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 Raccoons Build a Bookshelf- Amesville

• Ohio became a state in 1803

  • Amesville Ohio located in Athens county

  • European settlers settled in Amesville cleared land and created Amesville

• Settlers realized they needed books

  • Books were seen as luxury items

• Overcome lack of money…

  • Go into the forest and capture animals like raccoons, skunks, deer

  • Take animal's fur to create things (hats, coats, bags)

  • Trade for goods and money

  • Hunting could become dangerous 

  • Got an average of $74 per wagon load and travel to trade in Northeastern part of the United States

  • Got books like encyclopedias, history, philosophy, Shakespeare

• First public library in Hamilton in 1866

• The Great Apple Planter of 1806

• Took place in Muskingum Valley

• John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed)

  • Born in Leominster, MA

  • Orchard Farm apprentice

  • Left for Pennsylvania at 18 y/o

  • Ventured to Ohio

• Travel

  • Ohio River 

  • Spring of 1806

• What: Apple trees

  • Plant seeds

  • Arrange sellers

  • Move on to the next area

• How: Planting Process

  • Pick seeds out of pomace

  • Transport them

  • Claim land

  • Plant nurseries 

• Why: Pioneer Americans

  • Apples were household staple

  • Trade for other staples

  • Homestead laws

  • Gifts

• Impact

  • Over 100,000 sq miles of apple trees

  • Tree he planted in Nova, Ohio

  • Jacksonville Fl sells apple jelly from Johnny Appleseed trees

William Tecumseh Sherman

• Born in Lancaster Ohio

• Tecumseh

  • Shawnee Native Chief

  • Anti-Expansion

  • Folk Hero

• Sherman

  • Civil War General

  • Banker, Superintendent, Author

  • Politically prominent family

  • West Point Cadet

  • Known for Total War Strategy

• Battle of Shiloh (Civil War)

  • Met General Ulysses S. Grant

• Post Civil War

  • Protecting Railroads

  • Indian Wars- Commanding General

Bicentennial Barnstorm (1997-2003)

• Bicentennial Committee: Nichola Moretti

  • 88 Counties… 88 billboards

• Harley Warrick

  • Painted 20,000 Barns

  • 1939-1993 54 years

  • Company for chew mail pouch tobacco

• Scott Hagen

  • From Barnesville

  • Apprenticed by Warrick at 22 years old

A Trip to the Indian Arsenal: Licking County

• 800 A.D- 1,225 years ago

• Flint:

  • The shape of flint was very sharp

  • Useful for tools, weapons and trade

• Indian Arsenal in Flint Ridge (Licking County)

• Flint Ridge along shoreline

• Hopewell utilized the ridge and used flint for offerings

• Key resource for 11,000 years and used for flint rock rifles

Flatboating to the Future 1810

• Flatboats were large, rectangular wooden boats

• Packed with supplies, food, animals and families

• Used by pioneers to transport goods and families

Ohio as America

Chapter 3.1

  Paleoindians

• Lived in groups of about 20-60 people

• Were nomadic (moved from place to place and never settled in one area)

• Hunted megafauna (mastodons, caribou or buffalo)

• Tools were made of flint which can be found in modern-day Coshocton and Licking county

• Clothes made of animal hide and bones were sharpened into needles for sewing

Bering Strait

• Landbridge between Russia and alaska that native Americans used to get to America

  Archaic Period

• Around 8000 B.C the Ice Age ended

• People moved less from place to place and settled in areas for longer periods of time. People settled where food was available

• During this time, people continued to hunt animals, fish in lakes and streams and gather fruits and nuts

• New axes made of granite came about during this time as well as basket weaving using plant fibers

Atlatl, Axe, Basket Weaving

• Atlatl which is a wooden shaft with a handle on one end and a hook at the other. It is a spear thrower that catapults spears much further than before

• New axes made of granite came about during this time as well as basket weaving using plant fibers