Debra, You need to go back there to visit if at all possible. The State of West Virginia has made the area into a State Park and has been able to collect some of the originals. There is a museum there also. You take a boat to the island from Parkersburg. It is a great days trip. Around that area many people know about it. School children know about it also and use it for history projects. My granddaughter won first prize in state history projects with her Blennerhassett project. Much history to be gathered there. You can get a lot of web sites by typing in and searching Blennerhassett. More has been done since I was there a number of years ago. Mary Jean Hall mj_hall@charter.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <McNab2000@aol.com> To: <OHGALLIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 9:25 PM Subject: Re: [OHGALLIA-L] July 28, 1887 - Athens Messenger > In a message dated 3/7/2005 7:06:22 PM US Eastern Standard Time, > JAR422@aol.com writes: > Judge D. B. Heberd, of Gallipolis, is the owner of the head of a cane that > once > belonged to the celebrated Herman Blennerhassett, that fine old Irish > gentleman > and patriot who fled from the thralldom of England and built himself a > princely > mansion on a beautiful island in the Ohio River that yet bears his name, > and > who was ruined in fortune and in name, by Aaron Burr, the history of which > is > familar (sic) to all readers of U. S. History. > I visited there once 20 years ago! I wonder if that family still has that > cane head? I bet 90% of the population knows nothing of Blennerhassett > now! (I am > just loving these!) > > Debra > > > ==== OHGALLIA Mailing List ==== > First Families of Gallia County is an organization which honors and > recognizes all ancestors in Gallia County by 31 Dec 1820. Contact > Gallia County Genealogical Society, O.G.S. Chapter, Inc. for more > information. > 524 Third Avenue > Gallipolis, OH 45631-1235 > 740-446-0320 > >