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Harmon Blennerhasset's mansion on the Ohio River lithograph
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Harmon Blennerhasset's mansion on the Ohio River lithograph
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Title
Harmon
Blennerhasset's
mansion
on the
Ohio
River
lithograph
Subject
Blennerhassett Island (W. Va.)
Ohio History -- Settlement and Early Statehood
Blennerhassett, Harman, 1765-1831
Time Period
1820s
Place
Marietta (Ohio)
Washington County (Ohio)
Description
Harman
Blennerhasset's
mansion
on the
Ohio
River
, ca.
1820-1829
. In
1798
,
Irish
native
Harman
Blennerhassett
(1764-1862)
settled
and
built
a
mansion
on an
island
in the
middle
of the
Ohio
River
. In
1805
he
conspired
with
Aaron
Burr
to
rebel
against
the
United
States
.
Using
Blennerhassett's
home
as a
staging
ground
, they
plotted
to
form
a
new
country
with the
western
United
States
.
When
the
government
learned
about
this
plan
, the
Ohio
and
Virginia
militias
were
sent
to
stop
boat
traffic
on the
Ohio
and
Muskingum
Rivers
and
seize
the
Blennerhassett
home
.
Today
, the
restored
mansion
on
Blennerhassett
Island
is
a
tourist
attraction
which
visitors
approach
from
West
Virginia's
Parkersburg
Point
Park
via
a
paddlewheel
boat
. The
lithograph
was
all
first
published
in
1848
in
Samuel
Prescott
Hildreth's
book
"
Pioneer
History
"
(Pioneer
History
:
Being
an
Account
of the
First
Examinations
of the
Ohio
Valley
, and the
Early
Settlement
of the
Northwest
Territory
;
Chiefly
from
Original
Manuscripts)
.
Date of Original
ca.
1820-1829
Collection
Harmon
Blennerhassett
Collection
Source
SC
2415
Format
Picture
;
Prints
(visual
works)
;
Lithographs
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
AL03933.tif
Image Height
2800
Image Width
2800
File Size
3435368 Bytes
Notes
Scanned
for
Ohio
History
Central
1803-1830
;
Cataloged
:
Yes
Date created
2011-08-02
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