Author: Washington County Historical Association (Tenn.)
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ISBN: 9781570722028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
Book Description
A bicentennial project, this chronicle will provide readers an overview of the long and often colorful past of Tennessee’s oldest county. In addition to numerous photographs, this comprehensive county history includes information on dozens of communities, religious denominations, clubs and organizations, museums, visitor centers and recreational sites, and more than 100 notable people.
History of Washington County, Tennessee
Author: Washington County Historical Association (Tenn.)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781570722028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
Book Description
A bicentennial project, this chronicle will provide readers an overview of the long and often colorful past of Tennessee’s oldest county. In addition to numerous photographs, this comprehensive county history includes information on dozens of communities, religious denominations, clubs and organizations, museums, visitor centers and recreational sites, and more than 100 notable people.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781570722028
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
Book Description
A bicentennial project, this chronicle will provide readers an overview of the long and often colorful past of Tennessee’s oldest county. In addition to numerous photographs, this comprehensive county history includes information on dozens of communities, religious denominations, clubs and organizations, museums, visitor centers and recreational sites, and more than 100 notable people.
History of Washington County
Author: Ella Mitchell
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Washington County
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Category : Washington County (Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 47
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Category : Washington County (Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 47
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History of Fentress County, Tennessee
Author: Albert Ross Hogue
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Category : Fentress Co
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Category : Fentress Co
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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History of Washington County, Tennessee, 1988
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Category : Washington County (Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Washington County (Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation
Author: John Baker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416570330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
When John F. Baker Jr. was in the seventh grade, he saw a photograph of four former slaves in his social studies textbook—two of them were his grandmother's grandparents. He began the lifelong research project that would become The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation, the fruit of more than thirty years of archival and field research and DNA testing spanning 250 years. A descendant of Wessyngton slaves, Baker has written the most accessible and exciting work of African American history since Roots. He has not only written his own family's story but included the history of hundreds of slaves and their descendants now numbering in the thousands throughout the United States. More than one hundred rare photographs and portraits of African Americans who were slaves on the plantation bring this compelling American history to life. Founded in 1796 by Joseph Washington, a distant cousin of America's first president, Wessyngton Plantation covered 15,000 acres and held 274 slaves, whose labor made it the largest tobacco plantation in America. Atypically, the Washingtons sold only two slaves, so the slave families remained intact for generations. Many of their descendants still reside in the area surrounding the plantation. The Washington family owned the plantation until 1983; their family papers, housed at the Tennessee State Library and Archives, include birth registers from 1795 to 1860, letters, diaries, and more. Baker also conducted dozens of interviews—three of his subjects were more than one hundred years old—and discovered caches of historic photographs and paintings. A groundbreaking work of history and a deeply personal journey of discovery, The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation is an uplifting story of survival and family that gives fresh insight into the institution of slavery and its ongoing legacy today.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416570330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
When John F. Baker Jr. was in the seventh grade, he saw a photograph of four former slaves in his social studies textbook—two of them were his grandmother's grandparents. He began the lifelong research project that would become The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation, the fruit of more than thirty years of archival and field research and DNA testing spanning 250 years. A descendant of Wessyngton slaves, Baker has written the most accessible and exciting work of African American history since Roots. He has not only written his own family's story but included the history of hundreds of slaves and their descendants now numbering in the thousands throughout the United States. More than one hundred rare photographs and portraits of African Americans who were slaves on the plantation bring this compelling American history to life. Founded in 1796 by Joseph Washington, a distant cousin of America's first president, Wessyngton Plantation covered 15,000 acres and held 274 slaves, whose labor made it the largest tobacco plantation in America. Atypically, the Washingtons sold only two slaves, so the slave families remained intact for generations. Many of their descendants still reside in the area surrounding the plantation. The Washington family owned the plantation until 1983; their family papers, housed at the Tennessee State Library and Archives, include birth registers from 1795 to 1860, letters, diaries, and more. Baker also conducted dozens of interviews—three of his subjects were more than one hundred years old—and discovered caches of historic photographs and paintings. A groundbreaking work of history and a deeply personal journey of discovery, The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation is an uplifting story of survival and family that gives fresh insight into the institution of slavery and its ongoing legacy today.
History of Southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870
Author: Lewis Preston Summers
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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A History of Hickman County, Tennessee
Author: W. Jerome D. Spence
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Category : Hickman County (Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Category : Hickman County (Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Hand-Book of Tennessee
Author: Henry E. Colton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385107482
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385107482
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Washington County, Tennessee Wills, 1777-1872
Author: Golden F. Burgner
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ISBN: 9780893082857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Abstracts of original wills.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780893082857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Abstracts of original wills.