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@ú>> VISITORS COME TO THE JOHNSN
00:00:46FARM, THEY SEE THREE DIFFERENT
THINGS THAT LOOK LIKE THEY ARE
00:00:56NOT RELATED BUT IF YOU LOOK MORE
CLOSELY YOU FIND THEY ARE.
00:00:57THE THREE THINGS WE FEATURE@Yqэ
ARE EARLY NATIVE AMERICAN
00:01:03HISTORY BECAUSE ONE OF THE PARTS
OF OUR SITE IS THE SITE OF THE
00:01:08VILLAGE.
THE SECOND THEME IS JOHN
00:01:09JOHNSTON, HIS CONTRIBUTION AND
LIFE ON THE OHIO FRONT AND HIS
00:01:15ROLE AS AN EARLY OHIO SETTLER
AND POLITICIAN AND MOVER AND
00:01:18SHAKER.
THE THIRD THING WE HAVE IS A
00:01:22TRANSPORTATION THEME.
AT OUR SITE WE WERE FORTUNATE TO
00:01:25PHAVE ONE OF THE FOUR OPERATING
CANAL BOATS IN OHIO.
00:01:32THEY CAN STEP BACK INTO THE
1840'S.
00:01:33THE THING THAT TIES ALL OF THOSE
THINGSxú TOGETHER IS JOHN
00:01:37JOHNSTON.
HE WAS A FEDERAL INDIAN AGENT,
00:01:42HE WAS THE MOVER AND SHAKER, AND
HE WAS IN OHIO COME OUT -- CANAL
00:01:47COMMISSIONER.
>> JOHN JOHNSTON WAS BORN IN
00:01:54IRELAND IN IT 1775 AND HE DIED
IN 1861 A FEW WEEKS BEFORE THE
00:02:01AMERICAN CIVIL WAR BEGAN.
HIS LIFE COVERED THE WHOLE
00:02:04PIONEER EXPANSION INúpxpx AMERIN
HISTORY AND ESPECIALLY OHIO
00:02:11HISTORY.
WHEN ANTHONY WILLIAMSpxxñpp BES
00:02:13CAMPAIGN IN 1394, JOHN AND HIS
FRIENDS WERE UP AND DOWN.
00:02:18IT'S AT THAT TIME HE FIRST FOUND
THIS LAND IN PARTICULAR.
00:02:23EVEN THOUGH HE WAS ONLY ABOUT 16
OR 13 AT THE TIME HE DECIDED HE
00:02:25HAD TO SETTLE THIS LAND.
IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE AT 250
00:02:30ACRES.
A NATURAL SPRING HERE SO WE
00:02:32WOULD VOICE OF WATER -- HE WOULD
ALWAYS HAVE WATER.
00:02:38THE RIVER NEARBY WOULD HELP WITH
TRANSPORTATION.
00:02:39÷÷HE HAD A LOT OF OTHER THINGO
DO.
00:02:41HE WENT BACK TO PHILADELPHIA.
AND HE GOT A JOB AS A COPYIST.
00:02:46IT WAS PROBABLY IN THAT WAY THAT
HE GOT HIS POSITION AS FACTOR AT
00:02:53THE INDIAN AGENCY IN FORT WAYNE
AT 1802.
00:02:54RIGHT BEFORE HE LEFT, HE LOVED
WITH HIS SWEETHEART, RACHEL
00:02:59ROBERTSON.
-- HE LOPED WITH HIS SWEETHEART.
00:03:04AFTER TWO YEARS, JOHN JOHNSTON
TOOK OVER,
00:03:09BY 1811 HE SUFFERED PROBABLY
WHAT YOU WOULD CALL BURNOUT.
00:03:13HE ASKED IF -HE COULD
RETIRE.
00:03:19AND HE RETIRED AND LIVES AS A
FARMER.
00:03:23IT WAS NOT TO BE BECAUSE THE
NEXT YEAR, THE WAR OF 1812 BROKE
00:03:27OUT AND THE GOVERNMENT BEGGED
HIM TO BE AN INDIAN AGENT AGAIN.
00:03:33SO HE DID AND HE DID NEXT ON
JOB.
00:03:33HE HAD CHARACTER AND DID WHAT HE
SAID.
00:03:35HE TRIED TO DO WHAT WAS BEST FOR
THE INDIANS AND THE SELLERS.
