Author: Frances Elizabeth WillardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits
Author: Frances Elizabeth WillardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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A Woman of the Century
Author: Frances Elizabeth WillardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Somerset County
Author: Jaclyn LaPlacaPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738524528
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Somerset County, in the heart of Pennsylvania's Laurel Highlands, drew its first settlers from the earliest waves of western migrants. Coal miners later fueled the fires of Johnstown's, Pittsburgh's, and the nation's industry, while artists from around the world were drawn to the region's mountainous beauty. At mining's height, entire Sicilian communities moved here, along with hopeful settlers from Poland and Slovakia who also brought their heritage and pride.
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Author: John M. GreshamPublisher:
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Category : Westmoreland County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 765
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Publication
Author: The Rambo Family Tree, Volume 1
Author: Ronald S. BeattyPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1449083129
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Peter Gunnarson Rambo, son of Gunnar Petersson, was born in about 1612 in Hisingen, Sweden. He came to America in 1640 and settled in Christiana, New Sweden (now Delaware). He married Brita Mattsdotter 7 April 1647. They had eight children. He died in 1698. HIs daughter, Gertrude Rambo, was born 19 October 1650. She married Anders Bengtsson. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina and Ohio.
From Sugar Camps to Star Barns
Author: Sally Ann McMurryPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271021071
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Rural Pennsylvania's landscapes are evocative, richly textured testimonies to the lives and skills of generations of builders&—architects as well as local builders and craft workers. Farmhouses and barns, silos and fences, even field patterns attest to how residents over the years have had a sense of place that was not only functional but also comfortable and aesthetically appropriate for the time. From Sugar Camps to Star Barns tells the story of one such place, a landscape that evolved in southwestern Pennsylvania's Somerset County. Sally McMurry traces the rural life and landscape of Somerset County as it evolved from the earliest settlement days. Eighteenth-century residents were a forest people, living on sparsely built farmsteads and making free use of the heavily forested landscape. The makeshift sugar camp typified their hardscrabble lives. In the nineteenth century, the people of this area turned to farming. Prompted by the ''market revolution'' that had come to Somerset County, they pursued a highly varied agriculture, combining a subsistence base with robust production of commodities shipped to distant cities. Their landscape reflected this combination of the local and the cosmopolitan&—a combination that reached its full expression in the distinctive two-story banked farmhouse with double-decker porch, flanked by a substantial Pennsylvania barn. The twentieth century brought a more industrialized agriculture to Somerset County. But the shift to profit-and-loss farming also meant the accentuation of landscape elements specific to market products. The magnificent ''star barns'' of this era overshadowed the houses, and ancillary structures, such as ''peepy houses'' and silos, spoke to the pressures of efficiency and mass production. The subsequent rise of coal mining helped to stimulate this trend, both by supplying local markets and by creating an incentive for farmers to visually distinguish their landscapes from those of the coal-patch towns. Illustrated with over 100 photographs, maps, drawings, and diagrams, From Sugar Camps to Star Barns demonstrates how much we can learn about the economy and culture of a particular place simply by being attentive to the built landscape.
Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois
Author: Newton BatemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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American Women
Author: Frances Elizabeth WillardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and Biographical Memoirs
Author: Newton BatemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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