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White Mountains of Apache County - Bok av Catherine H Ellis & D L Turner - Inbunden

White Mountains of Apache County - Bok av Catherine H Ellis & D L Turner - Inbunden

Towns and communities such as Springerville, Eagar, Alpine, Nutrioso, Vernon, Greer, McNary, and Maverick of Apache County's White Mountains hold fascinating histories of outlaws and Arizona Rangers; Texas cattlemen and Mormon farmers; and New Mexico Hispanics and forest service men. Aldo Leopold was one of the forest service men who, in A Sand County Almanac, described the Boneyard, Campbell Blue, and Frijole Cienega. Of Paradise Valley, he wrote, \What else could you call it?\ In 1913, the Good..

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Fortuna and the Eel River Valley - Bok av Alex Service & Fortuna Depot Museum - Inbunden

Fortuna and the Eel River Valley - Bok av Alex Service & Fortuna Depot Museum - Inbunden

Nestled along the Eel River in Northern California's Humboldt County, Fortuna has changed and grown according to economic and historical forces. Harvesting, milling, and shipping of redwood lumber provided the economic mainstay for nearly 100 years. The fertile Eel River Valley became known for its apples, potatoes, and a large dairy industry. Relative isolation ended in 1914 with the completion of the railroad from San Francisco, and in the 1920s expanded automobile traffic brought growing numbers..

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Sports of Santa Cruz County - Bok av Geoffrey (Palliative Care Consultation Service Hamot Medical Center Erie Pa USA) Dunn - Inbunden

Sports of Santa Cruz County - Bok av Geoffrey (Palliative Care Consultation Service Hamot Medical Center Erie Pa USA) Dunn - Inbunden

Its inviting climate, enticing rugged mountains, and welcoming beaches have always made Santa Cruz County a haven for athletic activities. A wide variety of sporting endeavors, some beyond the norm, have called Santa Cruz home over the decades. In the 19th century, Santa Cruz served as a springboard for modern surfing. It was an early bastion for organized baseball, too, beginning in the 1860s, and it was home to a series of professional teams as early as the 1870s. Other colorful athletic activities..

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Milwaukee's Old South Side - Bok av Jill Florence Lackey & Rick Petrie - Inbunden

Milwaukee's Old South Side - Bok av Jill Florence Lackey & Rick Petrie - Inbunden

The Old South Side has always welcomed ethnic groups. In the late 1800s, the area was developed by immigrant Poles, who became the dominant population for over 100 years. They celebrated their traditions, building churches, businesses, and service organizations and bringing over distinctive features from their homeland. While other Milwaukee ethnic neighborhoods gradually dissipated in the mid-20th century because of assimilation pressures, freeway building, or urban renewal programs, the Old South..

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Remembering Marshall Field's - Bok av Leslie Goddard - Inbunden

Remembering Marshall Field's - Bok av Leslie Goddard - Inbunden

For more than 150 years, Marshall Field's reigned as Chicago's leading department store, celebrated for its exceptional service, spectacular window displays, and fashionable merchandise. Few shoppers recalled its origins as a small dry goods business opened in 1852 by a New York Quaker named Potter Palmer. That store, eventually renamed Marshall Field and Company, weathered economic downturns, spectacular fires, and fierce competition to become a world-class retailer and merchandise powerhouse. Marshall..

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Bristol Business and Industry - Bok av Lynda J Russell - Inbunden

Bristol Business and Industry - Bok av Lynda J Russell - Inbunden

Bristol was incorporated in 1785 and quickly became recognized as a clock-manufacturing center and home of the E. Ingraham Company's \dollar watch.\ The town grew with the many immigrant workers who arrived to work for local knitting mills, spring companies, and brass manufacturers. By the 1890s, the strong growth of the town brought an influx of people with different skills who established the Bristol Press, banks, local neighborhood shops and markets, and service industries. In 1920, Bristol..

