Voices from the Past – Volume I – Adventures in Shelby County History (Second printing)

Voices from the Past – Volume I – Adventures in Shelby County History (Second printing)

Written by: Rich Wallace
Softbound, 272 pages

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History is best understood by reliving the events through those who helped create it.  Voices from the Past takes the reader on a journey through a series of fascinating and unique adventures that highlight the history of Shelby County.

Sturdy pioneers carved a community out of what was only wilderness in the 1820s.  Stories will introduce you to some of the men and women who survived Indian attacks, build the canal, and began the cultural diversity that we enjoy today.

In Voices from the Past, you will meet the local heroes of our nation’s wars.  President Lincoln’s last surviving bodyguard lived here.  Tales about Andersonville, the infamous Civil War prison camp, will be told by the only Shelby County soldier to survive its horrors.  Learn how the 1864 Democratic candidate for Vice-President of the United States was almost assassinated in Sidney.

Shelby County’s great institutions and landmarks all have a fascinating history.  Discover what inspired the building of Children’s Home, Monumental Building, the Big Four Bridge and Bonnyconnellan Castle.

Is there a man buried in the Big Four Bridge?  Did the Cincinnati Reds really play baseball games in Sidney?  Who was the person who designed the controversial agnostic monument in Graceland Cemetery?  Was the father of astronomy in America really born here?  Whatever happened to Sidney’s world champion boxer?

Voices from the Past will lead you on these and other adventures in Shelby County History.