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Posts and Content Directly from the historical source of Historic Yellow Springs. The Moore Archives is host to over 10,000 items of local historic significance.
Throwback Thursday: Making History- Faces of the 4th Pennsylvania Battalion
We Use Historical Research to Return Imagery to Lost Revolutionary Figures Setting the Scene Last week, in our Throwback Thursday post, we explored letters between…
Throwback Thursday: Letters of Persifor Frazer
While Stationed at Fort Ticonderoga, Persifor Frazer wrote to his wife Polly, and mentioned the Kennedys of Yellow Springs Page 1 of letter from Persifor…
Throwback Thursday: Letter to Johnathan Potts from John B. Cutting
Examining Our Archives Uncovers a Scan of John B. Cutting's Original Letter to Jonathan Potts What Is This? This is a photographic scan of a…
Throwback Thursday: The Old Jersey Prison Ship
Inside the Old Jersey: The Brutal Prison Ship That Held Three Young Men from Yellow Springs Last week, in our Throwback Thursday post, we examined…
Throwback Thursday: Letter for Prisoner Exchange from Sarah Kennedy
Examining Our Archives has Uncovered Letters from Sarah Kennedy, wife of Samuel Kennedy, at Yellow Springs even after his death What Is This? This is…
Throwback Thursday: A Pledge of Allegiance
Our Archives Preserves Dr. Bodo Otto and Dr. Kennedy Signing an Official Pledge to the New United States of America What Is This? Found in…
Throwback Thursday: Descendants of Two Revolutionary Nurses from Yellow Springs
An Old Book From Our Library Tells Us About The Intertwined Families of Abigail Hartman-Rice and Christina Hench Inside cover of the Annual Hench and…
Throwback Thursday: Revolutionary Food
Our Research Using a Book From the Moore Archives Library to Imagine What History Here Would've Tasted Like Interior page of The American Heritage Cookbook…
Biography of John Rose
Portrait of the Baron, later in life | public domain image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Family Background John Rose was born Gustav Heinrich de Rosenthal…
Biography of Dr. Bodo Otto Jr.
Engraving of Dr. Bodo Otto Jr. (date unknown) | image digitally clarified and enhanced Family Background Bodo Otto Jr. was born into a German medical family…
Biography of Reverend Dr. James Sproat
Engraving of Sproat (ca. 1794) | image digitally clarified and enhanced Family Background James Sproat was born into a deeply rooted New England family with…
Biography of Abigail Hartman-Rice
HYS’s artistic interpretation of what Abigail most likely looked like during 1777-1778 | Read more about the choices we made in how to depict her here! General…