Ever hear of Rome Apples? Rome township is where the apples originated from. I lived just outside of Miller Ohio, between Miller and Crown City. I attended Fairland High School and would travel through Rome township going to and from school. The apples were named after the township. Do a search for Rome Apples and check out Wikipedia for more. Lora In a message dated 1/30/2010 6:08:12 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, griesantomjean@msn.com writes: Hi Viola, There is a Rome Township in Lawrence County, supposedly named because the county has numerous hills such as the seven hills of Rome. I had a number of ancestors who lived in Rome County as well. It had great farming there so close to the Ohio River. - Jean Griesan Colorado -------------------------------------------------- From: "viola seward" <lolav@arvig.net> Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 4:39 PM To: <ohlawren@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [OHLAWREN] ROME IN LAWRENCE COUTY<OHIO???? > Hello. Have heard my Richard Morrison family lived in Rome, Lawrence > county,OH. Does any one know if there is a Rome there? > Thank you. > Viola. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OHLAWREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHLAWREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

> Ever hear of Rome Apples? Rome township is where the apples originated > from. A little known fact about the Rome apple. The Ohio Cultivator: A Semi-Monthly Journal, Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and Domestic and Rural Economy published out of Columbus on Jan. 1, 1855: The Rome Beauties produced by "Capt. H. N. Gillett, of Lawrence Co... Fruit, large; form, roundish; color, rich light yellow, mostly overspread and striped with shades of clear bright red... flesh, yellow, crisp, mild, sub-acid... season October to December." The Red Rome is a much more recent addition to the world of apples, but appears to have come from Lawrence County as well. It is believed to be the offspring of the Rome Beauty, but according to the Annual Report: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Oregon Horticultural Society (1921) it says of the Red Rome, "a Rome wherein dark red would appear as the dominant color factor... in the orchard of Mr. W. T. Cox of Ohio, when the Red Rome, a product of bud variation, made it's appearance a few years ago. So far as anyone can determine, the Red Rome is merely a Rome embellished with a bright red covering." A little sleuthing on Google and I found that W.T. Cox lived in Rockwood, Ohio. So a Google search revealed that Rockwood was in Lawrence County. A search of the 1920 census and there is indeed a man W [illegible] T Cox age 53 married to Maude. He's listed of all things, Fruit farmer. <grin> So anyway, the Rome Beauty that we associate with Capt. Gillett is a yellow apple, while the Red Rome, which we now can associate with Mr. Cox, is a deep red. If this is the same W.T. Cox (and I find it hard to believe it's not) he lived in Windsor Township according to the census. So it should have been the Red Windsor. <grin> Can anyone confirm that the old town of Rockwood as in Windsor Twp? Well, that's your history lesson for today <grin> Yeah, 19th century apples are one of my favorite topics, though admittedly I never looked into the Red Rome all that much. It's later than the period that I specialize in. Linda.