Author: Verlyne Meck
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, buckeye
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-06-04
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738548898
ISBN-13: 9780738548890

The town of Buckeye located in the Valley of the Sun, just 35 miles west of Phoenix was founded in 1888 following the completion of a 10mile irrigation canal in 1886. Throughout the 20th century, this farming community grew as residents established businesses, built churches, raised families, and worked together to carve a home out of the desert. The coming of the Arizona Eastern Railroad in 1910 was so significant that the town’s business district was moved to accommodate the location of the railroad station. And as a result, Buckeye boomed. By 2005, with a population over 35,000, the t

Author: Andrew F. Smith
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Keywords: book, cook, buckeye, centennial
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-03-01
List price: $60.95
ISBN-10: 0814208363
ISBN-13: 9780814208366

By any standard the Centennial Buckeye Cook Book was the most important cookbook to have originated in Ohio in the nineteenth century. It included more than three hundred pages of good recipes for jellies and jams, soups and sauces, fruits and vegetables, meats, poultry and fish, and confectionery, cakes and pastry, and many more. It was, however, much more than just a cookbook. Some editions featured information about medicine and the chemistry of food, how to do the laundry, how to make icehouses, hints for the sick and, most unusual, hints for the well. The book was a reflection of home lif

Author: Charles A. Stansfield
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Keywords: haunted, state, stackpole, buckeye, strange, ohio, ghosts, phenomena
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-04-10
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0811734722
ISBN-13: 9780811734721

Dead presidents, swamp monsters, and spying spaceships figure prominently in this collection of eerie tales from the Buckeye State. From across the plains to the metropolitan centers of Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati come a variety of stories and legends, including the phantom in Dayton s Woodland Cemetery who perches atop his tombstone, the pitiful spirits of the Millfield miners, the fearsome ghost of boatman Mike Fink, and many more.