Authors:Anne Sallee, Oakland Park Historical Society,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, park, oakland
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-06-17
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738567612
ISBN-13: 9780738567617

Oakland Park was named for the massive stand of trees that lined the Middle River. Our first permanent settlers were the Whidby family, who came from Georgia to South Florida in 1901, when the area was known as Colahatchee. By 1918, other farming families had moved into the area, and bean and pepper fields were abundant. In 1923, a Miami development company initiated the Oakland Park subdivision with one of the biggest barbecues ever held in Broward County, with an estimated attendance of 5,000 people from Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties. The city was incorporated first as Floranada in

Author: Oakland Area Historical Society
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, oakland
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-07-26
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738535826
ISBN-13: 9780738535821

In the nineteenth century, Oakland was both a bustling industrial village and a rural farming community. The town was home to busy ax factories, a railway complex built for tourists and trade, an electric power company, a waterfall nearly as high as Niagara Falls, oxen plowing fields, and a Civil War memorial to rival any in the state of Maine. Today, Oakland is a quiet suburban town for most of the year. Its downtown does not draw the shoppers it once did, and its factories and farms can be counted on two hands. Even after two hundred years of change, Oakland continues to rebuild and transfor

Author: Milo Historical SocietyBrownville Historical Soci
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: images, america, view, lake, brownville, milo
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-06-10
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738564575
ISBN-13: 9780738564579

In the wilderness of Piscataquis County, rich in river power and vast with untouched forests, three communities were born. Although each is close in proximity, Milo, Brownville, and Lake View have unique histories and personalities. MiloÂ’s beginnings are based on the legend of young Theophilus Sargent, who faced the wild alone, almost perishing but for the kindness of a Native American chief and his son, Attean. One hundred years later, this survival story became the basis for Elizabeth George SpeareÂ’s book Sign of the Beaver. Along with its grist- and sawmill industries, BrownvilleÂâ

Author: Elsmere Historical SocietyErlanger Historical Soc
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, erlanger, elsmere
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-01-20
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738566632
ISBN-13: 9780738566634

Elsmere and Erlanger are sister cities in Kenton County, Kentucky. Both cities had their beginnings as farmland. With the completion of the Queen and Crescent Railroad (now the Norfolk Southern), the population of the cities grew. Developers from Cincinnati and Covington came to Erlanger and Elsmere, called South Erlanger, and formed the Erlanger and the Woodside Land Syndicates in the 1880s. The land syndicates, headed by George C. Bloss, began selling lots in 1887 for $16 per front foot, which included a year of free commuter travel to and from Cincinnati. The images selected for Images of A

Author: The Historical Society
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: socity, historical, lexington, proceedings
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $25.75
ISBN-10: 1110581416
ISBN-13: 9781110581412

Author: Lincoln Historical Society
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, lincoln
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2003-10-20
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738511463
ISBN-13: 9780738511467

Lincoln was founded in 1754, when colonists in Concord and parts of Lexington and Weston joined together to form a new town. Judge Chambers Russell, Concord’s representative to the General Court, christened the town Lincoln after his beloved family home of Lincolnshire, England. Shown in this pictorial of more than two hundred never-before-published photographs culled from historic archives and family collections, Lincoln evolves from its early days as a thriving agricultural community, through gentrification into country estates owned by wealthy Bostonians, to its present status as a pi

Author: Southern Historical Society
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: xvii, papers, society, historical, southern
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2008-12-09
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0559716915
ISBN-13: 9780559716911

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