Stories & Documents
Traveling Along Stoney Battery
Charles E. Brooks is shown coming through the Civil War road, Stoney Battery, in an undated photograph. The road ran from Brunot to Patterson. Brooks […] Read More
Historical Wayne County: Traveling Along Stoney Battery
Charles E. Brooks is shown coming through the Civil War road, Stoney Battery, in an updated photograph. The road ran from Brunot to Patterson. Brooks […] Read More
Brooks and Hovis Garage in Patterson About 1930
For a number of years, the ground floor of this building in Patterson was the home of a garage and blacksmith shop, owned and operated […] Read More
Estella’s Autobiography: 1903, Childhood, Part 2
[One of my teachers at Camp Creek School was] Anna McAllister. She was a cousin of our first teacher James Wilkinson and lived in the […] Read More
Fred’s Story
No one has the privilege of choosing the time or place of his birth. Perhaps there are those who would have preferred a different time […] Read More
Estella’s Autobiography: Patterson School Days
Before going on with my story of life on the farm I must include my school days at Patterson. I started to school at six […] Read More
Estella’s Autobiography: Church
Another very early memory is Sunday school. How I loved for Sunday to come for then I could dress in my prettiest dress, and I […] Read More