Download or read book Steamboat Days on the Chesapeake written by James Tigner, Jr. and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 300 postcards and engaging text present Maryland's beach resorts of yesteryear. Before the completion of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and improved highways, the Chesapeake Bay was dotted with many beach resorts. By the 1890s, the two most popular beaches in Maryland were Betterton and Tolchester Beach. It was a time when going to the beach meant an excursion boat ride across the bay. Betterton's heyday was from the 1890s to the 1940s, when Betterton's Victorian wooden hotels were booked solid and served home cooked meals all summer. From its beginnings as a small picnic ground in the 1870s, Tolchester Beach grew to become the Chesapeake Bay's biggest and best-known amusement park and bathing beach until 1962. This book is a must read for beach lovers, historians, and postcard collectors alike.
Download or read book Ship Ablaze written by Ed O'Donnell and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of one of the greatest tragedies in New York history On June 15, 1904, the steamship General Slocum was heading from Manhattan to Long Island Sound when a fire erupted in one of the storage rooms. Faced with an untrained crew, crumbling life jackets, and inaccessible lifeboats, hundreds of terrified passengers--few of which were experienced swimmers--fled into the water. By the time the captain found a safe shore for landing, more than 1000 people had perished. It was New York’s deadliest tragedy prior to September 11, 2001. The only book available on this compelling chapter in the city’s history, Ship Ablaze draws on firsthand accounts to examine why the death toll was so high, how the city responded, and why this event failed to achieve the infamy of the Titanic’s 1912 demise or the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Masterfully capturing both the horror of the event and heroism of men, women, and children aboard the ship as the inferno spread, historian Edward T. O’Donnell brings to life a bygone community while honoring the victims of that forgotten day.
Download or read book Digest of the Laws of the State of New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tidewater by Steamboat written by David C. Holly and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The name Weems, and the Weems line," writes David C. Holly, "symbolized nearly the entire epoch of the steamboat on the Chesapeake." The Weems line began in Baltimore in 1819, as steamboats first appeared on the Chesapeake and its rivers. It was sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1905, at the height of the steamboat's "Golden Age," though its boats continued to serve the Bay until the 1930s. Illustrated with maps, drawings, and rare photographs, Tidewater by Steamboat is the vivid portrait of life on the Patuxent, the Potomac, and the Rappahannock, where Weems boats sailed and the course of the American republic was set.
Download or read book The Steamboat Companion Betwixt Perth and Dundee By G Buist written by George Buist and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Statutes of New Jersey written by New Jersey and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pub. under the authority of the Legislature, by virtue of an act approved April 4, 1894, and a supplement thereto, approved March 20, 1895 ..."--T.p.
Download or read book Gazetteer of the State of New York written by Thomas Francis Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Statutes at Large of the State of New York written by John W. Edmonds and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 861 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Download or read book The Steamboat Era written by S.L. Kotar and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The steamboat evokes images of leisurely travel, genteel gambling, and lively commerce, but behind the romanticized view is an engineering marvel that led the way for the steam locomotive. From the steamboat's development by Robert Fulton to the dawn of the Civil War, the new mode of transportation opened up America's frontiers and created new trade routes and economic centers. Firsthand accounts of steamboat accidents, races, business records and river improvements are collected here to reveal the culture and economy of the early to mid-1800s, as well as the daily routines of crew and passengers. A glossary of steamboat terms and a collection of contemporary accounts of accidents round out this history of the riverboat era.
Download or read book Tubman Travels written by Jim Duffy and published by . This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring stories of the Underground Railroad come alive for our times in "Tubman Travels: 32 Underground Railroad Journeys on Delmarva." Join award-winning author Jim Duffy as he wanders the Delmarva Peninsula in search of sites and scenes that put modern-day travelers in touch with unforgettable tales from the courageous journeys of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and an array of lesser-known heroes who set out through this region in search of freedom from slavery.
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Download or read book Steamboats on the Western Rivers written by Louis C. Hunter and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly detailed definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development — from construction, equipment, and operation to races, collisions, rise of competition, and ultimate decline of steamboat transportation.
Download or read book New York Court of Appeals Records and Briefs written by New York (State). Court of Appeals. and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume contains: 107 NY 553 (Clark v. Sup. of Saratoga) 107 NY 562 (Shwartz v. Hyman) 107 NY 677 (Haight v. Board of Supervisors of Saratoga) 107 NY 677 (Pettit v. Pettit) 108 NY 14 (Albany v. Watervliet T. R.R. Co.) 108 NY 19 (Mutual L. I. Co. v. Shipman) 108 NY 25 (Fisher v. Bishop) 108 NY 255 (Horton v. Cantwell) 108 NY 615 (Salisbury v. Schuyler S. T. B. Line) 108 NY 615 (Stevens v. Butler)
Download or read book United States Supreme Court Reports written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First series, books 1-43, includes "Notes on U.S. reports" by Walter Malins Rose.
Download or read book Lloyd s Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters written by James T. Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lloyd s Steamboat Directory written by James T. Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
