The Little Port in the Corn Fields

 
      chronicles the history of the small northwest Ohio          milling town of Evansport, carved out of the Great       Black Swamp in the early 1830s.  Founded by the Coy      family of Greene County, Ohio, and Amos and Albert     G. Evans, the town, almost completely surrounded by       the Tiffin river, was a bustling center of commerce from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s.  Francis Llewellyn Key, cousin of the famous songwriter Francis Scott Key, owned a tobacconist shop in town, which included everything a village of its day contained - blacksmiths, haberdashers, tinsmiths, dress makers, schools, lodges, barrel-makers, the corner general store, and mills that created lumber and some of Ohio's most prized flour.  
    With the advent of roads and cars, the town slowly changed into the idyllic, tiny jewel where two hundred residents still live to this day.

     The Enhanced version contains new information recently found about the town's founders, Jacob Coy and the Evans brothers, Amos and Albert G. that had been unavailable to the author at the time of the first printing as well as new pictures from the town donated by residents after the first edition.
 
    A must read for anyone interested in small-town American history and the unbelievably hard work it took to create and maintain the town in the 19th century.