East Liverpool High School - Keramos Yearbook (East Liverpool, OH)

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ilieramnu OLD HOME OF ANDREVV CARNEGIE. WEST SECOND STREET

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ilivramna 1 2 site corner. Other illustrations picture street views of the town, one being the Diamond, in days long gone by. One group shows picturesque Babb's Island and Line Islandg also i'East End,', made from photographs taken from the top of Huston's Hill, at the highest point above Reservoir No. I. Jethro Hollow Eillll the Uhio River looking west to Yel- low Creek is shown from photograph s i t rs 5 was a small, one story red brick building, and was torn down in the Fall of IQII, by order of the State In- spector of Buildings, as being unsafe and no longer habitable. It is to be re- gretted that this old landmark has been destroyed, for the walls were found to be still quite strong, and with a new roof and some repairs to the outside chim- neys, doors and window frames, it THE DIAMOND YEARS AGO taken from Lisbon Road, while a gen- eral view of East Liverpool is presented as it looks from Milligan's Hill, above Jethro. Ca1'11egie's Old H omestead. No historical sketch of East Liver- pool would be complete without refer- ence to the old home of Andrew Car- negie. The large illustration shows this old home where William P. Morris, an uncle of Andrew Carnegie, lived for many years. The illustration is from a photograph taken with Mrs. Morris, his wife, and son, Gaylor Morris, standing in the foreground. It would have been good for another hun- c'red yearsc- The illustration is from tl1e only photograph in existence show- ing this old landmark, and is loaned for this historical sketch by J. H. and Geo. C. Simms. Andrew Carnegie has never forgotten his boyhood residence in East Liver- pool, where he was a schoolmate of Col. H, R. Hill, Michael Fisher, Mrs. Susan Harker, Mrs. Esther Thomas, Daniel J. Smith and other old time residents, still living. Mr. Carnegie donated 350,000 for the erection of the Carnegie Library, opposite the present Central School building on East Fourth street, within

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lirramna 1 5 the zone where public buildings are now being grouped. Indian Rocks. This section of the Upper Ghio Valley is rich in historical lore, much of which is connected with the history of East Liverpool. Indian Rocks, located about a half mile east of the present city limits, on the north shore of the Ohio River, a short distance east of the north in his book, The Latimers, which is a tale of the Western Insurrection in 1794, generally known as the Whiskey Rebellion. Rev, McCook is a native of Lisbon, this county, and a member of the famous McCook family, noted in the history of the North West Territory and in the Civil War of 1861. The drawings picture warriors with scalp locks and totems hanging around their I 1 INDIAN ROCKs .sM1THs FERRY. PA. fork of Little Beaver Creek, was for many years the Mecca of pilgrims seek- ing historical information. Indian Rocks is a flat strata of smooth, hard stone, extending from the bank over one hundred feet under the bed of the river. They could be seen only when the river was very low, and were covered with cruile drawings in strange hieroglyphics made by ancient inhabitants, unknown relics of primitive days. One of the first writers to call public attention to the In- dian Rocks was Rev. I-Ienry C. Mc- Cook, pastor of the Chestnut Street Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Pa., necks, fishes, birds, turtles, beavers, foot prints of unknown animals, all sketched with crude implements, characterizing rude civilization. The indentations are from one-fourth to one-half inch deep and wide. The running waters and grinding ice for centuries have smoothed down the outlines, but when the photo- graph of the illustration shown here- with was taken, at low water mark, they were seemingly as sharp and clear as thev must have been a hundred years ago. They will never 'be seen again by the human eye, unless the new wicket dam, No. 8, recently erected by the Unit-