Volume 3

Containers:

Box 1, Folder 1

Scope and content:

February 7, 1873: "Black people all gone to the railroad from Bridgewater."

March 8, 1873: "2 droves of cattle and 2 droves of sheep went through our town this evening. . . The black presiding elder's name is Harst."

March 9, 1873: "Singing by Professor Wartman at 10 o'clock."

March 10, 1873: "All the black boys from Bridgewater went to the railroad."

March 26, 1873: "A drove of cattle and hogs went through out town today-up the country."

March 27, 1873: "All the colored people gone to the railroad."

April 22, 1873 : "There are 11 preachers in town."

April 27, 1873: "Baptism by Immersion in the River near the Bridge."

May 12, 1873: "A drove of cattle went through our town to the mountains."

May 15, 1873: "A drove of cattle gone through our town to the mountains."

May 18, 1873: "Hattie Dinkel and Frank Perry baptized."

May 28, 1873: "Shifflet killed a black man dead in his tracks on the railroad between Sangersville and Harrisonburg."

June-August, 1873:[A lot of talk about many people being in town looking for work on the railroad and how much work was being done; a lot of railroad business.]

June 22, 1873: "Preaching by Reverend Nihiser."

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