Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Mystery Beneath the Mystery—Adams County, 250 Million Years Ago
A Trip to the Indian Arsenal—Licking County, AD 800
The Birth of Tecumseh—Southwest-Central Ohio, 1768
Massacre at Gnadenhutten—Tuscarawas County, 1782
A Royal Christening—Marietta, 1788
St. Clair’s Shame—Fort Recovery, 1791
The Battle of Fallen Timbers—Toledo, 1794
Raccoons Build a Bookshelf—Amesville, 1803
The Great Apple Planter Arrives in Ohio— Jefferson County, 1806
Flatboating to the Future—Ohio River, 1810
“We Have Met the Enemy, and They Are Ours”— Put-in-Bay, 1813
The Great Groundbreaking—Licking Summit, 1825
Troubled Bridges Over the Waters—Norwich, 1835
On Thin Ice—Ripley, 1838
The Snowball Rebellion—Oxford, 1848
The Grim Fate of the Griffith—Lake Erie, 1850
West Point or a Pony?—Clinton County, 1861
The Great Raid—1863
Little Sure Shot Gets Started—Darke County, 1868
An Intemperate Temperance Woman—Shelby County, 1880
Ohio Gives Flight to the World—Dayton, 1900
The Con Woman of Millionaires’ Row—Cleveland, 1904
The Drowning of Dayton—Montgomery County, 1913
Ohio’s Onion Field War—Hardin County, 1934
The Nadir of Elliott Ness—Cleveland, 1938
A Storybook Setting Comes to Life—Lucas, 1945
Putting a Match to Prejudice—Hillsboro, 1954
Rendezvous at the Zoo—Columbus, 1957
“Not a Particularly Bad Fire!”—Cleveland, 1969
The Kent State Catastrophe—Kent, 1970
To the Cellar! (If You Have One)—Xenia, 1974
The Champions Come Home—Cincinnati, 1976
Bicentennial Barnstorm—1997
Found! The Biggest Buckeye—Huron County, 2004
Two Worlds Collide—Ashtabula County, 2008
Ohio Facts and Trivia
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors

About the Author

Carol Cartaino has been an Ohioan for over forty years, and in a lifetime of working on books—twenty years as a staff editor, including as Editor in Chief of Writer’s Digest Books—has written and edited a wide range of nonfiction. She lives and works in rural Seaman, Ohio.