The Cumberland Story
Author | : Cumberland County Historical Society (N.J.) |
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Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Cumberland County (N.J.) |
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Author | : Cumberland County Historical Society (N.J.) |
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Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Cumberland County (N.J.) |
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Author | : Mary R. Bullard |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820327419 |
Cumberland Island is a national treasure. The largest of the Sea Islands along the Georgia coast, it is a history-filled place of astounding natural beauty. With a thoroughness unmatched by any previous account, Cumberland Island: A History chronicles five centuries of change to the landscape and its people from the days of the first Native Americans through the late-twentieth-century struggles between developers and conservationists. Author Mary Bullard, widely regarded as the person most knowledgeable about Cumberland Island, is a descendant of the Carnegie family, Cumberland's last owners before it was acquired by the federal government in 1972 and designated a National Seashore. Bullard's discussion of the Carnegie era on Cumberland is notable for its intimate glimpse into how the family's feelings toward the island bore upon Cumberland's destiny. Bullard draws on more than twenty years of research and travels about the island to describe how water, wind, and the cycles of nature continue to shape it and also how humans have imprinted themselves on the face of Cumberland across time--from the Timuca, Guale, and Mocamo Indians to the subsequent appearances of Spanish, French, African, British, and American inhabitants. The result is an engaging narrative in which discussions about tidal marshes, sea turtles, and wild horses are mixed with accounts of how the island functioned as a center for indigo, rice, cotton, fishing, and timber. Even frequent visitors and former residents will learn something new from Bullard's account of Cumberland Island.
Author | : Thomas Budd Van Horne |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2024-03-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385366135 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author | : Thomas B. Van Horne |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2023-11-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385231752 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author | : Robert A. Sullivan |
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Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Cumberland County (Tenn.) |
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Author | : Laurence Meredith Vaughn |
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Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Cumberland Gap (Ky.) |
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Author | : Scott Larson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2017-07-29 |
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ISBN | : 9780999266014 |
Some disasters don't make the front page. They make the sports page. On October 7, 1916, nineteen unfortunate souls set off on an ill-fated trip to Atlanta to face the mighty Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets led by legendary coach John Heisman. Set in the burgeoning days of college football riddled with violence and controversy, Cumberland: The True Story of the Highest Scoring Football Game in History is the story of one small law school's date with gridiron infamy. A hundred years later, the game that has been called the Little Bighorn of football is regarded as the blowout of the ages. Many sports fans have heard about the game but this book dives into the unscrupulous world surrounding the game and what took place behind the scenes to make this would-be footnote in history unforgettable.
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Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Cumberland River (Ky. and Tenn.) |
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Author | : Mary Ricketson Bullard |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780820317380 |
Robert Stafford of Cumberland Island offers a rare glimpse into the life and times of a nineteenth-century planter on one of Georgia's Sea Islands. Born poor, Robert Stafford (1790-1877) became the leading planter on his native Cumberland Island. Specializing in the highly valued long staple variety of cotton, he claimed among his assets more than 8,000 acres and 350 slaves. Mary R. Bullard recounts Stafford's life in the context of how events from the Federalist period to the Civil War to Reconstruction affected Sea Island planters. As she discusses Stafford's associations with other planters, his business dealings (which included banking and railroad investments), and the day-to-day operation of his plantation, Bullard also imparts a wealth of information about cotton farming methods, plantation life and material culture, and the geography and natural history of Cumberland Island. Stafford's career was fairly typical for his time and place; his personal life was not. He never married, but fathered six children by Elizabeth Bernardey, a mulatto slave nurse. Bullard's discussion of Stafford's decision to move his family to Groton, Connecticut--and freedom--before the Civil War illuminates the complex interplay between southern notions of personal honor, the staunch independent-mindedness of Sea Island planters, and the practice and theory of racial separation. In her afterword to the Brown Thrasher edition, Bullard presents recently uncovered information about a second extralegal family of Robert Stafford as well as additional information about Elizabeth Bernardey's children and the trust funds Stafford provided for them.