Norwalk, Ohio.Site of the Preston-Wickham Home where Pioneer Norwalk Newspaper was published 1836-1865. Moved and restored 1956, the building is now the Firelands Museum with historical coll… Read More

Sufferers’ Land Pioneer Heritage by Dave Barton By the mid 1850s, the ranks of the early settlers of the Firelands were becoming thin. Many of the survivors, chief among them Platt Ben… Read More

Sufferers’ Land Cholera Comes to the Firelands by Dave Barton Today, Cholera is largely unknown in this country and around the world. However, during the nineteenth century, it was an… Read More

Her hair was frizzy and unkempt, and her house slippers were ratty. Streak your beard with gold. Paint fingernails black with glitter. Wear glow-in-the-dark sunglasses from the dollar store… Read More

Norwalk, Ohio.Site of the Preston-Wickham Home, where Pioneer Norwalk newspaper was published, 1836-65. Restored building, new Firelands Museum with historic collection, now on Case Avenue a… Read More

Last Post: Devout Christian Woman, . I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. Tecumseh Warrior Son May of 1810 was momentous for David Gibbs of Norwalk, Conne… Read More

Sufferers’ Land The Huron Reflector by Dave Barton At the end of the 1820s, Samuel Preston and George Buckingham, son of Henry Buckingham, decided to start a newspaper in Norwalk. Samu… Read More