Sufferers’ Land
Women’s Life on the Frontier
by Dave Barton
Life on the frontier was not easy, but Sally and the rest of the Benedicts, like most settler families, adapted well… Read More
Sufferers’ Land
Social Life on the Frontier
by Dave Barton
Communal projects were often social occasions, as a settler described in later years. In the early settlement of the country… 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
Last Reunion of the Pioneers
by Dave Barton
The Fourth of July 1857 was a Saturday. From all over Erie and Huron counties, people gathered for the reunion, an assembly… Read More