The first in a new series of historical markers being unveiled this weekend tells the story of the last Indigenous nation removed from Ohio. Thirteen markers will be installed over seven years along the Wyandot Removal Trail from Upper Sandusky to Cincinnati.
There are no federally recognized tribes headquartered in Ohio today. They were forcibly removed in the 1700s and 1800s.
The Wyandot were the last. Forced from their homelands in Upper Sandusky in 1843, more than 600 people walked over 150 miles south to Cincinnati, where they boarded steamboats bound for Kansas City. They numbered just around 200 by the time they were displaced a final time to Oklahoma…