Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs

Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs
Author: Ann Durkin Keating
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2008-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226428834

""Which neighborhood?" It's one of the first questions you're asked when you move to Chicago. And the answer you give - be it Bucktown, Bronzeville, or Bridgeport - can give your inquisitor a good idea of who you are, especially in a metropolis with so many different neighborhoods and suburbs to choose from." "Many of us know little of the neighborhoods beyond those where we work, play, and live. This is particularly true in Chicagoland, a region that spans over 4,400 square miles and is home to more than 9.5 million residents. Now, historian Ann Durkin Keating's compact guide, drawn largely from the bestselling Encyclopedia of Chicago, brings the history of Chicago neighborhoods to life."--BOOK JACKET.

Dreams of Duneland

Dreams of Duneland
Author: Kenneth J. Schoon
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2021-08-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253057345

The towering sand dunes along Lake Michigan, not far from Chicago, are one of the most unexpected natural features of Indiana. The second edition of Dreams of Duneland beautifully illustrates the dunes region, from the past to the present. Since the first edition, the Indiana Dunes area has become an official national park. With more than 400 stunning images, many of them new, Dreams of Duneland showcases the breathtaking sand dunes, as well as the rest of this newly minted park, which includes savanna, wetland, prairie, and forest and is home to a wide variety of plant and animal species. Kenneth J. Schoon reveals how the preserved area of the Indiana Dunes National Park—which sits by residential communities, businesses, and cultural attractions—has a long history of competition among farmers, fur traders, industrialists, and conservationists. Featuring a new foreword and afterword and many updates throughout, this gorgeous new edition will have you planning a trip to the extraordinary Indiana Dunes.

Calumet Beginnings

Calumet Beginnings
Author: Kenneth J. Schoon
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780253342188

The landscape of the Calumet, an area that sits astride the Indiana-Illinois state line at the southern end of Lake Michigan was shaped by the glaciers that withdrew toward the end of the last ice age--about 45,000 years ago. In the years since, many natural forces, including wind, running water, and the waves of Lake Michigan, have continued to shape the land. The lake's modern and ancient shorelines have served as Indian trails, stagecoach routes, highways, and sites that have evolved into many of the cities, towns, and villages of the Calumet area. People have also left their mark on the landscape: Indians built mounds; farmers filled in wetlands; governments commissioned ditches and canals to drain marshes and change the direction of rivers; sand was hauled from where it was plentiful to where it was needed for urban and industrial growth. These thousands of years of weather and movements of peoples have given the Calumet region its distinct climate and appeal.

History of the Colony of New Haven

History of the Colony of New Haven
Author: Edward Rodolphus Lambert
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1838
Genre: Branford (Conn. : Town)
ISBN:

Lambert provided valuable descriptions of the general history of the area and various towns, detailed specific events, and discussed numerous facets of early American life: religious, political and social. There is a poem, entitled "Old Milford," taken from the Connecticut Gazette, Vol. I, No. 4, 1835, as well as a "History of Milford, Connecticut," written by Lambert in June, 1836 for Historical Collections of Connecticut by John W. Barber. Neither the poem nor the sketch of Milford appears in the printed version.

Descendants of John Casse (-1675) of Hampton, New Hampshire

Descendants of John Casse (-1675) of Hampton, New Hampshire
Author: Donald J. Berry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1988
Genre:
ISBN:

John Casse (d.1675) married Martha Philbrick and moved from Boston to Hampton, New Hampshire. Joseph Berry (d.1757) moved from Boston to Framingham, Massachusetts, and married (1) Thankful Shears in 1719/1720; and (2) Hapzibah Benjamin. Descendants and relatives of the Casse and Berry families lived in New England, New York, Pennsyl- vania, Kansas, Nebraska and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Manitoba and elsewhere in Canada. Levi Cornell (1797-1874) was born to Asa and Martha Mason Cornell of Swansea, Mass. He married Fanny Luther (1800-1845) 1820 at Swansea. She was the daughter of Childs and Lucy K. Luther. Family migrated to Pennsylvania in 1827.