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Category : Dearborn County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1330
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History of Dearborn, Ohio and Switzerland Counties, Indiana
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Category : Dearborn County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1330
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History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana
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Category : Dearborn County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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History of Dearborn, Ohio and Switzerland Counties, Indiana
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Category : Dearborn County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
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A History of Switzerland County, Indiana
Author: Paul R. WonningPublisher: Mossy Feet Books
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Switzerland County has its origins in the original wine making Swiss immigrants that migrated into the Ohio River Valley in the early Nineteenth Century. These families were an important part of United States wine making history, as they produced the first commercial wines in the nation. New Switzerland The immigrants named their principal town Vevay, after the Swiss town from which most of them originated. The industrious settlers soon turned the hills and valleys of their new settlement, often called New Switzerland, into productive farms and vineyards. Hay Farming Blight ruined the vines and as wine making declined, Switzerland County became a major hay farming region. Hay presses turned out huge quantities of hay to feed the horses that were vital to the agriculture and transportation needs of the era. Switzerland county indiana, vevay indiana, wine making history, new switzerland, indiana history, hay farming, hay press machine
The Swiss Settlement of Switzerland County, Indiana
Author: Perret DufourHistory of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana
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Category : Dearborn County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
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Britain to America
Author: William E. Van VugtPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067570
Category : British Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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From 1820 to 1860, the United States and Great Britain were the two most closely interconnected countries in the world in terms of culture and economic growth. In an important addition to immigration history, William Van Vugt explores who came to America from Great Britain during this period and why. Disruptions and economic hardships, such as the repeal of Britain's protective Corn Laws, the potato famine, and technological displacement, do not account for the great mid-century surge of British migration to America. Rather than desperation and impoverishment, Van Vugt finds that immigrants were motivated by energy, tenacity, and ambition to improve their lives by taking advantage of opportunities in America. Drawing on county histories, passenger lists of immigrant ships, census data, and manuscript collections in Great Britain and the United States, Van Vugt sketches the lives and fortunes of dozens of immigrant farmers, miners, artisans, skilled and unskilled laborers, professionals, and religious nonconformists.
British Immigration to the United States, 1776–1914, Volume 1
Author: William E van VugtPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351222457
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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This four-volume reset edition collects immigrants' letters, immigration guides, newspaper articles, county history biographies, and promotional and advisory pamphlets published by immigrants and travellers, land and railroad companies.
British Immigration to the United States, 17761914
Author: William E Van VugtPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000192458
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1557
Book Description
This four-volume reset edition collects immigrants' letters, immigration guides, newspaper articles, county history biographies, and promotional and advisory pamphlets published by immigrants and travellers, land and railroad companies.
Ohio County, Indiana
Author: William J. DichtlPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738518831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Ohio County, the smallest county in Indiana, was carved out of Dearborn County in 1844. Colonel Abel Pepper, who oversaw the removal of the Native Americans in the 1830s, was influential in the establishment of the new county. As a citizen of Rising Sun, he and his wife donated land and money to the building of the courthouse. The courthouse, built in 1844, is the oldest courthouse in continuous use in Indiana. This photographic documentation of Ohio County, Indiana, covers the years at the close of the 1800s to the present. Rising Sun, the county's seat, was home to J.W. Whitlock, a name familiar to many raceboat fans. Included are photographs of Whitlock and his famous Hoosier Boy, the Empire House Hotel, the 1937 flood, the electric chair made by Smith Riggs, and the steamboats Cincinnati and Louisville seen daily at the turn of the twentieth century. Also featured is the Laughery Club, located on an island in the Ohio River. Though small, Ohio County could throw a big party as demonstrated by the 1940 and 1950s regattas, and the 1964 sesquicentennial of the founding of Rising Sun.