New Book Celebrates the History of New Richmond

Feb. 13, 2012 - PRLog -- New from Arcadia Publishing’s popular Images of America series is New Richmond by Cheryl Crowell. This pictorial history boasts a vast collection of vintage images and provides readers with a unique opportunity to reconnect with the history that shaped their community.

Located along the Ohio River, the villages of New Richmond and Susanna enjoyed a superior location southeast of Cincinnati with legendary economic sparring between founders. In 1828, an act of the Ohio General Assembly joined them officially as New Richmond.

In this steamboat hub and abolitionist wellspring, a riverboat captain regularly dropped off his laundry and picked up a basket of food. Dr. Rogers delivered future president Ulysses Grant. James Birney printed the Philanthropist abolitionist newspaper on Walnut Street. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s brother preached on occasion, and John Rankin was hired at Cranston Memorial to preach for two years after decades of midnight visitors.

Additionally, a freed slave ended her cross-country fundraising campaign by purchasing her mother and settling here. New Richmond also nurtured Betsy Ross’s nephew, a nationally known opera singer, an early feminist, a Hollywood screenwriter, and an accomplished composer.

Highlights of New Richmond include:
•   Area folk-lore stories and Underground Railroad activities.
•   Interesting people from New Richmond.
•   The story of what happened to local New Richmondite Charlie Wolf.
•   Historic images of what New Richmond used to look like in the “olden days.”

Cheryl Crowell holds a master’s degree in community planning focused on community assets, including area histories. She has certification in historic preservation and is prolific in research of historical architecture and genealogy. Photographs in this book are from the archives of Historic New Richmond, Clermont County Historical Society, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, Cincinnati Public Library, and individual collections.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or www.arcadiapublishing.com.

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