David Putnam, Jr., prominent Harmar merchant, and his wife Hannah were anxious. On a dreary November night in 1844, she was in labor with their 6th child, Hanna
Across the Ohio River in Virginia (now West Virginia) and near Parkersburg, rich farmland called Washington Bottom allowed five slave plantations to prosper. En
The Castle in Marietta held its Third Thursday Talk with guest speaker Tony Mayle on Thursday night. “There’s a lot of history, hidden history or untold h