by Bob Hunter | Dec 18, 2021 | Ohio history
When I saw the rendering of the impressive 31-story building that will rise just to the east of the city’s North Market in Saturday’s Columbus Dispatch, my first thought was of the long-time “residents” of that block. This seemed like something they wouldn’t take...
by Bob Hunter | Aug 26, 2021 | Ohio history
My fascination with discovering the exact location of historic events isn’t new. The first time I read “The Frontiersman,” Allan W. Eckert’s classic about the Midwest in the late eighteenth century, I became hooked on his use of footnotes to...
by Bob Hunter | Jul 3, 2021 | Ohio history
My first visit to the Roche de Boeuf interurban railroad bridge across the Maumee River occurred last year while I was working on Road to Wapatomica, A modern search for the Old Northwest. The bridge, which looks like it belongs in a photograph of the ruins of Berlin...
by Bob Hunter | Jun 17, 2021 | Ohio history
When I first identified chapters sites for Road to Wapatomica, A modern search for the Old Northwest, Old Chillicothe, the once-important Shawnee settlement three miles north of modern Xenia, Ohio, was an obvious candidate, This was where prominent Shawnee leader...
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