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Forsyth County

Author : Annette Bramblett
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738523866
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Forsyth County written by Annette Bramblett and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The northern Georgia reaches were once home to the Cherokee Nation, who, as early as 1731, lived among the fertile lands and were linked to other native inhabitants by a meager trading path. The first European settlers and traders, arriving in 1797, introduced agriculture to the area, as families established homes and farms along the Georgia Road. Forestry thrived, necessitating mills and factories, while the poultry industry and high-quality cotton attracted waves of new settlers. The county's scenic splendor has drawn people away from urban centers, appealing to new residents and visitors with a relaxed and rural beauty. Today, Forsyth County proudly boasts of its recognized status as the nation's fastest growing county. Originally the home of significant amounts of gold, particularly through the Dahlonega Gold Belt and the Hall County Gold Belt, Forsyth County prospered as settlers quickly commanded the area. The costs may have outweighed the gains at times, however, and hardships befell the county through racial tension, economic trials, and extreme population fluctuations. Nevertheless, the county has persevered, and its people have shown both strength of character and spirit. Including new and unpublished data, this book explores the important advances in education, economy, and historic preservation in Forsyth County, as well as the tragic events related to the expulsion of the African-American population in 1912 and the Brotherhood Marches in 1987.

Plumas County

Author : Jim Young
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9780738524092
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Plumas County written by Jim Young and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expansive national forests, craggy canyons, sparkling waterways, and downy meadows of Plumas County lie along the union of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mountain ranges in northeastern California. Native home to the Maidu tribes and settled by Euro-American gold seekers, Plumas County evolved as an industrial fulcrum of the Feather River watershed and is a treasured reminder of the strength of the pioneering spirit.

The Victoria History of the Counties of England

Author : William Page
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book The Victoria History of the Counties of England written by William Page and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cape May County, New Jersey

Author : Jeffery M. Dorwart
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813517841
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Cape May County, New Jersey written by Jeffery M. Dorwart and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New settlements appeared in the pine wilderness of the mainland and on the uninhabited Atlantic Ocean barrier islands. These changes caused social and political conflicts, and new development assaulted the fragile seashore environment. Fishing and shipbuilding were key industries throughout the early history of Cape May County. In addition, familiar industries such as cranberry harvesting and nearly forgotten endeavors such as goldbeating, sugar refining, and cedar shingle mining played vital roles in the county's economic development. Dorwart also traces the origins of the seashore resort industry through the history of the city of Cape May, with its unique architectural styles and heritage, as well as the founding of Wildwood, Ocean City, and the newer resort towns.

Bertie County

Author : Arwin D. Smallwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780738523958
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book Bertie County written by Arwin D. Smallwood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of the Native American, African, and European inhabitants of Bertie County have not only shaped, but been shaped, by its landscape. One of the oldest counties in North Carolina, Bertie County lies in the western coastal plains of northeastern North Carolina, bordered to the east by Albemarle Sound and the tidewater region and to the west by the Roanoke River in the piedmont. The county's waterways and forests sustained the old Native American villages that were replaced in the eighteenth century by English plantations, cleared for the whites by African slaves. Bertie County's inhabitants successfully developed and sustained a wide variety of crops including the three sisters-corn, beans, and squash-as well as the giants: tobacco, cotton, and peanuts. The county was a leading exporter of naval stores and mineral wealth and later, a breadbasket of the Confederacy. Bertie County: An Eastern Carolina History documents the long history of the region and tells how its people, at first limited by the landscape, radically altered it to support their needs. This is the story of the Native Americans, gone from the county for 200 years but for arrowheads and other artifacts. It is the story of the African slaves and their descendants and the chronicle of their struggles through slavery, the Jim Crow era, and the Civil Rights Movement. It is also the story of the Europeans and their rush to tame the wilderness in a new land. Their entwined history is clarified in dozens of new maps created especially for this book, along with vivid illustrations of forgotten faces and moments from the past.

Camden County, New Jersey

Author : Jeffery M. Dorwart
Publisher : Springer Science & Business
ISBN 13 : 9780813529585
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Camden County, New Jersey written by Jeffery M. Dorwart and published by Springer Science & Business. This book was released on 2001 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Jeffery M. Dorwart chronicles more than three centuries of Camden County history. He takes readers on a journey, from the earliest days as a Native American settlement, to the county's important roles in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, Camden City's booms and busts, the county's increasing suburbanization, and concluding with current inner-city revitalization efforts. Dorwart details how the earliest European settlers radically changed the local Native American culture and introduced black slavery. In the Revolutionary War, the county's location directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia placed it at the crossroads of the American Revolution. Dorwart examines the county's conflicted roles during the Civil War, when the older agrarian population, which held traditional social and economic ties to the slave-owing South, clashed with the increasingly industrialized interests of the urban waterfront, which showed strong Unionist tendencies. He explores the changing demographics of the area as waves of European immigrants came to work in the factories. He surveys the rise and fall of first Camden City, then of the suburbs, as both areas experienced population ebbs and flows. Finally, Dorwart looks at the revitalization efforts of 2000 when Camden County began efforts to reinvent the riverfront community where it all began.

