Logstown

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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org Recording by Becky Cook Afloat on the Ohio by Reuben Goldthwaites Chapter 2 First Day on the Ohio at Logstown Beaver River, Monday, May 7th We have today rowed and paddled under a cloudless sky, but in the teeth of frequent squalls with heavy waves freely dashing their spray upon us.

At such times a goodly current aided by numerous wing dams appears of little avail, for when we rested upon our oars Pilgrim would be unmercifully driven upstream.

Thus it has been an almost continual fight to make progress, and our five and twenty miles represent a hard day's work.

A sad-eyed shabby place with a pipeline for natural grass sprawling hither and yon upon the surface of the ground, except at the street crossings, where a few inches of protecting earth have been laid upon it.

The tariff levied by the gas company is ten cents per month for each light and a dollar and a half for a cookstove.

We passed this afternoon one of the most interesting historic points upon the river, the picturesque site of ancient Logstown, upon the summit of a low, steep ridge on the right bank just below Economy, and eighteen miles from Pittsburgh.

Logstown was a Shawanese village as early as 1727 to 30, an already notable fur-trading post when Conrad Weiser visited it in 1748.