Discover the Licking County Ohio of yesteryear in this NEW 8.5" x 11" booklet, an excerpt from History of Southeastern Ohio and the Muskingum Valley, a rare history originally published in 1928 by S.J. Clarke Publishing Co. of Chicago. The 91-page spiral bound booklet is printed on 60# bond paper with the front cover protected with a vinyl sheet.
Some of the
topics included are: Prehistoric
times -- the icecap’s outwash, earthworks/mounds, aborigines,
the old fort; Samuel Drumm; “The Licking Mound Builders” and
“Licking Section of the Canal” by Henry C. Cochran; Wyandots
in Wigwams; the Legend of the Black Hand”; Elias Hughes and
John Ratliff; 4 Courthouses; General Schenck; Early Newark;
Black Horse and Bell Taverns; Early Merchants; Early Churches;
Ohio Canal; Pony Express; One of Newark’s First Steam Roads;
Railroads; Electric Streetcar replaces mules; County in the
Country’s Wars -- War of 1812, War Against Mexico (Duncan’s
Mounted Rangers), Civil War, War with Spain, and World War I
(with names of casualties); Oil and Gas development; Distinguished
Sons -- Gen. William c. Schenck, William and James Stanbery,
Henry Stanbery, Thomas Ewing, and many others, Licking Men in
Congress; County and city officials; Newspapers; Denison University;
Banks; Schools; Granville, Utica, and other villages -- when
laid out and by whom; Township dates and populations; Public
Utility Values; and other items of interest.
Illustrations include: Fairmount Mound; Old Licking County Courthouse; S/W Corner of the Newark Square; S/E Corner of the Newark Square; the Old Ohio Canal at Newark; Arnold Ancestral Home in Newark; Gen. George Smythe home in Newark; and the Licking Narrows Dam.
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