"In Years Gone By ... and More"
Last updated 2/22/2022 at 9:01am

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A group is working to update "In the Years Gone By," a history of the homesteading era in Simpson and Cottonwood.
In 1964, as a Centennial Project, The Cottonwood Home Demonstration Club took on a project to gather information about the early homesteading days in the Simpson and Cottonwood areas. The book was titled "In the Years Gone By." The Introduction page includes a paragraph that explains the reason for compiling the book: "With each year that passes, we lose more of the old-timers, and it was our desire to print some of the tales and woes of the early homesteaders, while there were still some among us to recall those pioneering days. For we realize that much of this information has already slip...
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