History Saving the Home Place: A Helping Hand from Lewisburg M Gwinn, December 29, 2025January 13, 2026 “I send enclosed a writing which if you get the heirs to sign so that I may file their answers to the bill we will save a great deal of cost.” Pull up a chair and take a look at this little piece of our local history. It’s a letter… Continue Reading
History A Seven-Dollar Handshake from 1886 M Gwinn, December 29, 2025 “The decree does direct the costs of the suit to paid out of the estate of John Gwinn to the plaintiffs Laban & Brackenridge – So I must look to you for my fees & you have recourse on the estate -“ Come on in and pull up a chair,… Continue Reading
Civil War Era A Summer Sunday in 1864: Isaac Sannan’s News from the Farm M Gwinn, December 27, 2025 “my corn is good it is over my head as I plow some is silking” Come on in and sit a spell, neighbors. I’ve found something truly special tucked away in our archives—a handwritten letter from July 1864, written by a man named Isaac Sannan in Gallia County, Ohio. Holding… Continue Reading
History A Brotherly Debt from the Winter of 1886 M Gwinn, December 27, 2025 “Your Brother Breckenridge Gwinn has paid me 1/2 ($3.72) of the fee bill of $7.45 which I hold against you – He says you must pay the other half -“ Come on in and sit a spell, because I have a little treasure to show you. It is a letter… Continue Reading
History A Helping Hand from Green Sulphur Springs M Gwinn, December 27, 2025January 4, 2026 “The record in Lewisburg shows the West line of Skiles tract 475 Poles in place of 175.” Pull up a chair, neighbors, and let’s take a little trip back to the chilly autumn of 1886. Imagine the crisp mountain air in Green Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, as Samuel Gwinn sat… Continue Reading
History A Sigh of Relief in Old Lewisburg M Gwinn, December 27, 2025 “The Circuit Court has decided in your favor: to wit: that the sale by John G. Gwinn to you was not fraudulent, and I do not see why you should not pay the purchase money to the holder of the bonds given for the place.” Pull up a chair, friends,… Continue Reading