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Campus Martius Museum, OH

Through its exhibits, the Campus Martius Museum explains how three important waves of migration helped make Ohio the economically and culturally diverse state it is today. The museum is the Ohio Historical Society's interpretive center for the history of settlement and migration in Ohio, spanning the period from 1780 to 1970.

Photographs, artifacts, video presentations, and audio dramatizations of actual diary accounts illustrate Ohio's settlement and migration history. Objects on display range from mid-1800s farming equipment to a stage jacket worn by contemporary country music star Dwight Yoakam, a son of Appalachian migrants.

In addition, entry-level displays focus on Marietta's establishment in 1788 as the first organized American settlement in the Northwest Territory. Visitors learn the significance of the site's name, Campus Martius, and witness the challenges that confronted the first white settlers in what was then considered the wild West.