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Romance of Forgotten Towns by John T. Farris 1924 HC 335 Pages 1st ED
Romance of Forgotten Towns by John T. Farris 1924 Hard Cover First Edition 1924 335 Pages EX LIBRARY BOOK
THE author has not planned to write an exhaustive book. Probably many readers will feel like asking: "Why was not the town of Blank included? It has a better story than any of those chosen for inclusion in The Romance of Forgotten Towns."
Very likely!
But the effort has been made to tell of typical communities in many states. Thus the forty-two chapters, which have to do with twenty states, tell of early colonial settlements; of struggles with the Indians; of colonies that failed because of selfish attempts at exploitation; of first ventures west of the Alleghanies; of French towns in the Mississippi Valley; of attempts made to settle colonies of foreigners; of examples of independent governments; of pioneer territorial capitals; of towns settled by faddists; of the brave attempts to develop the new West; of the days of the lumberjack, the gold-seeker, the oil-boomer, the missionary.
Whatever else the chapters may lack, surely they do not lack variety!
The author considered long the arrangement of the stories of the towns selected. They might have been arranged artificially-by states, for instance. It would have been possible to classify them in accordance with their content, as given in the preceding paragraph. But it was finally decided that the interest of readers would be better served by a chronological arrangement. This, of course, could not be more than approximate, since the history of many towns overlapped.
CONTENTS
I. THE STORY OF PEMAQUID COLONY, MAINE
II. THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF JAN1ESTOWN, VIRGINIA17
III. THE SIMPLE ANNALS OF UPTON, NEW JERSEY24
IV. THE STORY OF EBENEZER, GEORGIA 28
V. FREDERICA, GEORGIA, WHERE THE POWER OF SPAIN WAS CHECKED 35
VI. SUNBURY, GEORGIA'S LEADER IN THE FIGHT FOR LIBERTY 41
VII. THE FIRST RESIDENTS OF NEW SMYRNA, FLORIDA51
VIII. THE STORY OF BOONESBOROUGH, KENTUCKY .55
IX. WHERE TENNESSEE WAS BORN 70
X. THE ANCIENT VILLAGE OF CAHOKIA, ILLINOIS76
XI. KASKASKIA, THE ILLINOIS TOWN THAT RESTS BE- NEATH THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. . . . .81
XII. OLD FORT CHARTRES ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER 91
XIII. WITH THE MORAVIANS AT HOPE, NEW JERSEY .95
XIV. GNADENHUTTEN, OHIO, WHERE THE MORAVIANS BUILT A TOWN THAT PASSED AWAY . .99
XV. WARWICK, VIRGINIA, ONCE THE RIVAL OF RICHMOND 103
XVI. THE PASSING OF OLD GALLIPOLIS, OHIO .107
XVII. IN THE DAYS OF THE ASYLUM, PENNSYLVANIA, REFUGE 118
XVIII. THE STORY OF THE TRANS-OCONEE REPUBLIC 130
XIX. THE TOWN OF A RUSSIAN PRINCE IN THE MOUNTAINS OF PENNSYLVANIA 134
XX. THE TRAGIC STORY OF INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA 139
XXI. ST. STEPHENS, FIRST CAPITAL OF AIABAMA .144
XXII. ON THE NATCHEZ TRACE IN MISSISSIPPI . . . I52
XXIII. CORYDON, THE TERRITORIAL CAPITAL OF INDIANA I57
XXIV. THE STORY OF NEW HARMONY, INDIANA . . . 164
XXV. THE MISSION OF ALBION, ILLINOIS 179
XXVI. WITH THE FRENCH REFUGEES AT DEMOPOLIS, ALABAMA 191
XXVII. ON THE BANKS OF THE WABASH AND ITS TRIBUTARIES 196
XXVIII. ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S NEW SALEM, ILLINOIS 208
XXIX. SIX STIRRING YEARS AT NAUVOO, ILLINOIS . 211
XXX. THE KINGDOM OF BEAVER ISLAND, MICHIGAN222
XXXI. HORACE GREELEY'S EXPERIMENT IN PIKE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA 225.
XXXII. NEWPORT, WISCONSIN, AND ITS FATE. 234
XXXIII. BELMONT, WISCONSIN'S FIRST CAPITAL . .239
XXXIV. THE TRAGEDY OF RICHLAND CITY, WISCONSIN . 244
XXXV. WHEN WESTPORT, MISSOURI, WAS MIGHTY . . 252
XXXVI. How WAI-I-LAT-PU, WASHINGTON, PLAYED ITS PART FOR AMERICA 257
XXXVII. ROUGH AND READY'S LEGACY TO CALIFORNIA . 272
XXXVIII. WHERE OLE BULL FOUNDED A COLONY IN PENNSYLVANIA 282
XXXIX. IN KANSAS, WHERE OLD TOWNS WERE PLENTIFUL 289
XL. PITHOLE Cm, PENNSYLVANIA-OIL TOWN OF 1865 305
XLI. TOWNS THAT WERE MURDERED 311
XLII. AN ARKANSAS EPIC 320
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