As you read Along the Ohio Trail, you will learn about Ohio’s geography, what the first Ohioans were like, how Ohio was discovered, and other fun facts that made Ohio the place you call home.

The area now known as Ohio became part of the Northwest Territory, the land north and west of the Ohio River. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 provided for an orderly administration of this territory …

From time to time other missions were formed among the Indian tribes of Bastern Ohio. They were centers, where pious men taught the “children of the forest’’ the rules of civilized life.

A migration of Indians throughout Ohio began due to unstable conditions created by the American Revolution. The massacre of Christian Indians at the Moravian mission of Gnadenhutten in 1782 and …

The industrial development and consequential economic prosperity generated during World War II shaped Ohio’s economic, cultural, and social history for decades thereafter.

The purpose of this guide to digital copies of Ohio county histories is to provide the family historian immediate and convenient access to these published resources which were once only available in …

urism declared that Ohio was "The Heart of It All." A review of Ohio's prehistory suggests this slogan would have been appropriate for much of the past 15,000 years