I am very excited to release a project I have been working on for months: the digitization and mapping of 118 illustrations of Clinton County homes and businesses from the 1878 atlas of Clinton County. If you have never seen this atlas, the illustrations are amazingly detailed and accurately portray many farms and towns as … Continue reading 1878 Homestead Illustrations Mapped
Clinton County in The Hoosier Schoolmaster
scene from The Hoosier Schoolmaster The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life In Indiana by Edward Eggleston was published in 1871 and is set twenty years earlier. It was a hit in its day primarily for its novel use of local dialect--Eggleston complains of writers before him using New England rural colloquialisms for backwoods … Continue reading Clinton County in The Hoosier Schoolmaster