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Frank Pixley was born in Richfield and graduated from Richfield High School at the age of 15 years old; he graduated from Ohio State University in 1886 at the age of 19. About 1902 the people of Richfield were proudly boasting that Frank Pixley was a native of the town, for the musical comedy, "The Prince of Pilsen" was then having its successful run in New York, Boston, Paris and London where ...
Oct 7, 2019 · The Ohio River Valley, with Newport, Kentucky at nearly its halfway point, was an epicenter of a major global war that changed the course of British and American history. The lush lands of the ...
The Ohio River is a 981-mile-long (1,579 km) river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direction from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illinois. It is the third largest river by discharge volume in the United ...
There were 17 million free and 2.5 million slaves in the United States. In Ohio there were 1.5 million free citizens and 3 slaves (according to US census figures). The Underground Railroad is operating at full speed, with more of the escaped seeking freedom through Ohio than through any other state. A constant stream of thousands of fugitives ...
The promise of this first American West drew soldiers, adventurers, speculators, and common folk into the rich lands of the Ohio River Valley and the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. Its potential also provoked international rivalries, struggles for political power, appropriation of Native-American lands, and the expansion of slavery beyond the eastern seaboard.
Ohio River History. The Ohio River is formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers at Point State Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It ends 981 miles downstream in Cairo, Illinois, where it flows into the Mississippi River. At this convergence, the Ohio is actually larger than the Mississippi.
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For 25 years, the hulking shape of the Richfield Coliseum hunkered incongruously above the cornfields of northeast Ohio, visible for miles above the plunging ravines, hidden streams, and dense, leaf-carpeted forests of the Cuyahoga River Valley. Built in the mid-1970s midway between Cleveland and Akron, the 20,000-seat arena rose from an elevated plain above the […]
