Diachronic Anthropology of the Crown of the Ohio
One Special Valley — every angle every time every person every thing
Research, images, maps, and stories from the Crown of the Ohio.
The River Hills Kilns Mills Institute™ investigates the people, places, industries, and landscapes of the Crown of the Ohio through historical research, cartography, and visual culture, and publishes them openly through the Crockery Valley Club.
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East Liverpool’s triangular Diamond belongs to a town-center naming tradition concentrated in Ulster and Pennsylvania. T.P. Calhoun’s four-page illustrated essay compares six historic maps and brings the local naming research up to date.
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“I finally figured out why it’s the Diamond”
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The valley, mapped across time.
River Miles 23–53, from Beaver and Rochester to Yellow Creek. The complete 24-page atlas brings together Charts 8–15, tributary sheets, junction overviews, and reading guides. Army Corps surveys of 1911–14, revised 1930.
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The complete one-sheet historical map set of Chester, West Virginia, May 1902.
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The complete 29-sheet historical map set of East Liverpool, Ohio, July 1913.
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The complete 25-sheet historical map set of East Liverpool, Ohio, July 1908.
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The complete 10-sheet historical map set of East Liverpool, Ohio, September 1887.
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People, places, and the pictures they left.
East Liverpool’s triangular Diamond belongs to a town-center naming tradition concentrated in Ulster and Pennsylvania. T.P. Calhoun’s four-page illustrated essay compares six historic maps and brings the local naming research up to date.
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A bicycle. A pose. A place in the yearbook. A one-page story from Wells High School’s 1941 Rhododendron, with the green-and-white photograph and a Sanborn map of the school.
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A visual and historical survey of one of the Crown of the Ohio’s enduring neighborhoods, with maps and stories from the archives.
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A life from the Crown of the Ohio: Pat Duffy and the night train.
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Crockery Valley Club Notes from the September 2026 postcard edition.
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Books & sources elsewhere
(ELO) Lincoln School’s eighth-grade class in its own words: complete original color scans, corrected text, and a linked alphabetical index of 197 people.
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A 15-page initial survey of the area’s lodges, clubs, unions, and benefit societies, produced for Peter Cartwright. A starting point for future research—everyone is welcome to use, adapt, and build on it.
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Source identification and a regional reading index for Historical Collections of Ohio.
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The complete research and reading edition, including Chester and Newell.
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A six-page report on surviving first-person accounts of travel and trade.
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A three-state research dossier on crossings and transportation systems.
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The Institute advances a diachronic understanding of the Crown of the Ohio through research, historical materials, and visual culture, and publishes these materials freely through the Crockery Valley Club.
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