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Ohio & Kentucky and the Indian Head Rock
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Ohio & Kentucky and the Indian Head Rock
Here is a good fight and I love a good fight.
Have never seen the rock.
I have had a POLL added .. vote!
The results will be available to the Houses of Representatives of both States, Ohio and Kentucky
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Indian Head Rock from the Ohio River near Portsmouth and Ironton.
It had been submerged since the 1920s, until it was pulled from the river last September 2007 by the team lead by historian Steve Shaffer of Ironton, Ohio. The location of Indian Head Rock was unknown and its existence was a legend. Legend says the rock would surface about every decade in the 1800s and early 1900s when the river level dropped. People would then carve names, pictures and dates on the rock.
Shaffer remember the stories from school days, found pictures and believed that it was more than a legend. He went looking for it, diving the murky waters for several summers until he found it and had it pulled up. The 8 ton Indian Head Rock was donated to a museum in Ohio where it sits to this day.
Not much is known about the origin of the rock, which has a crude carving of a face and another of a house, along with the names of several early settlers. Some say it was a navigational marker. Some say the face looks like Charlie Brown.
Theories of origin: A river bandit’s carving to mark where loot was stored. A boatman’s crude measure to gauge fluctuating water levels. Or, as a 1908 newspaper article has it, the 1830s handiwork of a Portsmouth boy named John Book, who then grew up to fall at the Battle of Shiloh. An American Indian petroglyph.
When water levels dropped, the boulder would break the surface long enough to receive the chiseled tattoos of mildly daring people seeking remembrance. But it stopped playing peek-a-boo nearly a century ago, leaving only ephemera in its wake, including a sepia photographs of people, standing in the middle of the Ohio River, by the rock on boats or standing on the rock.
Dam work in the early 20th century raised the water level several feet, and the boulder — often featured in newspapers and on postcards — vanished from view. Portsmouth simply forgot its pet rock, abandoned.
Some Ohioans say the rock is an important piece of Portsmouth history and should be put on display. Some Kentuckians say the rock is an important piece of Kentucky and should be returned to the bottom of the river.
Some in both states say: are we fighting over a rock?
Some said that Mr. Shaffer needed a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers to remove anything from the river; he agreed, and has applied for one after the fact.
Some said the rock should not have been disturbed because that Charlie Brown-like face may be an American Indian petroglyph in sacred ground. In November a delegation from Kentucky — with Dr. Fred E. Coy Jr., a prehistoric carvings expert, in tow — visited the Portsmouth municipal garage where the Indian Head Rock is and waited anxiously while the doctor conducted his examination. His expert opinion: “I can’t tell.”
The river is mostly under Kentucky jurisdiction, and Kentucky claims the landmark belongs to the commonwealth. A Kentucky prosecutor has said he will invoke the state Antiquities Act to get it back. Ohio lawmakers disagree.
The Kentucky House of Representatives passed a resolution demanding that Indian Head Rock is return to its watery bed, with one of its members suggesting that a raiding party to Portsmouth might be in order.
The Ohio House of Representatives is processing a resolution that asserts the rock’s significance to Ohio, and the Speaker of the House has said that he is ready to guard Indian Head Rock with his muzzle-loading shotgun.
A video of the story:
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_vi...ml?id=3978801n
Pictures found in the public web, photographers and authors unk
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Have never seen the rock.
I have had a POLL added .. vote!
The results will be available to the Houses of Representatives of both States, Ohio and Kentucky
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Indian Head Rock from the Ohio River near Portsmouth and Ironton.
It had been submerged since the 1920s, until it was pulled from the river last September 2007 by the team lead by historian Steve Shaffer of Ironton, Ohio. The location of Indian Head Rock was unknown and its existence was a legend. Legend says the rock would surface about every decade in the 1800s and early 1900s when the river level dropped. People would then carve names, pictures and dates on the rock.
Shaffer remember the stories from school days, found pictures and believed that it was more than a legend. He went looking for it, diving the murky waters for several summers until he found it and had it pulled up. The 8 ton Indian Head Rock was donated to a museum in Ohio where it sits to this day.
Not much is known about the origin of the rock, which has a crude carving of a face and another of a house, along with the names of several early settlers. Some say it was a navigational marker. Some say the face looks like Charlie Brown.
Theories of origin: A river bandit’s carving to mark where loot was stored. A boatman’s crude measure to gauge fluctuating water levels. Or, as a 1908 newspaper article has it, the 1830s handiwork of a Portsmouth boy named John Book, who then grew up to fall at the Battle of Shiloh. An American Indian petroglyph.
When water levels dropped, the boulder would break the surface long enough to receive the chiseled tattoos of mildly daring people seeking remembrance. But it stopped playing peek-a-boo nearly a century ago, leaving only ephemera in its wake, including a sepia photographs of people, standing in the middle of the Ohio River, by the rock on boats or standing on the rock.
Dam work in the early 20th century raised the water level several feet, and the boulder — often featured in newspapers and on postcards — vanished from view. Portsmouth simply forgot its pet rock, abandoned.
Some Ohioans say the rock is an important piece of Portsmouth history and should be put on display. Some Kentuckians say the rock is an important piece of Kentucky and should be returned to the bottom of the river.
Some in both states say: are we fighting over a rock?
Some said that Mr. Shaffer needed a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers to remove anything from the river; he agreed, and has applied for one after the fact.
Some said the rock should not have been disturbed because that Charlie Brown-like face may be an American Indian petroglyph in sacred ground. In November a delegation from Kentucky — with Dr. Fred E. Coy Jr., a prehistoric carvings expert, in tow — visited the Portsmouth municipal garage where the Indian Head Rock is and waited anxiously while the doctor conducted his examination. His expert opinion: “I can’t tell.”
The river is mostly under Kentucky jurisdiction, and Kentucky claims the landmark belongs to the commonwealth. A Kentucky prosecutor has said he will invoke the state Antiquities Act to get it back. Ohio lawmakers disagree.
The Kentucky House of Representatives passed a resolution demanding that Indian Head Rock is return to its watery bed, with one of its members suggesting that a raiding party to Portsmouth might be in order.
The Ohio House of Representatives is processing a resolution that asserts the rock’s significance to Ohio, and the Speaker of the House has said that he is ready to guard Indian Head Rock with his muzzle-loading shotgun.
A video of the story:
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_vi...ml?id=3978801n
Pictures found in the public web, photographers and authors unk
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RE: Ohio & Kentucky and the Indian Head Rock
I thinkits an accursed artifact from an ancient civilizationand should be returned to its watery grave before something bad happens like gas prices rising over $3 a gallon. Damn, too late.
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