From the old country to the new world, and from the mill towns of the northeast to the farmlands of the American south.
The following posting is a by-product of a project undertaken by the History Committee of the Smyrna Arts and Cultural Council in which more than 1400 historical photographs of Smyrna were gathered and topically categorized. This is the second of a series of Smyrna history photographic essays to appear on this blog, the first on …
Continue reading Smyrna Photographic Essay #2: Public Education
The community of Smyrna originated in the late 1830s with the establishment of the Smyrna Campground by the Methodists of the area. The Campground served as a gathering point for religious services in a day when preachers rode circuit owing to their limited number and distances they were obliged to travel in this sparsely settled …
Continue reading Smyrna Photographic Essay #1: Religious History/ Churches
Local Historian North & South 