James Mitchell Varnum
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James Mitchell Varnum was an American legislator, lawyer, general in the Continental Army, and a pioneer to the Ohio Country. Varnum resigned his commission in 1779, and was a delegate to the Continen
Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, 1804
Varnum marker in Oak Grove Cemetery in Marietta, Ohio
Varnum's house at 57 Peirce Street in East Greenwich, Rhode Island
Mound Cemetery in Marietta, Ohio, is a historic cemetery developed around the base of a prehistoric Adena burial mound known as the Great Mound or Conus. The city founders preserved the Great Mound fr
James Mitchell Varnum
…journey westward. General Varnum died in January 1789, only seven months after his arrival in Marietta, of consumption. He was originally interred in the Mound Cemetery near the original settlement and later reburied the Oak Grove Cemetery in Marietta. His college classmate the distinguished physician Solomon Drowne…
Mound Cemetery with Great Mound in background
Survey of Marietta Earthworks, 1838
Drawing of Mound Cemetery, 1846
Drawing of Marietta Earthworks