The images in this gallery are from a slide presentation compiled by the former Director of the Cedarville College Library, G. Paul Wyland, in 1960. The descriptions of each image are from the narrative that accompanied the slideshow.
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Spring Violets
At the base of the tree were spring violets. The house was originally finished in oak, black walnut, and poplar, not because it was foreseen that these woods would be fashionable many years later, but because they stood on the actual site of the dwelling, and had to be gotten out of the way to make room for it. The house at first stood in an almost unbroken forest. The lawn surrounding it has, until this day, always remained unbroken by the plow just like when the Indians rambled over it.
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Whitelaw Reid
This is Whitelaw Reid, "the scholar in politics." Author, journalist, and diplomat, he was Greene County's most distinguished citizen. He graduated from Miami University and was the recipient of honorary degrees from other universities at home and abroad. He was editor of the New York Tribune and ambassador to Great Britain. He was also republican vice presidential candidate in 1892. He was born at the Reid homestead in Cedarville township (at that time Xenia township), October 27, 1837. He died in London, England, December 15, 1912, while in the service of his country.
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Court House Clock Hands
These hands from the clock were in service forty years from 1901-1941 in the present court house. A mathematician has calculated the minute hand made 350400 revolutions. This means that the minute hand had made an extended journey of 1,725 miles.
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Greene County Today
This is typical of Greene County today. The soil is fertile, and farming and stock raising are carried on extensively. Greene County is in the center of some of the best farm land in the state of Ohio. Not only is the land fertile for the raising of crops and livestock, but as we have seen, Greene County has produced many outstanding men. Others that could be mentioned are William Dean Howells, Wilber Dick Nesbit, and Norman Vincent Peale.
