Let's play an Ohio trivia game (Cleveland, Cincinnati: schools, costs, association)

[flinty]

I think Girty's Island was occupied by Simon Girty's brother. There is a legend that a brass or bronze cannon protected the island and was found and salvaged in recent times.

[flinty]

Okay, you history buffs...Where is Simon Girty buried?

[South Range Family]

It seems that there is a lot of fact and fiction surrounding Simon Girty and his brothers. The paragraph below is the best I could come up with. It may or may not be true.


Simon married Catherine Malott, a white girl, who had been captured on the Ohio in 1780. He eventually took up his residence just below Malden, where he died, in February, 1818, and was buried on his farm, on land given him by the British government for his loyalty. British soldiers from Malden fired a salute over his grave site. Simon was about five feet nine inches in stature, eyes black and piercing, and in his prime very agile.

I hope that people talk about me 200 years after I'm dead too.

[htlong]

i read this in air tran mag. while flying.....where was the first toy marble made ?
(it must mean in america because i think the greeks or romans played marbles???)

[flinty]

The flood of 1913. This destroyed the canal system. The upsurge of rail travel over the next decade was also a factor. Parts of the canal can still be seen at Grand Rapids and St. Marys. Reconstructed, mule-drawn packet boats have been built and you can ride on them in the warm months of the year.

[flinty]

The Greenville Treaty opened up the area to westward expansion. Somewhere in Ohio there is a rural road name Treaty Line Road that followed the old boundary line.

[flinty]

Originally Posted by South Range Family

It seems that there is a lot of fact and fiction surrounding Simon Girty and his brothers. The paragraph below is the best I could come up with. It may or may not be true.


Simon married Catherine Malott, a white girl, who had been captured on the Ohio in 1780. He eventually took up his residence just below Malden, where he died, in February, 1818, and was buried on his farm, on land given him by the British government for his loyalty. British soldiers from Malden fired a salute over his grave site. Simon was about five feet nine inches in stature, eyes black and piercing, and in his prime very agile.

I hope that people talk about me 200 years after I'm dead too.

I believe you are correct. It concurs what I was taught by Prof. Larry Nelson.

[eddie1]

uh is it akronnnn???

[rrtechno]

While glass marbles had been made by hand in Germany for many years, the M.F. Christensen and Son Company received a patent from the United States Government for the invention of the glass- marble- making- machine in 1905 (originally invented in 1902). They opened a factory in Stuebenville that year and by 1914, they were producing over one million marbles per month. They closed in December 1917 when a severe winter depleted the needed natural gas supply and never reopened. This information came from the website of the National Marble Museum.

[htlong]

what ohio city won the very first NFL championship?