BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO
BOOKLET / PRINTS
Early days in Belmont County, OH, and its various communities
-- Bellaire, St. Clairsville, Martin's Ferry, Bridgeport and Barnesville
-- are recalled through a mixture of colorfuul tales and factual data in this
NEW 35 Page Booklet
reprinted from the 1892 Centennial edition of Henry Howe's Historical
Collections of Ohio, The Ohio Guide (a 1940 WPA Writers Project)
and other hard-to-find sources. The spiral-bound booklet is printed one-sided
on 60# paper, with the print enlarged 10% for easier reading.
IN ADDITION TO THE BOOKLET the buyer
will receive THREE Computer-Enhanced 8 1/2
x 11 Prints of engravings from the original book, suitable
for framing. These include an 1846 sketch of St. Clairsville, Bellaire in
1887, and Martin's Ferry in 1887. The log cabin scene shown below is the
booklet cover illustration.
Among the many and diverse topics covered in the
booklet are:
the Battle of Captina, the adventures of Indian hunter Lewis Wetzel, the
life of Arthur St. Clair, Benjamin Lundy, early abolitionist, Indian attacks,
a treatise entitled "Our Cabin, or Life in the Woods", Jake Heatherington
and his mule Jack, the birthplace of William Dean Howells, etc.
GENEALOGY BUFFS will find
a list of 1888 county officers and businesses. A 1933 look at the history
of newspapers in the county, brief pieces on Lewis Wetzel, Benjamin Lundy,
Ebenezer Martin, the grave of Ebenezer Zane, and the Narrow Guage Railroad,
a tour guide's highlights in 1940, and maps showing the 88 Ohio counties
and 1805 Ohio are also included.
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