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Denver's Park Hill Neighborhood - Bok av Rebecca C Dorward - Inbunden

Denver's Park Hill Neighborhood - Bok av Rebecca C Dorward - Inbunden

The stately yet welcoming Park Hill neighborhood, located just east of downtown Denver, was platted from prairie lands in 1871 by energetic real estate speculators. A horse-drawn rail car began transportation service in later years to and from Denver as homes in Park Hill became popular. Eventually, Denverites invested in Park Hill lots and wealthy citizens built architecturally sophisticated homes, creating an enclave of Denver society. When automobiles became popular in the 1910s, Park Hill became..

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Five Towns - Bok av Millicent Vollono - Inbunden

Five Towns - Bok av Millicent Vollono - Inbunden

Since the 1930s, the communities of Hewlett, Woodmere, Cedarhurst, Lawrence, and Inwood have been known collectively as \the Five Towns.\ One of the oldest population centers on Long Island, the area attracted Victorian vacationers, many of whom returned and settled in lavish homes. During the Gilded Age, captains of industry, government, and finance came from the city to enjoy the Rockaway Hunting Club, Woodsburgh Pavilion, and the Holly Arms Hotel. The growth of the railroads created service..

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J. C. Blair Memorial Hospital - Bok av Nancy Swigart Shedd & Alberta Haught Goshorn - Inbunden

J. C. Blair Memorial Hospital - Bok av Nancy Swigart Shedd & Alberta Haught Goshorn - Inbunden

One hundred years ago, on September 4, 1911, the J. C. Blair Memorial Hospital opened its doors to patients and their doctors. Given to the community in memory of Huntingdon's most successful entrepreneur, the hospital has strived since its inception to achieve the reputation it enjoys today as an institution of advanced medical knowledge, skill, and service. Medical practice has undergone revolutionary change during the hospital's first century; the hospital has worked diligently to keep abreast..

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Aviation in Southern Oregon - Bok av Bill Alley & Southern Oregon Historical Society - Inbunden

Aviation in Southern Oregon - Bok av Bill Alley & Southern Oregon Historical Society - Inbunden

Medford, Oregon, pioneered aviation in Southern Oregon and has long enjoyed a reputation for being an air-minded city. When the City of Medford built Newell Barber Field in 1920, it established the first municipally owned airfield in the state. In 1926, Pacific Air Transport selected Medford as a station for the West Coast airmail route. While Portland's airmail service was located across the river at Vancouver's Pearson Field in Washington, Medford's Newell Barber Field was Oregon's only airmail..

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United States Disciplinary Barracks - Bok av Peter J Grande - Inbunden

United States Disciplinary Barracks - Bok av Peter J Grande - Inbunden

On May 21, 1874, Congress approved the establishment of the United States Disciplinary Barracks (USDB), formerly the United States Military Prison at Fort Leavenworth. The original prison was once a quartermaster depot, supplying all military posts, camps, and stations in the Indian Territory to the West. It has been the \center of correctional excellence\ in the military for over 130 years, housing the most notorious service members in the armed forces, including maximum-custody inmates and those..

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Norvelt - A New Deal Subsistence Homestead - Bok av Sandra Wolk Schimizzi & Valeria Sofranko Wolk - Inbunden

Norvelt - A New Deal Subsistence Homestead - Bok av Sandra Wolk Schimizzi & Valeria Sofranko Wolk - Inbunden

In 1933, the town of Norvelt became the fourth of 99 planned subsistence homestead communities subsidized by the federal government as part of the National Industrial Recovery Act for dislocated miners and industrial workers. The American Field Service Committee was recruited to implement and build the subsistence project and established a work camp in the summer of 1934. More than 1,850 people applied for 250 lots, and the first 1,200 homesteaders helped build their own homes on a lease-to-purchase..

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Quad City International Airport - Bok av David T Coopman - Inbunden

Quad City International Airport - Bok av David T Coopman - Inbunden

In 1922, three men were so captivated with flying they leased 30 acres of cow pasture south of Moline to serve as a landing field. Other early aviators and barnstormers began using Franing Field, and it soon became known as Moline Airport. The field hosted the Ford Reliability Tour four times, served as part of the original New York to Dallas airmail route, had passenger service as early as 1927, became one of Illinois's largest Works Progress Administration projects, weathered financial struggles..

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