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Afro-American Museum
The National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center is a 20 minute drive from downtown Dayton, Ohio, and is located 1 mile west of State Route 42 North, adjacent to Central State University.

Armstrong Museum
Named in honor of Neil Armstrong, first man to set foot on the moon, this museum in Wapakoneta chronicles Ohio's contributions to the history of space flight.

Big Bottom
Named for the broad Muskingum floodplain, the three acre Big Bottom park is the site of a skirmish between Ohio Company settlers and some Delaware and Wyandot Indians on 2 January 1791.

Buckeye Furnace
Buckeye Furnace is a reconstructed charcoal-fired iron blast furnace with original stack, typical of those operating in southeastern Ohio's Hanging Rock Iron Region more than a century ago.

Buffington Island
Buffington Island commemorates the only significant Civil War battle that took place on Ohio soil.

Campus Martius
The Campus Martius Museum highlights migration in Ohio's history. The museum is on the site of the first organized American settlement in the Northwest Territory.

Cedar Bog
Cedar Bog Nature Preserve is the largest and best example of a boreal and prairie fen complex in Ohio. It has many rare plants and animals, as well as excellent orchid, prairie, and woodland wildflower displays.

Cooke House
Formerly the home of Eleutherus Cooke, this 1840's stone and brick home was moved to its current location in 1874. Sandusky's first lawyer, Cooke was also a politician serving in the Ohio Legislature and U.S. Congress.

Custer Monument
A bronze statue stands on the site of George Armstrong Custer's birthplace.

Davis Memorial
This 88-acre nature preserve, set in an area of exceptional scenic beauty, is of interest primarily to geologists and botanists.

Dunbar House
This Italianate turn-of-the-century structure was the final home of the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Fallen Timbers
Near the site of the battle of Fallen Timbers, this small park contains a monument honoring Major General Anthony Wayne as well as smaller monuments to the soldiers and Native Americans who died in the battle.

Flint Ridge
Flint Ridge contains quarry pits where all of the ancient people of Ohio came to get flint for both tools and weapons.

Fort Amanda
Along the bank of the Auglaize River this quiet roadside park marks the site of a supply fort built during the War of 1812.

Fort Ancient
Fort Ancient features 18,000 feet of earthen walls built 2,000 years ago by American Indians who used the shoulder blades of deer, split elk antler, clam shell hoes and digging sticks to dig the dirt.

Fort Hill
Fort Hill State Memorial is a nature preserve containing one of the best preserved Indian hilltop enclosures in North America.

Fort Jefferson
Fort Jefferson park and monument marks the site of an advance outpost of General Arthur St. Clair, built in October 1791.

Fort Laurens
Named in honor of Henry Laurens, then president of the Continental Congress, Fort Laurens was built in 1778 in an ill-fated campaign to attack the British at Detroit.

Fort Meigs
William Henry Harrison built Fort Meigs on the Maumee River in 1813 to protect northwest Ohio and Indiana from British invasion.

Fort Recovery
In late 1791, Miami Indians defeated General Arthur St. Clair's forces at this site along the Wabash River.

Glacial Grooves
The Glacial Grooves on the north side of Kelleys Island are the largest easily accessible such grooves in the world.

Glendower
Glendower is a restored Greek Revival mansion, one of the five built during the last century on a hill south of the center of Lebanon.

Grant Birthplace
Ulysses S. Grant was born 27 April 1822 in picturesque Point Pleasant near the mouth of Big Indian Creek at the Ohio River.

Grant Schoolhouse
Hiram Ulysses Grant was born in Point Pleasant in April 1822. In 1823, his parents moved twenty miles east to Georgetown, where his father opened his own tannery.

Hanby House
This is the home of Benjamin Russell Hanby, composer of numerous songs-- Darling Nellie Gray and Up On The Housetop.

Harding Home
Warren G. Harding launched himself into the White house in 1920 with his famous "front porch" campaign, which he conducted from his Victorian home in Marion, Ohio.

Harding Tomb
The Harding Tomb is a circular monument of white Georgia marble containing the remains of President and Mrs. Harding.

Harrison Tomb
Harrison's tomb and monument on Mt. Nebo in North Bend contains the remains of William Henry Harrison, ninth president of the United States.

Hayes Presidential Center
The Hayes Presidential Center contains the residence of Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States, a library and museum, and the tomb of the president and his wife Lucy Webb Hayes.

Indian Mill
In a scenic location along the Sandusky River, Indian Mill, built in 1861, is the nation's first educational museum of milling in its original structure.

Inscription Rock
Inscription Rock, on the south shore of Kelleys Island, is marked with prehistoric Indian pictographs.

