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Margate Manor Butler
Cleveland Ohio: The Early Settlers Association of the Western Reserve and
That Western Reserve Historical Society, 1963
(Table of contents)
PART ONE: Conquering the Wilderness Surveying the Western Reserve
Settlers' Dream
Stark Reality, Tramping Indian Trails
PART TWO: The Simple Life, Early Scenes, Homes, Churches, Education,
Recreation and the Arts Politics, Roads and Taverns
PART THREE: Commercial Fever, Canals, Sail and Steam, Bridges and
Railroads, Banking, Industry and Commerce
Acknowledgments, Bibliography, Index
(from the introduction) After the Revolutionary War and the formation of
the United States all the colonies made special concessions of their
western lands to the federal government. Connecticut was the only state
allowed to reserve a section. It was situated in the northern part of Ohio
along Lake Erie, a strip 120 miles long extending from the Pennsylvania
border to a little west of Sandusky, and approximately 75 miles wide
reaching from Lake Erie to a few miles below Youngstown. To this day the
section is referred to as the Western Reserve of Connecticut, calling
attention to the unique role Connecticut played in the development of the
early settlements.
For a number of years this area was a colony of the mother state and
remained outside the jurisdiction of the federal government's vast
North-west Territory. Part of the Western Reserve, called the Firelands,
was given to Connecticut citizens who had suffered losses during the
Revolution; one tract, rich in salt, was sold to a single individual; but
the largest area, three million acres, was purchased by the privately
controlled Connecticut Land Company for about forty cents an acre. The
company in turn surveyed the land and sold acreage and entire townships to
New England purchasers. Many rural areas still retain the
eighteenth-century Connecticut characteristics in their dwellings,
churches, town squares, and village names.
As the agent for the Connecticut Land Company, Moses Cleaveland led the
first surveying party in 1796 with explicit orders to lay out a town at
the mouth of the Cuyahoga and to subdivide the Western Reserve into
townships. This Pictorial History of the Western Reserve illustrates the
kind of terrain which greeted him and his surveyors. It depicts the type
of homes the early pioneers built, how their educational system grew, how
religion, politics, recreation, and the arts influenced their lives and
how their industry developed. Sketches, woodcuts, paintings, and
photo-graphs have been chosen with great care to tell, as accurately as
possible, this story of the period from the arrival of Moses Cleaveland to
the year 1860. MARGARET MANOR BUTLER
155 pages, good condition, light staining on covers
Wisconsin
Wisconsin's Early French Habitants $19.00
Jo Bartels Alderson and Kate Alderson Rennert.
Heritage 1998 (out of print)
This new work is an original and impressive undertaking. It concentrates
on an often overlooked portion of North American history-the French
exploration and "settlement" of South Central Canada and North Central
U.S., namely the state of Wisconsin. The French word habitants in the
title is closest in meaning to the English words residents or settlers;
and the authors give brilliant insight to the lives led by these early
French habitants. The book follows the path of French explorers like
Champlain and La Salle, and establishes, in a very comprehensive format,
the true weight of French influence in North America.
Not only is this book useful as a history replete with French exploits in
Wisconsin but it provides a basis for ancestral research in that region as
well. The second part of this text supplies the reader with genealogies
that are both extensive and well documented. Additional notes are provided
with some family histories. The third major section of this work is a list
of French names in early Wisconsin. The list is subsequently divided into
headings which include: "The Old French Cemetery at Prairie du Chien,"
"First Settlers in Green Bay" and "Before the War of 1812, Principal
Families in Green Bay." There is also a special section of the book which
closely follows Wisconsin's "Huguenot Connections." A lengthy bibliography
is included.
208 pages, biblio., maps, paper, very fine condition
Minnesota
Grace Lee Nute
St. Paul, Minn.: The Minnesota Historical Society, 1950.
Table of contents:
Fleurs De Lys
Water lilies white and gold.
Eternal pines
Grasses
Gold
B.D.
And A.D
Today
in the borderlands
Bibliography
Index
Illustrations:
Indian mound at laurel,
French map of 1740 showing the rainy river country.,
The
rat portage, 1823,
Sir
George Simpson on a voyage,
Wigwam and papooses, lake of the woods, 1901,
Lake
Shebandowan, Dawson route,
Typical canoe route scene, 1823,
Fort
Frances, 1857,
Hudson's Bay Company post at Rat portage, 1857,
Birch
bark canoes under construction,
The
red river expedition on a portage,
The
Islington mission near Rat Portage,
Lady
Dufferin,
Steamboat "Keenora" on rainy river,
Fort
Frances canal about 1906,
The
little fork river drive of 1937,
Cook
shack in a lumber camp,
Cormorants on gull rock, lake of the woods reception of the Marquis Of
Lorne at Rat Portage, 1881,
Pound
Net, lake of the woods,
Gill
Net, lake of the woods,
A
Gill Net reel,
Raising a pound net,
Ranier about 1905,
Rainy
Lake City, 1894,
Koochiching falls in the early 1900's,
Fort
Frances in the early 1900's,
The
Alexander Baker homestead,
Alexander Baker Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company plant, International
Falls, about 1912,
Noon
lunch from the Swingdingle,
Steam
hauler, International Falls,
A
modern lumber camp Fort Frances from International Falls river front,,
1912,
Third
street, International Falls, 1909,
Main
street, Rat Portage (Kenora), 1881,
Building the dam,
Modern mechanized lagging twine house at Oak Point, lake of the woods,
1901 .. .,
Aerial view of Rainy Lake,
Arnesen fishery, lake of the woods,
Loading fish at Warroad,
A
York boat the old fishery on Rocky Point, lake of the woods.
143 pages; softbound; illus. with b/w photos; good condition, stain on
spine light fading on covers
Ohio
The Brick
and Tile Industry in Stark County, Ohio 1809-1976
$35.00
C Harold McCollam
Canton, Ohio: The Stark County Historical Society 1976
The Northwest Territory: A Prologue
The Importance of the Clay Product Industry to Stark County
Early Brick making in Stark County
The Earliest Organized Clay Product Companies in Stark County
Growth of the Industry, 1882-1891
The Whitacre-Greer Fireproofing Company and Its Predecessors
Clay Products in the Period 1892-1901
The Metropolitan Paving Brick Company and Its Successors
The Years 1902-1912
The Belden Brick Company
Stark Ceramics, Inc.
Spartek Inc.
The Years 1913-1931
The Massillon Refractories Company
Structural Stoneware Incorporated
The Industry in Retrospect
What of the Future for the Brick and Tile Industry?
Appendix A. Chronological Index of All Clay Product Manufacturers in Stark
County, 1809-1976
Appendix B. Clay Product Definitions
377 pages, hardbound, dj, minor wear, very good condition, price clipped.