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MARIETTA, Ohio – There’s history on every corner ... Both structures are part of the Campus Martius Museum, built in 1928 on the site of the original stockade, which protected members of ...
Tables were set up at the Campus Martius Museum Saturday for kids to enjoy hands on and visual learning about Ohio’s history. (Photo by Madeline Scarborough) MARIETTA — October is Archaeology ...
Dimetrodon in the Campus Martius “Permian Monsters of the Upper Ohio Valley — 50 million years before Dinosaurs” exhibit on the first floor of the museum. (Photo Provided) MARIETTA ...
Officials with the Campus Martius Museum and the American Friends of Lafayette expressed the importance of honoring the visit ...
MARIETTA, Ohio (WTAP) - Campus Martius and the Lafayette Trail dedicated a historical marker in Marietta in honor of General Lafayette’s visit. Lafayette visited Marietta on May 23, 1825.
Joseph Rogers’ heart was pounding as he sat upright in his bed. He had dreamt that he would either kill or be killed by Indians the next day. Rogers was a scout at Campus Martius, the fortified ...
Campus Martius can loosely be translated in Latin to "military ground." It was named after a 1980-foot stockade in Marietta, Ohio. After a fire destroyed Detroit in 1805, Judge Augustus Woodward ...
(The Ohio town's admiration for the French was cemented years earlier, when founders selected the name Marietta -- after Marie Antoinette, the French queen, who supported the United States in its ...
Campus Martius can loosely be translated in Latin to "military ground." It was named after a 1980-foot stockade in Marietta, Ohio. After a fire destroyed Detroit in 1805, Judge Augustus Woodward ...