Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Ohio

A town once meant as many things as there were people in it

All the sounds, sights & smells you picked up along the way, piece by piece, some you wanted to save, some you’d just as soon forget.

Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th U.S. President and Union general-in-chief during the Civil War, grew up the son of an Ohio tanner.

Uncle made fun of me, so I took my bottle and hid behind the room door, and he still teased me, so I crawled under the bed and finished it!

Nannie Kelly Wright was probably the only woman ironmaster in US history. Her father helped form Cincinnati’s White Collar packet line.

The man never made any money out of the water circus. Well, I’ll tell you, he went down the river, made all the river towns aware.

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