Download or read book Sure Signs written by Howard S. Ford and published by Rooftop Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blue and gold historical markers inform travelers but only enough to pique their curiosity. In Howard Ford?s Sure Signs: Stories Behind the Historical Markers of Central New York, he relates the exploration of the French, Dutch, English, and the rebels and their battle for control of New York. He continueswith the establishment of homes and shops on the frontier; the development of roads, canals, steamboats, and railroads; frontier medicine; the origin of the Mormons, the Oneida Community, the Code of Handsome Lake, and the Chautauqua experiment; education; the long plight for women?s suffrage; and the abolition of slavery, among other stories of interest.