Hocking County Historical and Genealogical Society and Museum

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   THE BOARD HAS VOTED TO KEEP THE            MUSEUM CLOSED THIS YEAR

                         FREE Admission

Admission and parking are FREE and our campus is handicapped accessible.

                      Group/bus tours are welcome!

Please call to schedule a time for your private tour.

 We encourage people living in our community and guests visiting the beautiful Hocking Hills to come and see our historically interesting displays that preserve our county's fascinating past. 

                        Phone 1-740-385-6026

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           LELAND LAVON CONNER

                 5/9/30 - 11/16/07

 WITH THE EXHIBIT OF HIS ARTIFACTS

 AT THE MUSEUM, WE WILL FOR             SEVERAL WEEK ,HAVE HIS STORIES, POEMS, RESEARCH AND TALES. 

          (on Special Project page)

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                    CHIEF LOGAN 1725 - 1781
The city of Logan was named after an Indian Chief whose name was Chief.  Chief Logan was born in Pennsylvania around 1725.  His father was a Cayuga Chieftain, and Logan was named after an English friend of his father.  During his youth Chief Logan was around many white men and learned to like the white man.  The many white man that came to his cabin were treated to dinner with him, and when there was war between the Indians and the white man, Chief Logan would go to his cabin and ask for peace.  Many Indians would make fun of him because he was not willing to fight the white man.
Chief Logan was 45 in 1770, this is when he married a Shawnee woman and they moved to Ohio.  He was determined not to make war with the white man that moved into Ohio.  
Logan and his Mingo tribe settled along the Yellow Creek, a small tributary of the Ohio River near present day Steubenville, Ohio. Though Logan was a war chief, he continued to lead his fellow natives in peace by not attacking whites settling in the Ohio Country.
His attitude changed on May 3, 1774, when a group of Virginia trappers led by Jacob Greathouse deceptively and in cold blood murdered approximately one dozen Mingos right across the Ohio from where Logan and his Mingo village slept near Yellow Creek (near Steubenville, Ohio). Greathouse and friends cordially invited Logan and his comrades over to their camp for games and food. Logan, being the friend to both whites and Indians, accepted but could not attend himself. Among the dozen Mingos that went over to fellowship with the trappers were Logan’s wife, sister and mother. When Logan’s village heard the shots, Logan’s father was one of the first in a canoe to race towards the opposite shore. He was killed by a bullet from Greathouse’s party before he got halfway across the river. Logan’s entire family was murdered.
After the murder of his family, Chief Logan wanted revenge for this killing and Chief Logan went to war against white man.  He spent the rest of his life fighting. His actions against settlers on the frontier helped spark Dunmore's War later that year.
At the same time, Lord John Murray Dunmore, the governor of Virginia, sent one thousand men to the Little Kanawha River in modern-day West Virginia to build a fort and to attack the Shawnees. The result of this was the battle of Point Pleasant between the militia and the Shawnee lead by Chief Cornstalk. The forces met on October 10, 1774 at what became known as the Battle of Point Pleasant. After several hours of intense fighting, the Virginia militia drove Cornstalk's followers north of the Ohio River. The two sides eventually met near Chillicothe to determine peace terms. Logan was one of the Indians invited to attend the peace conference. Logan refused to attend but did recite a speech, read to Simon Kenton and Simon Girty under a huge Elm tree north of present-day Chillicothe, to be read at the conference. The speech became famous and is known as “Logan’s Lament”:
"I appeal to any white man to say if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry and I gave him not meat; if ever he came cold or naked and I gave him not meat;
if ever he came cold or naked and I gave him not clothing.  During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his tent, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites that those of my own country pointed at me and said, 'Logan is the friend of the white man.' I had even thought to have lived with you, but for the injuries of one man.
“Colonel Cresap, the last spring in cold blood and unprovoked, murdered all the relatives of Logan, not sparing even my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it; I have killed many; I have fully glutted my vengeance.
“For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace; but do not harbor the thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life.
"Who is there to mourn for Logan? Not one."
Logan’s speech was the subject of much talk after that assembly among Indians and especially among whites. The sadness and sorrow that echoed from Logan’s words rattled the hearts of Indians and whites. Men would sit around their campfires; one would ask the dismal question, “who is there to mourn for Logan,” while others would respond, “Not one.” 

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   Six buildings of historic displays showcase the circa 1898 Schempp House, the Lutz Steam Car, original pioneer wagon of the Stiers Family & original Hocking Valley Railroad Telegraph Office, where you can test your Morse Code knowledge.

     Sit in early 1900's desks & write on chalkboards in the recreated 1912 School House and shuck corn on corn sheller's in the Carriage House display of agricultural items   

    View numerous displays of Hocking History including: a medical office, military uniforms & equipment, toys, coal mining, local clay & brick industry, Hocking Canal & bridge history, an example of a print shop, mastodon teeth & Indian artifacts.

     A Timeline Exhibit of Logan and Hocking County features a century of the county's history condensed into four panels is also on display. The timeline includes Native Americans, the first settlers (1798), the Civil War, the Hocking Valley Railway and the 1916 Logan Centennial, ending in 1917, when America joined the war.