Download or read book Sketches of South Charleston Ohio written by Albert Reeder and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sketches of South Charleston, Ohio: Reminiscences of Early Scenes, Anecdotes and Facts About Early Residents During the winter of 1813, my grandfather, Jacob Reeder, came from the East through the wilds of the then new State of Ohio, prospecting for a place to locate for a home for himself and family. In some way he struck a blazed road through the woods a few miles East of where our town of South Charleston now is. This road was just north of the creek in the North End of town and the only road of any kind in this part of the country. He followed it until he came to a large sulphur spring in the field now owned by Thomas Mattinson and only a few rods northeast of our present Detroit, Toledo 81 Ironton Railroad bridge. There he found an abundance of pure water for his family and his livestock. He then came back on the south side of the creek where the ground was higher and built a log cabin, opposite the John M. Murray mound, just west of town where several of the old pioneers were buried in later years. He built the first log cabin in this part of the country and he was the first white man to settle here after the Indians left. He came back from the East over this blazed road very early in the spring of 1814 with his wife and four children in a wagon and when he got opposite his new log cabin he found he could not cross the creek. For it was frozen over and the ice not thick enough to bear his team of oxen or horses and the wagon. It was very cold for his family to stay in the wagon and he must get across. So he got there as an olcl pioneer always could. He got a pole and broke the ice in large blocks back of where he wanted to cross and shoved it under the solid ice in the driveway; the water not being very deep he forced the blocks of ice down on the gravel in the bottom of the creek and drove over to his cabin on a solid ice bridge. That is the way the first white man got to locate in South Charleston, Ohio. At that time my father, John Reeder. Was a boy nine years of age. Who told me while they lived in this cabin he got four or five plants of peppermint and planted it there along the creek. That was nearly one hundred years ago. And there is now an abundance of that mint still growing near where the cabin used to stand. By that I could easily locate the site of the old home. \iy grandfather several years later bought a fine farm three miles east of toun on the north and south side of u hat is nowthe London Pike. He raised a large family and lived there until his death in 1848. 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.

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Download or read book Uptown Downtown in Old Charleston written by Louis D. Rubin and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of semi-autobiographical sketches and stories detailing life in Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1930s and ‘40s. Growing up in Charleston in the 1930s and 1940s, accomplished storyteller Louis Rubin witnessed the subtle gradations of caste and class among neighborhoods, from south of Broad Street where established families and traditional mores held sway, to the various enclaves of Uptown, in which middle-class and blue-collar families went about their own diverse lives and routines. In Uptown/Downtown in Old Charleston, Rubin draws on autobiography and imagination in briskly paced renderings of his native Charleston that capture the atmosphere of the Holy City during an era when the population had not yet swelled above sixty-five thousand. Rubin’s wide-eyed narrator takes readers on excursions to Adger’s Wharf, the Battery, Union Terminal, the shops of King Street, the Majestic Theater, the College of Charleston, and other recognizable landmarks. With youthful glee he watches the barges and shrimp trawlers along the waterfront, rides streetcars down Rutledge Avenue and trains to Savannah and Richmond, paddles the Ashley River in a leaky homemade boat, pitches left-handed for the youngest team in the Twilight Baseball League, ponders the curious chanting coming from the Jewish Community Center, and catches magical glimpses of the Morris Island lighthouse from atop the Folly Beach Ferris wheel. His fascination with the gas-electric Boll Weevil train epitomizes his appreciation for the freedom of movement between the worlds of Uptown and Downtown that defines his youth in Charleston. This collection ends with a homecoming to Charleston by our narrator, then a young man in his early twenties, as his inbound train is greeted by familiar vistas of the city as well as by views he had never encountered before. This is the city Rubin called home, where there were always surprising discoveries to be found both in the burgeoning newness of Uptown and the storied legacies of Downtown. “Uptown/Downtown in Old Charleston is about a city in some ways larger that the state in which it resides. The book is also about memory and boyhood and baseball and boats and trains and family—and it packs a great wallop because it’s written by one of the country’s finest writers. These nine stories are among the best nine innings of history you’ll ever read.” —Clyde Edgerton “Louis Rubin brings the city to life with his insider guide to a secret Charleston too often overlooked in the carriage tours and guidebooks of today. Rubin allows you to enter the soul of the real Charleston, revealing its essence and depth. A wonderful, necessary book.” —Pat Conroy, author of South of Broad

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Download or read book Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Register of Copyrights Library of Congress at Washington D C written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South written by Deborah C. Pollack and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2015-01-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South recounts the enormous influence of artists in the evolution of six southern cities—Atlanta, Charleston, New Orleans, Louisville, Austin, and Miami—from 1865 to 1950. In the decades following the Civil War, painters, sculptors, photographers, and illustrators in these municipalities employed their talents to articulate concepts of the New South, aestheticism, and Gilded Age opulence and to construct a visual culture far beyond providing pretty pictures in public buildings and statues in city squares. As Deborah C. Pollack investigates New South proponents such as Henry W. Grady of Atlanta and other regional leaders, she identifies “cultural strivers”—philanthropists, women’s organizations, entrepreneurs, writers, architects, politicians, and dreamers—who united with visual artists to champion the arts both as a means of cultural preservation and as mechanisms of civic progress. Aestheticism, made popular by Oscar Wilde’s southern tours during the Gilded Age, was another driving force in art creation and urban improvement. Specific art works occasionally precipitated controversy and incited public anger, yet for the most part artists of all kinds were recognized as providing inspirational incentives for self-improvement, civic enhancement and tourism, art appreciation, and personal fulfillment through the love of beauty. Each of the six New South cities entered the late nineteenth century with fractured artistic heritages. Charleston and Atlanta had to recover from wartime devastation. The infrastructures of New Orleans and Louisville were barely damaged by war, but their social underpinnings were shattered by the end of slavery and postwar economic depression. Austin was not vitalized until after the Civil War and Miami was a post–Civil War creation. Pollack surveys these New South cities with an eye to understanding how each locale shaped its artistic and aesthetic self-perception across a spectrum of economic, political, gender, and race issues. She also discusses Lost Cause imagery, present in all the studied municipalities While many art history volumes concerning the South focus on sultry landscapes outside the urban grid, Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South explores the art belonging to its cities, whether exhibited in its museums, expositions, and galleries, or reflective of its parks, plazas, marketplaces, industrial areas, gardens, and universities. It also identifies and celebrates the creative urban humanity who shaped the cultural, social, and, at times, architectural framework for the modern southern city.

Download or read book The South on Paper written by James C. Kelly and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores forty-four southern artists and eighty of their works.