It Happened in Ohio

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.

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