Enslaved fugitives referred to the Ohio River as the River Jordan. It was a metaphor for freedom like the Israelites’ flight from slavery in Egypt through the parted waters of the Red Sea. Except the ...

The property houses the ruins of Revolutionary War veteran Jacob Piatt's estate, and the graves of his family and people he ...

At the Ohio History Center museum in Columbus ... It’s actively consulting with the 45 tribes tied to the Ohio River Valley to repatriate these remains. But Chief Glenna Wallace of the Eastern ...

The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from ...

I'm Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. In 1820, Ohio .....the Ohio Canal Commission, the purpose of surveying a route ..