Sources for Introduction to Knox County

First Farms in Knox County

  • Jones, Robert Leslie History of Agriculture in Ohio The Kent University Press. Kent, Ohio. 1893.
  • Welker, Martin Farm Life in Central Ohio Sixty Years Ago Clapper's Print. Wooster, Ohio. 1892.
  • quilt by Clara Bontraeger

    A Brief History of Knox County

  • Lorey, Frederick N. History of Knox County, Ohio: 1876-1976 Knox County Historical Society. Mount Vernon, Ohio. 1992.
  • Norton, A. Banning History of Knox County, Ohio Richard and Nevins Printer. Columbus, Ohio. 1862.
  • Sacks, Howard L. and Judith Rose Sacks Way up North in Dixie: A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington and London. 1993.

    Native Americans in Knox County

  • Jones, Robert Leslie History of Agriculture in Ohio The Kent University Press. Kent, Ohio. 1893.

    The First Pioneers in Knox County

  • Norton, A. Banning History of Knox County, Ohio Richard and Nevins Printer. Columbus, Ohio. 1862.
  • drawings by Lee Hall

    Charts

  • population, farmsize, acreage of farmland and number of farm data courtesy of The Ohio State University's Ohio Cooperative Extension Service -prepared by Sam Crawford


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