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May 25, 1850: Ralph Waldo Emerson Visits Ohio’s Fort Ancient.

By buckeyemuse | May 25, 2014 |

On May 25, 1850, Ralph Waldo Emerson—essayist, poet, lecturer, and Transcendentalist–turned forty-seven years of age. He was in the midst of a lecture tour in the Midwest, and had just finished a series of engagements in Cincinnati. On this day Emerson joined a group of young men on a trip to the ancient earthworks now…

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