Download or read book The Place Names of Franklin County Missouri written by Robert Lee Ramsay and published by Columbia : University of Missouri Studies. This book was released on 1954 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names written by Robert L. Ramsay and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bulletin is one in a series published by the College of Arts and Science in which pertinent and interesting information that has been collected and analyzed in the research activities of regular departments of the College is made available to the public. The study of Missouri place names has been a project of Professor Robert L. Ramsay of the Department of English for a number of years. He has directed a series of eighteen masters theses in the field, and as a result of the research conducted by his students and through his own activities, a master file of Missouri place names has been prepared. This bulletin is only a sample of the information that has been collected and classified. The College of Arts and Science is making it available to the citizens of the State at a nominal price so that the public can have some knowledge and appreciation of this interesting and worthwhile study. The bulletin records a very significant part of our history and culture.
Download or read book Historical Sketches of Franklin County and Its Several Towns written by Frederick Joel Seaver and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The University of Missouri Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of Iowa Place Names written by Tom Savage and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lourdes and Churchtown, Woden and Clio, Emerson and Sigourney, Tripoli and Waterloo, Prairie City and Prairieburg, Tama and Swedesburg, What Cheer and Coin. Iowa’s place-names reflect the religions, myths, cultures, families, heroes, whimsies, and misspellings of the Hawkeye State’s inhabitants. Tom Savage spent four years corresponding with librarians, city and county officials, and local historians, reading newspaper archives, and exploring local websites in an effort to find out why these communities received their particular names, when they were established, and when they were incorporated. Savage includes information on the place-names of all 1,188 incorporated and unincorporated communities in Iowa that meet at least two of the following qualifications: twenty-five or more residents; a retail business; an annual celebration or festival; a school; church, or cemetery; a building on the National Register of Historic Places; a zip-coded post office; or an association with a public recreation site. If a town’s name has changed over the years, he provides information about each name; if a name’s provenance is unclear, he provides possible explanations. He also includes information about the state’s name and about each of its ninety-nine counties as well as a list of ghost towns. The entries range from the counties of Adair to Wright and from the towns of Abingdon to Zwingle; from Iowa’s oldest town, Dubuque, starting as a mining camp in the 1780s and incorporated in 1841, to its newest, Maharishi Vedic City, incorporated in 2001. The imaginations and experiences of its citizens played a role in the naming of Iowa’s communities, as did the hopes of the huge influx of immigrants who settled the state in the 1800s. Tom Savage’s dictionary of place-names provides an appealing genealogical and historical background to today’s map of Iowa. “It is one of the beauties of Iowa that travel across the state brings a person into contact with so many wonderful names, some of which a traveler may understand immediately, but others may require a bit of investigation. Like the poet Stephen Vincent Benét, we have fallen in love with American names. They are part of our soul, be they family names, town names, or artifact names. We identify with them and are identified with them, and we cannot live without them. This book will help us learn more about them and integrate them into our beings.”—from the foreword by Loren N. Horton “Primghar, O’Brien County. Primghar was established by W. C. Green and James Roberts on November 8, 1872. The name of the town comes from the initials of the eight men who were instrumental in developing it. A short poem memorializes the men and their names: Pumphrey, the treasurer, drives the first nail; Roberts, the donor, is quick on his trail; Inman dips slyly his first letter in; McCormack adds M, which makes the full Prim; Green, thinking of groceries, gives them the G; Hayes drops them an H, without asking a fee; Albright, the joker, with his jokes all at par; Rerick brings up the rear and crowns all ‘Primghar.’ Primghar was incorporated on February 15, 1888.”
Download or read book Secret St Louis A Guide to the Weird Wonderful and Obscure written by David Baugher and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where in St. Louis can you… …picnic at a radioactive waste dump? …learn what West County Center’s famous dove really represents? …visit the grave of the man who burned Atlanta? …join a nudist resort? …view a cube comprised of a million dollar bills? …see a piece from New York’s Twin Towers? …find out exactly what a Billiken is? Whether you are piloting a simulated barge on the Mississippi River, exploring the hidden history of Abraham Lincoln’s bizarre swordfight in St. Charles County or eating a ten-pound apple-pie in Kimmswick inspired by the Great Flood of 1993, it is hard to get bored with a copy of Secret St. Louis: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. By turns wistful and whimsical, this is a book which answers the questions you never knew you had about St. Louis while taking readers on a whirlwind tour through 97 unique but often little-known spaces and places that can’t be found anywhere else. A tourist handbook for people who thought they never needed one, “Secret St. Louis” provides a scavenger hunt of hidden gems traversing the somber, strange, surprising and silly locales which define the culture and history that make St. Louis such a diverse and amazing place to call home. From Weldon Spring to Wildwood, from Overland to O’Fallon, from Bellefontaine to Bridgeton, this is an exploration of St. Louis’s odds and ends like no other.
Download or read book Private Acts of the State of Tennessee Passed by the General Assembly written by Tennessee and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 2682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1962 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
Download or read book The Family written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geography of the Northern Ozark Border Region in Missouri written by James E. Collier and published by Columbia : Curators of the University of Missouri. This book was released on 1953 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study of the northern border subdivision of the Ozark region in Missouri seeks to describe the major physical characteristics and patterns of the area and to analyze the economic activities of it its inhabitants in terms of the natural setting. The objectives of this study are to analyze the geographic character of the Northern Ozark Border Region, to determine elements of unity and disunity, and to define its relations to bordering regions. The basic elements of the physical environment are analyzed, and economic activities are examined in their physical setting and regional location"--Preface.
Download or read book Acts Passed at the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee written by Tennessee and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 2644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Franklin County Pennsylvania written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ozark Folklore written by Vance Randolph and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book German American Relations and German Culture in America written by Arthur R. Schultz and published by Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus International Publications. This book was released on 1984 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "work is organized by subject. Materials are grouped under twelve main sections in the body of the work, with appropriate subdivisions and subtopics within each main subject. Each section is assigned a two-letter designation, and entries are numbered consecutively within each section. This subject code system was designed to facilitate referals from the Index to the main body of the text, and to allow for cross-referencing between sections."--Introduction.
Download or read book Bibliography of Place name Literature written by Richard Burl Sealock and published by Chicago : American Library Association. This book was released on 1967 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Place Names of New Mexico written by Robert Julyan and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1996-08-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Place Names of New Mexico is an invaluable guide to the state's geography and history. It explains more than 7,000 names of features large and small throughout the state--towns, mountains, rivers, canyons, counties, post offices, and even abandoned settlements--as well as providing relevant information about location, history, and current status. The revised edition contains more than fifty expanded and updated entries. The accounts are also journeys into New Mexico's past, offering glimpses of the lives and values of the people who named the place. Humor, tragedy, mystery, and daily life--they can all be found in this book.
