. Book of the Royal blue . Much local pride ismanifested in the well-kept appearance ofthe houses and streets. The Baltimore &Ohio South-Western Railroad has a neat andpretty station here, which is in keepingwith the general appearance of the Marietta via the Baltimore &Ohio South-Western Railroad, we passthrough the oil region of Ohio. The entirelandscape is dotted with oil derricks, and asickly scent of petroleum hangs in the a short trip through a diversifiedcountry of rocky hills and cultivated fields. Massie and a party of forty here lived the fine
. Book of the Royal blue . Much local pride ismanifested in the well-kept appearance ofthe houses and streets. The Baltimore &Ohio South-Western Railroad has a neat andpretty station here, which is in keepingwith the general appearance of the Marietta via the Baltimore &Ohio South-Western Railroad, we passthrough the oil region of Ohio. The entirelandscape is dotted with oil derricks, and asickly scent of petroleum hangs in the a short trip through a diversifiedcountry of rocky hills and cultivated fields. Massie and a party of forty here lived the fine old Indian chiefLogan, whose record as warrior and states-man shames that of many of his whitebrethren, and whose noble and patheticspeech to the white man is regarded as aclassic. His name has been given to thehighest point of land shown in the birds-eye view of Chillicothe, Mount Logan,and Rattlesnake Knob, the other pointshown in the same picture, forming thechain of hills shown on the seal of theState of ^. I I I; n km W •> lATIiN AT M \ l:l I I r \ we reach the thriving town of Chillicothe. While of the early histoiy of Chillicotheit is related that it is one of the few townsin Ohio that did not sufler from Indian de-predations, nevertheless it has an interest-ing, if a more peaceful, history. Chillicothe is beautifully situated on thebank of the Scioto River (which the Indianscalled Seeyotoh, meaning great legs,from its many and important tributaries,which the Indians called legs). It was laidout and settled in 1796, by Nathaniel In 1788 Chillicothe became the seat ofTerritorial government, the State House,built in ISOl, being occupied Ijy the Terri-torial Legislature, and two years later itwas occupied by the State Legislature,the free and Independent State of Ohiohaving been admitted into the Inion in 1802. Of the early settlers of Ohio it is said,The finest wheat of New England culti-vation was sown on fertile soi
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