Category: ohio history
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Two mills remain in Muskingum County
At the height of the era of old country mills in Ohio, there were 18 such mills in Muskingum County. Now there are only two venerable mills that remain standing in the county, both along Jonathan Creek in Newton Township.
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2025 in review, looking forward to new year
2026 is here and I have completed the second full year with Dusty Tires after launching the website and blog in March 2023.
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Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: Tracking Zane’s Trace Part 2
This week we’re picking up where we left off on Zane’s Trace. We’ll drive from Lancaster to Chillicothe on US 22 and SR 159, in general following the trail of the historic Zane’s Trace.
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Here is the video — Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: Tracking Zane’s Trace, Part 1
Subscribers, here’s the video link that was omitted from the original blog post from earlier today. Apologies for the operator error in not attaching the link!
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The Jacktown Trail: Epilogue
Tritt and his friends helped the Shawnee band over the next few days as the dead were buried and the band made preparations for their trip west. Tritt gave them some of their supplies, and they divided up the robbers’ horses and gear.
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The Jacktown Trail – Chapter 9
“Up ahead is a settlement of Christianized Shawnees,” Black said to the others. “Proudy Bill is the son of a Shawnee chief, but he’s way past his prime now. When we go into that village, we need to show ‘em who’s in charge. If they so much as lift a finger to us, shoot to…
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Invent some fun at Milan’s birthplace of Thomas Edison
Milan, Ohio, is justifiably proud of its place in history as the birthplace of Thomas A. Edison and has carefully restored and preserved the home in which he was born as the Thomas Edison Birthplace Museum.
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Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: Coshocton & Canals
This week we’re traveling in Ohio to northern Muskingum County and neighboring Coshocton County — to Dresden, Coshocton, Roscoe Village and West Lafayette, plus other sights to see. The ultimate goal of this trip is to find the oldest structure in Ohio, the Old Stone Fort, near West Lafayette.
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The Jacktown Trail – Chapter 8
They were led into a lantern-lit cabin that smelled of woodsmoke, old leather and grease. A dark-haired woman dressed in a linsey-woolsey frock set cups of hot chicory coffee before them and served them thick cornmeal cakes fried in bacon grease, along with slabs of crisp wild boar bacon.
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Dusty Tires in Ohio: Historic Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon is one of those places that forces you to take notice of it. Motorists and truckers know it well as a town that has no access to the interstate freeway system, and no bypass to get around it.
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