Tag: history
By hook or by crook, the wheat harvest was accomplished with...
Paul Locher details how 1800s pioneers in Ohio Country would have accomplished the wheat harvest and describes the tools they would have used to do it.
Of coopers, hoopers, firkins, rundlets, swiglers, crozes, scorps and butts
The fourth member of the quartet of early craftsmen vital to the success of any frontier settlement in the Ohio Country was the cooper.
Winchester heir used fortune for ‘mystery house’
Jim Abrams digs into the history and myster surrounding the hauntings of the Winchester House, which have been reported since it was completed.
Civil War Round Table set for Nov. 9
The James A. Garfield Civil War Round Table will host its 11th annual “Garfield Symposium: Telling the Story of the Civil War” on Nov. 9.
Do you know how Item No. 1278 was used?
Item No. 1278 brings to question use more than simply identifying a tool. Why does this corn planter have a spool of wire hanging from the back?
Tinsmiths were self-taught craftsmen important to daily frontier living
A tinsmith was a vital craftsman in the development of a pioneer community. The items they made encompassed everything from kitchenwares to farming tools.
Alliance groups receive awards for historic district walking tour
The Alliance Historical Society and Alliance Preservation Society recently received an outstanding achievement award for their collaborative project “East Main Street Historic District Walking Tour.”
From a lump of clay the potter made everything for pioneers
After the blacksmith, a potter was the next essential skilled tradesman in the burgeoning
towns of early Ohio Country in the 1800s.
Without a blacksmith, there wasn’t a town
Paul Locher explains that the single most important craftsman that was needed to get an 1800s frontier town going and make it thrive was a blacksmith.
Can you identify Item No. 1276?
Tim Miller discovered Item No. 1276 while he was metal detecting at an 1820s to 1830s homesite. Do you know what it is?
