Download or read book Roxbury Place Name Stories written by Jeannine Green and published by Jeannine Green. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every place on earth has a name. Never noticed the place-names in your town? Then take a look at these tales; you'll learn some things about where you live. These stories are about a rural Connecticut town settled in the 1700s. Place-names are everywhere on rivers, roads, brooks, hills, buildings, parks, cemeteries, nature preserves, even rocks. The names are from Englishmen, Indians, plants, animals, battles, the Bible, hell, heroes, celebrities, and just plain folks. Place-names are strange creatures, but they all reveal the history, culture, and eccentricities of people who passed through even in your town. Rummage around these tales if you're a librarian, historian, geographer, genealogist, traveler, or resident of this planet. Advance Praise from Roxbury, Conn. Notables lasting treasure for our community insights into nuggets of Roxbury's heritage quick and pleasurable read Barbara Henry, First Selectman extraordinary vade mecum informs and amuses paints a living portrait of Roxbury Steven Schinke, President, Roxbury Land Trust exhaustive research into town records, printed sources, unpublished manuscripts and the memories of older residents clear panorama of where white settlers first arrived in the 18th century Timothy Field Beard, FASG, Town Historian important local history and delightful read Valerie G. Annis, Director, Minor Memorial Library.
Download or read book The History of Roxbury Town written by Charles Mayo Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roxbury and Bridgewater written by Jeannine Green and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The histories of Roxbury and Bridgewater are intertwined, as both communities developed from settlement to ecclesiastical society to incorporated town. Both were once part of larger adjoining towns, with Bridgewater originally known as Shepaug Neck and Roxbury first named Shepaug Plantation. Shepaug is a Mohegan word meaning "rocky river" and was taken from the name of the river that runs through Bridgewater and forms Roxbury's western border. While settlers first plowed the land, they also built homes, schools, and churches and constructed gristmills, blacksmith shops, hat factories, tobacco warehouses, taverns, and general stores. Townsmen mined iron ore and quarried stones in the hills. Over time, the horse and buggy gave way to railroads and automobiles as modes of transportation between the towns, while new inventions gave locals free time for entertainment and civic pursuits.
Download or read book The Town of Roxbury written by Francis Samuel Drake and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Roxbury Town Classic Reprint written by Charles M. Ellis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Roxbury Town The object of a town history is to gather up and record family, local, village details. Part are those of every day life. Part belong to general history, but are so minute or multitudinous as to escape its grasp. Yet all history is made up of these, and each, and the group of each town, may illustrate it, as the life of each man will give some insight into the spirit of his time. There is an interest attached to these accounts of small places, of the same sort as that which is ex cited by the biography of an individual. We like to know the motives, reasons and method of a man's ac tion, as every child wishes to see a watch opened. In general men care less for the result, however great, than for the petty moving causes in operation. And the idea that each man is a wheel in the great ma chine, weighs more with men than they think. But, after all, the chief interest attached to these matters is of a very different sort, and, if this were the place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Romance of Wisconsin Place Names written by Robert E. Gard and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The names of places lie upon the land and tell us where we are or where we have been or where we want to go. And so much more.”—From the introduction Fifty years ago, educator and writer Robert E. Gard traveled across Wisconsin, learning the trivial, controversial, and landmark stories behind how cities, counties, and local places got their names. This volume records the fruits of Gard’s labors in an alphabetical listing of places from every corner of Wisconsin, and the stories behind their often-unusual names. Gard’s work provides an important snapshot of how Wisconsin residents of a bygone era came to understand the names of their towns and home places, many of which can no longer be found on any map. Celebrated rural historian Jerry Apps introduces this reprint of Gard’s work, saying that in “some ways The Romance of Wisconsin Place Names is a reference book, a place where you can go to learn a little more about your home town. But in many ways it is much more than that, for it includes the stories of places throughout the state, submitted by the people who knew them. It is a book where story, people, and place all come together.”
Download or read book Letters from Alaska written by P. D. Vasko and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How could this happen? Two people buying the same house? The year is 1951. Her life shattered by the sudden death of her husband, Trina Brown, a black lady with twin teenage daughters from Atlanta, Georgia, seeks a new life in Alaska. She begins working and buys a house at 144 East Chestnut Street in Juneau. She goes there with the help of her friend and mentor, Rose Williams. Aaron Mueller is a successful Jewish businessman from New York City whose wife dies of lung cancer. Losing all interest in his family business, he sells out and is looking for a new passion in his life. At the suggestion of a friend, he researches Alaska and decides he’ll find it there. Through a real estate trade magazine, he buys a house at 144 East Chestnut Street in Juneau and moves there. How did Janet Green manage a bank scam that caused Trina Brown and Aaron Mueller to buy the same house? Why does the FBI get involved? And how do a black lady from Atlanta and a Jewish businessman from New York City manage to live together and still get along?
Download or read book The Town of Roxbury by Francis S Drake written by Richard Whiting Bonney and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The History of Roxbury Town written by Charles M. (Charles Mayo) Ellis and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Roxbury Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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