Hidden History of Long Island, Hardcover - Richard Panchyk

Reducere. Long Island s history is filled with fascinating firsts, magnificent mansions and fascinating characters. From Glenn Curtiss, the first pilot to fl...

Reducere. Long Island's history is filled with fascinating firsts, magnificent mansions and fascinating characters. From Glenn Curtiss, the first pilot to fl...

Reducere. DescriptionAs progress marches on, it inevitably leaves behind some spectacular ruins--places that are no longer needed or wanted, yet still stand,...

Reducere. DescriptionQueens has a history filled with fascinating firsts, cool characters and ramshackle ruins. From the nation's first modern highway to the...

Reducere. The largest island in the continental United States, Long Island comprises Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties. With a rich history that...

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Reducere. This children's book will help inspire a sense of wonder and a love of nature through enchanting images and fun-to-read rhyming prose. The book fol...

Reducere. Everyone lucky enough to live on Long Island already knows that it s like nowhere else in the world. From lighthouses and a one-hundred-year-old ca...

Reducere. DescriptionGerman New York City celebrates the rich cultural heritage of the hundreds of thousands of German immigrants who left the poverty and tu...

Reducere. Staten Island has a rich and fascinating cultural legacy that few people outside New York City's greenest borough know about. Chewing gum was inven...

Reducere. From the North Shore to the South Shore and out to the East End, Long Island is home to a nationally recognized and historic boat building industry...

Reducere. This book follows the legendary Roosevelt Field from its earliest days during the infancy of aviation through its pinnacle in the 1920s and 30s, to...

Hell's Kitchen Trash is a unique book that takes a detailed look at the garbage of this colorful, historic West Side neighborhood-from tiny to mass...

Reducere. In the mid-nineteenth century, James Wickham was a wealthy farmer with a large estate in Cutchogue, Long Island. His extensive property included a ...

Reducere. Surprising tales and unexpected anecdotes color Rhode Island s legacy, from the accounts of its three brave Titanic survivors to the whirlwind Revo...

Reducere. By the close of World War II, Long Island had transformed from a rural corridor to a suburban behemoth. The region became a nationally recognized m...

When the Revolutionary War broke out and New York City had fallen in 1776, the forces of the king of Great Britain developed a network of forts alo...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the foreword..Brad Kolodny provides an important history, inventory, and photo archive of the synagogues of Long Island. He has ide...

Reducere. Long Beach Island stretches for eighteen miles alongside the southern New Jersey mainland. A barrier island, it has a vivid history that includes w...

Reducere. Colleges, schools, libraries and military bases in the US and abroad have been searching for ways to celebrate notable persons of color and to prov...

Reducere. After being elected president, George Washington set out to tour the new nation, which was desperate for a unifying symbol. He spent five days on L...

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Chartered on April 24, 1834, as a route from Brooklyn to Boston, the Long Island Rail Road commenced in 1836 with service between Brooklyn and Jama...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first Fire Island Lighthouse was constructed in 1826 after numerous shipwrecks along the barrier island. A replacement tower built i...

Reducere. For more than five centuries, the waterways surrounding Long Island have profoundly shaped its history. Familiar subjects of lighthouses, shipwreck...

Few American cities are as steeped in history as Boston. Starting with its Native American and Puritan roots, through its pivotal role in the Revol...

The lead carousel horse on a glittering carousel at a Jersey Shore Amusement Park comes to life during a summer storm. Stepping off of the carousel...

Reducere. When Long Island became a suburban paradise after World War II, ambitious entrepreneurs created dozens of amusement parks to help families unwind. ...

Reducere. For centuries, Long Island's beaches have provided sustenance, relaxation, and inspiration. The coastline is renowned for its sandy Atlantic Ocean ...

Reducere. Roger Williams purchased the fertile Aquidneck Island from the Narragansett tribe in 1637. It was here that Anne Hutchinson, along with William Cod...