Remembering Sweetwater The Mansions The Mills The People
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Author | : William L. McDonald |
Publisher | : Bluewater Pub |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780971994638 |
McDonald gives detailed accounts of the Sweetwater area of Florence, Alabama, in the late 19th and early 20th century, covering notable people, major industries and businesses, and including more than 150 photographs.
Author | : William (Bill) Lindsay McDonald |
Publisher | : Bwpublications.com |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781958273128 |
Remembering Sweetwater gives a historical account of the Sweetwater area of Florence, Alabama in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mr. McDonald gives detailed accounts of such notable people from the area such as Governor Robert Miller Patton, teacher and writer Maud Lindsay, Judge William B. Woods, and many others. He also covers the major industries and businesses in the area and the people who built these businesses and industries. Mixed in with all the information contained in Remembering Sweetwater are over 150 pictures of various people, places, and things. The book contains a detailed Table of Contents to aid in navigation as well as a detailed Index of Names at the end of the book to aid in the location of particular individuals.
Author | : Carolyn Barske |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1439646155 |
Join author and historian Carolyn Barske as she recounts the history of Florence, Alabama through the lens of over 200 vintage images. On the banks of the Tennessee River, below the once-formidable Muscle Shoals in northwest Alabama, sits the vibrant community of Florence. In the early 19th century, the Chickasaw Nation ceded lands to the US government, and in 1818 the Cypress Land Company held its first auction. The town grew quickly because of the efforts of the company's founders, which included Gen. John Coffee; John McKinley, who later sat on the US Supreme Court; and James Jackson, whose imported Thoroughbred horses became the bloodstock for some of Kentucky's finest racehorses. Schools, churches, hotels, and businesses soon filled the streets. For almost 200 years, the town of Florence has continued to grow, becoming home to the University of North Alabama and people like the "Father of the Blues," W.C. Handy; Maud Lindsay, who operated the first free kindergarten in the state; and four governors in Edward A. O'Neal, Emmett O'Neal, Robert M. Patton, and Hugh McVay.
Author | : Anne Rivers Siddons |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 565 |
Release | : 2008-05-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1416544968 |
A woman rises out of poverty to rule a family dynasty, in this extravagant Southern tale of greed and manipulation by a "New York Times"-bestselling author.
Author | : Rick Bragg |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2011-04-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0817356835 |
In spring of 2001, across the South, padlocks and logging chains bind the doors of silent mills, and it seems a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville, Alabama, that their mill survived. In these real-life stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Bragg brilliantly evokes the hardscrabble lives of those who lived and died by an American cotton mill.
Author | : Jerry Dennis |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2004-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312331030 |
The author provides an account of his experiences as a crew member on a tall-masted schooner during a six-week voyage through the Great Lakes, and discusses his other explorations of the lakes, looking at their history, geology, and environmental disaster and rescue.
Author | : William Ballard Lenoir |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781015640757 |
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Author | : Fess Whitaker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Appalachians (People) |
ISBN | : |
18 years a miner, 9 years on the railroad, 6 years a soldier, and 5 years a politician. This is the life of Corporal Fess Whitaker. Whitaker spent most of his life in the Kentucky Mountains, with stints in Virginia as a coal miner, in Texas with the Fort Worth & Denver Railroad, and abroad as a soldier. He includes a good deal of pioneer history and reminiscences of old timers, including those of Uncle Wesley Banks, the "Bugger Man" schoolmaster.
Author | : Lisa A. Miles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : North Side (Pittsburgh, Pa.) |
ISBN | : 9780979823602 |
In 1907, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania annexed a large land tract that already had an illustrious history as its own city-- the third largest and most prosperous in the state. What then on became known as the North Side of Pittsburgh was originally a place called Allegheny City, annexed against its will. Despite eventual acclimation and further prosperity, its identity, indelible, hangs as a mist over the storied land-- for historians, homeowners and visitors that today see all the modern spectacles set on the age-old stage, the lowland at the juncture of three majestic rivers. Resurrecting Allegheny City presents the cultural and social history of this lost society of Allegheny. It looks in-depth at the natives who put down footpath and, filled with significant maps, presents the long transformation of the land. Though now part of Pittsburgh for over one hundred years, the hills and valleys, woods and runs, burial ground, overlooks and sunken islands are all imprints of the catalysts that occurred here. This portrait of a place tells a tale from earliest time to present day-- showing a forward-moving society of the 1800s centered around a town square of the 1790s, presenting life in pre-twentieth century homes, and even addressing recent era where modern homesteaders have successfully battled challenges. It explains why, in 2007, many Pittsburgh Northsiders are sacredly tied to their neighborhood, their historic homes, and the very land upon which they find themselves rooted. They are defined, still, by Allegheny City.
Author | : Natalie Chanin |
Publisher | : Harry N. Abrams |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2008-03-01 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9781584796381 |
Includes 20 projects to make, designer and author demonstrates how she learned to sew and how she has learned that what she makes is important to the community where she grew up.