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Ohio's newest historical trail pays tribute to the Underground Railroad and the people and places that connected the movement. The Ohio Department of Development and TourismOhio are officially ...
After hatching, cicada nymphs burrow 6-18 inches underground, where they will remain for 13 or 17 years. The next periodical cicada broods are expected in Ohio in 2027, 2033, 2036, and 2038. Is ...
To date, they’ve succeeded in adding 17 sites across southeast Ohio and a few surrounding counties in Kentucky and West Virginia. “It puts us in this area on the national map,” Conley said. New ...
A Millersburg company that uses seismic-reading equipment to map underground formations infiltrated Parma last month. Service Director Brian Higgins said the company — Precision Geophysical Inc ...
“Estimates of the number of fugitive slaves who moved through the Underground Railroad are somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 … in the six decades or so that the Underground Railroad operated.
ADAMS COUNTY, Ohio (WKRC) - Two significant sites in Adams County have been added to the Ohio Historical Underground Railroad Trail. The John T. Wilson Homestead in Tranquility and the Adams ...
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio – Patti Jamieson was about to give up. It was spring of 2002, and she and her 13-year-old son, Andy McGough, had been driving through the backwoods of southwest Ohio on a mission.
The Ohio Department of Development and TourismOhio are officially launching the Ohio Historical Underground Railroad Trail. "We've created this new trail to show both visitors and Ohioans how to learn ...
Ohio has more sites in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program than any other state, and a new initiative in southern Ohio is playing a key role in adding even more.