Authors:Marc Wanamaker, Robert W. Nudelma,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, hollywood
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-10-24
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738547921
ISBN-13: 9780738547923

The image of Hollywood often translates as some otherworldly dreamscape filled with fantastic lives and fantasy fulfillment. The real deal was carved from the Southern California desert as an outpost northwest of Los Angeles. The movie industry arrived when tumbleweeds were not simply props and actual horsepower pulled the loads. Everyday workers, civic management, and Main Street conventionalities nurtured Hollywood’s growth, as did a balmy climate that facilitated outdoor photography and shooting schedules for filmmakers. Splendid vintage photographs from the renowned collections of th

Author: Diana Dretske
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, sheridan, fort
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2005-02-21
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0738533645
ISBN-13: 9780738533643

Amid Chicago’s North Shore communities is a national landmark—the former U.S. Army Base at Fort Sheridan (1887-1993). Fort Sheridan was created out of the civil and labor unrest following the Chicago Fire of 1871, the great Railway Strike of 1877, and the Haymarket Riot of 1886. These events produced an atmosphere of insecurity, prompting Chicago’s wealthiest businessmen—North Shore residents and members of the Commercial Club of Chicago—to levy their influence with the federal government in establishing an army presence in their backyards. Fort Sheridan is a place rich in the traditions

Author: Leslie Matthews Stansfield
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, locks, windsor
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2003-08-25
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0738513237
ISBN-13: 9780738513232

Transportation has always played an important role in Windsor Locks, a Connecticut River town in the north central part of the state named for the canal locks built here in 1829. Expansion continued after the arrival of the railroad in the late 1860s; today, the town is an aviation center with an international airport and an important air museum. Windsor Locks explores the one-hundred-fifty-year-old town through vintage images and lively narrative, into which are woven stories of the past drawn from interviews with longtime residents. Interesting historical details include New England’s

Author: Bill Thoma
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, thomas, fort
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-06-19
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738542482
ISBN-13: 9780738542485

Fort Thomas, located high on a bluff in Northern Kentucky, is a beautiful community with many older homes, wooded hillsides, parks and playgrounds, and five miles of Ohio River shoreline. Until the arrival of the U.S. Army in 1888, this was a rural area with few residences or businesses. The construction of the Fort Thomas Military Post brought with it a streetcar line, the thriving Midway business district, and rapid population growth. Incorporated as the District of Highlands in 1867, the community voted to change its name to Fort Thomas in the early 1900s in honor of the military post and G

Authors:Bob England, Jack Friend, Michael Bailey, Blanton
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, morgan, fort
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2000-06-20
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0738505749
ISBN-13: 9780738505749

Following the War of 1812, the United States embarked upon a major building program to improve the nation s seacoast defenses. A project was begun on Mobile Bay that would take almost twelve years to complete, plagued by harsh conditions, a lack of resources, and financial burdens. The end result, completed and opened in March of 1834, was Fort Morgan. Fort Morgan has played many key roles in the nation’s military. During the Civil War, Fort Morgan provided covering fire for blockade runners entering and leaving Mobile Bay. The fort fell into disrepair after the Civil War as military pla

Author: Cass County Historical Society
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, county, cass
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-04-23
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738552070
ISBN-13: 9780738552071

In 1849, the Leech Lake Agency for the Ojibwa peoples was established southwest of Agency Bay on Leech Lake. A government trail wound its way north through the wilderness from Fort Ripley to the agency. The establishment of this trail encouraged exploration and settlement of the area that became Cass County. Fur traders, explorers, and missionaries were followed by the lumber industry. The Ojibwas ceded their lands, which went up for public auction in the 1870s, and the logging companies purchased thousands of acres of these lands. By 1895, the Minnesota Logging Company was in the northern par

Authors:Dr. Gary Wray,  Lee Jenning,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, miles, fort
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-01-30
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738541958
ISBN-13: 9780738541952

Fort Miles is in Cape Henlopen State Park near historic Lewes and the site of Delaware’s first Dutch settlement. Named for Gen. Nelson Appleton Miles, this powerful seacoast fortification was built during World War II to defend the vital industries of the Delaware Valley. Included in this volume are rare vintage photographs of the fort’s heavy artillery, hundreds of 3,000-pound sea mines, and radar systems that searched the nearby ocean for the enemy surface fleet. Its powerful 12- and 16-inch guns could reach out between 15 and 25 miles to attack an adversary. Today, the fort is being reb