This animal was responsible for the first death in Stow.
What is a rattlesnake?
100
These are two jobs of pioneer children.
Answers will vary!
100
This state reserved this area of Ohio to be used later.
What is Connecticut?
100
This is the name of the man responsible for building Silver Lake Amusement Park.
Who was Ralph Lodge?
100
This is a person who buys land and then resells it to make more money.
What is a land investor.
200
The scream of this animal sent fear into the pioneers.
What is a panther?
200
This man was a surveyor for Stow. He liked the land so much he bought it but never lived here.
Who was Joshua Stow?
200
This is responsible for making this area of land have hills and valleys.
What is a glacier?
200
This is why the bear pits at the amusement park were necessary.
What is they were used as a type of bank to keep the money safe?
200
This is something used to measure land in pioneer times.
What is a Gunter's Chain?
300
This animal did not attack the settlers, but were a bother since they stole pigs!
What is a bear?
300
This man was the first white settler in Stow and is credited for making Stow Road.
Who was William Walker?
300
The reason the land of this area was saved was because of . . .
Answers will vary. . . Revolutionary War, houses being burnt and destroyed, etc.
300
Wetmore Pond, or Stow pond, as is used to be called got the name of Silver Lake because of this reason.
What is people thought the lase looked silvery in the moonlight and decided it should be called Silver Lake and everyone who called it different would be fined.
300
This was used to cut wheat in the fields by the pioneers.
What is a scythe and cradle.
400
Pioneers were offered $5.00 for the scalp of this animal.
What is a wolf?
400
This family took 42 days to reach Stow, and members of this family started the first post office and a local park!
Who were the Wetmores?
400
Why is this land called the Western Reserve?
Connecticut reserved it, and we are west of Connecticut.
400
These are examples of four different attractions located at the amusement park.
Answers may include a dance pavilion, bathhouse, boathouse, paddleboat, train ride, lemonade stand, bear pit, aquarium, etc.
400
This is the Indian word for crooked.
What is Cuyahoga?
500
This animal that was once so numerous in Stow is now extinct!
What is the passenger pigeon?
500
This man was hired by Joshua Stow to survey the land. He lived in Hudson, but traveled here every day for his work in making maps.
Who was Joseph Darrow?
500
In the Western Reserve territory, fireplaces would have been used for these two different reasons.
Answers may include heat, cooking, light, heating water for bathing or cleaning, or another reasonable answer.
500
This is the reason Silver Lake Amusement Park no longer exists.
What is World War I, trains were needed for troops and supplies, people were busy fighting and working, no extra money for entertainment, etc.
500
This was used often by two people to chop down trees to clear the land for farming.