Northwest Ordinance Lecture Series to be presented at East Liverpool library
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EAST LIVERPOOL - The East Liverpool Community Partnership for Revitalization (ELCPR) will sponsor a four-part Northwest Ordinance Lecture Series this fall at Carnegie Public Library, bringing together noted authors, historians, and experts to explore the events that shaped the Northwest Territory and helped determine the course of the new nation.
The lectures are free and open to the public. Participants will need a special Northwest Passport to attend the series. Free passports are currently available at Carnegie Public Library. Each passport includes information about the lecture series and will be stamped at each event, providing participants with a keepsake of their journey through the Northwest Territory.
A grant from the Ohio History Connection, State Historic Preservation Office, is bringing the Northwest Ordinance Lecture Series to East Liverpool. Susan Weaver coordinates the grant for the East Liverpool Community Partnership for Revitalization, which has joined with the Friends of Carnegie Public Library and Carnegie Public Library to present the series.
The series begins Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 6 p.m. and continues with programs on Oct. 15, Oct. 29, and Nov. 12, all at 6 p.m. at Carnegie Public Library in East Liverpool.
The series has particular significance for East Liverpool. Just east of the city is the Point of Beginning, where in 1785 federal surveyors began the first government survey of the public lands of the United States. The rectangular survey system that began there would eventually be used across much of the expanding nation.
- Sept. 17 -- Simon Winchester
Acclaimed author Simon Winchester will open the series by exploring the ideas and legislation that transformed the Northwest Territory from a vast western claim into an organized part of the new nation. He will explain how that process brought the first federal surveyors to the Point of Beginning here in East Liverpool.
- Oct. 15 -- Paul Zuros
Paul Zuros, Executive Director of Historic Fort Steuben, will examine daily life for the soldiers and surveyors at Fort Steuben in 1786 and 1787. He will discuss the survey of the Seven Ranges, how it was completed, and the equipment used by the surveyors. He will also share insight into the reconstruction of Fort Steuben in the 1980s.
- Oct. 29 -- Alan Fitzpatrick
Author and historian Alan Fitzpatrick will explore the dramatic events that reshaped the lives and traditional cultures of Indigenous peoples in the Ohio Country. His talk will trace the period from the French and Indian War through the American Revolution and will also examine St. Clair's Defeat and the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
Nov. 12 -- Joseph Fenicle
Joseph Fenicle, a professional surveyor and educator, will conclude the series with a look at Ohio's unusual and complicated surveying history. His presentation will explore the various land subdivisions used in Ohio and how the wording and geography of the