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Book Vincennes in Picture and Story

Download or read book Vincennes in Picture and Story written by J. Hodge and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bois de Vincennes

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  • Author : Nikoghos Sarafean
  • Publisher : Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan-Dearb
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9781934548028
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Bois de Vincennes written by Nikoghos Sarafean and published by Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan-Dearb. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bois de Vincennes is a personification of a park that tells the history of an entire people, depicting love, frustration, war, sometimes antiquated views of women, and philosophical musings. It is a complex attempt to understand the remarkable and tragic history of Armenians in the twentieth century, a book in which trees become murderers and saints, and where world history and personal history become one. Originally published in 1947 in the Armenian language, this is the first English translation.

Book French and British Land Grants in the Post Vincennes  Indiana  District  1750 1784

Download or read book French and British Land Grants in the Post Vincennes Indiana District 1750 1784 written by Clifford Neal Smith and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2004 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American State Papers are official government documents that were printed long before the creation of the U.S. Government Printing Office. Although these documents cover a myriad of issues (e.g., foreign affairs, commerce, etc.), for genealogists the most important categories are "Public Land" and "Claims," and it is upon these categories that this volume is based. These records range from mere lists of inhabitants, to lists of claimants, to land surveys, and to rejected claims. In many cases we also learn the name of a spouse or other relative and a description of a lot, usually stating its proximity to (the owners of) other lots. Nearly 3,000 French and British pioneers are named in this work, all of whom may be found in one or more of the name indexes.

Book Vincennes

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  • Author : Richard Day
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2006-04-19
  • ISBN : 1439632812
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Vincennes written by Richard Day and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-04-19 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first and oldest town in Indiana, Vincennes is rich in history. It had an important role in the American Revolution and later was the capital of the Indiana Territory. This book focuses on a more recent time, the years between 1930 and 1960the period of the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, and the post-war years. Fascinating views of stores, clubs, theaters, churches, factories, groceries, and gas stations, many of which are gone or greatly changed, are captured in Vincennes: 1930-1960. Some events in Vincennes remain the same, such as the Fourth of July fireworks display at the Clark Memorial and the high-school homecoming parade, and these images are displayed within these pages as well.

Book Lost Vincennes

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  • Author : Brian Spangle
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2023-04-10
  • ISBN : 1467153850
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Lost Vincennes written by Brian Spangle and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The closures of local stores, factories, schools, and movie theatres over the decades have left residents of Vincennes with only memories of what once was. Many fondly recall working at the Brown Shoe Factory, shopping at Gimbel-Bond, watching the latest movie at the Pantheon, or enjoying the rides at Uncle John's Kiddieland. Some significant buildings, such as the Pantheon, have survived and are now used for other purposes, but others have been razed, or otherwise destroyed, and disappeared with hardly a trace except for perhaps a historical marker. Collecting more than seventy period images, Sun-Commercial columnist Brian Spangle tells the story of these once thriving Vincennes landmarks that long ago passed from the scene.

Book A Visit to Vincennes  Indiana

Download or read book A Visit to Vincennes Indiana written by Paul R. Wonning and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vincennes, Indiana is steeped in Indiana history. The French established a trading post where the Buffalo Trace crossed the Wabash River in 1732. A Visit to Vincennes, Indiana provides the visitor to Vincennes a convenient tourism guide to the history and attractions of Vincennes, Indiana. The city continues to serve as the county seat of Knox County, Indiana with many things to see and do. Enjoy a road trip to Vincennes to learn its fascinating history. guide, knox, county, local, tourism, road trip

Book A Log of the Vincennes

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  • Author : Lt. Donald Hugh Dorris
  • Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
  • Release : 2018-02-27
  • ISBN : 1789120373
  • Pages : 670 pages

Download or read book A Log of the Vincennes written by Lt. Donald Hugh Dorris and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II The LOG begins with U.S. Sloop Vincennes, which, with the Columbus, was the first American ship to enter Tokyo Harbor (1846). A contemporaneous account of the shakedown cruise of the U.S. Cruiser Vincennes in 1937 and experiences of the ship before escorting the Hornet on the Doolittle-Tokyo expedition are given. The contents also include likenesses and biographical sketches of many men lost with the Vincennes; the Chaplain’s Log; experiences at Midway; and a statement concerning the third U.S. Vincennes, launched in 1944. Richly illustrated throughout with photographs and maps.

