar to today with limited geologic deposition occurring mostly in river valleys and ...
Upper Ohio River Valley. The earliest European exploration of what was to become the Great Northwest Territory of the United States was done by the French in the 17th century, and this land, called New France, was claimed for the Sun King, Louis XIV of France. Towards the middle of the eighteenth century, English settlers moving west began to ...
Jul 22, 2021 · In this reading you will learn about Prehistoric Ohio, the history of Ohio prior to western expansion of the American colonies in the late 1700’s. Archeologists studying the Eastern Woodlands divide the 14,000 year history of Ohio into four major time periods based on artifacts and other scientific evidence recovered from archeological ...
Jun 2, 2020 · During the 1930s and 1940s, the seeds of the Mid-Century civil rights movement were planted. The NAACP, founded in 1909, began slowly moving through the courts, using test cases to break down the walls standing between black Americans and their freedom rights. This long-term strategy would eventually lead to the Brown v.
