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Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Fort Zachary Taylor, Key West, Florida written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike Pride
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ISBN 13 : 9781683340935
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Storm Over Key West written by Mike Pride and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few weeks after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect, James Montgomery sailed into Key West Harbor looking for black men to draft into the Union army. Eager to oblige him, the military commander in town ordered every black man from fifteen to fifty to report to the courthouse, "there to undergo a medical examination, preparatory to embarking for Hilton Head, S.C." Montgomery swept away 126 men. Storm over Key West is a little-known story woven of many threads, but its main theme is the denial to black people of the equality central to the American ideal. After the island's slaves flocked to freedom during the summer of 1862, the white majority began a century-long campaign to deny black residents civil rights, education, literacy, respect, and the vote. Key West's harbor and two major federal forts were often referred to as "America's Gibraltar." This Gibraltar guarded the Florida Straits between Key West and Cuba and thus access to the Gulf of Mexico. When Union forces seized it before the war, the southernmost point of the Confederacy slipped out of Confederate hands. This led to a naval blockade based in Key West that devastated commerce in Florida and beyond.This book is the widest-ranging narrative history to date of the military bastion in the Florida Keys.
Author : Brad Bertelli
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ISBN 13 : 9780813044521
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (445 download)
Download or read book Snorkeling the Florida Keys written by Brad Bertelli and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on 14 segments of the Florida Reef, featuring historically significant wrecks, lighthouses, state parks, etc. Provides GPS coordinates and practical travel hints.
Author : Maureen Ogle
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ISBN 13 : 9780813056470
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (564 download)
Download or read book Key West written by Maureen Ogle and published by . This book was released on 2018-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personalities and events are wrapped in Ogle's unique and candid history of Key West, an account that will fascinate past and president citizens of the Conch Republic, history buffs, and the millions of tourists who love this colorful island city. 44 photos.
Author : Arlo Haskell
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ISBN 13 : 9780984331277
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (312 download)
Download or read book The Jews of Key West written by Arlo Haskell and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Jewish Studies. History. 2017 Florida Book Award, Phillip and Dana Zimmerman Gold Medal for Florida Nonfiction. The dramatic story of South Florida's oldest Jewish community and a major addition to the history of this unique island city. Long before Miami was on the map, Key West had Florida's largest economy and an influential Jewish community. Jews who settled here as peddlers in the nineteenth century joined a bilingual and progressive city that became the launching pad for the revolution that toppled the Spanish Empire in Cuba. As dozens of local Jews collaborated with José Martí's rebels, they built relationships that supported thriving Jewish communities in Key West and Havana at the turn of the twentieth century. During the 1920s, when anti-immigration hysteria swept the United States, Key West's Jews resisted the immigration quotas and established "the southernmost terminal of the Jewish underground," smuggling Jewish aliens in small boats across the Florida Straits to safety in Key West. But these and other Jewish exploits were kept secret as Ku Klux Klan leaders infiltrated local law enforcement and government. Many Jews left Key West during the 1930s and their stories were ignored or forgotten by the mythmakers that reinvented Key West as a tourist mecca. Arlo Haskell's THE JEWS OF KEY WEST is an entertaining and authoritative account of Key West's Jewish community from 1823-1969. Illustrated with over 100 images, it brings to life a history that had long been forgotten.
Author : Todd Turrell
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ISBN 13 : 9780578609973
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Florida Keys a History Through Maps written by Todd Turrell and published by . This book was released on 2020-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of maps in the Florida Keys.
Author : Michael Bie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493001698
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book It Happened in Wisconsin written by Michael Bie and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Happened in Wisconsin takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Badger State's storied past. Including both famous tales, and famous names--and little-known heroes, heroines, and happenings.
Author : David Rike
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ISBN 13 : 9781622535606
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (356 download)
Download or read book The Holocaust Engine written by David Rike and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brain-rotting virus rages in the Florida Keys. The bewildered government destroys the mainland bridge and quarantines the islands. Soon, the population descends into chaos, as rival factions battle over dwindling resources, buildings become fortresses, boats lash together as defensible islands, and whole neighborhoods wall off into armed camps.
Author : Matthew J. Clavin
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479837334
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book The Battle of Negro Fort written by Matthew J. Clavin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of the United States’ destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish Florida In the aftermath of the War of 1812, Major General Andrew Jackson ordered a joint United States army-navy expedition into Spanish Florida to destroy a free and independent community of fugitive slaves. The result was the Battle of Negro Fort, a brutal conflict among hundreds of American troops, Indian warriors, and black rebels that culminated in the death or re-enslavement of nearly all of the fort’s inhabitants. By eliminating this refuge for fugitive slaves, the United States government closed an escape valve that African Americans had utilized for generations. At the same time, it intensified the subjugation of southern Native Americans, including the Creeks, Choctaws, and Seminoles. Still, the battle was significant for another reason as well. During its existence, Negro Fort was a powerful symbol of black freedom that subverted the racist foundations of an expanding American slave society. Its destruction reinforced the nation’s growing commitment to slavery, while illuminating the extent to which ambivalence over the institution had disappeared since the nation’s founding. Indeed, four decades after declaring that all men were created equal, the United States destroyed a fugitive slave community in a foreign territory for the first and only time in its history, which accelerated America’s transformation into a white republic. The Battle of Negro Fort places the violent expansion of slavery where it belongs, at the center of the history of the early American republic.
