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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.
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.
Painting 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 Family Background Maria Appolonia Hartman, known in adulthood as Abigail, was born on September 4,…
Biography of Rina
HYS's artistic interpretation of what Rina most likely looked like Family Background Rina was an enslaved woman whose surname, birthdate, and parentage were never recorded…
Biography of Sarah Ruston Kennedy
Signature of Sarah Kennedy | digitally clarified and enhanced Family Background Sarah Ruston Kennedy was born in 1737 in Oxford, Chester County, Pennsylvania, into the…
Biography of Dr. Bodo Otto Sr.
Painting of Dr. Bodo Otto Sr. (before 1755) | image digitally clarified and enhanced Family Background Dr. Bodo Otto was born in Hanover, Germany, in…
Biography of Dr. Samuel Kennedy
Signature of Dr. Samuel Kennedy | digitally clarified and enhanced Family Background Samuel Kennedy was born in 1731, recorded as being born at sea while…
Throwback Thursday: Making History- Winter at Washington Hall
Our Research to Imagine Key Figures from Yellow Springs' Past and Represent them to a New Audience Art Imitates Life In preparation for our upcoming…
Throwback Thursday: (Pottery) Fragments of the Past
We Identify and Date Several Pieces of Mysterious Pottery Found on the HYS Property Fragment of pottery found at Historic Yellow Springs (undated) Setting the…
Throwback Thursday: Medical Tools of the Revolution
As We Explore the Medicine of the 18th Century, The Uses of these Tools Intrigued Us Collection of medical tools from Historic Yellow Springs, replicas…
Throwback Thursday: Slipping into Slip-Trailed Redware
Could The Fragments of an Old Bowl be Connected to Life at Washington Hall? Shelves, Boxes, and Shards of the Past As we have mentioned…