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The Making of Drake Memorial House
Author | : Patricia Gillis |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2010-12-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781453808566 |
Margaret Drake Elliott and I became friends in her 92nd year of life. During the two and one-half years we spent together on a weekly basis, we became close friends. She trusted me with the information she provided for her oral history on what it was like to grow up in a rural setting, in a small midwestern town in a country-doctor's home. While she spent her adult life in Muskegon where she lived with husband Paul, she remembered her roots when she decided to leave the family estate, that of her father and mother, Dr. Wilke and Rhoda Waggoner Drake to the community-at-large. The home of her childhood she named Drake Memorial House. This is the story of the family that lived in that setting and a small glimpse into the life at the turn-of-the century. This book received the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for the best new Historical Book for the summer of 2011.
Arlington House: The Robert E. Lee Memorial
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Highlights the Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee memorial in McLean, Virginia, provided by the National Park Service. The memorial commemorates the life of American soldier Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870). Discusses the activities and programs.
Section 27 and Freedman's Village in Arlington National Cemetery
Author | : Ric Murphy |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2020-02-28 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1476677301 |
From its origination, Arlington National Cemetery's history has been compellingly intertwined with that of African Americans. This book explains how the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the home of Robert E. Lee and a plantation of the enslaved, became a military camp for Federal troops, a freedmen's village and farm, and America's most important burial ground. During the Civil War, the property served as a pauper's cemetery for men too poor to be returned to their families, and some of the very first war dead to be buried there include over 1,500 men who served in the United States Colored Troops. More than 3,800 former slaves are interred in section 27, the property's original cemetery.
History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
Author | : Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association |
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Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Deerfield (Mass.) |
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Vol. 1, pp. 467-474 contains "some facts relating of the early history of Dartmouth college," by c. c. conant.
A Master Plan for George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Virginia
Author | : United States. National Park Service |
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Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : George Washington Birthplace National Monument |
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A Brief History of the War Memorial Homes, Wattisfield Road, E. 5, etc
Author | : Disabled Soldiers' and Sailors' (Hackney) Foundation (LONDON) |
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Release | : 1930 |
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Here, George Washington Was Born
Author | : Seth C. Bruggeman |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2011-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820342726 |
In Here, George Washington Was Born, Seth C. Bruggeman examines the history of commemoration in the United States by focusing on the George Washington Birthplace National Monument in Virginia's Northern Neck, where contests of public memory have unfolded with particular vigor for nearly eighty years. Washington left the birthplace with his family at a young age and rarely returned. The house burned in 1779 and would likely have passed from memory but for George Washington Parke Custis, who erected a stone marker on the site in 1815, creating the first birthplace monument in America. Both Virginia and the U.S. War Department later commemorated the site, but neither matched the work of a Virginia ladies association that in 1923 resolved to build a replica of the home. The National Park Service permitted construction of the "replica house" until a shocking archeological discovery sparked protracted battles between the two organizations over the building's appearance, purpose, and claims to historical authenticity. Bruggeman sifts through years of correspondence, superintendent logs, and other park records to reconstruct delicate negotiations of power among a host of often unexpected claimants on Washington's memory. By paying close attention to costumes, furnishings, and other material culture, he reveals the centrality of race and gender in the construction of Washington's public memory and reminds us that national parks have not always welcomed all Americans. What's more, Bruggeman offers the story of Washington's birthplace as a cautionary tale about the perils and possibilities of public history by asking why we care about famous birthplaces at all.