Sheffield Village
Sheffield Village

Author: Charles E. Herdendorf

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738583334

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The Village of Sheffield was founded on the Lake Erie plain and a sandy ridge of glacial Lake Warren. Black River and French Creek course through rich farmlands, once home to Archaic and Woodland Indians. Originally surveyed as Township 7 of Range 17 in the Connecticut Western Reserve, hearty pioneers arrived here in 1815 from the Berkshire Mountains of New England, naming their settlement Sheffield after their Massachusetts town. In the mid-1800s, another wave of immigrants arrived from Bavaria, adding cultural richness to the community. In 1894, industrialist Tom Johnson constructed giant steel mills on the west side of the river, and Sheffield Village eventually broke away, choosing to retain its agrarian identity. Today Sheffield Village is in transition to a modern residential/commercial community but keeps much of its natural character by virtue of parklands along stream valleys. Fortunately, fine examples of homestead architecture have been preserved throughout the village.

History of the Archdiocese of St. Louis
History of the Archdiocese of St. Louis

Author: John Ernest Rothensteiner

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 950

ISBN-13:

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The archdiocese comprises the Missouri counties of Lincoln, Warren, Franklin, Washington, St. Francois, St. Genevieve, Perry, St. Charles & St. Louis.

The Negro in Virginia
The Negro in Virginia

Author:

Publisher: Blair

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780895871190

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Slavery is as basic a part of Virginia history as George Washington, who was accompanied at Valley Forge and Yorktown by his slave William Lee, and Thomas Jefferson, who directed his slaves to cut 30 feet off a mountaintop for the site of Monticello. Slavery in the Old Dominion began in 1619, when a Spanish frigate was captured and its cargo of Negroes brought to Jamestown. Virginia Negroes experienced slavery as field laborers, as skilled craftsmen, as house servants. In 1935, the Virginia Writers' Project began collecting data for a history of Negroes in the Old Dominion through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Depression. Published in 1940 as "The Negro in Virginia", it was regarded as a "classic of its kind." Modern readers will be surprised at how relevant it remains today. -- From publisher's description.