The Art Of Splitting Stone Early Rock Quarrying Methods In Pre Industrial New England 1630 1825 3rd Edition

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The Art of Splitting Stone: Early Rock Quarrying Methods in Pre-Industrial New England 1630-1825 [3rd edition]

Author : Mary E. Gage
Publisher : Powwow River Books
ISBN 13 : 1733805729
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Splitting Stone: Early Rock Quarrying Methods in Pre-Industrial New England 1630-1825 [3rd edition] written by Mary E. Gage and published by Powwow River Books. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Splitting Stone is a detailed study of the history, tools, and methods used to split, hoist, and transport quarried stone in pre-industrial New England (1630-1825). It is an invaluable resource for historians, archaeologists, and stone masons interested in identifying and dating early stone splitting and quarrying methods. The amateur researcher and avid outdoors person will find the book useful as a field guide to identifying split boulders and stone quarries abandoned in the woods.

Our Hidden Landscapes

Author : Lucianne Lavin
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816550875
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Our Hidden Landscapes written by Lucianne Lavin and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The aim of this book is to introduces readers to the historic Indigenous ceremonial stone landscapes that dot the woodlands of Eastern North America, that they may be able to identify these ritual landscapes and thus help protect and preserve them for future generations"--

Root Cellars in America

Author : James E. Gage
Publisher : Powwow River Books
ISBN 13 : 0981614191
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Root Cellars in America written by James E. Gage and published by Powwow River Books. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most people, the term “root cellar” evokes an image of a brick or stone masonry subterranean structure tunneled into a hillside. These classic root cellars are only one of a number of different types of structures used to preserve root crops, vegetables and fruits over the past 400 years. The other structures include subfloor pits, cooling pits, house cellars, barn cellars, field root pits & trenches, and root houses. Root Cellars in America provides a history of all the structures, discusses their design principles, and details how they were constructed. The text is accompanied by period illustrations from the agricultural literature along with archaeological photographs. There has been a long standing debate whether the stone slab roof and corbelled beehive shaped subterranean structures in northeastern United States are root cellars or Native American ceremonial stone chambers. New research indicates some are root cellars and some are ceremonial chambers. The third edition has a new chapter exploring this topic. Detailed guidance is provided on how to distinguish the two from each other based on differences in their architectural traits.

An Uncommon Cape

Author : Eleanor Phillips Brackbill
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438443072
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book An Uncommon Cape written by Eleanor Phillips Brackbill and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three mysteries precipitate an investigation into an otherwise ordinary suburban property, revealing a past inextricably woven into four centuries of American history. When Eleanor Phillips Brackbill bought her suburban Westchester house in 2000, three mysteries came with it. First, from the former owner, came the information that the 1930s house was a Sears house or something like that. Thrilled to think it might be a Sears, Roebuck & Co. mail-order house, Brackbill was determined to find evidence to prove it. She found instead a house pedigree of a different sort. Second, and even more provocative, was the discovery of several iron stakes protruding from the propertys enormous granite outcropping, bigger in square footage than the house itself. When queried about them, the former owner told her, Someone a long time ago kept monkeys there, chained to the stakes. Monkeys? Was this some kind of suburban legend? A third mystery came to light at closing, when a building inspectors letter contained a reference to the house having had, at one time, a different address. Why would the house have had another address?Her curiosity aroused, and intent upon finding the facts, Brackbill gradually peeled back layers of history, allowing the house and the land to tell their stories, and uncovering a past inextricably woven into four centuries of American history. At the same time, she found thirty-two owners, across 350 years, who had just one thing in common: ownership of a particular parcel of land. An Uncommon Cape not only tells the story of an eight-year odyssey of fact-finding and speculation but also answers the broader question: What came before? and, through material presented in twenty-two sidebars, offers readers

America's Stonehenge Deciphered

Author : Mary E. Gage
Publisher : Powwow River Books
ISBN 13 : 097179104X
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (717 download)

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Book Synopsis America's Stonehenge Deciphered by : Mary E. Gage

Download or read book America's Stonehenge Deciphered written by Mary E. Gage and published by Powwow River Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the ancient Native Peoples, the place known to us as America's Stonehenge (Mystery Hill) was a sacred place. For 2500 years they came annually to hold ceremonies with the spirits. At first, they came on the summer solstice and then later they came for the winter solstice and spring equinox. They built ritual structures like stone chambers, cairns, drains, basins, enclosures, and standing stones as part of their ceremonial areas. As the ceremonies were altered and added to, new ceremonial structures were built to accommodate them. These structures were constructed for specific purposes, contained symbolism meaningful to their culture, and had distinct architectural styles. The result is an amazing archaeological record of the 2500 year cultural history of this sacred place.Americai's Stonehenge Deciphered explores the purpose of these structures, the ceremonies held at them, and the meaning behind the symbolism built into them. It traces how these cultural beliefs were passed from generation to generation and how they were added to and altered to meet the changing needs of their culture. What emerges from this is a profound respect for the intelligence, sophistication, and the depth of their spiritual worldview, culture, and their expertise with building stone structures.

