The name

Northwest Ohio was once wetland fifteen hundred square miles across — the Great Black Swamp, impassable half the year. Between 1859 and 1885 it was drained by hand-dug ditch and clay tile. Ohio has lost over ninety percent of its wetlands, and most of that loss happened here. This shop is run from a house on its ground.

What survives of it is on paper. Audubon drew the passenger pigeon while flocks over the Ohio Valley still took hours to pass; the last of them died in Cincinnati in 1914. The U.S. Lake Survey sounded Erie by hand and lettered every depth. A mapmaker in 1820 wrote Black Swamp in script across four counties, because it was still there to name.

We find those sheets in public archives, restore them, and print them large enough to read. Nothing is invented and nothing is added.