A Guidebook To Virginias Historical Markers
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Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813914916 |
This new, revised and expanded edition includes 212 new markers, many of which reflect the Native-American, African-American, and social history. A Guidebook to Virginia's Historical Markers brings together the texts of more than 1,600 official state historical markers that have been placed along Virginia's highways since 1926, including even those markers that have been removed. A grid map and three separate indexes assist the reader in locating each marker. One index is alpabetical by title, one by subject matter, and one by county and independent city. Travelers along Virginia's highways will find this guide both useful and informative. The great legacy of Virginia's past is revealed on these markers, making this book both a handy reference and a stimulus to greater study of the history of the commonwealth.
Author | : MARGARET T. (Compiled by) PETERS |
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Author | : Scott David Arnold |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780813925721 |
The great legacy of Virginia's past is revealed on these markers, making the book both a handy reference and a stimulus to greater study of the history of the commonwealth.
Author | : Department of Historic Resources |
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Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2019-07-26 |
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ISBN | : 9780578475417 |
Virginia encompasses "this nation's longest continuous experience of Afro-American life and culture," esteemed scholar Armstead L. Robinson has written. This book offers both highway and armchair travelers the first published guide to the locations and texts of more than three hundred state historical highway markers recalling significant people, places, and events in Virginia's African American history. Published to coincide with the 2019 commemoration of the first documented arrival of Africans to present-day Virginia in 1619, A Guidebook to Virginia's African American Historical Markers showcases topics of state and national significance, spanning the colonial era through the mid-1960s and the civil rights movement. Nearly all of these markers were approved by the Virginia Board of Historic Resources within the past forty years, through early 2019, thereby enlarging the sweep and scope of the nation's oldest statewide historical highway marker program.
Author | : William J. Roberts |
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Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2013-08-01 |
Genre | : Alexandria (Va.) |
ISBN | : 9780976374763 |
Featuring Over 225 Historical Markers and Interpretive Signs Including the Parker-Gray Historic Distric
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Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
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For 65 years, travelers in West Virginia have enjoyed the inscriptions found on hundreds of historical markers along the state's highways and byways. Now, the information from all these markers is available in one handy volume. With complete inscriptions arranged geographically by county, more than 100 historic photographs, and a brief history of West Virginia's marker program, this book is the most comprehensive collection to date of these popular reminders of the Mountain State's rich past.--From publisher description.
Author | : Betty Dooley Awbrey |
Publisher | : Taylor Trade Publishing |
Total Pages | : 543 |
Release | : 2013-02-22 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1589797906 |
This guide to more than 2,500 Texas roadside markers features historical events; famous and infamous Texans; origins of towns, churches, and organizations; battles, skirmishes, and gunfights; and settlers, pioneers, Indians, and outlaws. With the most up-to-date records available, this sixth edition includes more than 100 new historical roadside markers with the actual inscriptions. Handy and simple to use, it lists alphabetically the hundreds of cities and towns nearest the markers and pinpoints each marker with specific highway and mileage information. With this book, travelers relive the tragedies and triumphs of Lone Star history.
Author | : Virginia Conservation Commission |
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Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Historical markers |
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Author | : Edwin Breeden |
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Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2021-02-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781643361567 |
The South Carolina Historical Marker Program, established in 1936, has approved the installation of more than 1,700 interpretive plaques, each highlighting how places both grand and unassuming have played important roles in the history of the Palmetto State. These roadside markers identify and interpret places valuable for understanding South Carolina's past, including sites of consequential events and buildings, structures, or other resources significant for their design or their association with institutions or individuals prominent in local, state, or national history. This volume includes a concise history of the South Carolina Historical Marker Program and an overview of the marker application process. For those interested in specific historic periods or themes, the volume features condensed lists of markers associated with broader topics such as the American Revolution, African American history, women's history, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. While the program is administered by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, most markers are proposed by local organizations that serve as a marker's official sponsor, paying its cost and assuming responsibility for its upkeep. In that sense, this inventory is a record not just of places and subjects that the state has deemed worthy of acknowledgment, but of those that South Carolinians themselves have worked to enshrine.
Author | : Melba Porter Hay |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2002-04-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780916968298 |
Published by the Kentucky Historical Society and distributed by the University Press of Kentucky We have all spied them as we blast down I-75 scanning the roadside for anything of interest or rolled past one while trying to find an elusive gas station in an unfamiliar small town. Perhaps we have even stopped to read one outside the local courthouse. Since 1949, the Kentucky Historical Highway Marker program has erected more than 1,800 markers that highlight the rich diversity of the state's local and regional history as well as topics of statewide, and sometimes national, importance. They provide on-the-spot Kentucky history lessons, depicting subjects as diverse as a seven-year-old boy who served as a drummer in the Revolutionary War to a centuries-old sassafras tree. Roadside History is a key to the markers, enabling travelers to read Kentucky history without stopping to see each marker as they pass. There are two indexes arranged by subject and county.