left, Looking down what is now US 42.  Christian Church on the right
right, Corner of Main and Girard, 1910

 

     

Tollgate on early highways.
A word or two on Florence Tollgates is here.

 

       

The Florence Fair

 

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"The Road just before reaching Stringtown"

 

"The Hangman's Tree"
near the intersection of what is now Camp Ernst Road and 18

 

One of Lloyd's book is about a Jewish peddler from
Florence named Felix Moses.  This is Felix Moses on his mule.

 

 

"View of Stringtown"

All of the images on this page are used through the kindness
of the Cincinnati's Lloyd Library.  They're on the web, here.

 

"View from Stringtown Pike, photographed by Mrs. J. U. L."
Name on the barrel is A. Scheben

 

 

"Stringtown on the Pike"

 

"Under the Old Locust Tree of Stringtown"
Identities of the five individuals are here



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