Many changes, including size, at high schools
With high school graduation just around the corner, it’s hard not to remember and compare changes such as size of the graduating class, clothing styles and what the future has to hold for young dreamers.
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Hoosier History
April 4 - April 10 – The Week in Indiana History 1862 – In the Civil War, the 44th Indiana Volunteer Infantry fought at the Battle of Shiloh in southeastern Tennessee. In the two-day battle, nearly half the men in the unit suffered casualties, with 34 killed and 177 wounded.
Here’s a Look Back in Time
140 Years Ago Saturday, April 2, 1881 On Tuesday and Wednesday we had the heaviest snow storm of the whole season. The sunshine Thursday soon melted the snow.
Here’s a Look Back in Time
140 Years Ago Saturday, March 26, 1881 Noble Calhoun of Memphis, Tenn., formerly of Patriot, was recently robbed of about $13,700 in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was the proceeds of two flatboat loads of staves.
Pap Early, served in Civil War, interred in Greendale
The story of brave African Americans from Dearborn County fighting in the Civil War is worth telling. One of the last survivors of the Lawrenceburg G.A.R. Huff Post No. 89 in our county was former slave William J. Early “Pap” Gaines born on Sept. 18, 1843 in Boone County, Kentucky. At the time there was a large slave owning family with the name “Gaines” living in Petersburg, Kentucky, so more than likely this is where he was enslaved.
North burned in gas explosion
140 Years Ago Saturday, March 19, 1881 The steamer, U.P. Schenck, took on hay for Pate & Gregory and J.W.
Work on Dam 38 ordered closed, workers discharged
140 Years Ago Saturday, March 12, 1881 A house was moved from William Hunter’s farm to Rising Sun, Thursday, and anchored near the dwelling of James Daly, in the west end. It belongs to Mrs.
Red Cross nurse summoned to Georgia for Army hospital work
140 Years Ago Saturday, March 5, 1881 S.F. Covington has been elected president of the Cincinnati Board of Trade and Transportation.
Dearborn Countian Welles helped Navy navigate river in Civil War
At the Dearborn County Historical Society, work is progressing to recognize Lawrenceburg as part of the Underground Railroad and African American contributions in the Civil War. Noted black Civil War veterans from Dearborn County include William “Pap” Early, William Welles, George Willis, William Hobbs, and Nancy Jones served as a cook for the Union Army.
Mysteries still shroud Little Egypt
Perhaps you have heard the wonderful 1960s rock ‘n’ roll song “Little Egypt” recorded by the Coasters or even read about a famous burlesque girl with the same name Little Egypt? To your possible amazement, Harrison, Ohio, also had a “Little Egypt” but it was not a song nor a gentleman’s club dancer but an area of low land ground in the Whitewater Valley. If you travel on Kilby Road as you pass over Dry Fork Creek that is what was once known as Little Egypt.