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Volume 34 Issue 4 July/August 2018 A Place to Honor the Indigenous Peoples of Delaware County Ohio Model of Pluggy’s Town added to the American Indian Gallery. Curator, Benny Shoults and High School Art teacher, John Scott look over the model. The model of an Indian village that was once here in the City of Delaware was built by the local High School art class led by John Scott. WHAT’S INSIDE: 2 President’s Message 3 Place to Honor Indigenous Peoples (con't) Benny Shoults ture exhibits to portray the latest findings 4 StEPs Enhancement Curator of the Meeker as they unfold. We have made it our goal Project Homestead Museum, Delaware, Ohio to tell stories about encounters with the 6 Little Stories of the Great early settlers and the tribes that were here War he Delaware County Historical as either inhabitants or that used the land Society has dedicated a gallery for hunting. This is a challenging part to 8 Most Trust Museums for in the Meeker Homestead Mu- our research because much of the written Historical Information seum as permanent Gallery for history is told from the point of view of 10 Announcements Tthe American Indian history of Delaware the early Euro-American settler. We can County. The purpose of the Museum is to only note this in our exhibits, as there 15 News from the tell our history about Delaware County, was not much available at this time from Regions and the purpose of the American Indian the perspective of the American Indian. 16 People in the News | Gallery is to tell our visitors more specifi- The story of the American Indians is On the Web cally about the people who lived here pri- a broad subject. It is easy to get cor- or to our early settlers. We envision not a nered into a Twentieth Century way of 17 New & Renewing permanent display, but space to create fu- portraying the American Indian, some- Members | Calendar (continued on page 3) bottom of “continued from page x” block ing forward to energy and input Julie, pointment and went on to serve two full President’s Nina and Kyle will bring to our board. terms. Jim served as co-chair of the Ad- top of text Message: While we welcome these three new re- vocacy Committee for a couple of years. gion representatives we must say goodbye We also have a new trustee-at-large. text block starts here under “continued from“ banner At the June OLHA board meeting and thank you to three others. Mike Wil- Jack Blosser of Fort Ancient replaced we welcomed several new region rep- son’s work schedule prevented him from Kate Smith who resigned. Kate served resentatives to the board. Julie Mayle running again. We thank Mike for his help on the board as a region representative Text box starts here under title block of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential with the Region 2 meetings. Leslie Blan- for several terms, as well as a trustee- Center is a new Region 2 Representa- kenship (Region 6) goes off the board after at-large and will be missed, but we tive. In Region 6 Nina Thomas from coming on the board to fill in an unexpired look forward to Jack’s contributions the Local History Center/Anti-Saloon term and then served two full terms. For to the board and OLHA as a whole. League Museum/Westerville Public several of those years Leslie served as co- Library, is a new representative. Region chair of the Education Committee, which Todd McCormick President, Ohio Local History Alliance 10’s new representative is Kyle Yoho of means heading up the Annual Meeting, a tall task that Leslie filled admirably. Jim Curator/Director, Logan County Historical Society The Castle in Marietta. We are look- (937) 593-7557 Geyer (Region 10) also came on as an ap- [email protected] 2018-2019 Board Members Ohio Local History Alliance PRESIDENT IMMEDIATE PAST-PRESIDENT REGION 4 REGION 8 Todd McCormick, Curator/Director Beth Weinhardt, Local History Coordinator Melissa Karman, Director Ed Creighton Logan County Historical Society, Westerville Public Library, Westerville The Sutliff Museum, Warren Friends of White Water Shaker Village, Bellefontaine (614) 259-5028 (330) 395-6575 Hamilton (937) 593-7557 [email protected] [email protected] (513) 756-1515 [email protected] westervillelibrary.org/local-history www.sutliffmuseum.org [email protected] www.loganhistory.org Lae’l Hughes-Watkins, University Terrie Puckett EX-OFFICIO (EXECUTIVE Archivist Grailville, Loveland 1ST VICE PRESIDENT SECRETARY) Kent State University, Kent (513) 683-2340 Wendy Zucal, Executive Director Dr. Betsy Hedler, Partnerships Coordinator, [email protected] [email protected] Dennison Railroad Depot Museum, Dennison Local History Services www.library.kent.edu/page/10300 www.grailville.org/ (740) 922-6776 Ohio History Connection, Columbus [email protected] (614) 297-2538 REGION 5 REGION 9 dennisondepot.org [email protected] Christy Davis, Registrar Jessica Cyders, Curator www.ohiohistory.org Pro Football Hall of Fame, Canton Southeast Ohio History Center, Athens 2ND VICE PRESIDENT (330) 588-3616 (740) 592-2280 Leann Rich, Manager of Education & REGION 1 [email protected] [email protected] External Relations Richard Witteborg, Curator of Exhibits www.ProFootballHOF.com athenshistory.org Mahoning Valley Historical Society Andrew L. Tuttle Museum, Defiance Kelly Kuhn-Engstrom, Director. Curator. Megan Malone, Director Youngstown (419) 784-1907 Sugarcreek Information Center. Alpine Hills Lillian E. Jones Museum, Jackson (330) 743-2589 [email protected] Museum, Sugarcreek (740) 286-2556 [email protected] cityofdefiance.com/tuttle-museum/ (330) 852-4113 [email protected] www.mahoninghistory.org Pat Smith, Director [email protected] www.jonesmuseum.com Allen County Museum & Historical Society, alpinehills.webstarts.com/ SECRETARY Lima REGION 10 Ruth Brindle, Co-Director (419) 222-9426 REGION 6 Judy Robinson, Trustee Main Street Wilmington [email protected] Leslie Wagner, Historian Noble County Historical Society [email protected] www.allencountymuseum.org The Dawes Arboretum, Newark Caldwell 740-323-2355 x 1256 (740) 732-2654 TREASURER REGION 2 [email protected] [email protected] Kathleen Fernandez, Historian and Gene Smith, Curator of Museums dawesarb.org/ www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohnoble/ Museum Consultant, North Canton Clyde Museum and McPherson House, Nina Thomas, Museum Specialist histsoc.htm [email protected] Castalia Anti-Saloon League Museum/Westerville Kyle Yoho, Education Director [email protected] Public Library, Westerville The Castle Historic House Museum, Marietta TRUSTEES-AT-LARGE Julie Mayle, Associate Curator of (614) 259-5027 740-373-4180 Jack Blosser, Fort Ancient Earthworks and Manuscripts— [email protected] [email protected] Nature Preserve, Oregonia Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & www.westervillelibrary.org/AntiSaloon/ www.mariettacastle.org (513) 932-4421 Museums, Fremont [email protected] 419-332-2081 REGION 7 www.fortancient.org [email protected] Melissa Shaw, Curator, Collections Gary Levitt, Director www.rbhayes.org Management Division Museum of Postal History, Delphos National Museum of the United States Air (419) 303-5482 REGION 3 Force, Wright-Patterson AFB [email protected] Rebecca Urban (937) 255-8839 www.postalhistorymuseum.org Peninsula Foundation, Peninsula [email protected] Timothy Daley, Executive Director, (330) 657-2528 www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/ Cuyahoga County Soldiers’ and Sailors’ [email protected] Natalie Fritz, Curator of Library and Monument, Cleveland Greg Palumbo, Director Archives (216) 621-3710 Lakewood Historical Society, Lakewood Clark County Historical Society, Springfield [email protected] (216) 221-7343 937-324-0657; x234 www.soldiersandsailors.com [email protected] [email protected] The Local Historian | July/August 2018 2 A Place to Honor the Indigenous People of Delaware County (continued from page 1) bottom of “continued from page x” block top of text thing that we do not believe is always respectful. To properly portray the early history of an area, in our case Delaware County, the research should include not only the history of text block starts here under “continued from“ banner the American Indian, but of their ancestral beginnings going back thousands of years. I have begun to use the term, “In- digenous Peoples”, along with the term American Indian. The Text box starts here under title block American Indian is the common classification of the tribes that inhabited the lands when the Colonial Americans came to the Ohio Lands. The Indigenous Peoples are those cultures, com- munities, and people who were here before colonial societies came to the North American continent. There are some arche- ologists who believe that the ancient peoples, like Hopewell, Cole and Adena, were the ancestors of the tribes of American Indians who were still here when our county founders came to central Ohio. This is still not proven, but it seems likely. So how did we begin? We are fortunate to have had a fair number of American Indian artifacts donated during the early foundation of our historical society. Cataloguing and research- ing these objects with the help of researchers, both academic and hobbyists, have taken place. We had and continue to have the help of the Ohio History Connection in order to better un- derstand our county’s part in the early American Indian history. Our interest of presenting a local view of history is the main goal. We know that The Ohio History Connec- tion’s museum covers the overall history of Ohio, but our focus is on telling the story at the local level. Our physical displays, whether it be graphics on the wall or artifacts displayed in cases, are labeled with visitor friendly descriptions. We title the object or graphic on the labels. If it is an object, we give a brief description of what it is and for what it was used, giving a date when it was made Display case American Indian Gallery – Meeker Homestead Museum, or used.