Ohio's Yesterdays

Stories about Ohio's people, places, and events inspired by the Manuscripts Collections of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library and Museums.

Monday, November 27, 2023

Ottawa County Museum Continues to Honor Purple Heart Veterans

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  On August 7, 1782, in the waning days of the Revolutionary War, General George Washington established the Badge of Military Merit. Prevent...

John H. Martin: Buffalo Soldier

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In July 1866, the United States Congress authorized the formation of the first peacetime all-black regiments in the U.S. Army. The regiments...
Thursday, November 2, 2023

The Grim Reaper

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  “Mr. Leezen has the ague and the fever, Eliza the headache. Mr. Thomas Gallagher had the intermittent fever and his son the remitting feve...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Remembering the Great Black Swamp

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The Rev. Joseph Badger described the area as "generally low and interspersed with gentle swells of excellent land, well-timbered, but b...
Sunday, October 29, 2023

Lower Sandusky and the U.S. Indian Factory System

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Initiated in 1795 by President George Washington and later supported by Thomas Jefferson, a non-profit fur factory system was set up to unde...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The Troubles of Charley Loo

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Americans of today often struggle with the acceptance of the millions of migrants entering the United States. But native born Americans of t...
Sunday, August 20, 2023

General James B. McPherson's 17th Corps Medal

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After a siege of more than six weeks, the city of Vicksburg fell on the 4 th of July 1863 to Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant’s Union for...
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