After the 1786 destruction of the Upper Mad River Shawnee villages, some Mekoches migrated northwest to a bountiful area known as the Grand Glaize along the Maumee River. Others relocated to Indiana, Missouri, and Kansas. However, the cruelty of . . . — — Map (db m307098) HM
The barn still standing behind Mac-A-Cheek Castle is the only remaining section of what was the second (and possibly third) Piatt family barn. It was built in the late 19th century with a modified post and beam construction. Remaining interior . . . — — Map (db m144931) HM
Many species of the perennial plant, Anemone, grow in a range of colors. The white and pink shades depicted in the drawing room ceiling were garden favorites in the late 19th Century, when they were associated with excitement and anticipation. . . . — — Map (db m307114) HM
This land was home to Shawnee People who established their villages on the uplands of the north side of the Mac-A-Cheek valley and their corn fields in the bottom lands along the stream. The earliest white settlers also favored the bottom lands . . . — — Map (db m144757) HM
Construction of this stone mansion was begun in 1864 by General Abram Sanders Piatt (1821-1908). Finished in 1871, it replaced an earlier frame house where Abram had lived with his first wife Hannah and their children before her death in 1861 and . . . — — Map (db m144457) HM
In a multi-year project called From the Ground Up under the direction of archaeologist Ann Johnson, students, scouts, families, and summer day-campers excavated the tunnel, sections of the garden, and the conservatory floor.
In the garden, . . . — — Map (db m307089) HM
In 202, the laundry room located in the 1890s wooden addition was converted to a restroom and was covered with vinyl. The wooden siding and corner post were painted their original colors in 2012, but the vinyl was left to represent this 21st century . . . — — Map (db m249746) HM
This photograph of Oleeta Bailey Gribble outside her home reveals the south side of the addition and wrap around porch which are currently painted their original colors.
Many new houses built in the late 19th century included elaborate front . . . — — Map (db m249748) HM
An 1875 drawing of George Bailey’s house shows some details such as the sidewalks and iron fencing that might have been embellishments. However, the style and structure of the house is presumed accurate and has been a source used by the Historical . . . — — Map (db m249747) HM
When he was eight years old in 1820, Thomas Cowgill accompanied his father to John Enoch’s gristmill in West Liberty. Years later he described the setting;
“The land comprising John Enoch’s farm was nearly all unimproved and partly covered by a . . . — — Map (db m249750) HM
As you explore the site now called Piatt Castle Mac-A-Cheek, appreciate the people who lived here during ancient times, and as recently as the late 18th century. Consider how they lived their lives and compare their existences to ours today. . . . — — Map (db m307107) HM
The first permanent Sunday School in the "Old" Mennonite Church, founded by the authority of the church, was organized in the Logan County Amish Mennonite Church, now the South Union Church, one and seven-tenths miles, northwest of this location, . . . — — Map (db m305423) HM
This marker rests within the boundaries of a 57 acre tract of land
gifted to the Fairview Cemetery trustees on September 23, 1921 by
Henry and Elizabeth Foust. The tract is bounded on the east by
county road 5 (then known as the West Liberty and . . . — — Map (db m199526) HM
Benjamin M. Piatt, son of a Revolutionary War patriot, was raised on farms in New Jersey and later in Kentucky. As a young adult in the Cincinnati area, Benjamin's interests in commerce, real estate and law brought prosperity and the ability to . . . — — Map (db m144523) HM
"Founded on the site of the Shawnee village of Old Chillicothe on US HWY 68 near Xenia, Great Council State Park celebrates and honors the history of the Native Americans and European settlers of the region. The highlight of this park is a . . . — — Map (db m307096) HM
1920s
In the 1920s, a sentiment was applied to U.S. history promoting a romantic veneration of early America's past. This movement, now referred to as "Colonial Revival," popularized historic markers.
