Wood River: Along the River Bend (Images of America) by Roxann Read

By Roxann Read

because the mid-1700s, local american citizens, pioneers, farmers, and marketers have made their domestic within the fertile plains and valleys of the Mississippi River Bend. although, it wasn't until eventually typical Oil opened its first refinery in 1908 that the cities of wooden River, Roxana, South Roxana, and Hartford have been confirmed. basically groups of refinery employees and their households, the cities thrived for many years as an inflow of refineries introduced extra paintings to the world. This number of pictures hearkens again to a time whilst there have been extra taverns than church buildings in wooden River, corporation houses covered the streets of Roxana, and a shoe manufacturing unit made its domestic in Hartford.

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