Book Hidden History of Vincennes   Knox County

Download or read book Hidden History of Vincennes Knox County written by Brian Spangle and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Fort Sackville appears in every history of Vincennes and Knox County, yet so much more defines this area. Everyone is familiar with George Rogers Clark, but few know about ordinary but accomplished figures like diplomat Hubbard Taylor Smith and Civil War veteran Joseph Roseman. The Stibbins murder of 1911 and other long-forgotten crimes once shocked the county, and visits by politicians and entertainers, including Buffalo Bill Cody, enthralled residents before quickly slipping from memory. Weather made history, too, such as the destructive hailstorm that pounded northern Knox County in 1907. With the help of rare photographs, local historian and Sun-Commercial columnist Brian Spangle brings to life these stories and more.

Book Sieur de Vincennes Identified

Download or read book Sieur de Vincennes Identified written by Pierre Georges Roy and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To Authorize Conveyance of Harrison Park  City of Vincennes  to Vincennes University

Download or read book To Authorize Conveyance of Harrison Park City of Vincennes to Vincennes University written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Harrison Engineering   Construction Corporation V  Vincennes Bridge Company

Download or read book Harrison Engineering Construction Corporation V Vincennes Bridge Company written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vincennes and S  vres Porcelain

Download or read book Vincennes and S vres Porcelain written by Adrian Sassoon and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1992-03-12 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents the Getty Museum's important holdings of Vincennes and Sèvres porcelain. Entries are arranged in chronological order and include descriptions, commentary, and a complete bibliography and exhibition list. Every object is illustrated in color and all incised and painted marks are reproduced. The volume also includes an index of painters, gilders, and previous owners.

Book Investigation Into the Downing of an Iranian Airliner by the U S S   Vincennes

Download or read book Investigation Into the Downing of an Iranian Airliner by the U S S Vincennes written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alice of Old Vincennes

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  • Author : Maurice Thompson
  • Publisher : Library of Alexandria
  • Release : 1900-01-01
  • ISBN : 1465505091
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book Alice of Old Vincennes written by Maurice Thompson and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1900-01-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up to the days of Indiana's early statehood, probably as late as 1825, there stood, in what is now the beautiful little city of Vincennes on the Wabash, the decaying remnant of an old and curiously gnarled cherry tree, known as the Roussillon tree, le cerisier de Monsieur Roussillon, as the French inhabitants called it, which as long as it lived bore fruit remarkable for richness of flavor and peculiar dark ruby depth of color. The exact spot where this noble old seedling from la belle France flourished, declined, and died cannot be certainly pointed out; for in the rapid and happy growth of Vincennes many land-marks once notable, among them le cerisier de Monsieur Roussillon, have been destroyed and the spots where they stood, once familiar to every eye in old Vincennes, are now lost in the pleasant confusion of the new town. The security of certain land titles may have largely depended upon the disappearance of old, fixed objects here and there. Early records were loosely kept, indeed, scarcely kept at all; many were destroyed by designing land speculators, while those most carefully preserved often failed to give even a shadowy trace of the actual boundaries of the estates held thereby; so that the position of a house or tree not infrequently settled an important question of property rights left open by a primitive deed. At all events the Roussillon cherry tree disappeared long ago, nobody living knows how, and with it also vanished, quite as mysteriously, all traces of the once important Roussillon estate. Not a record of the name even can be found, it is said, in church or county books. The old, twisted, gum-embossed cherry tree survived every other distinguishing feature of what was once the most picturesque and romantic place in Vincennes. Just north of it stood, in the early French days, a low, rambling cabin surrounded by rude verandas overgrown with grapevines. This was the Roussillon place, the most pretentious home in all the Wabash country. Its owner was Gaspard Roussillon, a successful trader with the Indians. He was rich, for the time and the place, influential to a degree, a man of some education, who had brought with him to the wilderness a bundle of books and a taste for reading. From faded letters and dimly remembered talk of those who once clung fondly to the legends and traditions of old Vincennes, it is drawn that the Roussillon cherry tree stood not very far away from the present site of the Catholic church, on a slight swell of ground overlooking a wide marshy flat and the silver current of the Wabash. If the tree grew there, then there too stood the Roussillon house with its cosy log rooms, its clay-daubed chimneys and its grapevine-mantled verandas, while some distance away and nearer the river the rude fort with its huddled officers' quarters seemed to fling out over the wild landscape, through its squinting and lopsided port-holes, a gaze of stubborn defiance. Not far off was the little log church, where one good Father Beret, or as named by the Indians, who all loved him, Father Blackrobe, performed the services of his sacred calling; and scattered all around were the cabins of traders, soldiers and woodsmen forming a queer little town, the like of which cannot now be seen anywhere on the earth. It is not known just when Vincennes was first founded; but most historians make the probable date very early in the eighteenth century, somewhere between 1710 and 1730. In 1810 the Roussillon cherry tree was thought by a distinguished botanical letter-writer to be at least fifty years old, which would make the date of its planting about 1760.