Richard Warren Sears: founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company Susan Coleman Fennell Contributor Few people realize that Richard W. Sears, founder of the Sears and Roebuck financial empire, played a significant role…
Category: History
James Tucker and the wreck of the Madison
By Cole Davis Riverbend News It’s no secret that the Suwannee River has fostered plenty intriguing stories over its long history. For years, the tale of the piratical Lafitte Brothers of New…
Stephen Foster, the Suwannee River and the Erasure of Americana
By Cole Davis Riverbend News The tune is as popular as the river is travelled. Stephen Foster’s 1851 “Old Folks at Home” or “Suwannee River” (as it is more colloquially known today)…
What’s in a name? Lafayette County
By Cole Davis Riverbend News When one thinks of counties in North Florida that have to be pronounced correctly to be considered, a local one thinks of Lafayette County. In fact, the…