Tag: #ohiohistory
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The Jacktown Trail, Chapter 3
Tritt went across Jacksontown’s Main Street, the National Road, to a clapboard building that resembled a large shack that might soon tumble down. The only thing that identified it as a restaurant was a hand-written sign in a dirty window that read “EAT.” He sat down at a rough-sawn table.
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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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Dusty Tires on the Road: Adamsville and Amish
Adamsville is one of those small Ohio villages that’s easy to overlook at first glance. A handful of miles east of Zanesville in Muskingum County, Adamsville has a population of about 140 to be generous. It has zero traffic lights and one gas station. It’s located just 16 miles north from I-70 on SR 93.
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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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Dusty Tires on the Road: Going West, part 2
I continued traveling west on the National Road/U.S. 40 for the last in this series of Dusty Tires on the Road videos, visiting downtown Springfield and traveling west all the way to the Indiana border.
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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: Surprising Columbus
Columbus is a city that will surprise you, even from a brief view along US 40 from east to west.
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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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