This publication consists of a chapter extracted from Henry Howe’s Historical Collections of Ohio in Two Volumes, The Ohio Centennial Edition, 1896. The table of contents and index have been carefully created and are specific to this chapter and will aid the researcher to quickly find entries of interest.
Clermont is French for "clear mountain" and this publication represents twenty-five years of the author's meandering along the byways of Clermont County's fascinating history. It is meant to be a collection of stories that interested the author and that he felt would interest the reader. From the prehistory of the county through the county's two hundred years of immigration, disasters, notoriety, wars, antislavery endeavors, agriculture and manufacturing, as well as a potpourri of miscellaneous stories, you will be unable to put this book down.
This chapter was extracted from Henry Howe’s Historical Collections of Ohio in Two Volumes. The Ohio Centennial Edition, 1896. The table of contents, index, and bibliography have been carefully created and are specific to this chapter and will aid the researcher to quickly find entries of interest.
Cincinnati Under Water: The 1937 Flood compares floods from the Cincinnati and surrounding cities and states from as far back as 1815 that couldn't compare to the flood caused by melting snows during the winter of 1937. Check the index to see all the towns and states the author identifies that were affected by this unprecedented flood.
Firefighting has been in David Fannin's family for many generations and he felt it was time to compile all the information from previous small histories, newspaper accounts, council minutes, ledgers, and other books to provide a history of the fire companies in this historic town in Scioto County at the confluence of the Scioto and Ohio Rivers. Many years went into his preparation for this much-welcomed early history of fire fighting in Portsmouth, Ohio.
This publication contains county histories for Athens, Hocking and Vinton counties with a new 200-page index, together with sketches of its cities, villages, and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history, portraits and biographies of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens.
Topics include settlements, towns and villages; schools and education; waterways to the west and south; general topics; courthouse records; military history;prominent persons; family histories; churches and religion; cemeteries and obituaries; and minor indexes that include membership rosters from servicemen, tax lists, schools, churches, cooking clubs, and telephone directories.
This oversized atlas contains, among other things, general maps of the world, the United States, Ohio, and Clark County, as well as individual township maps for this county. It also includes plats of the city of Springfield and vicinity as well as those for the many towns and villages. There is an art folio of public buildings, businesses, and other views and portrait groups from the various townships and individuals.
A foldout color map of the county was restored from the original publication and is reproduced on archival paper and inserted in an archival pocket inside the back cover.