TABLE OF CONTENTS
FORWARD
INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER I - Settlement.
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Character of the Settlers. - Assassination of Captain Zebulon King - Famine. - Abundance of food - Two boys killed at Neal's Station - Mill on Little Hocking

CHAPTER II - Indian War 1791 - 1795
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Beginning of the War - Farmers Castle built and occupied - A list of Families and Persons in Farmers Castle.

CHAPTER III - Continued Hostilities
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Loss of Pork. - Young Men Sent to Red Stone for Provisions - John Shaw's Escape - Attack on Waldo Putnam and Nathaniel Little - Murder of Benoni Hulburt - Two letters by Mrs. Mary B. Dana.

CHAPTER IV.
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Mutual Insurance - Floating Mill - Murders at Newbury. - Scarlet Fever - Schools - Religious Services - Spies and Rangers - Small Pox.

CHAPTER V.
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Domestic Manufacturers - Experiments with Crops - Stone's and Goodale's Forts Built and Occupied - Kidnapping of Major Goodale.

CHAPTER VI.
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Amusements in Farmers Castle - Joshua Fleeharts Winter Hunt - Discovery of a Salt Spring - A Night Alarm - A Providential Escape.

CHAPTER VII
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Murder of James Armstrongs Family - Murder of James Davis - Close of the War - Return of Families to their Farms.

CHAPTER VIII
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Extracts from Lives of Early Settlers - Captain Jonathan Devol - Griffin Greene - Captain William Dana - Colonel Nathaniel Cushing - Major Jonathan Haskel - Colonel Ebenezer Battelle - Colonel Israel Putnam - Aaron Waldo Putnam - Captain Jonathan Stone - Major Nathan Goodale - Major Robert Bradford - Captain Benjamin Miles - Captain Perly Howe - Guthrie Brothers - James Knowles - Captain Eleazer Curtis - Bull Brothers - Aaron Clough - Peregrene Foster

CHAPTER IX - After the Indian War.
Conditions at that time compared with the present - Harman Blennerhassett and His Island Home.

CHAPTER X - War of 1812.
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Wolf Hunt - Agricultural Fair and Prizes - Transportation- Stock Raising and Driving - Little Hocking Bridge - Moving Captain Stones House - Mexican War - Temperance Reform.

CHAPTER XII. - Underground Railroad
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Slavery - Increasing Anti-Slavery Sentiment in the Northern States - Origin of the Term "Underground Railroad." - Passing Fugitives from Station to Station.  The Kidnapping Case in 1845 - Case of Moses Davis - Escape of Harry and his Wife - Company of Fugitives on Farm of Mr. Hovey and Their Escape - Speaker Treated to Rotten Eggs.

CHAPTER XIII - The Civil War.
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Presidential Election 1850 - Secession of States - Failure of Efforts for Pease - Aid for Soldiers.

CHAPTER XIV
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Belpre's Roll of Honor.

CHAPTER XV - After the Civil War
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Railroad Building - Village Incorporated - Suspension Bridge - Improvements.

CHAPTER XVI - Education.
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Early Schools - Belpre Academy - Belpre Seminary - High School. - First Commencement - Libraries

CHAPTER XVII - Religious History.
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Early Services - Congrationalists - Methodists - Universalists - Baptists - Colored Methodists - Roman Catholics - Girls Missionary Society - Sunday Schools - Ladies Aid - Burial of the dead.

CHAPTER XVIII - Organizations.
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Womans Reading Club - Rockland Reading Club - Belpre Historical Society

CHAPTER XIX - Fraternal Organizations.
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Early Masonic Lodge - Belpre Lodge 609 - Odd Fellows. - Colored Odd Fellows - Knights of Pythias - Little Hocking Grange

CHAPTER XX - European War.
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Brief Outline - Belpres Roll of Honor

CHAPTER XXI.
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Personal Mention - Closing Reflections

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.