Rufus Putnam Kitchen, Campus Martius, Marietta, Ohio
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A view of the kitchen in the Rufus Putnam House, which was a part of Campus Martius, the name of the fortified home of the Ohio Company, after the landing on what is now Ohio soil, on April 7, 1788. About this fireplace centered the life of the Putnam family; before it sat many a distinguished guest; in this room Mrs. Putnam served New England dinner with pumpkin pie to a delegation of a dozen or more Indian Chiefs on their way up the Ohio River to Pittsburgh in a pirogue, when they stopped at Marietta in March 1791. The Rufus Putnam House was built in 1788 and has been sheltered within Campus Martius State Memorial Museum, in Marietta, Ohio, since 1931. It is administered as an "Historic House Museum" by the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, of Columbus, in the program "to conserve Ohio's historic heritage." |
