Forgotten Towns
Author | : Steve Bodkins |
Publisher | : West Virginia University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780870128226 |
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Author | : Steve Bodkins |
Publisher | : West Virginia University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780870128226 |
Author | : Henry Charlton Beck |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813510163 |
Composed, for the most part, from sketches that were published in the Courier-Post newspapers of Camden, New Jersey, Beck provides us with a series of stories of towns too tiny or uncertain for today's maps. Together, these sketches help to create a more complete picture of the history of New Jersey. A connecting skein of untold or little known wartime history--the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the conflict of North against South--runs through most of the sketches. Many of the sketches concern the pine towns and their people, "the pineys" who lived in the Jersey pine barrens.
Author | : Lisa M Russell |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2021-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 143966501X |
An archeologist reveals the mysterious world that disappeared under North Georgia’s man-made lakes in this fascinating history. North Georgia has more than forty lakes, and not one is natural. The state’s controversial decision to dam the region’s rivers for power and water supply changed the landscape forever. Lost communities, forgotten crossroads, dissolving racetracks and even entire towns disappeared, with remnants occasionally peeking up from the depths during times of extreme drought. The creation of Lake Lanier displaced more than seven hundred families. During the construction of Lake Chatuge, busloads of schoolboys were brought in to help disinter graves for the community’s cemetery relocation. Contractors clearing land for the development of Lake Hartwell met with seventy-eight-year-old Eliza Brock wielding a shotgun and warning the men off her property. Georgia historian and archeologist Lisa Russell dives into the history hidden beneath North Georgia’s lakes.
Author | : Jim Hinckley |
Publisher | : Quarto Publishing Group USA |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2011-06-09 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1610602471 |
Explore the mystery and beauty of historic ghost towns from Illinois to California with this gorgeously illustrated guide to America’s favorite highway. The quintessential boom-and-bust highway of the American West, Route 66 once hosted a thriving array of boom towns built around oil wells, railroad stops, cattle ranches, resorts, stagecoach stops, and gold mines. Join Route 66 expert Jim Hinckley as he tours more than twenty-five ghost towns, rich in stories and history, complemented by gorgeous sepia-tone and color photography by Kerrick James. Also includes directions and travel tips for your ghost-town explorations along Route 66.
Author | : Sandra Dallas |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1988-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806120843 |
Depicts the history of more than one hundred Colorado towns abandoned after the end of the mining boom
Author | : Henry Charlton Beck |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813504322 |
From Colonial days to the early 1900s, iron forges, glass plants, lumber and paper mills flourished in the New Jersey of the Pine Barrens, in old Burlington, Gloucester and Salem Counties. Around the inlets of the Atlantic shore and on Delaware Bay, whaling and shipbuilding were important industries. Times have changed. Many of the old towns have fallen into ruin or disappeared, swallowed up in the abandoned lands of South Jersey or swept away by the unrelenting tides of the Jersey coast. Henry Charlton Black, raised in Haddonfield for years, shared his endless delight in the land and the lore of South Jersey. He, like a few other devoted Jerseyans, began to hunt out in the 1930s the old sites and to record the stories handed down from generation to generation, clear back to early settlers. In this sequel to Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey, his visits to the state's early heritage - churches, villages, and roads - are continued. He explores the routes of old railroads and the tangled wilderness of the Forked River Mountains, and he tells the lost stories of forgotten glass and iron and shipbuilding villages.
Author | : Lisa M. Russell |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2016-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439658277 |
When the bustle of a city slows, towns dissolve into abandoned buildings or return to woods and crumble into the North Georgia clay. In 1832, Auraria was one of the sites of the original American gold rush. The remains of numerous towns dot the landscape - pockets of life that were lost to fire or drowned by the water of civic works projects. Cassville was a booming educational and cultural epicenter until 1864. Allatoona found its identity as a railroad town. Author and professor Lisa M. Russell unearths the forgotten towns of North Georgia.
Author | : Donald G. Shomette |
Publisher | : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 9780870335273 |
In the years between 1668 and 1751, the government of Maryland envisioned an urban development program unrivaled in scope by any other colony except Virginia. Unwilling to allow development to occur naturally, both the Lord Proprietor and the legislature tried to create towns, ignoring the social, economic, and topographic realities that would doom most of them to short lives. The background of Maryland's attempt at urbanization is complex and perplexing. It is a history laced with proclamations and laws, acts and supplementary acts, all of which flowed against the grain of rural plantation society, as time and experience eventually proved. Of the 130 sites designated in the tidewater section of the state, less than a score exist today as cities or towns of any note. The others, the majority, shared a common end--they disappeared into oblivion, destroyed by the sequence of tumultuous events that shaped Maryland's past. This is the story of ten lost towns, chosen to represent a cross section of all. Each was unique in the manner in which it was given birth, flickered into existence against all odds, matured, and finally expired. The story of Maryland's lost towns is not a simple tale of buildings and wharves, but a history of the people, both freemen and slaves, who created them, lived and worked in them, defended them, and died with them.
Author | : Barbara Solem-Stull |
Publisher | : Plexus Publishing (UK) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Automobile travel |
ISBN | : 9780937548608 |
Author | : Filip Springer |
Publisher | : Restless Books |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2017-04-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1632061163 |
Lying at the crucible of Central Europe, the Silesian village of Kupferberg suffered the violence of the Thirty Years War, the Napoleonic Wars, the World War I. After Stalin's post-World War II redrawing of Poland's borders, Kupferberg became Miedzianka, a town settled by displaced people from all over Poland and a new center of the Eastern Bloc's uranium-mining industry. Decades of neglect and environmental degradation led to the town being declared uninhabitable, and the population was evacuated. Today, it exists only in ruins, with barely a hundred people living on the unstable ground above its collapsing mines. Springer catalogs the lost human elements: the long-departed tailor and deceased shopkeeper; the parties, now silenced, that used to fill the streets with shouts and laughter, and the once-beautiful cemetery, with gravestones upended by tractors and human bones scattered by dogs. In Miedzianka, Springer sees a microcosm of European history, and a powerful narrative of how the ghosts of the past continue to haunt us in the present--Provided by the publisher.