| Ohio (Holmes County), Baltic — 11-79 — Bouquet’s Trail, 1764 / Port Washington Road | | | Bouquet’s Trail, 1764. Unsatisfied by the treaty that ended the French and Indian War, Ottawa chief Pontiac led a confederacy of Native American tribes in attacks against the British frontier forts during 1763, a campaign known as “Pontiac’s Conspiracy.”
In October 1764, Colonel Henry Bouquet led a 1500- man army into the Ohio country from Fort Pitt (present-day Pittsburgh) as a demonstration of British force and to free captives held by several tribes.
Informed of possible . . . — Map (db m13615) | | Ohio (Holmes County), Calmoutier — 2-38 — Calmoutier | | | Side A:
This area, known as Calmoutier, was an early French Catholic farming community founded in 1832 by Claude Druhot, who came from Calmoutier, Hte-Saône, France. Its first native, the four-month-old Claude Joseph Druhot, was baptized on 9 June 1833 by Fr. John Henni, who resided at St. John's in Canton (and in 1854 became Milwaukee's first bishop). In 1836 Fr. John Alleman, O.P., established St. Genevieve's Mission (when it began to keep its own records) on land donated by the . . . — Map (db m24492) | | Ohio (Holmes County), Walnut Creek — 1-38 — Jonas Stutzman — "Der Weiss" — 1-31-1788 - 10-18-1871 | | | Jonas Stutzman, from Somerset County, Pennsylvania, came to this site in 1809 to clear land for farming and to build a log home for his family. He was the first permanent settler in the eastern portion of what would in 1825 become Holmes County. Jonas and his wife Magdalena Gerber Stutzman were of the Amish faith--descendants from a group of strict Protestant Anabaptists with origins in Switzerland and Holland and dating from the 16th -century Protestant Reformation. Some of their beliefs, . . . — Map (db m24493) |
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