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The Resource New Englanders on the Ohio frontier : the migration and settlement of Worthington, Ohio, Virginia E. McCormick and Robert W. McCormick

New Englanders on the Ohio frontier : the migration and settlement of Worthington, Ohio, Virginia E. McCormick and Robert W. McCormick

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Travelers in Worthington, Ohio, might think they were in a New England town. Old brick buildings line the very edges of the sidewalk, and a picturesque village green is flanked by two church steeples. Like most frontier communities, it reflects the heritage of its founders. In New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier, Virginia and Robert McCormick examine the founding and development of Worthington to show how it reflects New England culture transplanted and reshaped by the western frontier. The founders of Worthington left a wealth of primary sources, which the McCormicks have mined to tell the town's story. Within nine months of Ohio statehood in 1803 the settlers surveyed the town, organized a subscription library and an Episcopal Church, provided temporary housing for one hundred settlers, and granted one the right to keep a public house for the entertainment of travelers if any there should be. Within a few years Worthington had a newspaperadvertising a farm for rent with a tolerably comfortable cabin, a sotre offering European and India Goods in addition to domestic products, an academy offering students Latin, Greek, or French for $6.00 a term, and testimonials for the threshing machine, invented by a local farmer, that would thrash forty-five sheaves in five minutes. Despite Indian alarms during the War of 1812, failure to secure the seat of the state capital, and the economic depression that followed the banking collapse of 1819, Worthington prospered and grew. This case study of one community provides a perspective from which historians can better understand the process of westward migration and frontier settlement
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New Englanders on the Ohio frontier : the migration and settlement of Worthington, Ohio
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New Englanders on the Ohio frontier
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the migration and settlement of Worthington, Ohio
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Virginia E. McCormick and Robert W. McCormick
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eng
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Travelers in Worthington, Ohio, might think they were in a New England town. Old brick buildings line the very edges of the sidewalk, and a picturesque village green is flanked by two church steeples. Like most frontier communities, it reflects the heritage of its founders. In New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier, Virginia and Robert McCormick examine the founding and development of Worthington to show how it reflects New England culture transplanted and reshaped by the western frontier. The founders of Worthington left a wealth of primary sources, which the McCormicks have mined to tell the town's story. Within nine months of Ohio statehood in 1803 the settlers surveyed the town, organized a subscription library and an Episcopal Church, provided temporary housing for one hundred settlers, and granted one the right to keep a public house for the entertainment of travelers if any there should be. Within a few years Worthington had a newspaperadvertising a farm for rent with a tolerably comfortable cabin, a sotre offering European and India Goods in addition to domestic products, an academy offering students Latin, Greek, or French for $6.00 a term, and testimonials for the threshing machine, invented by a local farmer, that would thrash forty-five sheaves in five minutes. Despite Indian alarms during the War of 1812, failure to secure the seat of the state capital, and the economic depression that followed the banking collapse of 1819, Worthington prospered and grew. This case study of one community provides a perspective from which historians can better understand the process of westward migration and frontier settlement
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1934-
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McCormick, Virginia E.
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977.1/56
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F499.W92
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M384 1998
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non fiction
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  • dictionaries
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1921-
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McCormick, Robert W.
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  • Frontier and pioneer life
  • Land settlement
  • New Englanders
  • Migration, Internal
  • HISTORY
  • Frontier and pioneer life
  • Land settlement
  • Migration, Internal
  • New Englanders
  • Population
  • Worthington (Ohio)
  • New England
  • New England
  • Ohio
  • United States
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New Englanders on the Ohio frontier : the migration and settlement of Worthington, Ohio, Virginia E. McCormick and Robert W. McCormick
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-333) and index
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9781612772349
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New Englanders on the Ohio frontier : the migration and settlement of Worthington, Ohio, Virginia E. McCormick and Robert W. McCormick
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Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-333) and index
Carrier category
online resource
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  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource
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unknown
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online
Isbn
9781612772349
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unknown
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computer
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rdamedia
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  • c
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ec1f0419-41fc-4a9b-9b59-96be57e26435
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not applicable
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unknown
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction.
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unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
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  • (OCoLC)854852022
  • ocn854852022
  • 3051681
System details
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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