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Conestoga Announces $60,000 Donation for Tribal Youth Internship Program - Ohio History Connection
Conestoga, the volunteering fundraising Corps of the Ohio History Connection, has announced a $60,000 donation to help fund and plan a new Tribal Youth Internship Program. This program will place college-age Native Americans in residential paid summer internships at Newark Earthworks and Fort Ancient—both part of the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, Ohio’s only UNESCO World Heritage […]
Finding Revolutionary War Veterans in Ohio - Ohio History Connection
America 250-Ohio Presents the Revolutionary War Graves Identification Project The Live Results Map, showing real time progress is now available on our website or by visiting this link. Be sure to check out our Project Dashboard to see how many grave markers and cemeteries Public Researchers across Ohio have collected - at the time of […]
Collections Spotlight: Ohio's Covered Bridges - Ohio History Connection
By David A. Simmons Throughout the 19th century, covered bridges existed largely on a practical level. Designed and erected as utilitarian structures in a larger highway system, they had none of the romanticized imagery that have today come to be associated with them. But even with the passage of time, they exist on multiple levels, […]
Road Trippin' with Truda: Rankin House - Ohio History Connection
Join me as I visit the sites in the Ohio History Connection network! This month's road trip took me to the John Rankin House in Ripley. The Rankin House tells the story of John and Jean Rankin, who along with their 13 children, their neighbors in Ripley and their church community, helped the enslaved on […]
Youngstown Nurses on Strike - Ohio History Connection
By Susan Lowery Reference Archivist, Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labor Mid-century America was a pivotal moment for civil rights and women’s liberation. Amid these movements, working women felt the strain of being under-appreciated by their employers. After years of unions being formed by men, women were now building their own platforms to advocate […]