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By Dennis E. Dalton
By
Dennis E. Dalton
THIS STORY OF THE PIONEER SETTLEMENT OF WAYNESVILLE, OHIO WAS WRITTEN ESPECIALLY
FOR THE FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD GRADES OF WAYNE LOCAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
I HOPE YOU WILL HAVE AS MUCH FUN READING IT AS IT DID WRITING IT.
IT HOPE
IT WILL GET.YOU INTERESTED IN OHIO HISTORY THROUGH YOUR HOMETOWN STORY AND MAKE
YOU WANT TO READ MORE BOOKS OF ALL KINDS.
Dennis E.
Dalton
NORTHWEST TERRITORY.
THE LAND WAS COVERED WITH TALL GRASS AND TALLER TREES.
FROM ENGLAND.
HE AND
SAM WAS
THEY
BOUGHT MANY ACRES BETWEEN THE LITTLE MIAMI AND BIG MIAMI RIVERS.
SAM'S FRIENDS WHO HELPED HIM WITH HIS FARM PLAN WERE A DOCTOR, A
PREACHER AND A SCIENTIST.
DREAM.
SAM AND FRIENDS HAD BOUGHT TONS OF TOOLS AND FOOD IN BALTIMORE,
MARYLAND.
AT PHILADELPHIA, THE MEN LOADED THEIR POSSESSIONS ON TO A BIG WOODEN "FLATBOAT" AND FLOATED DOWN THE NEARBY RIVERS TO THE OHIO RIVER.
THEY WERE ON THE TRIP FOR NEARLY SEVEN r^XDNTHS (DO YOU KNOW HOW
MANY DAYS THAT TOTALS?)
FINALLY
AFTER A FEW DAYS OF TRAVEL NORTH, SAM AND FRIENDS CAME TO THE
SPOT NEAR THE T.TTTT.E MIAMI WHERE THEY WOULD MAKE THEIR FARM.
ONCE THE WAGONS WERE UNLOADED AND EVERYONE HAD RESTED THE
THE PIONEERS HUNTED BEARS, BUILT MORE LOG CABINS AND STORES.
AROUND THEIR HOMES AND STORES THEY MADE PARKS.
BEFORE
ENGLAND.
SAM AND HIS HELPERS MADE THEIR HOMES SO INVITING THAT OTHER
NEXT TEE PIONEERS BUILT A SCHOOL AND A CHURCH, ALL OUT OF LOGS.
SAM
TEIERE WAS A
HE
AND HIS EELPEKS lEPT SENDING PIONEEEE TO TEE WIDE NORTEEWEST TERRITORY.
TO STAY.
TOWN.
TEE PIONEEIE THOUGEiT AND THOUGEET ABOUT A NAME FOR TEEIR NEW TOWN.
SINCE IT WAS
IT WAS SAM'S
TO NAME IT AFTER HIM. BUT SAM WAS BASEEUL AND EIUMBLE AND SAID NO.
2.
AFTER GEORGE WASHINGTON AND BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND THE LITTLE MIAMI RIVER.
THE OTHER PIONEERS HELPED HIM THINK.
THEIR TOWN AFTER GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE WHO HAD MADE PEACE WITH THE
WAYNESVILLE.
PRESIDENT
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