What to see in America . A Canal at Hamilton XXIII Ohio A Moravian missionary built a cabin on the Tuscarawas Riverin 1761, and this was the first white mans house in thelimits of the future Ohio. It was in the central eastern partof the state near New Philadelphia. Ohios first church wasbuilt in 1772 at a Moravian mission village in this samevicinity. Two other villages of Indian converts were estab-lished not far away, but in September, 1781, unfriendlynatives made the three villages a scene of general robberyand violence. The villagers all left, but ninety-six of theIndian men and women con
What to see in America . A Canal at Hamilton XXIII Ohio A Moravian missionary built a cabin on the Tuscarawas Riverin 1761, and this was the first white mans house in thelimits of the future Ohio. It was in the central eastern partof the state near New Philadelphia. Ohios first church wasbuilt in 1772 at a Moravian mission village in this samevicinity. Two other villages of Indian converts were estab-lished not far away, but in September, 1781, unfriendlynatives made the three villages a scene of general robberyand violence. The villagers all left, but ninety-six of theIndian men and women converts returned in February tosave the corn left standing in their fields. Before they couldget away with the corn ninety men from the Ohio appeared,secured the Indians guns, hatchets, and knives, shut thepeople up in two houses at the village of Gnadenhiitten, andslaughtered all of them like sheep. A missionary came back 222 Ohio 223 in 1798, gathered up the rehcsof the ninety-six victims, buriedthem in the cellar hole o
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