History
Built in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the businesses in Sheelytown developed to serve the needs of local residents as the community grew.
Read more about this topic: Vinton Street Commercial Historic District
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““And now this is the way in which the history of your former life has reached my ears!” As he said this he held out in his hand the fatal letter.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)