Canal Winchester and the Ohio and Erie Canal

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You are standing on the site of Ohio and Erie Canal. The canal helped to open the interior of Ohio to trade and settlement and played a part in Winchester's prosperity during the mid-1800s. Local farmers exported grain from ...

Site of First Ohio State Home Football Game / The Ohio State Uni

Site of First Ohio State Home Football Game

In the fall, life for many in Columbus revolves around Ohio State University football, from the first kickoff in September to the last play in November. O.S.U.'s first home game took place at ...

The Ohio & Erie Canal and the "Twin Cities" / The Ohio & Erie Ca

The Ohio & Erie Canal and the "Twin Cities"

On this site the Ohio & Erie Canal flowed south and down-level under the Market Street Bridge. Nearby Pawpaw Creek and the canal culturally divided the Swiss settlers to the west ...

Junction of the Ohio Erie and Lancaster Lateral Canals

Canals were an important means of transportation when Carroll was founded in 1829 by William Tong and his brother Oliver, who chose this site because it was where the proposed intersection of the Lancaster Lateral Canal and Ohio-Erie Canal would ...

The Race to the Ohio

Rail transportation in the United States began in Baltimore, Maryland on July 4, 1828, when Charles Carroll, the only living signer of the Declaration of Independence, laid the cornerstone of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

On the same day President John ...

A Seed of Catholic Education in Ohio / The Cradle of Catholicity

Side 1 A Seed of Catholic Education in Ohio

In April 1830 four Dominican sisters from St. Catherine's, Kentucky, founded St. Mary's Academy, the first Catholic school in Perry County. Bishop Edward Fenwick, first Bishop of Ohio, donated a small brick ...

Army of the Ohio

Major General Don Carlos Buell

U.S.

Army of the Ohio.

Major General Don Carlos Buell.

Second Division, Brig. Gen. Alex McD. McCook.

Fourth Division, Brig. Gen. William Nelson.

Fifth Division, Brig. Gen. Thomas L. Crittenden.

Sixth Division, Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Wood.

The advance of the Army of ...

The 11th Ohio Battery

During the battle of Iuka on Sept. 19, 1862, the 11th Ohio battery repulsed four Confederate assaults before finally being overrun by the 3rd Texas Cavalry. 3rd Louisiana Infantry and the Texas Legion. Of the fifty-four cannoneers in the battery, ...

The Ohio State Fair

First held in Cincinnati in 1850, the Ohio State Fair was organized by the Ohio Board of Agriculture to promote agricultural education and recognize achievements. The second fair was held in Franklinton (now part of Columbus) on the farm of ...

Army of the Ohio

Major General Don Carlos Buell

First Army Corps

Major General Alexander McD McCook

Tenth Division

Brigadier General James S. Jackson

Thirty-Third Brigade

Brigadier General William R. Terrill

80th, 123rd Illinois and 105th Ohio Infantry Regiments

and detachments 7th, 32nd Kentucky

3rd Tennessee Infantry

Parsons' Improvised United States Battery

Thirty-Fourth Brigade

Colonel ...