Land office in Marietta, Ohio card

This card is a woodcut print, created by William Mark Young, and depicts the land office in Marietta, Ohio in the background with settlers looking a maps, and an American Indian man kneeling with a settler. It was created for the sesquicentennial celebrations of the Northwest Territory in 1937. The 1937-1938 Northwest Territory Sesquicentennial Celebration was a federally funded yearlong celebration which commemorated the journey of the Ohio Company of Associates of 48 men who traveled westward from Ipswich, Massachusetts to Marietta, Ohio in 1787. A main feature of the celebration was to recruit a caravan of 38 men to re-create the journey. At each stop along the 52 day trek, the pioneers presented a pageant called “Freedom on the March.” In West Newton, Pennsylvania, the participants were given tools of the 1700s to build a flat boat and canoes to travel to Marietta, Ohio. The men stayed in touch with reunions over the years, and Carl Givler and four other men had a final reunion reenactment of the 1937 trek in 1987