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By JANE EKLUND​​​​​​​

In the early part of the 19th century, young scholars had to travel to other towns – some traveled across the state – to get an education more advanced than what could be obtained in the local one-room schoolhouses.The 1830s are often described in the...

By Jane Eklund

Wild animals are frequently mentioned in the old town histories; settlers had to contend with bear and moose and wolves. Ironically, at the time many of the histories were written, those critters had been largely killed off or driven off to more...