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‘Big Muskie’, once the world’s largest walking dragline excavator, is being honored with a new historical marker.
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County engineers in north central Ohio are re-surveying the line created by the Treaty of Greenville. It divided what’s now the state of Ohio in two: claiming the south for westward-bound American settlers and the north for a dozen indigenous nations.
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The Ohio History Connection is mapping patriots’ gravesites, in hope of better preserving them across the state.
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The Urbana Black Heritage Festival will give west-central Ohioans the chance to celebrate the powerful legacy and lasting contributions of past Black residents.
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The Women Religious Archive Collaborative is focusing on documenting the contributions of Catholic sisters across the country.
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Ohio has more sites in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program than any other state, and a new initiative in southern Ohio is playing a key role in adding even more.
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A group of Hillsboro mothers and their children marched for two years to desegregate their community’s schools.
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Community members in Braceville opened a new museum to document the rural area’s rich Black history.
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A new book is celebrating the life of one of Ohio’s earliest and most active conductors along the Underground Railroad: Reverend John Rankin.
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In most parts of the world, Hanukkah is a relatively minor Jewish holiday. The celebration’s grander roots in the United States trace back to a pair of rabbis from Cincinnati.