The Ohio Revolutionary Memorial . . . — — Map (db m307104) HM
The 2023 designation of the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks as a UNESCO World Heritage Site was the result of collaboration between many of Ohio's historic and cultural organizations, led by Ohio History Connection. Chief Glenna Wallace, who . . . — — Map (db m307106) HM
Dehumanized in History Texts
Kentuckians remembered Logan's raid as a successful campaign that contributed to opening the Ohio territory for American settlement. Building on the ideology of continental expansion that began with the first . . . — — Map (db m307103) HM
Hull's Trace. A trail over which General Hull's army marched to Detroit in 1812. At this point a company of scouts recruited by Capt. Wm. McColloch of Zanetown joined Hull's army.
Moluntha. Chief Moluntha, Grand Sachem of the . . . — — Map (db m198041) HM
Benjamin Piatt and other early white settlers established farm-related industries using the water power of the Macacheek Creek. Benjamin built two dams to control the water supply and improved the head race channeling water across his land from . . . — — Map (db m144548) HM
Margaret Piatt remembers her 1950s childhood at Mac-A-Cheek, when she and her brother, William played on the garden rocks, then covered with Trumpet Creepers. The kids called the plants "Virginia Creepers" and sang the popular jazz song, "Jeepers . . . — — Map (db m307110) HM
Can history be fun? Kids who lived long ago had fun just as we do today. These yards and walkways have been play spaces for generations of Piatt children. Enjoy their spirit — have fun playing games from the past.
Hoops
Kids have . . . — — Map (db m144820) HM
During the Devonian Period (417 - 354 million years ago), the remains of fish and other ocean life settled at the bottom of a sea that once covered what is now Ohio. Calcium carbonate from these remains hardened over millions of years into . . . — — Map (db m307117) HM
The Ludlow Road (side A):
You are entering Logan County over a road built after a strip of timber 40 ft. wide had been cut to establish a line between the headwaters of the Little Miami and the source of the Scioto River.
The Ludlow Line . . . — — Map (db m13766) HM
Home of Donn Platt 1819-1892
Poet-Diplomat-Editor-Satirist
Frame portion of
present building
erected prior to 1824.
Stone additions 1879-81.
This tablet placed by
The Ohio State
Archaeological &
Historical Society — — Map (db m199524) HM
Here was fought the first of the major engagements of Logan’s 1786 campaign, in which eight Shawnee towns were destroyed and Chief Moluntha killed. Kenton here ran the gantlet in 1778. — — Map (db m136689) HM
Nearby stood the Shawnee village of Mackachack or Mac-A-Cheek. This village was the first of the Shawnee towns to be attacked by Gen. Benjamin Logan's mounted Kentucky militia in the fall of 1786. In all the American forces destroyed eight Shawnee . . . — — Map (db m306238) HM
Bridge 174-0.56
Ohio’s first
recycled thermoplastic composite bridge
Built in 2012
Construction cost $325,661
Built by Logan County Engineer’s Office Bridge Crew
Materials manufactured by Axion, New Providence, NJ
Designed by Parsons . . . — — Map (db m76832)
Left images
Who do we have here?
Left: This photograph first appeared in a souvenir booklet by William McCoy Piatt in 1916, four years after he first opened his family's home for tours.
Upper right: William McCoy Piatt
1846 - . . . — — Map (db m144486) HM
As children, Marguerite and Bertie Piatt knew Mac-A-Cheek as their grandfather's home. By their thirties they were living here and helping their father, William McCoy Piatt, give tours. Their family home had become a family business, which they . . . — — Map (db m307090) HM
In the 1700s, Shawnees of the Mekoche division established two villages on the land you are visiting. One, located on the north side of the stream, was called Moluntha’s Town named for the Mekoche chief who lived there. The second, on the south . . . — — Map (db m307094) HM
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 increased the punishment for
abolitionists and rewards to those whom facilitated their capture
and return to owners.
This led to the routes to the East and West being more difficult to
navigate from Columbus to . . . — — Map (db m140252) HM
(South face)
In Memory
Of all Monroe Township
Men in service
World War
1917-1918
Willis R.
Yoder
February 16, 1945
(West face)
H.F. Bushawn
Died in France
October 28, 1918
Jacob I.
