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Languages : en
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Fairview Cemetery (Veterans).
Author: Civil War Veterans Buried in Fairview Cemetery, Pampa, Texas
Author: Stones Unturned
Author: The Blue and Gray Tour
Author: Deborah Coggins GammonPublisher:
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Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
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The Blue and Grey Tour
Author: Deborah Coggins GammonPublisher:
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Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Early History and Reminiscences of Catasauqua in Pennsylvania
Author: William H. GlacePublisher:
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Category : Catasauqua (Pa. : Borough)
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Civil War Veterans' Obituaries, Articles, Letters & Photographs
Author: Altoona
Author: David W. SeidelPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738572611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Pennsylvania Railroad was incorporated in 1846 and immediately began the task of finding an all-rail route to connect Philadelphia with Pittsburgh. The Pennsylvania Railroad surveyed possible routes and arrived on a valley floor at the base of the Allegheny Mountains in 1849 that was primarily occupied by the David Robeson farm. As people arrived for employment opportunities, the railroad company purchased the Robeson farm, laid out the plan of a town, and named it Altoona. Shops were established, and crafts were needed as locomotive and car design and building evolved, all with increasing population and prosperity. Altoona grew from farmland to 75,000 people in 75 years.
Pioneer Cemeteries
Author: Annette StottPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803216082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
As pioneers attempted to settle and civilize the ?Wild West,? cemeteries became important cultural centers. Filled with carved wooden headboards, inscribed local stones, and Italian marble statues, cemeteries functioned as symbols of stability and progress toward a European-inspired vision of Manifest Destiny. As repositories of art and history, these pioneer cemeteries tell the story of communities and visual culture emerging together within the developing landscape of the Old West. Annette Stott traces this story through Rocky Mountain towns on the western frontier, from the unkempt ?boot hills? of the early mining camps and cattle settlements to the more refined ?fair mounts.? She shows how people from Asia, Europe, and the Americas contributed to the visual character of the mountain cemeteries, and how the sepulchral garden functioned as an open-air gallery of public sculpture, at once a site for relaxation, learning, and social ritual. Here, widespread participation in a variety of ceremonies brought mountain communities together with a frequency almost unimaginable today. Illustrated with eighty-three striking photographs, this book shows how the pioneer cemetery emerged as a site of public sculpture and cultural transmission in which each carved or molded monument played dual (and sometimes conflicting) public and private roles, recording the community?s history and values while memorializing individuals and events.
Murder at the Brown Palace
Author: Dick KreckPublisher: Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN: 9781555914639
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This tragic story of a spectacular crime of passion.