Identifier: whattoseeinameri00john (find matches)
Title: What to see in America
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Looking out op Put-in-bay towardTHE Scene of Perrys Victory onLake Erie Ohio 229 1820 at Lancaster, thirty miles southeast of Columbus;Thomas A. Edison, born in 1847 at Milan, a dozen miles southof Sandusky; and W. D. Howells, born in 1837, at MartinsFerry just across the Ohio from the West Virginia city ofWheeling. Much of Mr. Howells boyhood was spent inHamilton, twenty miles north of Cincinnati, and his experi-ences there are embodied in his delightful A Boj^s Town.Another Ohio writer whose novels bid fair to have a per-manent place in our literature is Mrs. Mary S. Watts, bornin Delaware County in 1868 and now a resident of Cincin-nati. Ohio entirely lacks mountains. Its highest point, 1550feet, is near Bellefontaine, fifty miles northwest of Columbus.
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A Glimpse of the Tippecanoe XXIV Indiana It is surmised that where Indianas oldest town, Vincennes,now stands beside the Wabash on the southwestern borderof the state the ancient race of Mound Builders had theircapital city. In the immediate vicinity are several largemounds and hundreds of smaller ones. When a few Frenchfamilies came thither and settled about 1730 they found therean important Indian town called Chip-kaw-hay, a name soonchanged to Vincennes. After the place fell into Englishhands along with the other French possessions in America, asmall stockade defense known as Fort Sackville was erectedthere. In 1779 the pioneer leader, George Rogers Clark,who had recently captured Kaskaskia on the southwesternborder of Illinois, set out with one hundred and seventy mento march nearly two hundred miles across country againstVincennes. A few pack horses were laden with what 230 Indiana 231 provisions and ammunition the men could not carry ontheir backs. There was much rain so that a

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