Piatt
July 21, 1944
. . . — — Map (db m80448) WM
"Shawnee Nation in Logan County"
From the 1770s until 1832, the Logan County area was the homeland to much of the Shawnee Nation. Ten villages known as the Upper Mad River towns included the homes of influential leaders Moluntha, Black . . . — — Map (db m34083) HM
In tribute to
Chief of Police: 1958- 1962
Sherman M. Ricketts
Who gave his life in the line of duty
in the early morning hours of June 29th, 1962.
while investigating a suspicious person
complaint, he was struck down without warning
by . . . — — Map (db m87710) HM
Squaw Rock
Of
Indian Legend
Site
Shawnee Village Mac-A-Cheek
and
home
Chief Moluntha
Destroyed 1786
by Col. Logan Simon Kenton Gauntlet
1778 — — Map (db m76156) HM
Most of the farm buildings that provided storage for the crops and livestock on the Piatt farm have disappeared from the landscape. The original 1840 barn, located near the family's first home was used to store 60 plus tons of hay, more than 400 . . . — — Map (db m144915) HM
In the center of the fresco that decorates the ceiling of Mac-A-Cheek's drawing room, a painted Sunflower once suspended a chandelier. Victorians often placed tall plants like Sunflowers in the center of their gardens for visual effect. . . . — — Map (db m307111) HM
After serving in the Civil War, General Abram Sanders Piatt (1821-1908) returned home and resumed running his family farm. In 1864 he began construction on a new farmhouse.
Completed in 1871, this stone mansion replaced the nearby home where . . . — — Map (db m307086) HM
In the 1700s, the Shawnee people were organized into five divisions, which were described by Thomas Wildcat Alford in 1936 in The Civilization, and the Story, of the Absentee Shawnees.
Today, the Shawnee people are organized into . . . — — Map (db m307093) HM
(Side A)
Underground Railroad
A name given to a manner
of piloting negro slaves
to freedom. Pilots of this
area were largely Quakers,
the most active of whom
were the Pickerells, Paxtons,
and Williams.
(Side B)
Underground . . . — — Map (db m76372) HM
[Front Side of Marker]: "West Liberty"
The West Liberty area, in the Mad River Valley, was the location of at least seven Shawnee Indian villages. This elevated site was the location of one of those villages. Several septs or . . . — — Map (db m43901) HM
These five acres of land are given by Dr. H. L. Mikesell, his wife Helena,
and daughters, Lydia Jo and Jane (Younkman). Dr. Mikesell, a physician
in the United States Army and in West Liberty, believed that experiencing
the great out-of-doors was . . . — — Map (db m76740)
Water Softening Plant
Erected 1941
West Liberty
Ohio
- - - -
Milton W. Stout - Mayor
Donald McAlexander - Clerk
Board of Trustees of - Public Affairs
Wm. Scarbourogh - President
Joseph W. Craig
Clyde L. Lynn
. . . . . . . — — Map (db m76861) HM
This memorial is
dedicated to the men
from West Liberty
and community who
have served our
nation in it’s conflicts
The aristocracy of today is not one of birth
or wealth but of those
who do things for the
welfare of . . . — — Map (db m127349) WM
Construction of Mac-A-Cheek Castle began in 1864 and was finished in 1871. The year 1868, which is chiseled on the south facade of the tower, indicates the completion of the stonework.
This curious corner that mystifies many visitors to . . . — — Map (db m307088) HM
A Contest of Cultures for Natural Resources
The Shawnees first resisted French, British, and later American encroachment of their territories while defending their way of life with its own order, philosophy, and spirituality.
Americans . . . — — Map (db m307097) HM
🅐 In the late 1600s, Pierre and Estelle Piatt left the Province of Dauphine in France with their children for the Netherlands where they were free to practice their religion and to own land. They settled in Amsterdam. John Piatt was a . . . — — Map (db m307109) HM
"I would have in a large flower garden, a corner or a belt, where nature and apparent neglect should reign throughout the season." - Ella Rodman Church, The Home Garden, 1884
