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ISBN 13 : 9780965789103
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book A Guide to Historic Beaufort written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexia J. Helsley
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781540217431
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (174 download)
Download or read book A Guide to Historic Beaufort, South Carolina written by Alexia J. Helsley and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2006 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With nearly five hundred years of history, Beaufort teems with intriguing tales from the past. In this engaging book, historian and Beaufort native Alexia Helsley brings that past to life and provides a useful guide to the city's most historic streets, buildings and neighborhoods.
Author : Beaufort Historic Foundation (Beaufort, S.C.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (456 download)
Download or read book A Guide to Historic Beaufort written by Beaufort Historic Foundation (Beaufort, S.C.) and published by . This book was released on with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Historic Beaufort written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Polly Wylly Cooper
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738515229
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Beaufort written by Polly Wylly Cooper and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beaufort, South Carolina, the Palmetto State's second-oldest town, is a paradigm of the Low Country. Historic mansions overlook the bay with century-old oaks standing sentinel. Visitors to Beaufort feel right at home, and those with a love of history have a true appreciation of the area. Since its discovery by the Spaniards in the early 1500s, Beaufort has experienced numerous personalities and ways of life, from plantations to war, phosphate mining, hurricanes, and large-scale truck farming. Gullah, a culture and dialect spoken by ex-slaves and their descendants, is kept alive at Penn Center, the first school for the newly emancipated. Three military installations are here: Marine Corps Recruit Parris Island, Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, and the U.S. Naval Hospital Beaufort. Various forts, churches, and schools served the area in their specific ways. Today, some lie in ruins offering peaceful repose while others remain intact and are well preserved. Beaufort's quaint downtown is a National Historic Landmark District.
Author : George G. Trask
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ISBN 13 : 9781882943012
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Beautiful Beaufort by the Sea written by George G. Trask and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Historic Beaufort Foundation
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Official Guide to the Historic Houses, Churches and Other Points of Interests of Beaufort, South Carolina written by Historic Beaufort Foundation and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Graham Trask
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ISBN 13 : 9781882943104
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Beautiful Beaufort by the Sea Guidebook written by George Graham Trask and published by . This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The must-have guidebook to historic Beaufort, South Carolina.
Author : George Graham Trask
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ISBN 13 : 9781882943029
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Beautiful Beaufort by the Sea written by George Graham Trask and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Definitive guidebook to one of the most beautiful waterfront towns in America.
Author : Alexia Jones Helsley
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781540203656
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Beaufort, South Carolina written by Alexia Jones Helsley and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2005 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the oldest settlements in North America, Beaufort, South Carolina, can trace its roots deep into the rich history of the New World. This charming city beneath moss-draped oaks has a heritage that is as diverse as it is sweeping. This comprehensive look into Beaufort s past reveals a wide-ranging set of influences that helped to shape the island city s development. From the landing of Spanish sailors in 1514 to the influx of present-day sun seekers, Beaufort has played host to a variety of inhabitants that have each added a distinct element to its captivating milieu. Author Alexia Jones Helsley calls upon a lifetime of experience as one of South Carolina s premier archivists and historians to illuminate all aspects of Beaufort s history. Herself a native of old Beaufort and an accomplished genealogist, Helsley uses elegant, thoughtful prose to convey the duality of this Lowcountry jewel, from sparkling tides and majestic homes to hurricanes and hidden slave quarters. It is through the prism of this intriguing dual nature, present in many forms throughout Beaufort s past, that Helsley shows readers the ways in which the city fits into the history of the region, the nation and the continent. This vital text is unmatched in its ability to bring to life the fascinating story of a city nearly five hundred years in the making."
Author : Scott Huler
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307420558
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Defining the Wind written by Scott Huler and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nature, rightly questioned, never lies.” —A Manual of Scientific Enquiry, Third Edition, 1859 Scott Huler was working as a copy editor for a small publisher when he stumbled across the Beaufort Wind Scale in his Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary. It was one of those moments of discovery that writers live for. Written centuries ago, its 110 words launched Huler on a remarkable journey over land and sea into a fascinating world of explorers, mariners, scientists, and writers. After falling in love with what he decided was “the best, clearest, and most vigorous piece of descriptive writing I had ever seen,” Huler went in search of Admiral Francis Beaufort himself: hydrographer to the British Admiralty, man of science, and author—Huler assumed—of the Beaufort Wind Scale. But what Huler discovered is that the scale that carries Beaufort’s name has a long and complex evolution, and to properly understand it he had to keep reaching farther back in history, into the lives and works of figures from Daniel Defoe and Charles Darwin to Captains Bligh, of the Bounty, and Cook, of the Endeavor. As hydrographer to the British Admiralty it was Beaufort’s job to track the information that ships relied on: where to lay anchor, descriptions of ports, information about fortification, religion, and trade. But what came to fascinate Huler most about Beaufort was his obsession for observing things and communicating to others what the world looked like. Huler’s research landed him in one of the most fascinating and rich periods of history, because all around the world in the mid-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in a grand, expansive period, modern science was being invented every day. These scientific advancements encompassed not only vast leaps in understanding but also how scientific innovation was expressed and even organized, including such enduring developments as the scale Anders Celsius created to simplify how Gabriel Fahrenheit measured temperature; the French-designed metric system; and the Gregorian calendar adopted by France and Great Britain. To Huler, Beaufort came to embody that passion for scientific observation and categorization; indeed Beaufort became the great scientific networker of his time. It was he, for example, who was tapped to lead the search for a naturalist in the 1830s to accompany the crew of the Beagle; he recommended a young naturalist named Charles Darwin. Defining the Wind is a wonderfully readable, often humorous, and always rich story that is ultimately about how we observe the forces of nature and the world around us.