00:03:39FOR THAT, SOMETIMES HE HAD
ENEMIES ON BOTH SIDES.
00:03:44THE JOHNSTON HOUSE WAS BUILT
STARTING IN 1810.
00:03:50THE ORIGINAL SECTION WAS STARTED
THEN.
00:03:52A FEW YEARS LATER HE ADDED ON
THE OTHER WING INCLUDING THE
00:03:56DRAWING ROOM AND MANY OF THE
MATERIALS USED IN THE HOUSE WERE
00:04:02AVAILABLE HERE ON SITE.
THE TIMBER HE WAS ABLE TO USE
00:04:05FROM THE TREES AND THE CLAY UP
FOR THE BRICKS WAS FOUND HERE AS
00:04:08WELL.
THE BRICKS WERE FIRED ON SITE.
00:04:10JOHN JOHNSTON WAS KIND OF THE
FACE OF THE GOVERNMENT.
00:04:14WHEN PEOPLE CAME HERE TO TRADE
OR DO BUSINESS, IT WAS GOOD TO
00:04:20HAVE AN IMPOSING LOOKING
STRUCTURE.
00:04:21THIS IS THE DRAWING ROOM.
THIS ROOM WOULD BE USED FOR THE
00:04:42GROWN-UPS TO COME IN AND RELAX
AFTER DINNER AND ENTERTAIN
00:04:43IMPORTANT GUESTS.
MRS. JOHNSTON WAS THE FOUNDER OF
00:04:47THE WOMAN'S BIBLE SOCIETY AND
SHE PROBABLY HAD HER MEETINGS
00:04:50HERE.
.
00:04:51MOST OF THE FURNITURE IN THIS
HOUSE IS NOT THE JOHNSTON'S.
00:04:54AFTER JOHN JOHNSTON DIED, IT
PASSED TO TWO OTHER SONS.
00:05:00THIS IS THE DINING ROOM.
THIS IS WHERE JOHN WOULD HAVE
00:05:11HAD HIS BIDDERS AND ENTERTAIN
GUESTS.
00:05:12ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT GUESTS
HE WOULD ENTERTAIN WAS WILLIAM H
00:05:16HARRISON.
WHEN HE FIRST VISITED, JOHN WAS
00:05:21LIVING IN HISh LOG CABIN AND
HARRISON WAS THE GENERAL OF THE
00:05:25NORTHWEST.
THE LAST VISIT HE MADE WAS WHEN
00:05:28HE WAS THE PRESIDENT.
THIS WAS THE ORIGINAL HOUSE USED
00:05:38UNTIL HE BUILT THE LARGER ONE.
THESE GO DIRECTLY DOWNúú TO THE
00:05:44WINTER KITCHEN UNDERNEATH.
THE STORY IS MRS. JOHNSTON, TO
00:05:50KEEP FROM HAVING TO GO UP AND
DOWN THE STAIRS, WOULD PUT ONE
00:05:52OF HER CHILDREN ON EACH AND THEY
WOULD HAND THE STUFF UPWARD TO
00:05:59GET IT FROM THE BASEMENT.
THE CABINET IN THE CORNER
00:06:04CONTAINS THE ARTIFACTS WE DO
HAVE FROM THE JOHNSTON FAMILY.
00:06:05THERE ARE SEVERAL THINGS THAT
BELONGED TO THEM.
00:06:07WE HAVE -- MANY TIME, THIS WAS
NAILED TO THE FLOOR BUT SINCE
00:06:14JOHN TRAVELED SO MUCH IT FOLDS
UP SO HE CAN PUT IT IN THIS
00:06:16TRAVEL BAG.
WE ALSO HAVE@@@@@@@@@@E
00:06:21HIS DAUGHTER'S@@@@@@@@@N
THEY GOT MARRIED.
00:06:24WE ALSO HAVE THE JOHNSTON FAMILY
BIBLE WITH SEVERAL VOLUMES.
00:06:30THIS IS WHAT WE CALL THE
APPEARANCE ROOM, WHERE JOHN AND
00:06:37RACHEL WOULD'VE HAD THEIR
PRIVATE QUARTERS.
00:06:38IT ALSO WOULD HAVE BEEN USED AS
A GUEST ROOM WHERE THEY HAD
00:06:42IMPORTANT VISITORS.
