Opening paragraph..................#2

     Home to young Victoria Claflin was a wooden shack on the side of a hill in a town with one intersection in the middle of the vast state of Ohio.  If there was a world beyond the endless rolling hills and fields, it wasn't apparent.  On the south side of Homer's main street was the large and prosperous Williams Mound Farm with its stately two-story home and twenty-five-foot-high Indian burial mound in the yard.  The north side of the street was lined with many well painted storefronts as a town of fewer than three hundred could support.  And on the back side of the main street, clinging like a barnacle in the shadow of the shops and storefronts, was the Claflin residence.
Mary Gabriel,  Notorious Victoria:  The Life Of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored