An Historical Sketch of the Old Village of New Lisbon, Ohio

Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Historical Sketch of the Old Village of New Lisbon, Ohio: With Biographical Notes of Its Citizens Prominent in the Affairs of the Village, State and Nation The first white man who beheld the territory em braced within the limits of the present village of Lisbon a little more than a century ago, certainly found it pleasing to the view. A well wooded plain of considerable size at the base of a level topped. Forest covered hill 011 the north, and lying in the bend of a beautiful stream, the middle fork of the Little Beaver Creek. Which separated it from the steep pine clad hills on the west and south. With numerous springs of pure cold water and a rich soil that would produce abundant crops, while fish were plentiful in the stream and game was not scarce in the forest, all served to make it an ideal place for the home of the pioneer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.