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Logan Elm
The Logan Elm that stood near Circleville in Pickaway County, Ohio, was one of the largest American elm trees (''Ulmus americana'') recorded. The tree had a trunk circumference of and a crown spread of . Weakened by Dutch elm disease, the tree died from storm damage in 1964. The Logan Elm State Memorial commemorates the site and preserves various associated markers and monuments. According to tradition, Chief Logan of the Mingo tribe delivered a passionate speech at a peace-treaty meeting under this elm in 1774, said to be the most famous speech ever given by a Native American, now known as "Logan's Lament": I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, Logan is the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logan Elm Village, Ohio
Logan Elm Village is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pickaway County, Ohio, United States, near the site of the Logan Elm. The population was 1,062 at the 2000 census. "Logan elm" originally referred to a large individual elm tree where Logan the Orator gave a speech. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all of it land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 1,062 people, 425 households, and 295 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 438 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 96.70% White, 1.79% African American, 0.09% Native American, 0.75% Asian, 0.09% from other races, and 0.56% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino people of any race were 0.75% of the population. There were 425 households, out of which 27.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.2% were married couples living together, 10.6% had a female householder w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logan Monument
Logan may refer to: Places * Mount Logan (other) Australia * Logan (Queensland electoral district), an electoral district in the Queensland Legislative Assembly * Logan, Victoria, small locality near St. Arnaud * Logan City, local government area in Queensland ** Shire of Logan, predecessor to Logan City * Logan Lagoon, Flinders Island, Tasmania * Logan River, river flowing into Moreton Bay, Queensland * Logan Village, Queensland, a town and locality within Logan City, Queensland Canada * Mount Logan, Canada's highest mountain * Logan (Manitoba electoral district), former electoral district in the Canadian province of Manitoba * Logan Lake, a district municipality in the Southern Interior of British Columbia United Kingdom * Logan Botanic Garden, Wigtownshire, Scotland * Logan, East Ayrshire, Scotland United States * Logan, Alabama * Logan, Arkansas * Logan, Edgar County, Illinois * Logan Square, Chicago, Illinois * Logan, Dearborn County, Indiana * Logan, Lawrenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Girty
Simon Girty (14 November 1741 – 18 February 1818) was an interpreter with the British Indian Department during the American Revolutionary War and Northwest Indian War. As a child he and his brothers James and George were captured and adopted by Native Americans. Freed after living with the Seneca people, Seneca for seven years, Girty worked as a trader and interpreter. During the American Revolution he became disillusioned with the Patriot (American Revolution), Patriot cause, and in 1778, fled to Fort Detroit where he was hired as an interpreter for the British Indian Department. Girty accompanied Britain's Indigenous allies during the 1780 Bird's invasion of Kentucky, expedition against Kentucky, Kentucky's frontier settlements and was present at Lochry's Defeat in 1781. Girty was held complicit when the Lenape tortured William Crawford (soldier), Colonel William Crawford to death following the Battle of Sandusky. He continued to serve with the British Indian Department for ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Individual Elm Trees
An individual is one that exists as a distinct entity. Individuality (or self-hood) is the state or quality of living as an individual; particularly (in the case of humans) as a person unique from other people and possessing one's own needs or goals, rights and responsibilities. The concept of an individual features in many fields, including biology, law, and philosophy. Every individual contributes significantly to the growth of a civilization. Society is a multifaceted concept that is shaped and influenced by a wide range of different things, including human behaviors, attitudes, and ideas. The culture, morals, and beliefs of others as well as the general direction and trajectory of the society can all be influenced and shaped by an individual's activities. Etymology From the 15th century and earlier (and also today within the fields of statistics and metaphysics) ''individual'' meant " indivisible", typically describing any numerically singular thing, but sometimes meanin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s Individual Tree Deaths
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the Jian'an Era, during the reign of the Xian Emperor of the Han. * The Xian Emperor returns to war-r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Individual Trees
The following is a list of individual trees. Trees listed here are regarded as important or specific by their historical, national, locational, natural or mythological context. The list includes actual trees located throughout the world, as well as #Mythological and religious trees, trees from myths and religions. Africa Living Historical Asia Living Historical Europe Living Historical North America Living Historical Petrified Christmas trees *Anthem Christmas tree, the tallest Christmas tree in the United States, erected annually at the Outlets at Anthem outside Phoenix, Arizona. *Boston Christmas Tree. Since 1971, given to Boston by the people of Nova Scotia in thanks for their assistance during the 1917 Halifax Explosion. Located in the Boston Common (park), Boston Common. *Capitol Christmas Tree, the tree erected annually on the West Front Lawn of the United States Capitol, in Washington, D.C. *Chicago Christmas Tree, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Elm Trees
