Author Rachael Evelyn Booth to visit Stryker Branch Library

Meet Author Rachael Evelyn Booth, at the Stryker Branch Library on Saturday, August 25. There will be a book signing from 9:00 to 11:00 am, for Rachael’s historic book on northwest Ohio titled, The Little Port in the Corn Fields.

The Little Port in the Corn Fields chronicles the history of the small northwest Ohio milling town of Evansport, carved out of the Great Black Swamp in the early 1830s.  Founded by the Coy family of Greene County, Ohio, and Amos and Albert G. Evans, the town, almost completely surrounded by the Tiffin river, was a bustling center of commerce from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s.  Francis Llewellyn Key, cousin of the famous songwriter Francis Scott Key, owned a tobacconist shop in town, which included everything a village of its day contained - blacksmiths, haberdashers, tinsmiths, dress makers, schools, lodges, barrel-makers, the corner general store, and mills that created lumber and some of Ohio's most prized flour.  

With the advent of roads and cars, the town slowly changed into the idyllic, tiny jewel where two hundred residents still live to this day. A must read for anyone interested in small-town American history and the unbelievably hard work it took to create and maintain the town in the 19th century. The Little Port in the Corn Fields will be available to purchase at the book signing.

The Stryker Branch Library is located at 304 South Defiance Street. For more information, please contact Connie Aeschliman at 419-682-5081.