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On June 12, 1887, Peter Betters was lynched by a small mob in Jamestown, Ohio following the brutal assault of Martha Thomas. [1] The lynching was historically notable because assault victim Martha Thomas was Black, and because a mixed crowd of Black and White citizens joined together to seek revenge for her injuries by murdering her accused attacker Peter Betters.
Jamestown had its start when James Bailey opened a store there. [2] Appleton Rich had a blacksmith's in the town as well. Allen Kelly bought the shop from Bailey, opened a tannery, and a post office, of which he was the postmaster. Kelly later sold the store, at which point the town became a ghost town. [3]
Jamestown is a village in Greene County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,052 at the 2020 census . Jamestown is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area .
James Horn, A Land as God Made It (Perseus Books, 2005) Margaret Huber, Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia (University of Nebraska Press, 2008) William M. Kelso, Jamestown, The Buried Truth (University of Virginia Press, 2006) David A. Price, Love and Hate in Jamestown (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003)
Prior to the American Revolution, Britain exercised nominal sovereignty over Ohio Country due to garrisoning of the former French forts weakly. [17] Just beyond Ohio Country was the great Miami capital of Kekionga which became the center of British trade and influence in Ohio Country and throughout the future Northwest Territory.
For the most part, train derailments do not result in death, injury or the release of hazardous substances into the nearby community. But they still have a real impact on the often small, working ...
This is an incomplete list of military confrontations that have occurred within the boundaries of the modern US State of Ohio since European contact. The region was part of New France from 1679–1763, ruled by Great Britain from 1763–1783, and part of the United States of America 1783–present.
That year, 14.9% of Ohio's foreign-held farmland belonged to Canadians and 14.6% to Germans. Nationwide in 2022, 32.1% of the total foreign-held farmland in the U.S. was owned by Canadian ...