by Randy McNutt
White Eyes Town
White Eyes Town, a Delaware Indian ghost town from the 1700s, stood about two miles east of West Lafayette in Tuscarawas County. The town consisted of three large houses in 1775. The community leader was a man named Captain White Eyes. A pioneer named Cresswell wrote on August 28, 1775: “Lodged at White-Eye’s Town … Kindly treated at a Dutch Blacksmith’s, who lives with an Indian Squaw. Got a very hearty supper of a sort of Dumplings made of Indian Meal and dried Huckleberries which serves instead of currants. Dirty people, find it impossible to keep myself free from lice. Very disagreeable companions.” The community disappeared in the early 1780s, possibly after another—and final—serving of the blacksmith’s dirty “currants.”
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Index
Aberdeen (Brown County), lax marriage laws in, 128–36
Adams County, 40–42, 155; towns of, 43–50, 191, 192
Aho, Marilyn, 37
Allen County, 121, 190
Allmandinger, John, 183
Alpha (Greene County), 179–80
Amish, 41–42; newspaper for, 147–54
Amundsen, Roald, 63
Andreas, Ranson, 150
Ash (Licking County), 180
Ashtabula (Ashtabula County), 33–34
Ashtabula County, 33–39
Ashville Area Historical Society, 140
Ashville (Pickaway County), 137–44
Athens, Ohio University in, 79–80
Athens County: ghosts in, 80; towns of, 79, 200–201
Athens County Historical Society, 81
Audubon, John, 58
Auglaize River, 190; and Great Black Swamp, 111, 113
Austin, Eliphalet, 35
Austin, Joab and L. B., 36
Austin, Roswell and Henry, 37
Austinburg (Ashtabula County), 35–36
automobiles, effects of, 37, 48, 123–24
Bader, Alfred and Eugenia, 46–47
Baer, Gabriel, 181
Baker, Jacob, 183
Barnes, Chauncey, 86–87
Barrett, Fred, 10–16
Barry, Frank, 183–84
Battle of Fallen Timbers, 114, 182, 199
Beam, Sherman O., 160, 163–64
Bear’s Mill, 180–81
Bear’s Oil Village (Ashtabula County), 181
Bear Swamp (Van Wert County), 182
Beasley, Squire Massie, 129–36
Bentonville (Adams County), 155–60, 163–66
Bentonville Anti-Horse Thief Society of Adams County, 155–58, 160, 163–64
Berlin Heights, 183–84
Big Bottom, 182
Bimeler (Baumeler), Joseph, 69
Blount, Jim, 197
Blue Heron Wildlife Preserve, 20
Bogan, Dallas, 70
A Book for Skeptics (Everett), 83
Boor, Teddy, 143
Bowling Green State University, 126
Bowling Green (Wood County), 126
Braun, E. Lucy and Annette, 45–46
breweries, in Cincinnati, 49–50, 169
Brinkers, Clyde, 142
Brooks, Moses, 61
Brown, Henry, 196
Brown, Marjorie, 56
Brown County, 3–9, 128–36
Bruckmann, William and John C., 48–50, 169
Brunersburg (Paulding County), 126
Brushy Fork Creek, gold in, 169
Budget (newspaper), 147–54
Burnet, Jacob, 196
business, and farmers, 17
Bussey, Jim, 193–94
Buster the dog, 142–43
Butler, Charles, 23
Butler, John S., 118
Butler County, 162; towns of, 27–32, 196–97
Butterfield, Jeremiah, 28–29
Byrd, Richard E., 63–64
Camp Bartley (later Camp Mansfield), 91
canals, 182; effects on towns, 189–90, 195; as industry, 69–70, 72, 125
Canfield, Dwight R., 122
Carpenter, L. B., 23
Carr, James, 123
Cayton, Andrew, 138
Champaign County, 184
Chapman, Gertrude M., 24
Chattanooga (Mercer County), 183
Chic-Chic the rooster, 141–42
cholera, 24
Christian Republic, 183–84
Cincinnati, 60; breweries in, 49–50, 169; canal to Indiana from, 189–90; towns absorbed by, 184, 191
Cincinnati and Eastern Railroad, 44
Cincinnati and Whitewater Canal, 189–90
Civil War, 20, 29–30, 91
Clark, Benjamin, 29
Clermont County, 167–71, 198, 200
Cleves, Harrison Tunnel in, 189–90
Cleves, John, 125
Colerain, Oxford & Brookville Turnpike, 29
Colerain Township (Hamilton County), 194
Columbia Settlement (Hamilton County), 184
Columbus, Franklinton and, 187–88
The Communistic Societies of the United States (Nordhoff), 71–72
Compromise (Champaign County), 184
concentric spheres/hollow earth theory, 53–64
Connecticut, Wes
tern Reserve land of, 35
Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. A. B., 141–43
Cordle, Charles, 139
Coshocton County, 201
Cottingham, E. A., 186
county fairs, 172–78
Covington (Miami County), 187
Cowger, Mary and Ed, 74–78
Cowles, Giles H., 35
Cross, Joseph, 118–19
Crosswick (Warren County), 184–85
culture, small town, 17, 30–31
Curtis, Eli, 86–87
Dalton, Dennis, 104–10, 185
Daniels, Robert M., 97–99
Dearwester, Harry C., 172–78
Defiance County, 124–25
Defiance Trail, 190
Delphos (Allen County), 117
Demyas, Jan, 100–101
Devore, Joe, 156
Dewese, Amos, 118
diseases: cholera, 116–17; Great Black Swamp and, 114–17; tuberculosis, 102–3, 108
Dog Town (Eclipse Mine as), 186
Dogtown (Henry County), 123
Dogtown (Licking County), 185
Donnermeyer, Joseph, 195–96
Dorman, Laura Peck, 37
Eagle Township (Hancock County), 116–17
Eagleville (Ashtabula County), 36–37
Earhart, Estil, 4
Eclipse (Athens County), 185–86
Eliphalet, Aaron C., 36
Ellis, Jesse, 130, 135
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 82
Emmett (Paulding County), 125
Erastus (Mercer County), 186
Erie County: Sandusky in, 22–23; Venice in, 20, 29–30
Euler, Leonhardt, 57
Everett, J., 83
Evers, C. W., 115–16
Fairfield County, 163
Fallsville (Highland County), 186–87
farmers/farms, 28, 35, 41, 182; decline of, 17, 173; Great Black Swamp and, 120–21, 126–27; Zoar Separatists as, 69–70
Fiehrer, Paul, 30–31
Figgins, Phil, 6, 8
Fite, Jim, 6
Fizzleville (Hiett), Ohio, 3–9
Foos, Joseph, 188
Footville (Ashtabula County), 37–39
forests, clearing Great Black Swamp’s, 112–13, 121–22, 124