“Pop” Ferree’s Workbooks
The Bridgeville Area Historical Society recently acquired a curious set of workbooks with no record of their donor nor any explanation of their origin. I was able to borrow the first one in the series and have enjoyed going through it. The worksheets are 8” by 10 ½”, some typed, some filled with meticulous hand calculations, and some containing scaled plots of land surveys. Each book has a return address label on it, giving the name of Joseph A. Ferree and his address on Chestnut Street. Book One is entitled “Bridgeville, 1786 – 1846. There are more than three hundred…