Handbook N-P - Fulton County Public Library

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Roasted over a charcoal fire, to a crisp brittle brown, Nye’s Fresh Roasted Pea Nuts,
became famous, and remembered, to the extent that no one, since, has turned out roasted peanuts -
like Nye’s.
Two big glasses, heaping full, for five cents was the price and every day was “Circus
Day” as far as the regular daily demand was concerned.
Aside from roasting peanuts, caring for a family of four, visiting with customers
requiring special entertainment, Silas Nye found time to write poetry. His poem, “I Like Gravy on
My Tatters”, first published in The Rochester Weekly Sentinel, at that time under the editorship of
A. T. Bitters, was copied and recopied by newspapers and magazines throughout the United
States. A copyright, with royalty attached, would have bought Uncle Silas a new suit of clothes,
hat, shoes and suspenders - and enough raw peanuts for a year’s run.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, April 13, 1935]
POST OFFICE [Rochester, Indiana]
[See Rochester Post Office]
POST OFFICES
Akron
Aubbeenaubbee
Bearss
Big Foot
Bloomingsburg [Talma]
De-Or [see Lucetta]
Desolation
Fulton
Grass Creek, located in J. C. Hizer general store.
Indian Field
Lake 16 [today known as Lake Chippewa]
Leiters Ford
Lucetta (De-Or)
Owen [see Sidconger]
Richland Center
Rochester
Sidney
Sidconger (Troy; Owen)
Showley
Tiosa
Troy [see Sidconger]
POTAWATOMI/POTTAWATOMIE INDIANS [Fulton County]
See: Brackett, John E.
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When the first white settlers came to the territory which now makes up Fulton County,
they found it inhabited by the Pottawatomie Indians. They had migrated from Michigan. This land
was owned by the Miami Tribe. The Pottawatomie Indians had much to do with the early history
of Fulton County. This tribe was also very active in the French and Indian Wars.
POTTAWATTOMIE GRIST MILL [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Rochester Bands