Leo Petroglyph
Leo Petroglyph is an outstanding example of prehistoric Indian inscriptions.

Lockington Locks
These stair step locks, among the best preserved in Ohio, were part of the Miami and Erie Canal System, which opened for navigation in 1845 and connected Cincinnati and the Ohio River to Toledo and Lake Erie.

Logan Elm
Logan Elm State Memorial is said to be the site where, in 1774, Chief Logan of the Mingo tribe delivered his eloquent speech on Indian-white relations.

McCook House
This large brick house is a memorial to the "Fighting McCooks," a nickname given to the family because of their military service during the Civil War.

McCook Monument
This roadside monument marks the area where Major Daniel McCook died during the battle of Buffington Island. Daniel McCook, an attorney, came to Ohio from Pennsylvania in 1826, eventually settling in Carrollton.

Miamisburg Mound
The Miamisburg Mound is the largest conical burial mound in the state of Ohio and possibly in the eastern U. S.

Moundbuilders
Moundbuilders State Memorial preserves the Great Circle earthwork built by the Hopewell culture approximately 2000 years ago.

Museum of Ceramics
The East Liverpool Museum of Ceramics houses an extensive collection of the wares produced by "America's Crockery City."

National Road/Zane Grey Museum
This modern museum has three major exhibit areas. First is the National Road, early America's busiest land artery to the West.

Octagon Earthworks
The Octagon Earthworks are part of the Newark group of prehistoric Indian earthworks, originally one of the most extensive earthworks of its kind in the country.

Ohio Ceramic Center
The Ohio Ceramic Center is a museum devoted to the display of ceramic wares produced in east central Ohio.

Ohio Historical Center
Described by the 1989 Smithsonian Guide to Historic America as "probably the finest museum in America devoted to pre-European history," the Ohio Historical Center is both the headquarters of the Ohio Historical Society and a museum facility showcasing Ohio's history from the ice age to the year 1970.

Ohio River Museum
The Ohio River Museum consists of three exhibit buildings, the first of which houses displays depicting the origins and natural history of the Ohio River.

Ohio Statehouse
The Statehouse Education & Visitors Center interprets the state capitol's history and significance for the public, and guides school groups in their study of government, citizenship, and Ohio history.

Ohio Village
The Ohio Historical Society opened the Ohio Village on 27 July 1974, to provide an entertaining means of learning about life in 19th century Ohio.

Our House
Our House--a three-story brick tavern in the Federal style--was built in Gallipolis by Henry Cushing in 1819.

Piqua Historical Area
The Piqua Historical Area State Memorial celebrates two thousand years of Ohio's rich history from prehistoric Indians to Ohio's canal era.

Quaker Meeting House
This three-story brick building was erected in Mount Pleasant in 1814 and was the first yearly Quaker meeting house west of the Alleghenies.

Rankin House
The Rankin House was an important stop on the Underground Railroad in southern Ohio through which many slaves escaped from the South to freedom.

Schoenbrunn
The Moravian church founded Schoenbrunn ("beautiful spring") in 1772 as a mission to the Delaware Indians.

Seip Mound
Seip Mound is the central mound in a group of geometric earthworks.

Serpent Mound
One of the few effigy mounds in Ohio, Serpent Mound is the largest and finest serpent effigy in the United States.

Shaker Historical Museum
The Shaker museum is housed in a local mansion overlooking Upper Shaker Lake. The museum exhibits a large collection of Shaker objects.

Shrum Mound/Campbell Park
Shrum Mound is one of the last remaining conical burial mounds in the city of Columbus.

Story Mound
Story Mound, of interest primarily to archaeologists, consists of a large, rounded earthen mound located on slightly less than an acre of ground in Chillicothe.

Stowe House
The Harriet Beecher Stowe House was built by Lane Seminary in 1833 to serve as the residence of that institution's president.

Tallmadge Church
A Tallmadge committee of seven men developed plans for building the church in 1819 and appointed one of their members, Lemuel Porter, as the architect and builder.

Wahkeena Nature Preserve
Wahkeena, named with an Indian word meaning "most beautiful" is a located on the edge of the Hocking Hills.

Wright Earthworks
Part of the Newark Earthworks complex, this 50-foot long segment is one side of a large square enclosure which was an important feature of the original complex.

Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labor
The Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labor provides a dramatic overview of the impact of the iron and steel industry on Youngstown and other Mahoning Valley communities.

Zoar Village
Founded by the German religious dissenters called the Society of Separatists of Zoar in 1817 as a communal society, Zoar today is an island of Old-World charm in east-central Ohio.