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Tales of The Old-Timers - A History of Lexington records small portions of life in Lexington, Ohio, over the last two centuries. The interesting words of early writers are used just as they put them to paper. The stories are based simply on facts dug up by the author and written down with only his own understanding of times past and the perspective of old-timers used as a guide. In some cases, information supplied from fading memories may have been embellished or remembered incorrectly by the old-timers, but it provides a rich tapestry of local Lexington history

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This place is in fact a microcosm of an American history writ large. Many of the conflicts and changes central to our history played themselves out in Lexington, from frontier strife to the many men sent off to war to disagreements over slavery to spectacular alcohol consumption in the nineteenth century that gave rise to the temperance movement to industrialization to the Great Depression to the postwar suburbanization.

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Robert A. Carter was born in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1935, and graduated from Lexington High School in 1954. Married with 5 children and 10 grandchildren, 3 great grandchildren. He currently lives in Mansfield with his wife Jackie. He is a member of the Richland County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, the Ohio Historical Society and the Society for Preservation of Old Mills (SPOOM). Since 1964 he has written six local area history books, including 1964 Lexington Sesquicentennial booklet; The Sandusky Mansfield & Newark Railroad (2002); Tom Lyons The Indian That Died 13 Times (2003); Tales of the Old-Timers - The History of Lexington (2007); The Mansfield Riots of 1900 (2009), and Water-Power Mills of Richland County (2016).As of 2023 he continues to write articles for the Tribune-Courier.

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