Farmers and Fishermen

Author : Daniel Vickers
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807839957
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Farmers and Fishermen written by Daniel Vickers and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Vickers examines the shifting labor strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string of frontier settlements to a mature society on the brink of industrialization. Lacking a means to purchase slaves or hire help, seventeenth-century settlers adapted the labor systems of Europe to cope with the shortages of capital and workers they encountered on the edge of the wilderness. As their world developed, changes in labor arrangements paved the way for the economic transformations of the nineteenth century. By reconstructing the work experiences of thousands of farmers and fishermen in eastern Massachusetts, Vickers identifies who worked for whom and under what terms. Seventeenth-century farmers, for example, maintained patriarchal control over their sons largely to assure themselves of a labor force. The first generation of fish merchants relied on a system of clientage that bound poor fishermen to deliver their hauls in exchange for goods. Toward the end of the colonial period, land scarcity forced farmers and fishermen to search for ways to support themselves through wage employment and home manufacture. Out of these adjustments, says Vickers, emerged a labor market sufficient for industrialization.

Signatures in Time

Author : Larry S. Chowning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615698595
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Signatures in Time written by Larry S. Chowning and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A People's Guide to Orange County

Author : Elaine Lewinnek
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520299957
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book A People's Guide to Orange County written by Elaine Lewinnek and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At first encounter, Orange County can resemble the incoherent sprawl that geographer James Howard Kunstler named The Geography of Nowhere: a car-dependent, seemingly bland space designed most of all for efficient capitalist consumption. But it is somewhere, too, and learning its stories helps it become more than its boosters' slogans. Writers Lisa Alvarez and Andrew Tonkovich, residents of Orange County's remote Modjeska Canyon, describe this whole county as "a much-constructed and -contrived locale, a pestered and paved landscape built and borne upon stories of human development... of destruction as well as, happily, of enduring wild places." In a similar vein, essayist D. J. Waldie, chronicler of the bordering suburb of Lakewood, asserts that "becoming Californian ... means locating yourself" in "habitats of memory" that connect ordinary, local areas with broader themes. Moving beyond sentimentality, nostalgia, and so many sales pitches that omit far too much, Waldie echoes Michel de Certeau's call to "awaken the stories that sleep in the streets." That is the goal of this book. Inspired by Laura Pulido, Laura Barraclough, and Wendy Cheng's A People's Guide to Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2012), as well as the People's Guides to Boston and San Francisco that have followed it, we offer this guidebook for locals, tourists, students, and everyone who wants to understand where they really are. This book is organized with regional chapters, sorted roughly north to south by community. Within each city, sites are listed alphabetically. After the group of entries for each city, we recommend nearby restaurants as well as other sites of interest for visitors. Readers may explore this book geographically or use the thematic tours in the appendix to consider environmental politics, Cold War legacies, the politics of housing, LGBTQ spaces, or Orange County's carceral state. The appendix also contains suggestions for teachers using this book, engaging students in cognitive mapping, close reading, popular-culture analysis, and creating additional entries of people's history. While many local histories tend to focus on a few white settlers, this book places attention on the people, especially the subaltern ones who are hierarchically under others, including workers, people of color, youth, and LGBTQ individuals. No single book can represent an entire county, so we have chosen to concentrate on the lesser-known power struggles that have happened here and influenced the landscape that we all share. We could not include everyone, of course. We are mindful that other groups are currently creating more people's history on this landscape that we hope our readers will continue to explore. In Orange County, excavating the diverse past can be frowned upon or actively repressed by those invested in selling Orange County in the style of its booster Anglo settlers from 150 years ago. This book tells the diverse political history beyond the bucolic imagery of orange-crate labels. We hope it will inspire readers to further explore Orange County and reflect on even more sites that could be included in the ordinary, extraordinary landscape here"--

Bucks County

Author : Terry A. McNealy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780910302142
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Bucks County written by Terry A. McNealy and published by . This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Visible Heritage, Columbia County, New York

Author : Ruth Piwonka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book A Visible Heritage, Columbia County, New York written by Ruth Piwonka and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Boone County, Missouri

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1216 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Boone County, Missouri written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Saline County

Author : Saline County Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258816834
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Saline County written by Saline County Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword By Scerial Thompson, Zola Y. Sloan And Alvina Shestak. Additional Contributors Include J. Ward Barnes, Talitha E. Aaron, John Foster And Others.

History of Tazewell County and Southwest Virginia

Author : William Cecil Pendleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Tazewell County and Southwest Virginia written by William Cecil Pendleton and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Lumpkin County for the First Hundred Years, 1832-1932

Author : Andrew W. Cain
Publisher : Reprint Company Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Lumpkin County for the First Hundred Years, 1832-1932 written by Andrew W. Cain and published by Reprint Company Publishers. This book was released on 1978 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The French Broad-Holston Country

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Broad-Holston Country written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Bergen County

Author : J. M. van Valen
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365490821
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book History of Bergen County written by J. M. van Valen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of Bergen County: New Jersey The History of Bergen County is now submitted to the reader for his criticism. The book has been written by a number of persons, all of them being old residents of the county and abundantly able to write on the subjects assigned them. It is for this reason the publishers somewhat confidently send the volume forth, defective though it may be in some minor particulars. The compilation of the work covers a period ol' more than two centuries. In securing facts recourse has been had to divers authorities, including histories and historical collections, implying almost an endless array of papers and documents. Public, private, social and ecclesiastical. That so much matter could be gathered from so many original sources and then sifted and assimilated for the production of one volume, with out incurring a modicum of errors and inaccuracies, would be too much to expect; but it is believed. Nevertheless, the historical value of the work has not been impaired thereby. Much credit is due to Hon. J. M. Van Valen for his editorial review, his revision having been of incalculable benefit. As to the biographical department, the work has been prepared somewhat in accordance with the idea entertained by England's greatest of historians, Macaulay, who said the history of a country is best told in the lives of the people. For this reason we have published personal sketches by the hundred, because of their historical worth, making that part of the work as exhaustive as possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.