GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO
BOOKLET / PRINTS
Early days in Guernsey
County and its various communities -- Cambridge, Cumberland, Quaker City,
Byesville, Washington and Salesville -- are recalled through a mixture of
colorful tales and factual data in this NEW
19 page booklet of excerpts reproduced directly from
the 1892 Centennial edition of Henry Howe's Historical Collections of
Ohio, the 1940 WPA book The Ohio Guide, and other hard-to-find
sources. The spiral-bound booklet is printed one-sided on 60# paper with
the print enlarged 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.
They include: the picture of 1846 Cambridge shown below, an 1888 view of
Cambridge, and a Pennyroyal Distillery.
Among the many and diverse topics in the booklet
are:
Indian attacks, Zane's Trace, Will's Creek, Duck Creek, Horseshoe Falls,
twin sycamores, the Leatherwood God and the Dylksites, Pennyroyal raising
and distilling, horse thievery and counterfeiting, Perry's Den in Spencer
Township and the Meteor of 1860.
GENEALOGY BUFFS will find
a list of 1888 county officers and businesses, along with biographical information
on the Rev. John Abels, Bethnel Ables, Joseph Ferrell, Newell Kennon and
William Morton. A 1933 look at the history of newspapers in the county, brief
articles from a 1941 Ohio history on Zane's Trace and Pennyroyaldom, a map
identifying Ohio's 88 counties and a map of 1805 Ohio are also included.
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