Author: Mildred LykePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Whiting Farm Cemetery
Author: Mildred LykePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Steuben County New York Cemeteries
Author: A Complete Listing of the Stones in the Whiting Cemetery in Whiting, Vermont
Author: Grace SimondsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Whiting Cemetery
Author: Hidden History of Martha's Vineyard
Author: Thomas DresserPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 143966028X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Celebrated local historian Thomas Dresser unearths the little-known stories that laid the foundations for the community of Martha's Vineyard. Behind the mansions and presidential vacations of Martha's Vineyard hide the lost stories and forgotten events of small-town America. What was the island's role in the Underground Railroad? Why do chickens festoon Nancy Luce's grave? And how did the people of the Vineyard react in 1923 when the rum running ship John Dwight sank with the island's supply of liquor aboard? Delve deep below the surface of history to discover the origin and meaning of local place names and the significance of beloved landmarks.
Stories Carved in Stone
Author: Rusty ClarkPublisher: Dog Pond Press
ISBN: 0975536265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The story of Holyoke, the industrial marvel of the mid-nineteenth century, begins in the small church-centered farming community at the turn of the 18th century. It wasn?t until the mid-1840s, about the time the Connecticut River Railroad was built through Ireland Parish, that the little village on the rapids began to attract the attention of outsiders. In 1848, Holyoke, with its proposed configuration of dams, canals, and mills, became the first planned industrial city in the United States. Laborers, earning eighty-five cents a day, built three dams across the rapids and excavated nearly five miles of canals. Though intended as a textile city, by 1890 there were twenty-six paper mills. As the mills proliferated, a steady source of labor was needed, and immigration began in earnest.Holyoke, Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone, takes you into Holyoke's graveyards for a look at more than two hundred and fifty years of history, and the people who lived it.This third book in the Stories Carved in Stone series completes the three-part overview of early West Springfield, Massachusetts, before Agawam and Holyoke became towns. Together they present a full picture of the gravestone carvers, the mourning practices, and the families who lived and died here. Gravestone fans and genealogists alike will find much to explore in these old cemeteries.
Annual Report
Author: Holyoke, (Mass.). Board of Water CommissionersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Stone
Author: Municipal Register ...
Author: Holyoke (Mass.)The Book of the Dead
Author: Muriel RukeyserPublisher:
ISBN: 9781946684219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays.