Ohio River Valley Archives • Century Past

Frontier Life along the Ohio River

Books / First-Person Accounts in History of the Great Lakes States, frontier, Northwest Territory, Ohio River Valley, pioneers

In 1788 the first new permanent American settlement northwest of the Ohio River (not including French villages) within the borders of the Northwest Territory was established at Marietta, Ohio. However, American involvement in that frontier region had begun nearly 20 years prior to that, before the Revolutionary War started, with pioneers moving into wilderness areas […]

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