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N.099: Plaque "A" is puzzle Plaque 1
  1. Corn has been cultivated in Ohio for approximately 1800 years It was
  2. known to the prehistoric Native American [Hopewell] peoples AD 100
  3. 500 and was grown in large quantities by the later Fort Ancient Indians
  4. AD 10001550 Prehistoric and historic Native Americans combined
  5. plantings of corn beans squash and gourds in their [fields] and small
  6. garden plots Two important varieties of corn were Northern flint corn
  7. which had 16 to 20 rows of [round] kernels on long thin cobs and Southern
  8. gourdseed corn which had short [stubby] ears with up to 32 rows of
  9. kernels By the mid1700s Native Americans in Ohio grew great quantities
  10. of corn often in larger fields Particularly along the Scioto and Miami
  11. River Valleys it was not uncommon to see thousands of acres of cornfields
  12. The Wyandot Indians who are known to have camped on the Indian Run
  13. just north of Dublin village were prominent among the historic Native
  14. Americans cultivators of corn
N.093: Plaque "C" is puzzle Plaque 2
  1. The Osage orange trees on this site are remnants of a tree row typical
  2. of those which once extended for miles along the edge of farm fields
  3. in [Dublin] The Osage orange or Maclura pomifera is a member of the
  4. Mulberry family and it is native to midwestern North America Its
  5. common name refers to the Osage [Indians] of Arkansas and Missouri
  6. who used the dense orange wood to make bows and tomahawks Early
  7. farmers often planted the Osage orange as fencing along fields and property
  8. lines because its irregular thorny branches quickly grew to form a secure
  9. boundary These hedge rows also provided refuge for birds and small
  10. animals The fruit of the Osage orange is the size of a [softba] and
  11. chartreuse green in color with a bumpy surface texture like brains It
  12. is widely known as a natural repellent for roaches spiders and other
  13. insects
N.096: Plaque "B" is puzzle Plaque 3
  1. Farming was central to the economy [of] this region from the time of
  2. the first European settlers in the late 1700s Early settlers cleared land
  3. on which to live and farm and corn was their most important crop
  4. They grew corn in much the same way Native Americans had for centuries
  5. Most corn was consumed by the farm families and their livestock but
  6. some surplus corn was sold to distilleries which were established throughout
  7. Ohio by the early 1800s As the population grew so did the amount of
  8. corn raised and by 1850 Ohio led the country in corn production Franklin
  9. County was among the top corn producing regions in the state for many
  10. decades and the family farms that surrounded the mercantile village
  11. of Dublin contributed to this productivity As recently as 1965 Frantz
  12. [Rings] Sawmill Case Brandt Tuttle Avery and Post roads were all
  13. flanked by cornfields In the 1990s Ohio still ranks as one of the nations
  14. largest producers of corn
N.082: Plaque "E is puzzle Plaque 4
  1. Construction and development have transformed Dublin and its environs
  2. over the past three decades Into the 1960s much of the land around Dublin
  3. was agricultural Sam and Eulalia Frantz moved to this site in 1935 and
  4. lived there until 1963 Sam [farmed] the land and Eulalia was always working
  5. with him Both were from families that had been early settlers in the area
  6. The Frantz family came to Dublin in 1828 and Eulalia Billingsley was
  7. from a long [line] [of] farmers in Washington Township The Frantz farm was
  8. sold in 1968 Only a few years later in the mid1970s three major projects
  9. marked a turning point in the history of land use in Dublin The completion
  10. of the northwest link in the I270 outerbelt and the development of Muirfield
  11. Village and the Ashland Chemical Research Center set the stage for Dublins
  12. metamorphosis from a farm village to a suburban residential community
  13. and corporate office center
N.087: Plaque "D" - used for 5801 checksum only
  1. Hybridization revolutionized the production of corn in North America and worldwide
  2. in the 20th century Crosspollination two distinct varieties of corn or other plants
  3. can result in hybrids that are stronger and more resistant to drought and disease
  4. and that produce higher yields than either parent variety Native Americans and
  5. early settlers had experimented with many ways to improve corn but the first commercial
  6. hybrid corn was not produced until 1918 The breakthrough came when American
  7. agricultural researchers crossed the offspring of two hybrid strains to create a double
  8. cross hybrid They learned to control pollination by placing paper bags on corn
  9. ears and tassels removing them only to pollinate the plants by hand Like most
  10. corn grown in the 1990s the variety depicted here is a doublecross hybrid called
  11. Corn Belt dent corn which has between 14 and 22 rows of yellow kernels and a
  12. small dimple or dent on the end of the kernels The basic parents of dent corn
  13. are Northern flint corn and Southern gourdseed corn Sam Frantz who farmed this
  14. site from 1985 to 1963 was well known for his development of hybrid corn seeds
  15. He worked with The Ohio State University of corn hybridization projects and served
  16. on the United States Department of Agriculture Seed Advisory Committee