Author: Rufus Rockwell WilsonPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
New York: Old & New
Author: Rufus Rockwell WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
New York In Bygone Days - Its Story, Streets And Landmarks
Author: Rufus Rockwell WilsonPublisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849663043
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Verily this Island of Manhattan is exposed to the danger of being snowed under by the showers of works scattered broadcast by her chroniclers, her eulogists, and her critics. Plentiful has been the crop of local commentaries. "New York in bygone days" is a fair type of one species of these city histories. In the main it is composed of gleanings from more ponderous and elaborate works. Mr. Wilson devotes the first volume to the civic development of the city from the first settlements around the fort to the end of the Civil War. The story is fairly well told, without a single touch of originality. Nor is there evidence that the values of the secondary sources were weighed. Extracts are given from Mrs. Lamb, who certainly permitted her pen to wander into pleasant details where verification is impossible. The excuse for being of this "New York" is that the whole story is thrown together and the reader can follow the growth of modern Gotham from its Dutch origins. In the second volume the localities are described. Still some of the personal touches tacked on to places are fresh, a, for instance, a letter from Margaret Fuller when she was the guest of Horace Greeley. Of her host she says, "His abilities in his own way are great. He believes in mine to a surprising extent. We are true friends," — a sequence delightfully suggestive of a select mutual - admiration society. This edition contains both original volumes.
Richmond Hill
Author: Buddy SullivanPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738543031
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
When automotive pioneer Henry Ford burst upon the scene in 1925, Ways Station was hardly more than an assemblage of modest residences, a store or two, and a post office. Spurred by the energies and vision of Ford, an army of agricultural, industrial, medical, and educational experts from Dearborn, Michigan, transformed the area into one of the most productive, vibrant communities on the southern tidewater. Ford employed hundreds of area residents to farm 85,000 acres along the Ogeechee River. He also established sawmills, lumberyards, and agricultural experiment stations. He provided the impetus for schools and educational programs and introduced 20thcentury medicine to the area. By 1941 and the eve of World War II, Ways Station had become Richmond Hill and had attained the peak of its renewed enterprise. Since that time, the community has been called "the town Henry Ford built."
T.P.'s Weekly
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Category : British periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
section 1. Through the old city. section 2. The Common to Love lane. section 3. Bloomingdale and beyond
Author: Rufus Rockwell WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Historic New York
Author: Maud Wilder GoodwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Anonyms
Author: William CushingPublisher:
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
New York
Author: Rufus Rockwell WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Half Moon Series
Author: Maud Wilder GoodwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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