The Chillicothe Paints team (as in painted pony) is in a development/prospect summer league for collegiate baseball players. We saw a game against the Richmond River Rats. One of the players from Richmond was a sophomore from Berea College in Kentucky and he got a double in his only at bat. It was fun and was "Hotdogs for 10 cents" night ... they sold a few thousand. I ate a few ...
http://www.chillicothepaints.com/Chillicothe is small city is southcentral Ohio on the Scioto River. Before Europeans arrived was a stronghold for the Shawnee Indian nation. There is a summer play put on each year about Chief Tecumseh in Chillicothe
http://www.tecumsehdrama.com/
Before the Shawnees, the Adena and later the Hopewell Indians inhabited the area ... they were mound builders and several significant sites are in the Chillicothe area.
Hopewell Culture - National Historical Site
http://www.nps.gov/hocu/index.htm
Serpent Mound - effigy mound in nearby Adams County
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_Mound
I am about to finish reading "The Species Seekers" by Richard Conniff. There are lots of accounts of naturalists in the Ohio Valley during the late 1700's and especially the early 1800's. One place of interest was Big Bone Lick, just south of Cincinnati in Boone County.
Because animals were drawn there for salt and entrapped in the swampy area over hundreds of years, it was an area of interest for naturalist and paleontologists.
"For centuries great beasts of the Pleistocene era came to the swampy land in what is now known as northern Kentucky to feed. Animals that frequented Big Bone Lick included bison, both the ancient and modern variety, primitive horses, giant mammoths and mastodons, the enormous stag-moose, and the ground sloth." http://parks.ky.gov/parks/historicsites/big-bone-lick/
Lewis and Clark collected bones for Thomas Jefferson at this site. There are several hiking trails, a small museum and a buffalo herd.
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