Great Black Swamp
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The Great Black Swamp was a glacially fed wetland in northwest Ohio, northeast Indiana, and southeast Michigan that existed from the end of the Wisconsin glaciation until the late 19th century. Compri
A photo from a glacial ridge (near Benton Ridge) in the former Great Black Swamp. It overlooks a flat expanse of farmland with a ditch.
A replica of Fred the mastodon (Buesching mastodon), pictured left, based on fossils found west of the former Great Black Swamp. Pictured right is a female mastodon fossil.
Jesse Cornplanter's 1905 drawing (New York State Library) illustrating traditional Haudenosaunee bark lodge architecture. The Seneca held recognized territorial rights in the Sandusky River basin along the eastern margin of the Black Swamp prior to 19th-century federal cessions.
Charge of the Dragoons at Fallen Timbers by R.F. Zogbaum, 1895. It depicts the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers in the Black Swamp.
Lake Maumee
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Lake Maumee was a proglacial lake and an ancestor of present-day Lake Erie. It formed about 17,500 calendar years, or 14,000 Radiocarbon Years Before Present as the Huron-Erie Lobe of the Laurentide I
Great Black Swamp
…19th century. Comprising extensive swamps and marshes interspersed with drier ground, it occupied what was formerly the southwestern part of proglacial Lake Maumee, a precursor to Lake Erie. It was the home of Indigenous nations for thousands of years until forced Indian removal in the early 19th century. The Ohio…
Stages of great lake development.