HISTORY

The first native Americans in settling in the region were a prehistoric tribe, called Mound Builders Builders of montes' because they built small mounds of Earth for their cultural ceremonies and currently about six thousand archaeological sites, tombs, cemeteries and homes of rituals, left the mound builders in Ohio after the Iroquois tribes. They occupied this territory as the Europeans arrived

The first European Explorer to reach the region that now constitutes the State of Ohio was the French René Robert Cavelier de La Salle in 1669

February 19, 1803, President Thomas Jefferson signed an act in Congress that recognized Ohio as the seventeenth in the United States. With the independence of the United States in 1783, the United States spent to monitor the region. Ohio became the first territory in the Northwest Territory in be elevated to statehood, the discovery of numerous coal deposits and a strong agricultural industry made that Ohio became in the mid-19th century a great industrial

Ohio had an essential role in the American Civil War. Most of the State's population was abolitionist, i.e. was against slavery. Many abolitionists helped thousands of slaves to flee after the end of the American Civil War, economic growth in Ohio returned to increase

NEW FRENCH (1702)

René Robert Cavelier in 1669

President Thomas Jefferson