Author : Jefferson Beale Browne
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Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Key West written by Jefferson Beale Browne and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lynn M. Homan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738542966
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Key West and the Florida Keys written by Lynn M. Homan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of postcards captures a trip along that magical ribbon of road from the Florida mainland to the "Southernmost City" of Key West and makes for an unforgettable journey.
Author : United States. Congress
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Total Pages : 1324 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcus Varner
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1458350932
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (583 download)
Download or read book True Secrets of Key West Revealed! written by Marcus Varner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key West is a tropical island at the end of the Florida Keys. Quiet, quaint and completely bizarre. The authors of True Secrets of Key West Revealed! went to great lengths to research the hidden truths about this island paradise. In a lively question and answer format you will learn what restaurant has a graveyard in it, what has protected Key West from hurricanes since 1918 and about the crazy count who lived and slept with his dead "wife's" body...for seven years! Indexed for easy reference. You won't find a funnier or more accurate place for information about the odder side of Key West.
Author : Vivian Swift
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632860287
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Gardens of Awe and Folly written by Vivian Swift and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This delightful journal touches the heart and moves the spirit." - The Oregonian An illustrated, round-the-world tour of idiosyncratic gardens from beloved traveler/writer/watercolorist Vivian Swift. Nine masterpiece gardens. Nine stories of grandeur, sorrow, disaster, triumph, discovery, and joy. From Scotland to Key West, from Brazil to Paris--even right next door--there is always something to learn about being human from a great garden.
Author : James A. Kushlan and Kirsten Hines
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467104213
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Dry Tortugas National Park written by James A. Kushlan and Kirsten Hines and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isolated 70 miles west of Key West, the islands of Dry Tortugas National Park appear to arise as if by magic, floating atop the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Discovered by Juan Ponce de León over 500 years ago, Tortugas is North America's second-oldest persistent place name. The adjacent Florida Strait provided essential passageway for navies, ships of commerce, pirates, and privateers. Its reefs claimed hundreds of ships over the centuries. The nation's largest masonry fort, Fort Jefferson, secured Union control of the Florida Strait during the Civil War and served as the infamous prison for Dr. Samuel Mudd and other convicted Lincoln conspirators. Its waters, coral reefs, and aquatic life remain among the most biologically intact in North America. Seabird species nest here that nest nowhere else on the continent. The Tortugas has attracted generations of naturalists, scientists, fishermen, divers, birders, and other visitors. The islands and waters of the Dry Tortugas remain today remote, historic, and biologically pristine.
Author : Lucy Tobias
Publisher : Wild Florida
ISBN 13 : 9780813031743
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (317 download)
Download or read book 50 Great Walks in Florida written by Lucy Tobias and published by Wild Florida. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lucy makes my toes itch! I can't wait to get out and explore all the destinations she describes."--Sandy Huff, author of Paddler's Guide to the Sunshine State "By using modern technologies like GPS coordinates and internet resources, 50 Great Walks in Florida brings the genre of tour guides clicking and screening into the twenty-first century."--Lars Andersen, author of Payne's Prairie: A History and Guide From the deepest swamps to the most civilized sidewalks, 50 Great Walks in Florida features the best short, but significant, outdoor jaunts in the Sunshine State. Experienced tour guide Lucy Tobias fills each page with fascinating local history and vivid descriptions of the sights and sites encountered along the way. 50 Great Walks in Florida is divided by geographic regions and each section includes at least one beach or wetlands walk, a historic walk, a garden walk, a place to see wildlife, and one locale with an unusual natural feature. Included are the Vietnam Memorial, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Coca-Cola Town, Ybor City Fresh Market, John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, and even a ghost tour! Tobias recommends additional activities for each walk and offers suggestions for where to stop nearby, including local restaurants, to enhance the regional and cultural experience. This handy guide includes comprehensive locator maps, listings of trip essentials, and useful warnings about possible dangers such as poisonwood sap. These manageable walks will appeal to tourists in search of the real Florida, as well as to residents who want to become better acquainted with their state but still be done in time for lunch. Though shoes may be required, backpacks are not.
Author : Susan Cerulean
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ISBN 13 : 9780813025612
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Guide to the Great Florida Birding Trail written by Susan Cerulean and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This easy-to-follow guidebook spans 18 counties in eastern Florida to showcase 136 birding sites from the Georgia border to Lake Okeechobee, including the Jacksonville and Orlando metropolitan areas. Maps.
