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Anonymous 4n2m3l

Carillon Park owes its existence to the generosity of two public-spirited Dayton citizens, Colonel and Mrs. Edward A. Deeds. It is an expression of the interests of two people expanded for the pleasure and advancement of the entire community.The Park had its inception with the Carillon, the gift of Mrs. Deeds. Devoted to music from her girlhood, an.. 5r6o3f

Anonymous 4n2m3l

The Pioneer Home, which serves as an Information Center for Carillon Park, is believed to have been built about 1815. It was originally located in Washington Township about five miles southwest of Centerville on Social Row Road, about halfway between Sheehan Road and Yankee Street. In the spring of 1953 it was torn down and moved to Carillon Park, ..

Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq 524b24

Travels into Turkey: Containing the most accurate of the Turks, and neighbouring nations, their manners, customs, religion, superstition, policy, riches, coins, &c. The whole being a series of remarkable observations and events, interspers’d with great variety of entertaining incidents, never before printed.That he was born in Flan..

Friar Jordanus 10495d

The book itself does not add anything to our knowledge; but the observations of a traveller who resided in India so far back as the beginning of the fourteenth century must be very dull indeed if sufficient interest cannot be derived from their date to make them acceptable. Nor do I think our author is dull, whilst I regret that he is so brief, and..

George St. Clair 2y6n16

This book contains a description of some of the most important modern discoveries bearing upon the Bible, the selection being made to meet the wants of those who have no time to follow the course of exploration, and no taste for technical details. The preparation of such a volume has often been urged upon me by those who have listened to my lecture..

John Cooke 45112v

The following extracts from the journal of Captain John Cooke of the Fourth Sublegion of General Wayne’s army will be of interest to your antiquary (if Fort Wayne is old enough to boast of antiquities), since it contains the earliest market quotations of your city, notices of the first sermons preached there, etc...

E. De Mandat-Grancey 2is24

Agriculture has been subjected for some years past in all parts of Europe, and particularly in , to a crisis so intense and terrible as only to be compared to that which Italy ed through at the time when, by the extinction of piracy in the Mediterranean, the transport of grain from Egypt and Algeria to Rome became possible. The effect of ..

Winthrop Packard h3y2w

The principal street of the town runs east and west from the boat landing to the railroad station. It is laid out so wide that the wagon tracks rather get lost in it and wander uncertainly from side to side, so wide that it takes three rows of stately, moss-bearded oaks to shade it, two between the broad sidewalks and the street, a third down the m..