Tom O'Grady will present a program on W.E. Peters at Amesville Senior Center on January 24th1/20/2023 About W.E. PetersTrained as an engineer, William E. Peters (1857–1952) first inhabited the Southeast Ohio region while helping construct railroads during the 1880s. He was then appointed Athens County surveyor, and later worked as an attorney specializing in local property law. His contributions to local historical records include a number of works and a manuscript collection that is housed in Alden Library.nter for Archives One of the most utilized and valued resources found within the Peters Papers are his Range Books, a 26-volume scrapbook series that documents unique and historic features of Athens County. Over the years, patron requests for information and reproduced images have included those of the National Park Service, while others have used photographic details found in the Range Books to successfully list properties in the National Register of Historic Places.
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