Wooster Digital History Project Team Summer 2018
Daniel Freeman's Certificate of Eligibility
Homestead National Monument of America (Neb.);
Certificate of Eligibility for Daniel Freeman, the first to file a claim under the Homestead Act. He settled in Nebraska.
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Willford’s name on the Greene Township section of the 1823 Census of Wayne County, which shows that he lived in a rural township in the County for more than twenty years before the election. Cox is not included in the census.
Courtesy of Wayne County Public Library Wiki
The Creston Milling Company was established in 1882. The mill was five stories high and was located on the south side of West Erie Street, extending to the Erie Railroad. The company manufactured roller-process flour and had a capacity of 175 barrels every twenty-four hours. In 1901, it was sold to Frank Brothers, and it became a cereal mill. In 1903 it burned to the ground, but the smoke stack (visible on the right) was not razed until 1917.
Photo Courtesy of the Wayne County Public Library
Ohio Constitution, 1803, Article VIII, Section 3
Ohio--Politics and government--1787-1865; Constitutions--United States--States; Church and state; Ohio--History--1787-1865
Excerpt from the Ohio Constitution, Article VIII, Section 3, providing for religious freedom in Ohio, but insinuating that all Ohioans should have religion and should worship the “Almighty God.”
Wooster Daily News Anti-German Propaganda
This Anti-German propaganda image was printed in the Wooster Daily News in October 1917
Wayne County Public Library Genealogy and Local History Department
Harry McClarran on Secret Societies Today
Wooster in the First World War: Letters Home
Photograph of Lieutenant Charles Palmer, American volunteer in the British Army, from Wooster High School yearbook, 1911
Wooster High School Yearbook; Wayne County Public Library Genealogy and Local History Department
Photograph of Masonic Temple in Wooster from Frontier Cornerstone.
Roberts, Allen E. Frontier Cornerstone: The Story of Freemasonry in Ohio 1790-1890. Columbus: Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Ohio, 1980.
Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Ohio
North Grant and West Liberty Interurban Car Barn, Front View
Wooster Republican Newspaper clip announcing the leasing of space so that the Interurban line could be extended to Wooster.
Wooster Republican Newspaper Clip detailing the celebrations the town entered into once the Interurban line had finished construction and the first cars arrived to town.
Scene of the old B&O passenger and freight depot which was located on Columbus Avenue. Note there are no buildings in this scene. The fairgrounds were built to the west of the depot, and today this building is used as a barbershop.
Harry McClarran, "A Glimpse From the Front Porch and a Bridge Into the Past"
Rights held by Harry McClarran. Used with Permission.
Wooster's Pennsylvania & Ohio Passenger Depot, Postcard
Colored Postcard showing old Wooster railroad depot on the Pennsylvania Railroad line, which served passenger train riders for many years until it was hit by a train and demolished. The sign tells the miles to Pittsburgh and Chicago.
Forty-two Grange members working in Grange Hall preparing chickens for the 1957 Wayne County Fair.
Wooster's Pennsylvania & Ohio Passenger Depot, 1908