Download or read book Oaks Estate Community History Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oaks Estate is an urban village in the ACT, 12 km from Canberra City centre, directly across the NSW border from Queanbeyan. The estate covers an area of approximately 40 hectares and is bound by the Molonglo River to the north, 'The Oaks' to the east and the Queanbeyan-Cooma railway to the south. It takes its name from 'The Oaks', an outstation of Duntroon established about 1835. The adjacent burial ground, in use from 1838 to 1846, is the oldest general, if unofficial, cemetery in the ACT. In the second half of the 19th century and into the early Canberra development period, Oaks Estate housed several Queanbeyan industrial properties including a flour mill. The area was formally included in the Federal Capital Territory from 1911, but developmentally the Estate remained in a kind of No Man’s Land until the 1950s, with several unsuccessful attempts to return it to NSW, and even a petition to the Queen for improvement in basic services. The Oaks Estate Living Memory Project began in 1991 as a seed project of the Arts Council of the ACT to document the history of the Oaks Estate Community. This initial grant produced the document What I’m Telling You Now is What I’m Going Through Now... Further grants from the Australia Council, Australian Folk Trust Inc and the ACT Heritage Grants helped develop the Oaks Estate Festival 1992, and further collection of information and recording of memories, and several exhibitions and presentations, such as Oaks Estate – A Portrait, December 1992 and June/July 1993 at Gorman House. A book, No Man’s Land was published in 1997 following a period of research by Karen Williams. The collections consists of research papers, transcriptions and notes of oral history interviews and copies of photographs loaned for the project.
Download or read book Historical Papers and Addresses written by Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Download or read book The Borderer s Table Book Or Gatherings of the Local History and Romance of the English and Scottish Border written by Moses Aaron Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society written by Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes minutes of the Society's meetings.
Download or read book Bulletin Society for the Study of Labour History written by Society for the Study of Labour History and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Highland Park and River Oaks written by Cheryl Caldwell Ferguson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shows how the developers of Highland Park in Dallas and River Oaks in Houston were trying to create better living conditions in a countryside atmosphere away from the uncontrolled development that had blighted late 19th-century and early 20th-century urban neighborhoods in Texas. Also explores why planned suburban and community growth failed at the city-wide level and remained confined to elite suburbs. Also looks at subdivisions in Fort Worth, San Antonio, Amarillo, Wichita Falls, Beaumont, Galveston, and Port Arthur to provide information on how city planners worked with landscape architects to incorporate infrastructure improvements, coordinate landscape planning, and employ such legal devices as restrictive covenants to shape elite space coherently. The work of Texas' foremost suburban house architects, such as C.D. Hill, William Ward Watkin, and John F. Staub, is also analyzed"--
Download or read book An Essay on the History of Civil Society written by Adam Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1767 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sessional Papers Printed by Order of the House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings Public Bills Reports from Committees Miscellaneous written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes lists of orders, rules, bills etc.
Download or read book The Bicentennial of the United States of America written by American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Paper Son written by Wayne Hung Wong and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early and mid-twentieth century, Chinese migrants evaded draconian anti-immigrant laws by entering the US under false papers that identified them as the sons of people who had returned to China to marry. Wayne Hung Wong tells the story of his life after emigrating to Wichita, Kansas, as a thirteen-year-old paper son. After working in his father’s restaurant as a teen, Wong served in an all-Chinese Air Force unit stationed in China during World War II. His account traces the impact of race and segregation on his service experience and follows his postwar life from finding a wife in Taishan through his involvement in the government’s amnesty program for Chinese immigrants and career in real estate. Throughout, Wong describes the realities of life as part of a small Chinese American community in a midwestern town. Vivid and rich with poignant insights, American Paper Son explores twentieth-century Asian American history through one person’s experiences.
Download or read book The Oaks of Santa Paula written by Mitch Stone and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oaks of Santa Paula, A History of Santa Paula Canyon and the Oaks Neighborhood, offers a detailed look at the history of this distinctive part of the city, as set within the history of lower Santa Paula Canyon and the city as a whole. The narrative begins with the pioneering settlements of the 1870s, and the key role the canyon played in the successful establishment of the town, and carries though to the transforming events of the 1920s, as the canyon began to be converted into the city's first suburb and beyond to its building out in the postwar years to become the neighborhood we know today as the Oaks.
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Download or read book Pharsalia written by Lynn A. Nelson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pharsalia, a plantation located in piedmont Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is one of the best-documented sites of its kind. Drawing on the exceptionally rich trove of papers left behind by the Massie family, Pharsalia's owners, this case study demonstrates how white southern planters paradoxically relied on capitalistic methods even as they pursued an ideal of agrarian independence. Lynn A. Nelson also shows how the contradictions between these ends and means would later manifest themselves in the southern conservation movement. Nelson follows the fortunes of Pharsalia's owners, telling how Virginia's traditional extensive agriculture contributed to the soil's erosion and exhaustion. Subsequent attempts to balance independence and sustainability through a complex system of crop rotation and resource recycling ultimately gave way to an intensive, slave-based form of agricultural capitalism. Pharsalia could not support the Massies' aristocratic ambitions, and it was eventually parceled up and sold off by family members. The farm's story embodies several fundamentals of modern U.S. environmental thought. Southerners' nineteenth-century quest for financial and ecological independence provided the background for conservationists' attempts to save family farming. At the same time, farmers' failure to achieve independence while maximizing profits and crop yields drove them to seek government aid and regulation. These became some of the hallmarks of conservation efforts in the New Deal and beyond.
Download or read book Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors written by Brian Elliott and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A meticulous mixture of social and family history . . . Whether or not you have mining connections, this is an interesting socio-economic read.” —Your Family Tree In the 1920s there were over a million coalminers working in over 3000 collieries across Great Britain, and the industry was one of the most important and powerful in British history. It dominated the lives of generations of individuals, their families, and communities, and its legacy is still with us today—many of us have a coalmining ancestor. Yet family historians often have problems in researching their mining forebears. Locating the relevant records, finding the sites of the pits, and understanding the work involved and its historical background can be perplexing. That is why Brian Elliott’s concise, authoritative and practical handbook will be so useful, for it guides researchers through these obstacles and opens up the broad range of sources they can go to in order to get a vivid insight into the lives and experiences of coalminers in the past. His overview of the coalmining history—and the case studies and research tips he provides—will make his book rewarding reading for anyone looking for a general introduction to this major aspect of Britain’s industrial heritage. His directory of regional and national sources and his commentary on them will make this guide an essential tool for family historians searching for an ancestor who worked in coalmining underground, on the pit top or just lived in a mining community. As featured in Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine and the Barnsley Chronicle.
Download or read book Master Register of Bicentennial Projects February 1976 written by American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
