Highland County, Ohio
BOOKLET / PRINTS
Early days in Highland
County, OH, and its various communities, including Hillsboro, Greenfield,
Leesburg, Lynchburgh, New Petersburgh and Sinking Springs, are recalled
through a mixture of colorful tales and factual data in this NEW 21 Page Booklet of excerpts
reproduced directly from the 1892 Centennial edition of Henry Howe's Historical
Collections of Ohio and other hard-to-find sources. The spiral-bound
booklet is printed one-sided on 60# paper with the fine 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 Howe book, suitable
for framing. These include the one below of a residential street in Hillsboro
in 1890, a business street in Hillsborough, and "Singing Before a Saloon."
Among the many and diverse topics covered in
the booklet are: the Hillsborough Academy, the Women's Temperance Crusade;
the Women's Whiskey Raid at Greenfield, Gov. Allen Trimble and William A.
Trimble, Gov. Joseph Benson Foraker -- including extracts from his Civil
War journal; Ohio's Wonderland including Dry Cave, Wet Cave, Dancing Cave
and Marble Cave, Profile Rock, Gypsy Glen, Bracket Rock, Mussett Hole and
Boone Tree; Fort Hill, an ancient earthwork; the "Hard Year" (1807); the
remarkable fortitude of two boys; and "a law to encourage the killing of
squirrels."
Was your great-great grandmother a crusader?
GENEALOGY BUFFS will find
a list of 1888
county officers and businesses, names of the women in the temperance crusade
(about 150 names!), and biographical information on some prominent citizens
-- Henry S. Doggett, Samuel P. Scott, Charles H. Collins, Henry A. Shepherd,
Hugh I. McMichels, Otway Curry, the Rev. James B. Finley and James Carlisle.
A 1933 look at the history of newspapers in the county, excerpts from The
Ohio Guide (a 1940 WPA Writers Project), a map showing the 88 Ohio counties
and a map of 1805 Ohio are also included.
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