The first Fourth of July celebration in 1788 was celebrated by the Ohio Company settlers under a 60 foot long bower.

Indians gather for the Harmar Treaty in January, 1789.

Residents of Waterford and Wolf Creek, mostly women and children, spend a fearful night after the Big Bottom massacre.

The French 500 arrive to find they have been swindled and have no land. Eventually they settled in the "City of the Gauls" -- Gallipolis.

More Indians arrive for the Harmar Treaty and make camp near the Marietta settlement.

"Native American Indians in the Ohio Country lived in great harmony with nature; they revered it; they used it wisely and well" - Allan Eckert

After the Harmar Treaty was signed, Rufus Putnam invited the officers, their wives and Indian chiefs to a celebration dinner at Campus Martius.

Christopher "Kitt" Putnam casts his ballot in the 1802 statehood election. He was the first and, for many decades, the last Black to vote in Ohio.

A 12-year-old "servant" to Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr. was killed by Indians in front of Campus Martius during the Indian War.

All available men were part of the militia during the Indian War.

Natives encamped at "The Point" watch the Ohio Company men arrive on April 7th, 1788.

Letters written by the Woodbridge family and others tell of the dangers and hardships of the Indian War.

Frontier life was hard; it was even harder on the women and children.

Squatters in the Ohio country were evicted by the Federal Government before the land was sold to the Ohio Company.