SERIES: Pictorial History of the United States and Territories
SCENES: First Settlement at Marietta, 1788; Early Emigrants to the Western Reserve; Anthony Wayne; Garfield Monument at Cleveland; The Serpent Mound.
SIZE: 5" x 3"
DATE: 1892
LITHOGRAPHER: Donaldson Brothers, N.Y.
CONDITION: Good to very good, I'd say. This card is lightly soiled, with somewhat worn edges and rounded corners. There are small creases across the upper and lower right corners. There's also a small tear (approx. 1/4") in the lower left edge, about even with the serpent's head. (Please see scans.)
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REVERSE TEXT: OHIO.
THE valley of the Ohio was in very remote days occupied by an active and widely scattered race, whose remains show that in many respects they were more advanced than the modern Indians. The mounds and ancient works at Circleville, Marietta and many other places commemorate this mysteriously vanished race. In Adams County is the great Serpent Mound, an embankment in the form of a winding snake many rods in length. This wonderful memorial of antiquity belongs to Harvard University.
After the mound-builders vanished, the Ohio tribes--the Wyandottes, the Shawnees and others--suffered from the ferocity of the Iroquois confederacy. In 1669 Joliet, returning from his explorations, became the first white man to see and travel on Lake Erie, and early in 1680 French fur-traders were sent out, who established their first station near Maumee City. In 1788 General Rufus Putnam founded the fortified town of Marietta (named from Marie Antoinette), at the mouth of the Muskingum. For many years the Indians of Ohio endeavored to check the white invaders by murderous frays and massacres. In 1794 General Wayne advanced with the famous legion of the United States and crushed the Indian power forever at the battle of the Maumee. Within a few years Marietta built at her ship-yards a score of sea-going vessels and sent them to foreign ports down the Ohio and Mississippi, and out over the Atlantic. At the outbreak of the Secession War, 60,000 Ohioans volunteered, and at the end of 1863 the State had 200,000 soldiers in the field. It sent in all more than 300,000 men, or more than one-tenth of the National armies.
