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Category : Information storage and retrieval systems
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Federal School Code List
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Category : Information storage and retrieval systems
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Red Clay, White Water & Blues
Author: Virginia Estes CauseyPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820354996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Columbus is the third-largest city in Georgia, and Red Clay, White Water, and Blues is its first comprehensive history. Virginia E. Causey documents the city's founding in 1828 and brings its story to the present, examining the economic, political, social, and cultural changes over the period. It is the first history of the city that analyzes the significant contributions of all its citizens, including African Americans, women, and the working class. Causey, who has lived and worked in Columbus for more than forty years, focuses on three defining characteristics of the city's history: the role that geography has played in its evolution, specifically its location on the Chattahoochee River along the Fall Line, making it an ideal place to establish water-powered textile mills; the fact that the control of city's affairs rested in the hands of a particular business elite; and the endemic presence of violence that left a "bloody trail" throughout local history. Causey traces the life of Columbus: its founding and early boom years; the Civil War and its aftermath; conflicts as a modern city emerged in the first half of the twentieth century; racial tension and economic decline in the mid-to-late 1900s; and rebirth and revival of the city in the twenty-first century. Peppered throughout are compelling anecdotes about the city's most colorful characters, including Sol Smith and His Dramatic Company, music phenom Blind Tom Wiggins, suffragist Augusta Howard, industrialist and philanthropist G. Gunby Jordan, peanut purveyor Tom Huston, blueswoman Ma Rainey, novelist Carson McCullers, and insurance magnate John Amos.
National field office directory
Author: United States. Federal Aviation AdministrationPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Finding-list of Books and Pamphlets Relating to Georgia and Georgians
Author: New Approaches to Housing Code Administration
Author: United States President of the United StatesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 236
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National Field Office Directory
Author: United States. Federal Aviation AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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New Approaches to Housing Code Administration
Author: Joseph S. SlavetPublisher:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Municipal Yellow Book
Author: Plant and Product Directory
Author: Bridging Deep South Rivers
Author: John S. LupoldPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820355380
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Horace King (1807-1885) built covered bridges over every large river in Georgia, Alabama, and eastern Mississippi. That King, who began life as a slave in Cheraw, South Carolina, received no formal training makes his story all the more remarkable. This is the first major biography of the gifted architect and engineer who used his skills to transcend the limits of slavery and segregation and become a successful entrepreneur and builder. John S. Lupold and Thomas L. French Jr. add considerably to our knowledge of a man whose accomplishments demand wider recognition. As a slave and then as a freedman, King built bridges, courthouses, warehouses, factories, and houses in the three-state area. The authors separate legend from facts as they carefully document King’s life in the Chattahoochee Valley on the Georgia-Alabama border. We learn about King’s freedom from slavery in 1846, his reluctant support of the Confederacy, and his two terms in Alabama’s Reconstruction legislature. In addition, the biography reveals King’s relationship with his fellow (white) contractors and investors, especially John Godwin, his master and business partner, and Robert Jemison Jr., the Alabama entrepreneur and legislator who helped secure King’s freedom. The story does not end with Horace, however, because he passed his skills on to his three sons, who also became prominent builders and businessmen. In King’s world few other blacks had his opportunities to excel. King seized on his chances and became the most celebrated bridge builder in the Deep South. The reader comes away from King’s story with respect for the man; insight into the problems of financing, building, and maintaining covered bridges; and a new sense of how essential bridges were to the southern market economy.