BROWN COUNTY, OHIO
BOOKLET /
PRINTS
Early days in BROWN COUNTY, including Georgetown, Ripley, Higgensport,
Russellville, Aberdeen and Fayetteville, are recalled through a mixture of
colorful tales and factual data in this NEW
23 Page Booklet reprinted from the 1892 edition of Henry
Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio and other hard-to-find sources. The
spiral-bound booklet is 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 the 1846 sketch by Howe of the Public Square in
Georgetown (shown below), an early view of Ripley from the Kentucky side
of the Ohio River, and Gen. Grant's boyhood home.
Among the many and diverse topics in the booklet
are: the Battle with Tecumseh, "White Burley" tobacco, General Thomas Lyon
Hamer, the boyhood home of General Ulysses S. Grant and recollections of
his parents and friends, the underground railroad headed by the Rev. John
Rankin, with such famous "passengers" as Eliza and George Harris, two of the
runaway slaves depicted in "Uncle Tom's Cabin", the Rev. Martin Kundig, founder
of Ursuline Convent, and Archbishop John R. Purcell. Additional insight on
Grant from an 1869 book, Sunshine and Shadows in New York City, has
been added.
GENEALOGY BUFFS will find
a list of 1888
county officers and businesses. A 1933 look at the history of newspapers
in the county; excerpts from The Ohio Guide, a WPA writer's project
published in 1940; an article on Ohio's tobacco farming; Henry Howe's rambling
account of his Ohio River journey (from the Allen County section of Howe's
book), a map showing the 88 Ohio counties and a map of 1805 Ohio are also
included in the booklet.
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