Richmond

by Kirk W. House

Overview

Through the centuries, Richmond soil has supported everything from forest to farms to fairways. Long ago, textile mills were strung along the waterways and more than a dozen one-room schools dotted the landscape. In Richmond, rediscover those bygone places and other cherished scenes: country churches, farm boys, mill employees, state road crews with their horses, ladies in elegant hats, small-town doctors hurrying out in early automobiles, and Richmond boys in baseball and army uniforms. Meet schoolteacher Florence Richmond, legislator Lucy Rawlings Tootel, Civil War veteran David Kenyon, historian Eleanor Smith, and clothier Chet Sherman. Explore the villages of Carolina, Usquepaugh, Tug Hollow, Arcadia, Hillsdale, Wyoming, Alton, Woodville, and Wood River Junction. These people and places make Richmond a rural treasure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738549026
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	05/16/2007
Series:	Images of America Series
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Kirk W. House's earliest memories are of growing up in Richmond on Route 138 in the village of Wyoming. A graduate of Chariho High School and Rhode Island College, he has also published Hopkinton and several aviation titles with Arcadia Publishing. He is a member of the Richmond Historical Society and the Hopkinton Historical Association.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     6
Introduction     7
People Power     9
Town Around     33
Work Days     53
High Ways     85
School Days     99
Children's Hour     119