Shirley township
JACK'S NARROWS, 1940s
Jack's Narrows in the 1940s, the same rocks, the same river, the same dramatic landscape that drew people to the valley in the first place. While the brick industry rose and fell, the Narrows stayed steady.
Photo from page_history (Facebook archive, 2016-03-14)
Nothing further from the county histories. The six histories held here end in 1913 and this story belongs to 2016, so there is no passage in them that bears on it. Rather than attach an unrelated page and let it look like corroboration, this story stands on the sources listed below.
Sources
- page_history 2016-03-14_794074750722362.jpg
- Photograph credit: Historic Mount Union Facebook page
Checked 2026-08-15 · Historic Mount Union collection
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