WE HAVE THE WEDDING PORTRAITS OF
00:06:47JOHN AND RACHEL WHICH WERE DONE
IN PHILADELPHIA SHORTLY BEFORE
00:06:49--
WE HAVE AN EXAMPLE OF 1830'S
00:06:53CLOTHING.
I AM WEARING MORGAN 1812 ERA
00:06:56STYLE.
-- MORE OF AN 1812 ERA STYLE.
00:07:00>> MRS. JOHNSTON DID NOT HAVE
THE LUXURY OF PURCHASING
00:07:07CLOTHING FOR HER CHILDREN.
SHE WOULD OF HAD TO MAKE IT FROM
00:07:12FLAX AND SHEEP THEY RAISE IN THE
FARM.
00:07:13ONCE IT HAD DRIED, YOU WOULD
HAVE TO BREAK THE FLAX, SKETCH
00:07:20IT, HACKEL IT, AND YOU WOULD
HAVE YOUR PERFECT LINE ON THE
00:07:26SPINNING WHEEL.
THE SHEEP WAS SIMPLER, THEY WERE
00:07:30SHEARED IN THE8 SPRING, AND YOU
HAVE THE SUPPLY YOU MIGHT
00:07:34PROCESS WITH WOOL COMBS OR SEND
IT TO THE WOOL MILL AND HAVE A
00:07:38PROCESS.
THEN YOU HAVE IT SPUN INTO YARN.
00:07:41THE WEAVER CAME, IT WAS WOVEN
INTO CLOTH, AND MRS. JOHNSTON
00:07:46THAT HAD÷÷÷ ñ÷x÷÷pñ TOññ CUT E
SHAPE SHE WOULD MAKE.
00:07:52IT WAS A LONG PROCESS TO MAKE
CLOTHING AND TOOK A LOT OF WORK.
00:07:53THE FAMILY MAY HAVE ONLY HAD TWO
OUTFITS TO WHERE.
00:07:57>> THIS IS THE BOYS ROOM.
JOHN HAD FIVE SONS.
00:08:03THE OLDEST WOULD'VE GONE HIS OWN
BUT BY THE TIME THE YOUNGEST WAS
00:08:08BORN THERE WERE STILL
THREE OR FOUR.
00:08:12WE HAVE IT SET UP TO SHOW WHAT
IT WOULD BE LIKE.
00:08:15AND THE JOHNSTON HOUSE, THE
UPSTAIRS WERE LIKE DORMITORIES.
00:08:20WE HAVE THE MATCHES UNCOVERED SO
YOU CAN SEE WHAT IT WOULD BE
00:08:28MADE UP.
NO BOX BRINGS.
00:08:29-- BOX SPRINGS.
THERE ARE MANY OTHER PEOPLE
00:08:40USING THIS.
AND WE HAVE THE CHAMBER POT.
00:08:41HERE'S A PICTURE OF JOHNSON'S
SON, JOHN ADAMS.
00:08:46HE ACTUALLY FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL
WAR AND WAS KILLED.
00:08:49THIS IS WHAT WE CALL
GRANDMOTHERS ROOM.
00:08:57JOHN JOHNSTON'S MOTHER CAME OVER
TWO YEARS AFTER SHEú DID THAT SE
00:09:02DID TO@÷@ AMERICA.
-- HE DID IT TO AMERICA.
00:09:06IN THE CORNER WE HAVE AN EXAMPLE
OF A SPINNING WHEEL FOR FLAX.
00:09:11SOMETHING GRANDMOTHER WOULD HAVE
WORKED ON.
00:09:15IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT
USUALLY THE ELDERLY RELATIVES
00:09:19AND PARENTS OF FAMILIES WITH THE
DOWNSTAIRS.
00:09:22-- WOULD LIVE DOWNSTAIRS.
THIS IS THE GIRLS ROOM.
00:09:31THE JOHNSTON'S HAD 10 GIRLS,
NINE OF WHOM LIVED TO ADULTHOOD.
00:09:37THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN A BUSY AND
FUN PLACE BACK IN THE DAY.
00:09:39WE HAVE SEVERAL BED SET UP.
AND THIS BED WHICH WAS A LITTLE
00:09:45OPEN CUTIS LESS UBIQUITOUS --
THIS.
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00:09:53AND WE HAVE PORTRAITS OF TWO OF
THE JOHNSTON DAUGHTERS.
