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100bc-400
In what is today southeastern Licking
County, was the site of one of America's most ancient and
widely used flint quarries. Though mined as early as 10,000 BC,
the Hopewell Indians did most of the quarrying about 2,000 years
ago and traded it as far away as present day Louisiana, Kansas
City, and Ontario, Canada.
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1778
Fort Laurens constructed in Tuscarawas County.
It is the only fort built during the American Revolution by the
Continental Army in the Ohio country. Soldiers abandoned the
fort in 1779.
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1796
The US Congress assigned this land to be distributed
to Revolutionary War veterans in return for the land bounties
they had received as payment for their service in the war.
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1799
Ebenezer Zane cut Zane's Trace through
Ohio and founded Zanesville, Muskingum County.
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1812
Columbus chosen as the state capital. The
present statehouse dates from 1857.
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1817
A group of German religious dissenters found
Zoar Village, in Tuscarawas County. They established a communal
social and economic system from 1819 to 1898.
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1872
Zane Grey, author of ninety western novels,
born in Zanesville.
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1886
Trade union leaders established the American
Federation of Labor at a meeting in Columbus.
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1962
John H. Glenn, Jr., of New Concord, Muskingum
County, became the first American and Ohioan to orbit the earth.
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