Ebook History of Coshocton County, Ohio

The field Of labor has been one prolific Of great events, especially in the years immediately pre ceding the white settlement. The valleys of the Muskingum and its tributaries teemed with human life in pre-historic times, as the numerous mounds and earth-works clearly attest; and, later, a great host of Red Men were here; and, at the con?uence Of these beautiful streams, whose musical names will forever perpetuate their memory, stood the capital city Of one of the most intelligent of these tribes of the forest.