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 Michael T. Biesiada speaking at the library
on September 19, 2015

With Courage and Conviction:
Orland, Indiana and the Abolitionist Movement

Part 1: Political Change and the Struggle for Justice 1874-1855
Part 2: The Widening Division in the Ranks and the Growth
of Radicalization 1855-1861
Part 3: The Civil War and an Era of Change
Photos and maps included
By 1834, settlers from Vermont were moving into an area
west of where the Vistula Road crossed Crooked Creek.
The Vistula was an old trail that ran from what became
Toledo, Ohio, through lower southeast Michigan, and into
the far northeast corner of Indiana.