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This poster for the draft for the Civil War asks for all men that are able, to come to the Wooster Courthouse for a draft for the Union army. The poster describes how many men are needed overall, and then breaks it down by county in an area of Ohio…

This image of the Creston Mill depicts not only Wayne County’s commitment to agriculture and farming, but also their commitment to the fast changing industrial world that was every present during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Creston, a…

This letter, written by Harold Freedlander of Wooster, Ohio during the four years in which he was enlisted in the Army during World War II, discusses the outcome of the 1944 election, with Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to his fourth term as…

This letter, written by Harold Freedlander of Wooster, Ohio during the four years in which he was enlisted in the Army during World War II, discusses his knowledge of what is happening back in home. Freedlander discussing the takeover of the…

This letter, written by Harold Freedlander of Wooster, Ohio during the four years in which he was enlisted in the Army during World War II, looks at why the Germans are still fighting, even when he (and he presumes the Nazis as well) know that there…

This letter written by Jessie E Pocock, a resident of Lodi, Ohio during the mid-1900s and granddaughter of a prominent abolitionist and Underground Railroad helper in Wayne County, wrote this letter to Wilbur Siebert, an Underground Railroad…

This image depicts the Ku Klux Klan marching through downtown Wooster. Segregation and overt racism is often thought to be a southern matter throughout the twentieth century, however that is not the case. By the early 1950’s, school segregation was…

This letter written by Albert McFadden, one of the first abolitionists in Wayne County and a close informant of the head of the Underground Railroad in Wayne County, to Wilbur Siebert, an Underground Railroad historian based in Columbus, Ohio,…

This image of the Ohio Salt Company in the first part of the 1930s, adds not only to the plethora of industry and other businesses that were present in Wayne County during the early portion of the twentieth century, but also shows the magnitude that…

This letter written by Robert D Davis, a rifleman and interpreter during World War II who would end his career in Wooster, Ohio depicts what Davis saw as he went to one of the concentration camps shortly following its liberation. Disturbed by the way…