Steamboat Days

Steamboat Days
Author: Clyde William Park
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1955
Genre: Ohio River
ISBN:

Steamboat Days on the Chesapeake

Steamboat Days on the Chesapeake
Author: James Tigner, Jr.
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780764331091

Over 300 postcards and engaging text present Maryland's beach resorts of yesteryear. Before the completion of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and improved highways, the Chesapeake Bay was dotted with many beach resorts. By the 1890s, the two most popular beaches in Maryland were Betterton and Tolchester Beach. It was a time when going to the beach meant an excursion boat ride across the bay. Betterton's heyday was from the 1890s to the 1940s, when Betterton's Victorian wooden hotels were booked solid and served home cooked meals all summer. From its beginnings as a small picnic ground in the 1870s, Tolchester Beach grew to become the Chesapeake Bay's biggest and best-known amusement park and bathing beach until 1962. This book is a must read for beach lovers, historians, and postcard collectors alike.

Days of the Steamboats

Days of the Steamboats
Author: William H. Ewen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 122
Release: 1988
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

The exciting history of American steamboats -- the palatial passenger boats and workaday freight steamers of the Atlantic and Pacific coastal waters, the Great Lakes, and the Hudson and Mississippi river systems -- is colorfully narrated in picture and prose by steamboat expert William H. Ewen. This general work will appeal to young adult readers as well as older steamboat buffs.

Monitor Builders

Monitor Builders
Author: William Norwood Still (Jr.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 58
Release: 1988
Genre: Armored vessels
ISBN:

Kentucky Place Names

Kentucky Place Names
Author: Robert M. Rennick
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2013-04-06
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0813144019

" From the wealth of place names in Kentucky, Rennick has selected those of some 2,000 communities and post offices. These places are usually the largest, the best known, or the most important as well as those with unusual or inherently interesting names. Including perhaps one-fourth of all such places known in the state, the names were chosen as a representative sample among Kentucky's counties and sections. Kentucky Place Names offers a fascinating mosaic of information on families, events, politics, and local lore in the state. It will interest all Kentuckians as well as the growing number of scholars of American place names.

Popular Mechanics

Popular Mechanics
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1961-03
Genre:
ISBN:

Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.

Rivers of History

Rivers of History
Author: Harvey H. Jackson
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 1995-07-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0817307710

"Jackson weaves a seamless tale stretching from the Native-American river settlements ... to the paper mills and hydroelectric plants of the late twentieth century". -- Southern Historian