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800bc-100?
Prehistoric Indians constructed
Serpent Mound in what is today Adams County. The mound is an
embankment of earth nearly a quarter mile long which represents
a gigantic snake. It is the finest serpent effigy mound in the
Untied States.
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1781
In return for Virginia ceding its land claims,
Congress granted this section between the Scioto and Miami rivers
to Virginia to pay Revolutionary War veterans.
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1791
Nathaniel Massie established Manchester, Adams
County, the first American settlement in the Virginian Military
District.
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1803-1810 & 1812-1816
Chillicothe was the capital of Ohio.
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1814-1818
Thomas Worthington, of Chillicothe, served
as Ohio's 6th governor after having also served as one
of the state's first US senators.
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1822
Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War General and 18th
President, born in Point Pleasant, Clermont County. His birthplace
is now an Ohio Historical Society museum, as is the school house
in Georgetown, Brown County, where he studied from age 6 to 13.
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1825-1865
Presbyterian minister John Rankin and
his wife Jean sheltered as many as 2,000 runaway slaves on their
way to freedom in their Brown County house.
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