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Total Pages : 518 pages
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Download or read book Railroad History written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aaron W. Marrs
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801898455
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Railroads in the Old South written by Aaron W. Marrs and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original history of the railroad in the Old South that challenges the accepted understanding of economic and industrial growth in antebellum America. Drawing from both familiar and overlooked sources, such as the personal diaries of Southern travelers, papers and letters from civil engineers, corporate records, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Aaron W. Marrs skillfully expands on the conventional business histories that have characterized scholarship in this field. He situates railroads in the fullness of antebellum life, examining how slavery, technology, labor, social convention, and the environment shaped their evolution. Far from seeing the Old South as backward and premodern, Marrs finds evidence of urban life, industry, and entrepreneurship throughout the region. But these signs of progress existed alongside efforts to preserve traditional ways of life. Railroads exemplified Southerners’ pursuit of progress on their own terms: developing modern transportation while retaining a conservative social order. Railroads in the Old South demonstrates that a simple approach to the Old South fails to do justice to its complexity and contradictions. “The time is right to bring the South into the story of the economic transformation of antebellum America. Aaron Marrs does this with force and grace in Railroads in the Old South.” —John L. Larson, Purdue University “I am hard pressed to think of another volume that better catches the overall effect railroads had on the Old South.” —Kenneth W. Noe, Auburn University “Interesting regional history . . . It is a thoughtful and instructive study that examines not only the pervasiveness of transportation but also some of the social, political, and economic consequences associated with the evolution of southern railroads.” —Choice
Author : H. Roger Grant
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Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Rails Through the Wiregrass written by H. Roger Grant and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Georgia & Florida Railroad began with bright promise, but like many other enterprises in the early twentieth-century South, it experienced hard times. The story begins in 1906, when--responding to a perceived need for better connections to northern markets--a group of entrepreneurs led by prominent Virginia banker John Skelton Williams began to cobble together logging short lines to create more than 350 miles of railroad connecting Augusta, Georgia, with Madison, Florida. At first the G&F triggered growth in its region as several new towns sprang up or expanded along its lines. By 1915, however, the economic dislocations caused by World War I threw the G&F into receivership, and a few years later the G&F came close to dismemberment. Fortunately, shippers and investors rallied to the railroad's cause, and business conditions improved. In 1926 the road was reorganized and, under pressure to "expand or die," built to Greenwood, South Carolina. The Great Depression forced the G&F into bankruptcy, and after its record-length receivership, it was acquired by the Southern Railway in 1963. When the Southern Railway dissolved the corporation and abandoned much of the former trackage, the G&F became the "Gone & Forgotten." Yet in its 57-year lifespan the G&F did much to bring about agricultural diversification and relative prosperity in the wiregrass region of southern Georgia and northern Florida. Offering insights on social and economic conditions in the South from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, Grant's study of this obscure yet noteworthy railroad will appeal to those interested in transportation, business, railroad, and Southern regional history.
Author : Jackson McQuigg
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738516165
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Central of Georgia Railway written by Jackson McQuigg and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized in 1833 by Savannah businessmen, the Central of Georgia Railway was chartered by the Georgia Legislature as the Central Rail Road & Canal Company. The line, connecting Savannah to the interior of the state, boosted the coastal city's seaport, which had lost business to Charleston because of the South Carolina Rail Road's inland reach. In 1843, the Central was extended from Savannah to the outskirts of Macon, and after nearly 120 years of successful operation, the Central of Georgia Railway was purchased by Southern Railway. By 1982, it became merely an accounting entry in the books of Norfolk Southern, a major transportation company.
Author : Best of Images of America
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738507514
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Atlanta written by Best of Images of America and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253006333
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Railroads and the American People written by H. Roger Grant and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railroads and the American People is a sparkling paean to American railroading by one of its finest historians.
Author : Henry Varnum Poor
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Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Manual of the Railroads of the United States for ... written by Henry Varnum Poor and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Manual of the Railroads of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 452 pages
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Download or read book Poor's Manual of Railroads written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilber W. Caldwell
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865547483
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (474 download)
Download or read book The Courthouse and the Depot written by Wilber W. Caldwell and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their songs insist that the arrival of the railroad and the appearance of the tiny depot often created such hope that it inspired the construction of the architectural extravaganzas that were the courthouses of the era. In these buildings the distorted myth of the Old South collided head-on with the equally deformed myth of the New South."
Author : Sullivan, Buddy
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439626227
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Georgia written by Sullivan, Buddy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgia: A State History, opens a window on our rich and sometimes tragic past and reveals to all of us the fascinating complexity of what it means to be a Georgian. Georgia's past has diverged from the nation's and given the state and its people a distinctive culture and character. Some of the best, and the worst, aspects of American and Southern history can be found in the story of what is arguably the most important state in the South. Yet just as clearly Georgia has not always followed the road traveled by the rest of the nation and the region. Explaining the common and divergent paths that make us who we are is one reason the Georgia Historical Society has collaborated with Buddy Sullivan and Arcadia Publishing to produce Georgia: A State History, the first full-length history of the state produced in nearly a generation. Sullivan's lively account draws upon the vast archival and photographic collections of the Georgia Historical Society to trace the development of Georgia's politics, economy, and society and relates the stories of the people, both great and small, who shaped our destiny.
Author : Michael J. Gagnon
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807145106
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Transition to an Industrial South written by Michael J. Gagnon and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned New South booster Henry Grady proposed industrialization as a basis of economic recovery for the former Confederacy. Born in 1850 in Athens, Georgia, to a family involved in the city's thriving manufacturing industries, Grady saw firsthand the potential of industrialization for the region. In Transition to an Industrial South, Michael J. Gagnon explores the creation of an industrial network in the antebellum South by focusing on the creation and expansion of cotton textile manufacture in Athens. By 1835, local entrepreneurs had built three cotton factories in Athens, started a bank, and created the Georgia Railroad. Although known best as a college town, Athens became an industrial center for Georgia in the antebellum period and maintained its stature as a factory hub even after competing cities supplanted it in the late nineteenth century. Georgia, too, remained the foremost industrial state in the South until the 1890s. Gagnon reveals the political nature of procuring manufacturing technology and building cotton mills in the South, and demonstrates the generational maturing of industrial laboring, managerial, and business classes well before the advent of the New South era. He also shows how a southern industrial society grew out of a culture of social and educational reform, economic improvements, and business interests in banking and railroading. Using Athens as a case study, Gagnon suggests that the connected networks of family, business, and financial relations provided a framework for southern industry to profit during the Civil War and served as a principal guide to prosperity in the immediate postbellum years.
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Total Pages : 2226 pages
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Download or read book Poor's Manual of the Railroads of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 2226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With an appendix containing a full analysis of the debts of the United States, the several states, municipalities etc. Also statements of street railway and traction companies, industrial corporations, etc." (statement omitted on later vols.).
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Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Stoddart's Encyclopaedia Americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Hanson
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ISBN 13 : 9781733156639
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (566 download)
Download or read book The Railroads of Georgia, 1833-2000 written by Robert Hanson and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-24 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 818 pages
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Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britanica written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 814 pages
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Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
