Port Townsend, Hardcover - Jefferson County Historical Society

Reducere. On Washington's Olympic Peninsula, at the entrance to Puget Sound, the Port Townsend of the 1850s was perfectly situated for sailing vessels. By 18...

In 1849, the Leech Lake Agency for the Ojibwa peoples was established southwest of Agency Bay on Leech Lake. A government trail wound its way north...

Reducere. Since the 1850s, the soothing countryside hamlets of Sonoma County have beckoned settlers of every stripe-farmers, homesteaders, businesspeople, an...

Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1871 as the village of Detroit. Detroit became a boomtown in the late 19th century because of the vas...

Reducere. El Paso was a crossroads long before it was a border town, and its restaurant history represents the same intersection of foodways and culinary tra...

Reducere. Located in the heart of the famed Bluegrass Region, Woodford County is one of the oldest counties in Kentucky. Prominent citizens met in 1788 to cr...

Reducere. DescriptionLocated about 150 miles north of Manhattan, on the east bank of the Hudson River, the city of Troy, New York, was once an industrial gia...

Reducere. Creating Community expands the written histories of Springfield that have long overlooked this minority in the local community. It also adds to the...

Reducere. Did you know West Virginia was the first state to seat an African American woman in its state legislature? Which presidential candidate was billed ...

Reducere. John L. Finlayson collected and published photos and personal accounts of the people who lived through and responded to what became known as the Sh...

Reducere. Columbia County was formed in 1813 and named for the mythic goddess Columbia, who represented the distinctively American qualities of the new natio...

Reducere. Jefferson County, New York, has one of the richest concentrations of stone houses in America. As many as 500 limestone houses, churches, and commer...

Reducere. The climate was good, the soil was good, and the people who came to this fertile area on the Pacific Coast of America knew they had found a special...

Reducere. The author turned his passion for his native county into a dissertation for his doctorate and then into this book. Although the county was not form...

Reducere. Ideally situated on the western shore of Lake Michigan, Sheboygan was once known as the "City of Chairs, Churches, Cheese, and Children" for its ab...

Reducere. In 1804 Thomas Jefferson decided to study the gospels to see if he could distill the essence of Jesus' teachings into a concise book that could be ...

Reducere. The early nineteenth century in New Bedford was a time of unimaginable wealth, intellectual ferment and artistic treasures. Prosperous whaling magn...

Abolitionists, rebels and innovators have all tracked across the pages of Washington County history. Their stories and more were chronicled by belo...

Reducere. Some of the oldest historic sites in the United States are in and around St. Augustine, Florida--the Ancient City. From Fort San Diego in the north...

Reducere. By: Lucy Cunyus, Pub. 1933, Reprinted 2017, 463 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-005-5.Bartow County was formed in 1832 from Cherokee County. This book ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus, Wilson Jeremiah Moses provides a critical assessment of Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian ...

Reducere. The geographic center of Colorado, Park County has long served as a recreational area for Denver and Colorado Springs residents looking to get away...

Publisher: Historical Images LtdAuthor(s): Mapseeker Publishing Ltd.Illustration(s): Historic Maps of MiddlesexCollection: Historic Counties Maps C...

Publisher: Historical Images LtdAuthor(s): Mapseeker Publishing Ltd.Collection: Historic Counties Maps CollectionPublication date: 2014Dimensions: ...

DescriptionIn 1820, Thomas Jefferson worked for months, often by candlelight, carefully cutting the pages of several Bibles to remove the life stor...

The first book to include Thomas Jefferson's writings and writings about him-from his era and ours.Publisher: WW Norton & CoAuthor(s): Thomas Jeffe...

'A comic masterpiece' Patrick Gale, GuardianPillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard pre...

'The kind of novelist who inspires an intense sense of ownership in her fans ... her sympathies tended naturally to the marginal, the vulnerable, t...

This visually stunning volume explores Monticello, both house and plantation, with texts that present a current assessment of Jefferson's cultural ...

Reducere. A thousand-year-old conservation method, smoking is an ancestral technique that gives exquisite taste and unparalleled tenderness to food. It is al...

Spotsylvania County, Virginia, was established in 1721, but it was not until after the Civil War that the names of approximately 4, 700 African Ame...

Secure in their isolated valley until the arrival of the white man, the Native Americans of Lake County and their ancestors lived for more than 12,...

When the Revolutionary War ended in victory, there remained a stupendous problem: establishing a workable democratic government in the vast, newly ...

Reducere. During the 1960s, our Kramer Manor neighborhood in Scotch Plains, New Jersey was being described as "blighted" by the Scotch Plains Township Commit...

'She has a talent amounting to genius' John UpdikeDon Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, ...

Publisher: Historical Images LtdAuthor(s): Mapseeker Publishing Ltd Mapseeker Publishing LtdIllustration(s): Historic Map ImagesCollection: Histori...

Reducere. An illuminating analysis of the man whose name is synonymous with American democracyFew presidents have embodied the American spirit as fully as Th...

Reducere. As Southern California was reimagining leisure and positioning it at the center of the American Dream, African American Californians were working t...

NEVERMOOR - WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE 2018 YOUNGER FICTION CATEGORY Return to the magical world of Nevermoor, where Morrigan ...

Reducere. By: Grace Gillam Davidson, Pub. 1929, Reprinted 2020, 408 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-007-1.Richmond County was created in 1777. It is one of the o...

Reducere. By: John W. Baker, Pub. 1935, Reprint 2019, 440 pages, Index, 0-89308-933-8 Hart County was created in 1853 from Franklin and Elbert Counties. It l...

By: Helen & Timothy Marsh, Pub. 1981, Reprinted 2019, 338 pages, maps, Index, ISBN #0-89308-238-4.Marshall County was formed in 1836 from parts of ...

Reducere. Before the coming of the four-lane, Jackson County was an insular community defined by geography-wedged in between the Great Smokies and Blue Ridge...

The explosive manifesto for the American Revolution, introduced by the co-author of Empire

Reducere. By: Polly C. Mason, Pub. 1946, Reprinted 2016, 166 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-248-1.Gloucester County was created from York County in 1651. Its co...

Reducere. Over two centuries, Coweta County has been home to diverse residents who mastered the art of reinventing the county. Initially home to Creek-Muscog...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jack RosewoodThis is the story of how on April 28th, 1996, a lone gunman with no warning, walked into a crowded cafe in the...

By: William M. Sweeny, Pub. 1947, Reprinted 2020, 200 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-625-8. Even though Rappahannock County was created fr...

Reducere. Introduction by James Gilreath, Library of Congress. As vice president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson presided over the Senate. To improve ...

Reducere. 1. Somebody To Love - 2: 55 2. White Rabbit - 2: 30 3. It's No Secret - 2: 37 4. Today - 2: 57 5. Come Up The Years (Remastered - 1996- Stereo Vers...