Dr. Joseph H. Todd published a fascinating 45-page booklet on the Geology and Archeology of Wayne County, Ohio in 1910 and the Society recently turned this publication into a digital format and made it available for free to read on the Internet Archive. You can read the publication online or download it to your device and read at your leisure.
A nugget of information found in the book on page 32, is the story of a mammoth tooth discovered in a swamp after a spring thaw runoff by John Livingston near Fredericksburg. Soon after that a complete, seven-foot fossil skeleton of a giant ground sloth was found only seven miles away from where the tooth was found, just over the Wayne County/Salt Creek Township line in northern Holmes County by Abraham Drushel in the early 1890s. This giant ground sloth skeleton, later named “Jeff”, has been on display at The Ohio State University, Orton Hall Geological Museum in Columbus, Ohio since 1896.
