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Grandpa Gibson’s Letter & Early Historical Notes of Mason, IL

Grandpa Gibson’s Letter & Early Historical Notes of Mason, IL

JD Eident

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Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2013
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Historia
ISBN:
9781467572545

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The title manuscript is a letter to grandchildren of what life was like for a small-town boy in the early 1900s. The remainder of the book contains interesting historical notes of the town of Mason, Illinois, which was founded on a gentle mound of prairie at the side of the Illinois Central Railroad in that early day.

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