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Versailles was originally named Jacksonville, in honor of Andrew Jackson and his victory at the Battle of New Orleans. [5] Later on, as a large number of early residents were of French descent, it was suggested that the village's name be changed to "Versailles" in memory of their homeland. Versailles became the new name of the village in 1837.
The people regulated marriage through the clans: clan members had to marry people from opposite clans or divisions. Clan representation was expressed in the arrangement of Osage villages. The sky people lived on the side opposite the earth people, and the lodges of the Osage spiritual leaders were situated in between the two sides.
The Versailles Town Hall and Wayne Township House, located at 4 West Main Street in Versailles, Ohio, in the United States, is an historic brick town hall building built between 1875 and 1876 by joint resolution of the Versailles Village Council and the Wayne Township Trustees. It is also known as the Versailles Village Hall.
Frenchtown is an unincorporated community in Wayne Township, Darke County, Ohio, United States. The community lies at the intersection of State Route 185 with Burns and Mangen Roads, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of the village of Versailles .
The William English House is a historic farmhouse in the far western portion of the U.S. state of Ohio.Located along State Route 47 northeast of the village of Versailles in the northeastern corner of Darke County, [1] the house was built in 1881 as the residence of William English, an astronomically-inclined farmer.
Osage Nation’s Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear on how Osage storytelling connects us with our past and our present.
The Ohio History Connection operates dozens of state historic sites across Ohio. Its headquarters is the 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m 2) Ohio History Center in Columbus, Ohio, a Brutalist concrete structure. [14] [15] Extensive exhibits cover Ohio's history from the Ice Age to the present. The Center includes state archives and library spaces ...
Either way, the Osage, when making their last "movement" (across the Mississippi, to the Osage River) met other Dhegiha people, and added them to the tribe, making them the modern Osage of the time of the first contact with Europeans (The Osage history tells of meeting groups of people who spoke their language but acted differently, the Honga U ...