Author: Pleasant Daniel GoldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Volusia County (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
History of Volusia County, Florida
Author: Pleasant Daniel GoldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Volusia County (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
History of Volusia County, Florida
Author: Pleasant Daniel GoldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
History of Volusia County
Author: Pleasant D. GoldPublisher:
ISBN: 9780832870613
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Florida Agriculturist
Author: The Floridas
Author: James Grant ForbesPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021111470
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive history of Florida, from its early settlement by Native Americans to the present day. The author, James Grant Forbes, draws on a wide range of sources to offer a detailed and engaging account of the state's development. This book is an ideal resource for anyone interested in the history of Florida or the southern United States. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Haunted Deland and the Ghosts of West Volusia County
Author: Dusty SmithPublisher: History Press
ISBN: 9781596295261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Author and Haunted DeLand tour guide Dusty Smith recounts a century of ghostly history in the bustling historic community of DeLand, the Athens of Florida. Specters include those of Jeannette Barnhill, whose ghost drove her real estate mogul widower mad by standing behind him to keep a constant watch on his accounting books, and of the guest killed in the 1917 Putnam Hotel fire who leaves the smell of burnt wood and flesh in the air. Forlorn lovers Ruby and Joshua, a freed slave and a plantation foreman, and Suzanna Brown, who jumped to her death with unrequited love for a Stetson professor, are included, as well as the ghostly horse-drawn hearse that has been seen parked alongside what was once the Old Casket Company. From steamboat captains to Spiritualist camp residents, DeLand's ghosts are sure to delight visitors and residents alike in this stirring account of the area's historic haunts.
Notices of East Florida
Author: William Hayne SimmonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Webb's Historical, Industrial and Biographical Florida
Author: Wanton S. WebbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Duval County (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Descriptions of communities and businesses in Florida in 1885. Also lists names of residents during the period.
A Florida State of Mind
Author: James D. WrightPublisher: Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN: 1250185653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
A witty history of the state that's always in the news, for everything from alligator attacks to zany crimes. There's an old clip of Bugs Bunny sawing the entire state of Florida off the continent—and every single time a news story springs up about some shenanigans in Florida, someone on the internet posts it in response. Why are we so ready to wave goodbye to the Sunshine State? In A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State, James D. Wright makes the case that there are plenty of reasons to be scandalized by the land and its sometimes-kooky, sometimes-terrifying denizens, but there's also plenty of room for hilarity. Florida didn't just become weird; it's built that way. Uncharted swampland doesn't easily give way to sprawling suburbia. It took violent colonization, land scams to trick non-Floridians into buying undeveloped property, and the development of railroads to benefit one man's hotel empire. Even the most natural parts of Florida are unnatural. Florida citrus? Not from here, but from China. Gators? Oh, they're from Florida all right, but that doesn't make having 1 per every 20 humans normal. Animals...in the form of roadkill? Only Florida allows you to keep anything you kill on the road (and anything you find). Yet everyone loves Florida: tourists come in droves, and people relocate to Florida constantly (only 36% of residents were born there). Crammed with unforgettable stories and facts, Florida will show readers exactly why.
Rosa Parks
Author: Eloise GreenfieldPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0064420256
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Moment of Truth When Rosa Parks was growing up in Montgomery, Alabama, she hated the unfair rules that black people had to live by -- like drinking out of special water fountains and riding in the back of the bus. Years later, Rosa Parks changed the lives of African American in Montgomery -- and all across America -- with one courageous act. On a December evening in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. She was arrested and put in jail. But Rosa Parks fought back, along with many other African Americans. After a long struggle, their heroic efforts launched the modern Civil Rights Movement. How could one quiet, gentle woman have started it all? This is her story.