Many elm (''Ulmus'') trees of various kinds have attained great size or otherwise become particularly noteworthy; among these are the following. American Elm ''Ulmus americana'' Most of North America's notable elms are ''Ulmus americana'', a fast-growing and long-lived species capable of attaining great size in a few centuries, especially when open-grown. American Forests, a non-profit conservation organization, uses the following formula to calculate a point score for each tree to permit comparisons with others:Trunk Circumference (in inches) + Height (in feet) + 1/4 Average Crown Spread (in feet) = Total Points State champion American elm trees The list of United States state champion American elm trees below tabulates each of the above characteristics, as well as the total points awarded to each tree. Other lists of American elm trees Other notable American elm trees include: * The Treaty Elm, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In what is now Penn Treaty Park, the founder of Pennsyl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nonhelema
Nonhelema Hokolesqua (–1786) was an 18th century Shawnee leader and sister of Cornstalk. She was a participant in Pontiac's War and advocated Shawnee neutrality during the American Revolutionary War. Following the war, and despite her support for the United States, Nonhelema's village was attacked. Her husband, Shawnee Chief Moluntha, was killed, and Nonhelema was captured. She died later that year. Born in 1718 into the Chalakatha (Chilliothe) division of the Shawnee nation and spent her early youth in Pennsylvania. Her brother Cornstalk, and her Métis mother Katee accompanied her father Okowellos to the Alabama country in 1725. Their family returned to Pennsylvania within five years. In 1734 she married her first husband, a Chalakatha chief. By 1750 Nonhelema was a Shawnee chief, having significant influence within the Shawnee settlement in Kentucky known as Lower Shawneetown. Nonhelema had three husbands. The first was a Shawnee man. The third was Shawnee Chief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logan Elm High School
Logan Elm High School is a Public school (government funded), public school located near Circleville, Ohio, Circleville, Ohio, United States, near the site of the Logan Elm. It serves the Logan Elm School District, which straddles Pickaway County, Pickaway and Hocking County, Hocking County (United States), counties. History In 1957, the Pickaway County, Ohio, Pickaway, Washington, and Salt Creek Township, Pickaway County, Ohio, Saltcreek school districts combined to form the Logan Elm School District. Logan Elm High School was built to serve the new district in 1960. It was named after the nearby Elm tree under which Chief Logan delivered a famous speech from in 1774. The first graduation to occur at Logan Elm High School was that of the Class of 1961. In 1972 the Laurelville School District of Hocking County joined the Logan Elm School District, creating the present boundaries of the district. In 2018, voters in the district passed a levy to build a new PK-12 school building, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Cresap
Michael Cresap (April 17, 1742 – October 18, 1775) was a frontiersman born in Maryland, British America. Biography Cresap was the son of the pioneer Colonel Thomas Cresap. He spent part of his adult years in the Ohio Country as a trader and land developer. He led several raids against Native Americans who were hostile to white settlement. In April 1774, rumors spread that members of the Cherokee tribe had murdered several settlers along the frontier. Cresap, believing the rumors, was apparently involved in a reprisal raid, and he or some of his followers killed two or three mingo in the vicinity of Captina Creek, in present day Ohio. None of the natives killed were in fact Cherokee. The war leader Logan of the Mingo, accused Cresap of murdering his family. Logan's wife and pregnant sister were among those murdered.Calloway, Colin G. The Indian World of George Washington: First Americans, the First President, and the Birth of the Nation. Oxford University Press, 2018. pp. 207- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circleville, Ohio
Circleville is a city in Pickaway County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. The city is situated along the Scioto River 25 miles (40 km) south of Columbus, Ohio, Columbus. The population was 13,927 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Circleville is named after its original layout created in 1810, which was based upon the circular Hopewell tradition Earthworks (engineering), earthwork within which the city was built. This earthwork measured in diameter, and was constructed in the early centuries of the Common Era. The county courthouse was built in the center of the innermost circle. In the late 1830s, for various reasons, residents requested authorisation from the state legislature to change Circleville's layout to a standard grid format. This was accomplished by the mid-1850s. All traces of the Hopewell earthwork were destroyed, although hundreds of other monuments of its kind still remain in the Ohio Valley. History Early history By the mid-18th centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
