Ohio & The Revolution
A webinar series exploring the history of Ohio at the time of the American Revolution
Ohio & The Revolution – Revolutionary War Soldiers Settle in Ohio
After winning its independence from Britain, the Ohio Country was populated by thousands of veterans of the American Revolution who received land grants as part (or most) of their compensation from the newly formed U.S. government. Today, more than 7,000 Revolutionary War veterans are known to be buried in Ohio. The America 250-Ohio Commission has been working with several experts and enlisted the public to help better document this history and tell the stories of these Revolutionary War veterans who made Ohio their final resting place.
Please join us for the “Ohio & The Revolution” webinar at 7 pm on Thursday, November 12 to discuss the Ohio land grants that led so many veterans to Ohio and the Revolutionary War Veterans Graves Project underway. America 250-Ohio Executive Director Todd Kleismit will facilitate the evening’s discussion online with the team leading much of the Project’s work in Ohio.
Panelists for the November 12, 2026 Ohio & The Revolution
Krista Horrocks works as Department Manager of SHPO Administration for Ohio’s State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) at the Ohio History Connection (OHC), where she manages a team of program, grant, and GIS managers in the support of all program areas for the SHPO. She also serves as OHC’s cemetery preservationist, where she works providing research support, guidance, and presentations on all-things-Ohio-cemetery-related. She is the proud Project Manager of the America250-Ohio Revolutionary War Veteran Graves Project. Krista is a 6th generation native Ohioan originally from the Village of Fredericktown, Knox County.
Joseph Snider is the Terracon Consultants, Inc., Project Lead for the America 250-Ohio Commission’s Ohio Revolutionary War Veterans Graves Project and oversaw the creation of the public survey form creation, data management, and is currently responsible for the data clean up. Snider has more than fifteen years of experience in Cultural Resources Management (CRM), including the successful completion of over 400 CRM projects throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Owed to his extensive background in geophysical survey, photogrammetric modeling, archaeological excavation, and historical architecture survey, Snider has a wide breadth of expertise in historical residential, commercial, industrial, conflict, and cemetery site interpretation. Snider is currently a Research Fellow at the Center for Integrative Research in Conflict Archaeology where he conducts remote sensing research at military sites throughout the eastern U.S.
Tom Hankins is a member of the National Society Sons of the American Revolution since 2007, member of the Hocking Valley Chapter Ohio Society SAR since 2009, Past Chapter President (2022) Hocking Valley SAR, Lead investigator Hocking Valley Chapter SAR 5 county grave marking project, Tomb Guard Commander since 2018 Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier Ft. Laurens, Bolivar Ohio, Co-Chair Ft. Laurens Unknown Tomb Renovation Project, Member of Friends of Ft. Laurens, Team member Ohio Revolutionary War Graves Project, Ohio 250th Celebration Commissioner, Patriot Grave Marking Chairman Hocking Valley Chapter SAR, member of the National Society SAR Color Guard, Historian Hocking Valley Chapter SAR.
Scott Britton is the Executive Director of The Castle Museum in Marietta, Ohio and was a member of the America 250-Ohio Northwest Ordinance Working Group. He graduated from Penn State University and frequently speaks on numerous topics related to the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and the settlement of Southeastern Ohio. At The Castle Museum, he conducts a wide variety of educational programs for students and adults, including frequent walking tours of Marietta and Washington County’s historic cemeteries. Scott is a charter member and historian for the Marietta Chapter SAR as well as a co-founder of the Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley. Mr. Britton specializes in uncovering and presenting compelling stories that connect local individuals to historical events that changed our region, state, and nation.
Todd Kleismit is the Executive Director of America 250-Ohio. Todd was appointed as the executive director of the Ohio Commission for the U.S. Semiquincentennial on March 1, 2022. Since that time, he has been working alongside a new 29-member Commission on building a statewide initiative to prepare Ohio to participate in the nation’s 250th anniversary. Todd previously served for 18 years as the Ohio History Connection’s director of community and government relations. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Todd is a U.S. Army veteran of Operation Desert Storm and has a wide range of experience working in the public, nonprofit and private sectors.