Author : Rick Carroll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976230915
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Beaufort-By-The-Sea written by Rick Carroll and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Willie Lee Rose
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820320618
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Rehearsal for Reconstruction written by Willie Lee Rose and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just seven months into the Civil War, a Union fleet sailed into South Carolina’s Port Royal Sound, landed a ground force, and then made its way upriver to Beaufort. Planters and farmers fled before their attackers, allowing virtually all their major possessions, including ten thousand slaves, to fall into Union hands. Rehearsal for Reconstruction, winner of the Allan Nevins Prize, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the Charles S. Sydnor Prize, is historian Willie Lee Rose’s chronicle of change in this Sea Island region from its capture in 1861 through Reconstruction. With epic sweep, Rose demonstrates how Port Royal constituted a stage upon which a dress rehearsal for the South’s postwar era was acted out.
Author : Colin Brooker
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643360728
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (433 download)
Download or read book The Shell Builders written by Colin Brooker and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beaufort, South Carolina, is well known for its historical architecture, but perhaps none is quite as remarkable as those edifices formed by tabby, sometimes called coastal concrete, comprising a mixture of lime, sand, water, and oyster shells. Tabby itself has a storied history stretching back to Iberian, Caribbean, Spanish American, and even African roots—brought to the United States by adventurers, merchants, military engineers, planters, and the enslaved. Tabby has been preserved most abundantly in the Beaufort area and its outlying islands, (and along the Sea Islands all the way to Florida as well) with Fort Frederick in 1734 having the earliest example of a diverse group of structures, which included town houses, seawalls, planters' homes, barns, agricultural buildings, and slave quarters. Tabby's insulating properties are excellent protection from long, hot, humid, and sometimes deadly summers; and on the islands, particularly, wealthy plantation owners built grand houses for themselves and improved dwellings for enslaved workers that after two hundred-plus years still stand today. An extraordinarily hardy material, tabby has a history akin to some of the world's oldest building techniques and is referred to as "rammed earth," as well as " tapia" in Spanish, "pisé de terre" in French, and "hangtu" in Chinese. The form that tabby construction took along the Sea Islands, however, was born of necessity. Here stone and brick were rare and expensive, but the oyster shells that were used as the source for the tabby's lime base were plentiful. Today these bits of shell, often visible in the walls and forms constructed long ago, give tabby its unique and iconic appearance. Colin Brooker, architect and expert on historic restoration, has not only made an exhaustive foray into local tabby architecture and heritage; he also has made a multinational tour as well in search of tabby origins, evolution, and diffusion from the Bahamas to Morocco to Andalusia, which can be traced back as far as the tenth century. Brooker has spent more than thirty years investigating the origins of tabby, its chemistry, its engineering, and its limitations. The Shell Builders lays out a sweeping, in-depth, and fascinating investigative journey—at once archaeological, sociological, and historical—into the ways prior inhabitants used and shaped their environment in order to house and protect themselves, leaving behind an architectural legacy that is both mysterious and beautiful. Lawrence S. Rowland, a distinguished professor emeritus of history at the University of South Carolina Beaufort and past president of the South Carolina Historical Society, provides a foreword.
Author : Elizabeth Norton
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445607344
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Margaret Beaufort written by Elizabeth Norton and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divorced at ten, a mother at thirteen & three times a widow. The extraordinary true story of the 'Red Queen', Lady Margaret Beaufort, matriarch of the Tudors.
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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611179084
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)
Download or read book My Exaggerated Life written by and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An oral biography that reveals the Southern author's true voice Pat Conroy's memoirs and autobiographical novels contain a great deal about his life, but there is much he hasn't revealed to readers—until now. My Exaggerated Life is the product of a special collaboration between this great American author and oral biographer Katherine Clark, who recorded two hundred hours of conversations with Conroy before he passed away in 2016. In the spring and summer of 2014, the two spoke for an hour or more on the phone every day. No subject was off limits, including aspects of his tumultuous life he had never before revealed. This oral biography presents Conroy the man, as if speaking in person, in the colloquial voice familiar to family and friends. This voice is quite different from the authorial style found in his books, which are famous for their lyricism and poetic descriptions. Here Conroy is blunt, plainspoken, and uncommonly candid. While his novels are known for their tragic elements, this volume is suffused with Conroy's sense of humor, which he credits with saving his life on several occasions. The story Conroy offers here is about surviving and overcoming the childhood abuse and trauma that marked his life. He is frank about his emotional damage—the depression, the alcoholism, the divorces, and, above all, the crippling lack of self-esteem and self-confidence. He also sheds light on the forces that saved his life from ruin. The act of writing compelled Conroy to confront the painful truths about his past, while years of therapy with a clinical psychologist helped him achieve a greater sense of self-awareness and understanding. As Conroy recounts his time in Atlanta, Rome, and San Francisco, along with his many years in Beaufort, South Carolina, he portrays a journey full of struggles and suffering that culminated ultimately in redemption and triumph. Although he gained worldwide recognition for his writing, Conroy believed his greatest achievement was in successfully carving out a life filled with family and friends, as well as love and happiness. In the end he arrived at himself and found it was a good place to be.
Author : Historic Beaufort Foundation
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ISBN 13 : 9780965789110
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Beaufort written by Historic Beaufort Foundation and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invitation to enter the historic houses of the venerable city of Beaufort, South Carolina.
