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ISBN:
Category : Prague (Neb.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Souvenir of Diamond Jubilee, 1887-1962
Dunellen
Author: John TrioloPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738591610
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
If the Elizabethtown & Somerville Railroad had not laid tracks through the area in 1840, Dunellen would not exist today. In 1867, the Central New Jersey Land Improvement Company founded Dunellen from a small slice of Piscataway. Their vision was to create a bedroom community for New York City that offered stores and services to support residents; in 1887, Dunellen was incorporated as a borough. Called the "Emerald of the Plain," Dunellen was promoted as a resort with stagecoaches taking tourists from the Railroad Depot to Washington Rock and other resort locations several times a day. By the turn of the century, Dunellen had become an industrialized community with companies specializing in steel fabrication, printing, and brick and concrete block production. Through vintage images, Dunellen chronicles the evolution of the community from its early history to today, coming full circle as a bedroom community known as "The Railroad Town."
Nebraska History
Author: Michael L. TatePublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The first systematic bibliographical tool ever assembled for the state of Nebraska.
Chicago Genealogist
Author: Outlaw Tales of the Old West: Fifty True Stories of Desperados, Crooks, Criminals, and Bandits
Author: Erin H. TurnerPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493023292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This collection of fifty outlaw tales includes well-knowns such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Frank and Jesse James, Belle Starr (and her dad), and Pancho Villa, along with a fair smattering of women, organized crime bosses, smugglers, and of course the usual suspects: highwaymen, bank and train robbers, cattle rustlers, snake-oil salesmen, and horse thieves. Men like Henry Brown and Burt Alvord worked on both sides of the law either at different times of their lives or simultaneously. Clever shyster Soapy Smith and murderer Martin Couk survived by their wits, while the outlaw careers of the dimwitted DeAutremont brothers and bigmouthed Diamondfield Jack were severely limited by their intellect, or lack thereof. Nearly everyone in these pages was motivated by greed, revenge, or a lethal mixture of the two. The most bloodthirsty of the bunch, such as the heartless (and, some might argue, soulless) Annie Cook and trigger-happy Augustine Chacón, surely had evil written into their very DNA.
Wilkinsburg
Author: Wilkinsburg Historical SocietyPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439634467
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Wilkinsburg, named for Gen. John Wilkins Jr., was incorporated as a borough in 1887. The village was founded on a 266-acre parcel purchased in 1789 by Col. Dunning McNair, who also laid the central street plan. After McNairs death in 1825, the village was purchased by James Kelly. Caring deeply about the social life of the community, Kelly donated the land for most of the schools, churches, and residences for the elderly. When Wilkinsburg was annexed by Pittsburgh in the early 1870s, Kelly financed the legal battle to have the decision reversed. Through historic photographs from the Wilkinsburg Historical Society and private collections, Wilkinsburg illustrates the development of one of the most historic communities in the region.
Canadiana
Author: The American Philatelist
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Category : Postage-stamps
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Beginning with 1894 consists mainly of the Proceedings [etc.] of the American philatelic association.
Alberta, 1954-1979
Author: Names on the Face of Montana
Author: Roberta Carkeek CheneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description