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Area Attractions
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AEP ReCreation Lands near McConnelsville. Nestled throughout this 30,000-acre reclamation project are more than 350 lakes and ponds and nearly 380 campsites. More than 50 million trees were planted in the initial reclamation effort. The AEP ReCreation Land is now the largest privately-owned recreation area in the state.
http://www.thewilds.org http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/places/se01/index.shtml Named for the broad Muskingum floodplain, the three acre Big Bottom park is the site of a skirmish between Ohio Company settlers and some Delaware and Wyandot Indians on 2 January 1791. The Big Bottom massacre marked the start of four years of frontier warfare in Ohio, which only stopped when General Anthony Wayne and the Indian tribes signed the Treaty of Greene Ville.
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