. Book of the Royal blue . ury Town, as her real historydates from the beginning of the last century. At this time the Indians had camps onboth sides of Paint Creek, but they and thewhite settlers seem to have gotten alongvery well together, as we have no record ofany Indian troubles in Greenfield. The greatest inconvenience the earlysettlers seemed to have suffered was fromlack of grist mills, as they had to go fromthirty to fifty miles to have their grainground, over terribly bad roads which were considered a remarkably fine piece of work-manship in its day, and the facts wouldseem to warran
. Book of the Royal blue . ury Town, as her real historydates from the beginning of the last century. At this time the Indians had camps onboth sides of Paint Creek, but they and thewhite settlers seem to have gotten alongvery well together, as we have no record ofany Indian troubles in Greenfield. The greatest inconvenience the earlysettlers seemed to have suffered was fromlack of grist mills, as they had to go fromthirty to fifty miles to have their grainground, over terribly bad roads which were considered a remarkably fine piece of work-manship in its day, and the facts wouldseem to warrant this judgment, as althoughsomewhat remodeled, the house is stillstanding, to all appearances as staunch asif recently built. The early merchants of the Ohio townshad to go to Philadelphia for their stock ofgoods, the trip taking six or seven weeks,as all goods had to be transported by wagonto the Ohio River, flat-boated down to a pointopposite the inland town to which they weredestined, then again wagoned to B. * O. B. R. DEPOT AT ATHENS. not free from the dangers of the wilder-ness, and their relief must have been great,when in 1802, a grist mill was built onthe site of the present Greenfield mill stones of the original mill weremade from native boulders, and are still onthe premises. One of these stones whichare now nearly 100 years old, may be seenin the accompanying cut of the presentbuilding, leaning against the side of it. Theother lies near by. In 1811 the first stone house was builtin Greenfield. It was used as a hotel andnamed the Travelers Rest. It was With the energy which characterized theirforefathers in breaking a path through thewilderness, the second generation exertedthemselves in improving this path to accom-modate their growing necessities. On the second of May, 1851, a festivalof great rejoicing was held in was to have a railroad, and thepeople of the county turned out en masse towitness the preliminary c
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