Meigs County, Ohio was created in 1819 and named for Return Jonathan Meigs Jr. one of the early pioneers who surveyed and settled the Northwest Territory. He later became the 4th Governor of the state of Ohio. Before Meigs County was formed, the southern half was part of Gallia County and the northern half was part of Washington County, then Athens County. Not long after the founding of Marietta in 1787 pioneers began settling in what is now Meigs County, Ohio. In 1876, Stillman C. Larkin and others formed the Meigs County Pioneer Society to collect and preserve the history of the early...

A collection of some of the best loved poems from the ages.

First Published in 1906 by the noted historian Archer Butler Hulbert, this excellent work chronicles the events that occurred from the time of Celeron's Expedition through the years of early settlement when canoes and flatboats were the main mode of transportation. Next came the steamboat era when Sternwheelers and Sidewheelers plied up and down the great Ohio River from Pittsburg to the Mississippi. This book is not your average -dry- history book. It is filled with stories and first hand accounts of the people who lived and participated in these events that made the Ohio River a true course...

The Donner Party was a group of American Pioneers who set out for California in a wagon train. Delayed by a series of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846-47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. Some of the emigrants resorted to cannibalism to survive, eating those who had succumbed to starvation and sickness. Historians have described the episode as one of the most spectacular tragedies in Californian history and in the record of western migration. This book is part of the Historical Collection of Badgley Publishing Company and has been transcribed from the original. The original contents have...

A compilation of memories, short stories, poetry and pictures. If you were born near the Ohio River and have your roots in Appalachia, you have the river in your blood. No matter where life's events take you, the river beckons you to return. It will always be home. The author was born and raised in the gently rolling hills of southeastern Ohio and is now living in Nevada. As far away from Appalachia as she is, she still hears the River calling, calling for her daughter to come home.

Sequel to Tempest Rider Slate Morgan and Silver Black are married now and have moved to a farm near Sinking Spring Ohio. When they bought the land, they didn't realize that the farm next door to them was occupied by a group of pagans who had come to the area in order to be near Serpent Mound, which they believe is a vortex. The farm, called The Garden of Eden by its serpent worshipping inhabitants, is host to beliefs such as Wicca, Celtic, Atheist, and Native American; all grouped under a pagan banner. The farm is located in a longtime Christian Farming Community which has recently had an...

Hero or Villain? John Wesley Hardin, aka "Young Seven Up," "Little Arkansas," "Wes Clemmons" and "J. H. Swain," was a notorious outlaw and gunfighter who killed his first man at age 15 in 1868 and, according to himself, went on to kill over 40 more by the time he was sent to prison at age 25. He served 16 years of a 25 year sentence before being pardoned. While in prison he studied law and after his release managed to pass the Bar exam and took up the occupation of attorney. During the Reconstruction Era in Texas, just after the Civil War, many folks considered him a hero for standing up to...

A look at Morgan's Raiders and their dash through Meigs County, Ohio in 1864 and culminating in the Battle of Buffington Island, the only major battle of the Civil War fought in Ohio. Accounts, Notes, Telegrams, Diary Entries, Facts and Pictures. "There were many stragglers from each company who were circling about the valley in a delirium of fright, clinging instinctively, in all their terror, to bolts of calico and holding on to led horses, but changing the direction in which they galloped with every shell which whizzed or burst near them." Col. Basil W. Duke, 2nd Kentucky Cavalry, C.S.A.

Daniel Boone was an Indian fighter, an explorer, a politician and a real American hero. He was a soldier of the American Revolution and an adopted Shawnee. He discovered the Cumberland Gap and opened the Wilderness Road for settlement into the present state of Kentucky. The stories of his exploits and his life have become legendary. Reuben Gold Thwaites, a noted historian and author wrote this biography of one of America's most famous frontiersmen and it is truly a masterpiece. Through countless hours of research of original materials, documents and interviews he created what is undoubtedly...