Caesar's Creek Valley before Caesar's Creek Lake
"Historic Harveysburg" by Miss Winona McDonald (Souvenir & Home-Coming Edition of The Miami Gazette, October 1906):
http://www.mlcook.lib.oh.us/1906%20Harveysburg%20History-Miami%20Gazette.htm
posted by Karen Campbell at 11:20 AM
I am the genealogy librarian at The Mary L. Cook Public Library in Waynesville, Ohio. I am interested in all aspects of our local history but my special interest is in mid-western Quaker history and genealogy. I have authored and compiled some books: Quaker Education and Miami Valley Institute: A Hicksite Quaker College, Murder in Waynesville: The Anderson Tragedy, Obituaries and Death Notices found in the Miami-Visitor Weekly Newspaper of Waynesville, etc., and Friendly Research: An Introduction to Quaker Genealogical Research, etc. I feel that the history and legacy of The Society of Friends in this area of Ohio is interesting, significant and edifying. The history of Waynesville, Ohio is a microcosm of American history. Waynesville was a town made up of a diverse group of pioneers and its development paralleled the diversity, the struggles and the growth of the United States. I am also interested in the history and culture of other local towns, villages and hamlets in the area, for example, Harveysburg, Ohio. AND, as you can also tell from my blog, "Conversations with my Cats", I love cats!!
2 Comments:
Hi Karen,
The link to pictures prior to the lake is broken - is there an updated link? Would love to see the area prior to the lake.
Thanks
Wonderful information. The Compton family left the Bush River, M.M., South Carolina, in 1804 and settled in Caesar Creek. My 2nd great grandfather lived on the property with John Compton and his wife Jane Engle, right there on Anderson's Creek where there is now a covered bridge, shortly after 1852. My grandfather John Smedley was an escaped "mulatto" slave from Troup County, Georgia, and his biological father and slave owner, William Alexander Melton, lived near the Bush River M.M., in the 1780s.
My question is: Do you have any information about the Quakers of that area in Ohio helping slaves? This area is on the Underground Railroad and I believe that many of the African American families that settled in and around Caesar Creek were helped by the Quakers in addition to the Associate Presbyterian (Seceder) Church. I was just wondering if you knew of any Quaker families associated with actively helping, hiding, housing slaves, Etc.?
Much thanks!
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