| Preface. | [3] |
| Background History, | [4] |
| "Old Squatters". | [4] |
| Pioneer History | 6 |
| The Swamp Creek Settlement. | 6 |
| The Earlier Arrivals of Pioneer Settlers. | 6 |
| A Connecting Link,-- Dr. J. P. Gordon. | 13 |
| Merchants, Tradesmaen and Physicians. | 14 |
| Dr. J. C. Williamson. | 15 |
| The Early Village Merchants. | 17 |
| The Village's Primitive Tradesmen. | 17 |
| Early Schools in the Village. | 18 |
| The Meteoric Display of 1833 And Incidents. | 19 |
| Village Schoolhouses. | 19 |
| The Coming of the "Bee Line" Railway. | 20 |
| A Red-Ribbon Day. | 21 |
| The Pioneer Trail Resumed. | 23 |
| "Fiddling" Currency Money. | 26 |
| The Pioneer Trail Resumed. | 27 |
| Improvement of Speculators Lands. | 34 |
| Speculators' and Pasture Lands, Etc. | 36 |
| Occupants of the School Lands. | 37 |
| Death's First Pioneer Advent. | 42 |
| Another Old Relict. | 42 |
| The German Trail Resumed. | 43 |
| The Old Trail Again. | 44 |
| The Baptists and the Christian Primitive Church. | 47 |
| Onward the Old Pioneer Trail Goes. | 49 |
| Viewing the Old Hills and Vales. | 53 |
| The Primeval Forest. | 53 |
| The Then and The Now--A Contrast. | 55 |
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