Reading Rural Landscapes: A Field Guide to New England's Past

Author : Robert Stanford
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0884483703
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Reading Rural Landscapes: A Field Guide to New England's Past written by Robert Stanford and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Faulkner once said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Nowhere can you see the truth behind his comment more plainly than in rural New England, especially Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and western Massachusetts. Everywhere we go in rural New England, the past surrounds us. In the woods and fields and along country roads, the traces are everywhere if we know what to look for and how to interpret what we see. A patch of neglected daylilies marks a long-abandoned homestead. A grown-over cellar hole with nearby stumps and remnants of stone wall and orchard shows us where a farm has been reclaimed by forest. And a piece of a stone dam and wooden sluice mark the site of a long-gone mill. Although slumping back into the landscape, these features speak to us if we can hear them and they can guide us to ancestral homesteads and famous sites. Lavishly illustrated with drawings and color photos. Provides the keys to interpret human artifacts in fields, woods, and roadsides and to reconstruct the past from surviving clues. Perfect to carry in a backpack or glove box. A unique and valuable resource for road trips, genealogical research, naturalists, and historians.

Forthcoming Books

Author : Rose Arny
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1756 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Historical Archaeology of Virginia from Initial Settlement to the Present

Author : Clarence R. Geier
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781541023482
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (234 download)

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Book Synopsis The Historical Archaeology of Virginia from Initial Settlement to the Present by : Clarence R. Geier

Download or read book The Historical Archaeology of Virginia from Initial Settlement to the Present written by Clarence R. Geier and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book includes six chapters that cover Virginia history from initial settlement through the 20th century plus one that deals with the important role of underwater archaeology. Written by prominent archaeologists with research experience in their respective topic areas, the chapters consider important issues of Virginia history and consider how the discipline of historic archaeology has addressed them and needs to address them . Changes in research strategy over time are discussed , and recommendations are made concerning the need to recognize the diverse and often differing roles and impacts that characterized the different regions of Virginia over the course of its historic past. Significant issues in Virginia history needing greater study are identified.

Land of a Thousand Cairns

Author : Mary Gage
Publisher : Powwow River Books
ISBN 13 : 0981614124
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Land of a Thousand Cairns written by Mary Gage and published by Powwow River Books. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time of the American Revolution to the end of the 19th century, Lawton Foster Road in Hopkinton, Rhode Island was home to a small rural community. A few families eked out a living on the rocky poor soils through growing corn, rye, potatoes, apples, small scale sheep farming, and timber harvesting. Today, the land has reforested and much of it has become wildlife conservation property. These lands harbor a big mystery. Over 1500 stone structures have been found including stone cairns, three stone chambers, several serpent effigies, enclosures, niches, triangle symbolism and other odd man-made features. These are in addition to the more recognizable historic structures like house and barn foundations, stone walls, and two saw mill sites. Who built these enigmatic stone cairns? When? And for what purpose? A dedicated team composed of stone structure researchers, field documentation team, local historians, and conservation people set out to unravel this mystery through documenting the structures, researching the genealogy of the families who lived there, deed research, and analysis of the structure themselves and their relationships to each other. The results of this multi-year effort were a major surprise. The findings challenge conventional historical and archaeological assumptions about these stone structure sites.

The Coal Question

Author : William Stanley Jevons
Publisher : Pantianos Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Coal Question written by William Stanley Jevons and published by Pantianos Classics. This book was released on 1865 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction from the The Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, Senate House Library, University of London. Publisher's advertising: [2] p., 3rd count. Includes bibliographical references. Access is available to the Yale community.

A Guide to New England Stone Structures

Author : Mary E. Gage
Publisher : Powwow River Books
ISBN 13 : 0981614183
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to New England Stone Structures written by Mary E. Gage and published by Powwow River Books. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Guide to New England Stone Structures is a basic field guide to identifying the many different types of stone structures found while hiking through the forest and conservation lands in New England.

A Handbook of Stone Structures in Northeastern United States

Author : Mary Elaine Gage
Publisher : Powwow River Books
ISBN 13 : 0981614108
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook of Stone Structures in Northeastern United States written by Mary Elaine Gage and published by Powwow River Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is the first comprehensive field guide to both agricultural and Native American stone structures found throughout northeastern United States. These stone structures include stone cairns, chambers, standing stones, niches, enclosures, stone walls, foundations, wells, pedestal boulders, Manitou stones, and other structures. The handbook provides the means to identify, document, analyze, and interpret these structures.

Technics and Civilization

Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226550273
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Technics and Civilization written by Lewis Mumford and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934—before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the Industrial Revolution. Mumford sagely argued that it was the moral, economic, and political choices we made, not the machines that we used, that determined our then industrially driven economy. Equal parts powerful history and polemic criticism, Technics and Civilization was the first comprehensive attempt in English to portray the development of the machine age over the last thousand years—and to predict the pull the technological still holds over us today. “The questions posed in the first paragraph of Technics and Civilization still deserve our attention, nearly three quarters of a century after they were written.”—Journal of Technology and Culture

River of History

Author : John O. Anfinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book River of History written by John O. Anfinson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Men of Progress, Indiana

Author : William Cumback
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Men of Progress, Indiana written by William Cumback and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stories of Invention

Author : Edward Everett Hale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Stories of Invention written by Edward Everett Hale and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Root Cellars in America: Their History, Design and Construction 1609-1920

Author : James E. Gage
Publisher : Powwow River Books
ISBN 13 : 0981614167
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Root Cellars in America: Their History, Design and Construction 1609-1920 written by James E. Gage and published by Powwow River Books. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most people, the term “root cellar” evokes an image of a brick or stone masonry subterranean structure tunneled into a hillside. These classic root cellars are only one of a number of different types of structures used to preserve root crops, vegetables and fruits over the past 400 years. The other structures include subfloor pits, cooling pits, house cellars, barn cellars, field root pits & trenches, and root houses. Root Cellars in America provides a history of all the structures, discusses their design principles, and details how they were constructed. The text is accompanied by period illustrations from the agricultural literature along with archaeological photographs.