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    John Glenn's New Concord
    John Glenn's New Concord
    John Glenn's New Concord
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    John Glenn's New Concord

    By Lorle Porter Ph.D.

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    From Zane's Trace to John Glenn, the 200 year history of this quintessential Midwestern town is presented in photographs.


    "I've always believed that New Concord and Muskingum College are the center of the universe, because if you get your start here, you can go anywhere." This quote from John Herschel Glenn Jr. is the perfect summation of a wonderfully Midwestern town that produced one of the great American citizens of all time. The Village of New Concord, founded in 1828, had humble enough beginnings. Over the course of the next century and a half, however, the growth of the entire country was played out on New Concord's stage as residents faced a series of revolutionary frontiers: Zane's Trace, the National Road, U.S. Route 40, Interstate 70, and finally, space. New Concord, like the rest of the country, struggled through two world wars, the Great Depression, and social turmoil. Unlike the rest of the country, it also produced a hero.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateMar 14, 2001
    ISBN9781439611135
    John Glenn's New Concord
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    Lorle Porter Ph.D.

    Dr. Lorle Porter, the author of this book and a professor at Muskingum College, has compiled a fascinating pictorial history of New Concord, Ohio, and its most famous son. Her research is perfectly complemented by the vintage images she has included. With an introduction by Senator Glenn himself, residents of New Concord and space enthusiasts alike will thrill to this intriguing new publication.

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      John Glenn's New Concord - Lorle Porter Ph.D.

      INTRODUCTION

      The history of the Village of New Concord, founded in 1828, can be explained in a single sentence: New Concord was a Scotch-Irish/National Road town. These two elements make it unique.

      The Scotch-Irish were Scots who were planted in Northern Ireland after 1600 to supplant the native Irish and Protestantize the rebellious Catholic country. Living as aliens amidst a hostile people, the Scots emphasized their characteristic clannishness and became A People Set Apart. No longer Scots, certainly not Irish, they became Scotch-Irish. Migrating to America in the 18th century, the immigrants settled in enclaves in Pennsylvania and Ohio and down the Great Wagon Road into the Carolina Piedmont region. Wherever they went, their communities were marked by deep religious conviction and twin drives for education and public service.

      In 1797, Congress commissioned the Zane Brothers of Wheeling to blaze a trail (trace) through the wooded wilderness of the Ohio territory. George Washington wanted the Zane’s Trace to open wide the gates of the West. Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish, already settled on that state’s frontier, were unafraid of another frontier. They began to filter down the Zane’s Trace, spilling off along the hills of its spine. John Glenn’s ancestors settled in Guernsey County; Anna Margaret Castor’s ancestors settled in the Crooked Creek Valley of Muskingum County. Settlements in eight Guernsey and Muskingum County townships developed. North to south, east to west, the Scotch-Irish community centered around what was to become New Concord.

      From this tiny location in America, the community and its inhabitants would face many frontiers: The Zane’s Trace, The National Road, the Railroad, U.S. 40, 1-70 ... and Space. Come with us on a visit to New Concord, Ohio, John and Annie Glenn’s hometown.

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      AN OLD PEOPLE IN A NEW LAND

      Beginning in 1600, tens of thousands of lowland Scots were transported to nine counties in the north of Ireland by their Scottish lords. The heaviest migration was from the darkened section on the map. This area bordered the Firth of Clyde in western Scotland.

      The Scotch-Irish migrated from Ulster, Northern Ireland, to the American colonies beginning in 1700. Their settlements are located along the primitive roads carved out of the American wilderness in colonial times. By the American Civil War, some 300,000 persons had transplanted themselves to America.

      Settlements sprang up in western Carolina and eastern Tennessee along the Great Wagon Road, in eastern Kentucky along the Wilderness Road, and down to Natchez along the Natchez Trace. The Ohio settlers entered the territory on the Zane’s Trace.

      The Scotch-Irish dominated the settlement of southeastern Pennsylvania (Gettysburg) and western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh). When the territory of Ohio opened, they began to spill over into eastern Ohio using Indian trails to penetrate the forests. The Zane Brothers carved out a trace from Wheeling to Maysville, Kentucky, in 1798. That accomplishment resulted in the settlement of Guernsey and Muskingum Counties in Ohio.

      Wherever they settled, the Scotch-Irish insisted on promoting education. Thus in Harrison County they founded Franklin College, and in Muskingum County they founded Muskingum College; the latter remains a dominant presence in the region today.

      The Scotch-Irish settlement that became New Concord was laid out by Judge David Findley in 1806. The Judge and his sons carved out farms which ran from what is now Interstate 70 to the present day John Glenn High School. They raised log cabins, built a carding and fulling mill, a tobacco warehouse and a distillery. Tobacco was a common cash crop in the early 1800s. Corn was only marketable if it could be reduced to whiskey from its normal bulk. The greatest problem of these pioneers was getting crops to market. (Courtesy of Vicky Burton.)

      The Zane’s Trace was at best only a mule road. Ohio’s rich land could not be tapped to its fullest potential as long as these barebone counties lay isolated and distant from eastern markets.

      In the spring of 1828, Judge David Findley heard the sound of stakes being hammered into his pasture land. Surveyors were laying out the National Road. Findley laid out New Concord. The Pike town rapidly grew as the road builders

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