Here is a brief rundown of some coming entertainment options in Northeast Ohio. Make submissions for consideration via email to [email protected] or entertainment@news-heral… Read More
Kirsten C. Kunkle has been praised as the “leading Native American soprano” of our times and her career has blossomed within a vast realm of creativity and advocacy. She is also… Read More
Here is a brief rundown of some coming entertainment options in Northeast Ohio. Make submissions for consideration via email to [email protected] or entertainment@news-heral… Read More
Norwalk, Ohio.First telephone installed 1877 • First electric lighting 1887 • Firelands Historical Society 1857 • National City Bank 1881 • Fair Publishing House 1880 &bu… Read More
On this date, one hundred and ten year ago, Caleb Gallup, grandson of Norwalk founder Platt and Sally Benedict, ran an article in the Norwalk Daily Reflector, requesting donations for the ne… 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
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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
End of an Era
by Dave Barton
From the time he established The Huron Reflector in 1830, Lucy Wickham’s father Samuel Preston had been senior proprietor a… Read More
Sufferers’ Land
A Terrible Tragedy
by Dave Barton
On Wednesday, August 28, 1833, less than a month after the birth of David Benedict, Lucy Preston learned that there had been a horribl… Read More
HISTORY OF THE FIRE-LANDS COMPRISING HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF SOME OF THE PROMINENT MEN AND PIONEERS
BY W.W. WILLIAMS – 1879
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The Wickham Family Burial Plot in Sodus Point, New York contains the graves of almost a dozen Wickhams to include those of William and Catherine Wickham, parents of Frederick Wickham, early… Read More