FootNote
The new kid on the block, FootNote is known for digitizing historical
documents... many of which are genealogical gems. With naturalizations,
city directories, war records, newspapers, town records, etc... this new
kid is quickly being recognized as an alternative to Ancestry.
While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Arrowsmith Township was named by the Supervisors after
Ezekiel Arrowsmith, who was the first Supervisor and one of the early
settlers. It contains thirty-six sections, being a full Congressional
township, and is known of record as Town 23 north, Range 5 east of the Third
Principal Meridian. It is almost entirely prairie, having originally about
one square mile of timber in Sections 31 and 32, where the eastern extremity
of Old Town Timber lies along the line of Arrowsmith and West, giving to
each a little patch of woodland, which was so highly prized by those who
first commenced settlement here. There was in addition a small bunch on
Section 24, " Smith's Grove." which hardly grew to the importance of being
called timber-land.
