travel north america united states ohio solon
Solon is a city in southeastern Cuyahoga County, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, it is a part of the Cleveland metropolitan area.
In 1820, the first settlers arrived from Connecticut to live in part of the Connecticut Western Reserve.
We spent time here in 1980 researching my genealogy which included one of the first settlers.
One of my ancestors, Sanford Holmes Bishop, was an official in this town.
His relationship to the Oliver Wendell Holmes family is how the Holmes name was passed down through my family and became my middle name.
LINK TO WIKIPEDIA'S WEB PAGE ON SOLON, OHIO
LINK TO WIKIPEDIA'S WEB PAGE ON OHIO
TRAVEL: 1980...
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(images scanned from old slides)
Tombstone for Sanford Holmes and Fannie Melissa Bishop, Solon, Ohio, 1980.
Pioneers with Web Feet is a booklet published by the Solon Sesquicentennial Committee in 1970.
I was able to pick up a copy in 1980 and found that it contained references to many of my ancestral families...
Chamberlin, Cannon, Hickox, Palmer, Garfield...
A map of the original township of Solon, Ohio, highlighting some of Sanford Bishop's property, ~1857.
(Map from "Pioneers with Web Feet")
A close up detail of the map showing S. H. Bishop's property, from Pioneers wiwth Web Feet, Solon, Ohio, USA, about 1857
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