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The Hopeton Earthworks in Chillicothe, Ohio was one of the grandest geometric earthworks the American Indians of the Hopewell culture built 2000 years ago. The complex includes a 20-acre circle (~1,050 feet diameter), a 20-acre square, at least two small circles and parallel walls (5 feet high, 2,400 feet long,…
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During the period between 200 B.C. and 500 A.D., the Native American Hopewell Culture flourished in the Southeastern region of Ohio, especially in the Ohio Valley, Scioto Valley, and Miami Valley. Among other Midwest States, Ohio may have been the epicenter of the Hopewell culture. Tribes that were part of…
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Car Collector magazine was not wrong when Dayton, Ohio’s America’s Packard Museum was picked as one of the “Top Ten” Auto Museums in The United States. This museum, located inside the 1917 original Packard dealership building, boasts as the “largest public collection of Packard automobiles and memorabilia anywhere in the…
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Wilbur and Orville are the famous Wright Brothers who invented the plane. They are the pioneers of aviation! Wilbur Wright was born on April 16, 1867. His younger brother Orville was born in 1871. Do you know that Wilbur was the middle child in a family of five children? The…
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Less than a decade after the successful first airplane flight by the Wright Brothers in 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, one of the Wright Brothers planes, the “Wright B”, made its way to the Philippines in December 1911. Wright Model B The shipment of the “Wright Model B”…
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I visited the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. It is considered one of the oldest working statehouses in the United States, being built between 1839 and 1861. Its architecture is typical Greek Revival. Today, the Statehouse houses the Ohio General Assembly. On September 16, 1859, Abraham Lincoln delivered a memorable…
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What a small park with so many things to do! Near the entrance of the park, there is a set-up of an old Indian Village. The park is the site of the Kispoko and Peckuwe septs of the Shawnee nation prior to the Battle of Peckuwe. The Battle of Peckuwe…
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One of the earliest Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house that is built in Ohio is the Westcott House. The one-story, prairie-style house was built in 1908 for Burton J. And Orpha L. Westcott. In 1946, it was turned into an apartment complex due to a housing crisis after the second World…
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