Article: New Englanders on the Ohio River: The Migration and Settlement of Worthington, Ohio

New Englanders on the Ohio River: The Migration and Settlement of Worthington, Ohio. By Virginia E. McCormick and Robert W. McCormick. The Kent State University Press: Kent, Ohio, 1998.

Even the most casual perusal of this study of early Worthington, Ohio, will give the reader of this journal reason to stop and look more closely. The photograph of a fireplace built in eastern Ohio on the eve of the War of 1812 could have been taken in central Massachusetts; the proportions and style provide graphic confirmation of the connections between New England and the Ohio frontier. This story of New Englanders migration westward into the Northwest Territory is a familiar one, documented in broad ...

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