Category: ohio history
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Dusty Tires on the Road: The Mighty Muskingum
This episode of Dusty Tires on the Road features State Route 60, which follows the Muskingum River. This video follows at the route from just south of Zanesville to McConnelsville.
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The Jacktown Trail, Chapter 2
The stagecoach slowly rolled into Jacksontown, causing a quite a crowd to gather as it did so, what with four dead bodies plain to see. The sheriff came over right away and nodded as he was told the details. He sent a deputy with several townsmen off on horseback to find the bandit who had…
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The Jacktown Trail, Chapter 1
The man on horseback had heard two shots and spied a dust cloud just past a hill to the east. It sparked his memory that he had heard the westbound stage was late getting to Jacksontown, or Jacktown, the town he had just left just 15 minutes ago.
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USS Shenandoah crash of century ago commemorated
The USS Shenandoah, the first rigid airship built in the United States and the world’s first helium-filled airship, has a pioneering and tragic place in Ohio aviation history.
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Dusty Tires on the Road: Going West, part 1
I drove through the towns of West Jefferson, Summerford, Lafayette, South Vienna and into the sizeable city of Springfield for this week’s video.
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Museums in New Concord, Norwich tell stories of John Glenn, National Road
John Glenn was an American hero – an original Mercury 7 astronaut who went into space not once but twice, was a U.S. Senator, presidential candidate and U.S. Marine aviator who was a fighter pilot in three wars.
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Dusty Tires on the Road: The Heart of It All
If there is one section of the National Road and U.S. 40 that I have known well, it’s the part that drives straight into east Columbus and its suburbs, where I grew up and went to school.
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Mosser Glass provides a glimpse back into time
Taking a tour at Mosser Glass in Cambridge is like looking back into Ohio’s rich history of glassmaking. Ohio’s tradition in glassmaking dates back to its early days of statehood, with many glassmakers bringing their craft from New England and Europe.
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Dusty Tires on the Road: Search for the Blaine Hill Bridge
For this story, I was determined to find and take a photo of the National Road’s Blaine Hill S-Bridge and Viaduct, once and for all.
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CORRECTION: Dusty Tires on the Road: National Road Memories
The post that went live today (July 31) contained an embedded link to the YouTube video “Dusty Tires on the Road: National Road Memories” that appeared in the post but did not show up in the email.
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