Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North. (Rebecca Harding Davis)

Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.

Rebecca Harding Davis

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