Hidden History of Northeast Ohio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strecker, Mark.

Series:

Hidden History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ohio--History, Local.

Ohio--Miscellanea.

Ohio.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Arcadia Publishing Inc., 2021.

Summary:

Northeast Ohio is awash with nearly forgotten historical events. In 1780, American scout Captain Samuel Brady leaped across the Cuyahoga River where Kent now stands to evade a party of Native Americans aiming to take his scalp. During the Civil War, Confederates tried to free their compatriots from the Johnson's Island prisoner of war camp by capturing two ferries and attempting to poison the crew of the Union's only gunboat in Lake Erie. The town of Kirtland was briefly the national headquarters of the Mormons and the location of one of the Church of Latter-day Saints' most revered temples. Mark Strecker has unearthed a hidden gem of local history for each of Northeast Ohio's twenty-two counties.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

AuthorsNote

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Ashland County: The Destruction of Greentown

2. Ashtabula County: The Ashtabula Train Disaster of 1876

3. Carroll County: The Fighting McCooks

4. Columbiana County: Salem and the Ohio Abolitionist Movement

5. Cuyahoga County: The Sly-Fanner Murders

6. Erie County: The Confederate Plot to Liberate Johnson Island's Civil War POW Camp

7. Geauga County: The Village of Burton

8. Harrison County: The Ohio Coal Industry

9. Holmes County: The Amish

10. Huron County: The Fight to Color Margarine

11. Jefferson County: Fort Steuben

12. Lake County: Kirtland: Former Capital of the Mormons

13. Lorain County: Wellington

14. Mahoning County: The Rise and Fall of the Steel Industry

15. Medina County: Lake Shore Electric Railway Company

16. Portage County: Kent

17. Richland County: Mansfield

18. Stark County: The Underground Railroad

19. Summit County: Canals, Quarries and Paper Mills: Cuyahoga Valley and the Village of Peninsula

20. Trumbull County: The Birthplace of Packard Motor

21. Tuscarawas County: The Massacre at Gnadenhutten

22. Wayne County: Smithville

Bibliography

About the Author.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781439673829

1439673829

OCLC:

1281980039