. Book of the Royal blue . MKMOHIAI. TO THK KORTV-KICHT IldNEEKS WHO LANDED OX THIS SPOT AlRIL 7. 1788. tlement made in the State of (Jhio, then aportion of the almost unknown NorthwestTerritory. There is probably no spot in the Stateof Ohio around which so much of historicand romantic interest clings as the littletown of Marietta. Not only was it thefirst settlement in the State, but the earlysettlers were a higher type of men andwomen than those who usually push for- serving their names and the memory oftheir deeds. On the bank of the Muskin-gum River, on the spot where the May-flowe
. Book of the Royal blue . MKMOHIAI. TO THK KORTV-KICHT IldNEEKS WHO LANDED OX THIS SPOT AlRIL 7. 1788. tlement made in the State of (Jhio, then aportion of the almost unknown NorthwestTerritory. There is probably no spot in the Stateof Ohio around which so much of historicand romantic interest clings as the littletown of Marietta. Not only was it thefirst settlement in the State, but the earlysettlers were a higher type of men andwomen than those who usually push for- serving their names and the memory oftheir deeds. On the bank of the Muskin-gum River, on the spot where the May-flower, the big flatboat which broughtthem down the Ohio River to their newhome, landed (so christened in honor of theother Mayflower which brought their an-cestors to a new world!, has been erecteda tablet, inscribed with the names of theforty-eight pioneers who constituted the.
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