The greatest infrastructure accomplishment of the first half of the 19th century was the rapid building of a canal system linking navigable rivers and streams
Dick Bowers lived in Minneapolis, the city of agricultural mills on the Mississippi River in southeast Minnesota. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis In October of 1911, Dick received a
Mr. Harry Rumsey lived in Rochester, the thriving industrial city on the Genesee River near Lake Ontario in western New York. The Erie Canal connected
This postcard puts us in the middle of a family drama – of which we know very little. In October of 1911, Lillian sends a
Mrs. Nellie Mattox lived in Sharon, a city on the Ohio border, in northwest Pennsylvania. Although coal-mining was the first industry in the area, Sharon
Tellings stories from the past.