00:09:57ELIZABETH ON THE LEFT.
MARY ROBERT PATERSON SIGN ON THE
00:10:02RIGHT.
WHEN THE HOUSE WAS PURCHASED BY
00:10:08THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
THIS ROOM WHICH IS THE INDOOR
00:10:10KITCHEN WAS BEING USED AS A
LIVING ROOM.
00:10:13IT HAS BEEN RESTORED TO ITS
ORIGINAL CONDITION.
00:10:19COOKING OVER A FIRE TOOK SO MUCH
LONGER AND IT WAS HOT AND
00:10:22STICKY.
>> THERE ARE SOME INTERESTING
00:10:27ARTIFACTS HERE.
ONE OF WHICH IS THE FLYTRAP
00:10:29ABOVE THE TABLE.
IT'S A GLASS JAR THAT HAS A
00:10:32STICKY LIQUID WHICH FLIES WOULD
GET STUCK IN.
00:10:37AND ON THE TABLE, SOME THINGS
THAT WOULD'VE USED TO COOK WITH
00:10:43LIKE SUGAR CONES ON THE SCALE TO
HELP MEASURE THINGS.
00:10:45THEY DID COOKING ON THE HEARTH.
THEY ARE MADE OF WROUGHT IRON.
00:10:52SO IT'S PRETTY MUCH LIKE A
NORMAL OVEN WITH HEAT.
00:10:57AROUND THE WALLS YOU CAN SEE
THIS AND HERBS -- DIFFERENT
00:11:03HERBS.
OUT HERE, HEWITT WOULD HAVE TO
00:11:08BE YOUR OWN DOCTOR AND
PHYSICIAN.
00:11:09-- YOU WOULD HAVE TO BE YOUR OWN
DOCTOR AND PHYSICIAN AND WE KNOW
00:11:15RACHEL WAS GOOD AT IT.
IN THE KITCHEN WAS JOHN'S INDIAN
00:11:22AGENCY OFFICE WHERE HE WOULD
HAVE TRADED WITH THE NATIVES AND
00:11:24TRAPPERS.
WE HAVE LAID OUT MANY OF THE
00:11:29TRADE GOODS HE WOULD HAVE
RECEIVED AND GIVEN IN RETURN.
00:11:31>> JOHN JOHNSTON HAD TWO CASH
CROPS.
00:11:45HE SOLD APPLES IN THE FORM OF
DRIED APPLES AND IS HARD AND
00:11:50SOFT APPLE -- CIDER.
.
00:11:52VERY THICK STONE WALLS, MOVERS
IN THE WATER, AND AT THE TOP TO
00:12:02LET HOT AIR OUT, IT ACTED AS A
NATURAL REFRIGERATOR.
00:12:05THE BUILDING WE ARE IN IS THE
SPRING HOUSE AND THE MAIN
00:12:09PURPOSE IS TO CONTROL THE SPRING
OUT OF THE HILLSIDE TO MAKE IT
00:12:15POSSIBLE FOR THE FAMILY TO
COLLECT AND USE THE WATER.
00:12:16THEY HAD FINISHED IT, IT WAS
USED FOR HIRED HANDS QUARTERS,
00:12:22PLANNING TIME AND HARVESTING
TIME YOU HAD ROOM FOR ANY EXTRA
00:12:25HELP TO LIVE HERE.
THIS FIRST ROOM HAS A TROUGH ON
00:12:29THREE SIDES OF THE ROOM TO
CREATE WATER SURFACE AREA THAT
00:12:35COLD THE AIR AND PEOPLE COULD
BRING THEIR FOOD DOWN AND PUT IT
00:12:39ON THE SHELF AND IT WOULD KEEP
IT COOL AND FRESH LIKE A
00:12:40REFRIGERATOR.
THE WORKER WAS BUILT TO GIVE YOU
00:12:44A PLACE TO DO SLOPPY CHORES YOU
WOULD NOT WANT DONE NEXT TO
00:12:49WHERE THEY ARE COOKING FOOD OR
CLEANER AREAS OF THE HOUSE.
00:12:51@LIKE MAKING SOAP, DOING LAUNDR.
YOU WOULD MAKE CANDLES THERE.
00:12:57>> THE BARN BEHIND US WAS BUILT
BY JOHN JOHNSTON AS HE BEGAN TO
00:13:07DEVELOP THE SITE.
