The lights at the quarry

Ohio · United States · Mine

A settler is said to have taken up with a Native woman, and his wife to have gone after them both.

The lights at the stone quarry near Dover, Ohio are the best known account in the town.

The legend has a settler arriving here over a hundred years ago and beginning an affair with a Native woman. His wife found out and went after the pair of them, and what happened while she was chasing them is where the lights come from.

A note is needed on the story rather than the lights. The Indian maiden of nineteenth century American folklore is almost always an invention, written by settlers, and she exists in these tales mainly to be a rival, a victim or a warning. The Delaware and Wyandot people who actually lived in the Tuscarawas valley were removed from it, and their own history is in the record rather than in this.

The lights themselves are reported by people who know nothing about the story.

The quarry is private property and quarry water is deep and cold.

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Where is The lights at the quarry located?

The lights at the quarry is in Ohio, United States.