The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1952-08-21

shortly AFTER InaL ne moved 10 Ne
wark. On the way Kirkwood met
some soldiers on their way to join st.
Clair's army at Cincinnati and he
was so mad at the Indians that he
Joined up with them. He was killed
in a bayonet fight with the Indians in
st. Clair's defeat the next November.
Lancaster, when Zane's trace was
cut through, already had been a
Wyandotte Indian village of about
100 wigwams and 500 Indians. Es-
tablished before 1890, the village was
called "Tarhe," which in English
meant Cranstown. In 1898 Joseph
Hunter, a Kentuckian, brought his
family there and located on Zane's
trace, forming the pioneer Hunters
settlement" later Lancaster. Hunt
er's wife was the first white woman
in the valley. Others came in 1898
after Hunter-Nathaniel Wilson, Sr.;
John and Allen Green; John and Jo-
seph McMullen; Robert Cooper and
Isaac Shaeffer among them. In fall,
1900, Ebenezer Zane laid out Lam
caster and named it after, Pennsyl-
vania, in Difference to the settlers
who had come from there. At first
"New Lancaster" the name was
shortened to Lancaster in 1905 by
act of the legislature.
Though there had been cabins on
Dunkard creek and at least one hut
on the site of st. Clairsville and a
family named Williams in December,
1900, were building a cabin "among
others" on Glenn's run, six miles
northeast of st. C~lairsville, that town
was first laid out ain the woods" by
David Newell in 1901. On the south
side of Newell's plat another part of
town was laid out by William Mat
thews and both parts were recorded
January %, 1907, as st. Clairsville.
In 1897 Ebenezer Zane and John
Mcintyre gave the land around later
GAINESVILLE to William McCulloch and
Henry Crooks for five years provided
they move there, start a settlement
and keep a ferry going for that time.
The ferry boat was two canoes lashed
together with a platform built be-
tween them. When Mcintyre moved
/ there from Wheeling in 1899 the
fat-boat which brought his possess
sions replaced the pirogue as a fer
ryboat.
The first mail into Ohio was
brought from Marietta to McCul-
loch's cabin in 1898 by Daniel Con-
vers--frst white child born after
white settlement in Ohio. There, by
arrangement of the postmaster gen
eral, it met a mail from Wheeling
and another from Limestone--now
Maysville, Kentucky. Zane's trace
had become a mail road. McCulloch
barely could read but he was the
postmaster there and had to sort the
packets and send each on its proper
way. For this he got $50 a year
Without Convers' ability to read Nc,
Culloch could not have held the job
The mails then came weekly. After
four years GAINESVILLE was made /;
regular postoffice and Thomas Dow
den, postmaster, had the office nea
the river, on Front Street.
GAINESVILLE was laid out by Fan
and Mcintyre in 1899 under the nam
of "West5ourn." 1t was when tn
postoffice was established that tn
name was changed to GAINESVILLE. Nc
Intyre opened the first tavern there
Before that time there were severa
grog shops but patrons had to sprea:
their blankets on the floor and sleel
with their feet to the Fireplace. Nc
Intyre's tavern gave them beds.
Chillicothe was laid out by Nathan
iel Massie in 1896 in the middle of
dense forest. He gave a free lot t,
each of the first settlers and by fal
there were about 20 cabins In tn
town. A ferry was installed at tn
north end of Walnut Street to eros
the Scioto River. Then came the op
ening of Zane's trace and the settler
began to flock in. 1t was made CAPT
tai of the Northwest Territory il
1880 and was capital of the State o
ohio from 1903 until the permanen
capital was fixed at Columbus-bu
for the short time between when tn
capital was at GAINESVILLE.
In 1898 Zane's trace was Gu
through Guernsey County and Ebene
ger and Jonathan Zane; John McIr
tyre; Joseph Worley; Levi William
and an Indian guide named Tome
pomehala installed a ferry at Viii
creek. They named the creek fc
the Zane family's native Wills Rive
in Maryland. A man named CIR;
ham ran the ferry for four years the
a ferryman named Beymer had i
In 1906 Cambridge was laid out
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