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• Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy

  • CCC Camp Lists

    • Ohio

• GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Ohio

  GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

• Heritage Pursuit

  Online county histories for Ohio counties.

• History of the Great Lakes States

  View or download digital historical and genealogical materials online, free. Books, magazines, newspapers, court records, documents, maps, archives, etc. for Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan & Wisconsin.

• History of the Western Reserve

• Miami University Libraries Digital Collections - Miami Stories Oral History Collection

  Videos of current and former Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) students and faculty speaking about their life and experiences. Primarily filmed 2006-2009.

• Ohio County Info: Pioneer Migration Routes through Ohio

• Ohio Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services - History of the Public Mental Health System

• Ohio History Central

  An evolving, dynamic online encyclopedia that includes information about Ohio's natural history, prehistory and history.

• Ohio History Connection - Severe Weather in Ohio

  Learn about more than 25 of the most extreme or most unusual weather events from Ohio’s history, from mysterious tidal waves and tornadoes causing local devastation and snowstorms to floods with statewide impact. This timeline is based on the Severe Weather in Ohio online exhibit created in 2006 in collaboration with numerous institutions across the state.

• Ohio History Timeline

• Ohio's Historic Canals

• Old Ohio Schools

• State Historic Preservation Office | Ohio History Connection

• The Buckeye Chronicles

  A compendium of facts about Ohio history by Dan Chabek.
  [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

• The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820

  Consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West including Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky & West Virginia from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century.