Boating in Ohio

The narrative set forth in this book tells of a boating trip to the massacre memorial at Gnadenhutten, Ohio. The massacre took place in 1782 near the mid-point of the Tuscarawas River on land that was to become modern Gnadenhutten. Ninety Moravian Indians were murdered at the sides of the shallow river in the wilderness; the murderers were part of a militia from Western Pennsylvania. The Indians, those murdered, were descendants of Asians; the murderers were descendants of Europeans. The tw...