HE BUILT THE BARN IN 1804.
00:13:13IT MAY BE THE OLDEST LOG BARN IN
OHIO AND CERTAINLY THE SECOND.
00:13:19WHEN JOHNSTON BOUGHT THE
PROPERTY AND BEGAN DEVELOPING
00:13:25THE UPPER FARM HERE, HE TOOK
LAWS THAT WERE ALREADY CUT AND
00:13:29MOVE THEM FROM THAT LOCATION TO
THE BARN LOCATION.
00:13:32THE TYPICAL LIVESTOCK ON A FARM
WERE PART OF THIS SO THE BARN
00:13:39WAS USED JUST LIKE FARMERS
TODAY.
00:13:40(THE ONLY THING HE DIDN'T HAVE
WAS A TRACTOR.
00:13:42(((u(((((u(((TODAY THE BARN WR
HOUSING(((u OUR MULES MULES.
00:13:49WE ALSO STORE ANTIQUE IMPLEMENTS
AND HEY AND GRAIN.
00:13:56THE MUSEUM WE ARE STANDING IN WE
CALL THE WOODLAND INDIAN AND
00:14:06CANAL MUSEUM AND OHIO.
WE ARE STANDING IN FRONT OF OUR
00:14:10DIORAMAS THAT THE PIC WHAT
HAPPENED ON THIS SITE.
00:14:12THE EARLY TRADE BETWEEN OHIO
NATIVE AMERICANS AND EUROPEANS
00:14:17WHO ARE COMING IN.
THEY START TO GET A SENSE OF
00:14:23WHAT THE CONSEQUENCE AND IMPACT
OF TRADE WAS ON BOTH CULTURES.
00:14:27PRIMARILY WE LOOK AT WHAT IT DID
TO THE NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE.
00:14:31THERE WERE SIX TYPES IN OHIO BUT
JOHNSTON DEALT PRIMARILY WITH
00:14:35THE MIAMI AND SHAWNEE WE ALSO
HAVE A SECTION IN THE MUSEUM
00:14:40THAT TALKS ABOUT THE CANAL
DISTRICT IN MORE DEPTH AND WHEN
00:14:41DOES VISITORS GET ON THE CANAL
BOAT THEY TALK WITH OUR STAFF
00:14:48HERE.
THE CANAL SYSTEM IN OHIO WAS SO
00:15:02IMPORTANT BECAUSE THIS WAS THE
FIRST INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM.
00:15:04THIS WAS THE WAY GOODS MOVED.
WHEN OHIO BECAME A STATE IN
00:15:091803, TRANSPORTATION WAS A REAL
CHALLENGE AND FARMERS LIVING IN
00:15:14PLACES LIKE MIAMI COUNTY COULD
NOT GET CROPS TO MARKET AND
00:15:15COULD NOT MAKE MONEY THROUGH
AGRICULTURE.
00:15:18WHEN THE CANAL WAS COMPLETED, A
FARMER COULD MAKE MONEY IF THE
00:15:24PRICE OF HIS GOODS WENT UP EIGHT
TO 10 TIMES WHAT HE WAS GETTING
00:15:27PRIOR TO THE CANAL.
FOLKS CAME BACK INTO
00:15:31OHIO.
THIS IS TRANSPORTATION THAT
00:15:34REALLY SPURRED COMMERCE.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE MAJOR CITIES
00:15:38IN OHIO, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME
YOU START TO SEE REAL POPULATION
00:15:43BOOMS.
BECAUSE OF THE TRADE BEING
00:15:46CARRIED OUT.
AS THE CANAL COMMISSIONER,
00:15:49JOHNSTON, THERE WERE SEVEN
COMMISSIONERS, THEIR JOB WAS TO
00:15:56OVERSEE THE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
THAT LED TO THE CANAL.
00:15:57>> WE GET A LOT OF POSITIVE
RESPONSES FROM PEOPLE THAT HAVE
00:16:20COME HERE AND VISITED.
WE HOPE THAT, YOU KNOW THEY
00:16:24ASKED A LOT OF QUESTIONS, BUT
WHEN THEY WALK AWAY THEY SAY
00:16:29GEE, I DIDN'T KNOW THAT.
AND WE'VE DONE OUR JOB FOR THE
00:16:32DAY.
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