Download or read book History of Burlington and Mercer Counties New Jersey written by Evan Morrison Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iron Rails in the Garden State written by Anthony J. Bianculli and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating stories of New Jersey's rich railroading history
Download or read book Ghosts of Burlington County written by Jan Lynn Bastien and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The picturesque waters of the Mullica and the Delaware River belie the dark past of Burlington County. Legends of ghosts and spirits are all that remain of this troubled history. A blue ghost sings in the piano room of the Barclay Haines Homestead on the banks of the beautiful Rancocas. The Burlington County Lyceum of History and Natural Sciences in Mount Holly houses some most unnatural "artifacts." Riverside's eerie Keystone Watch Case Tower, just thirteen miles north of Philadelphia, stands as a reminder to the lives lost in the harsh course of industrialization in the area. Join local legends expert Jan Lynn Bastien as she explores the haunted history of Roebling, Pemberton, Eastampton and other Burlington County communities.
Download or read book Smithville written by Dennis McDonald and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1865, industrialist/inventor Hezekiah Bradley Smith purchased Shreveville, later renamed Smithville, an abandoned textile mill and town located along the Rancocas Creek in Burlington County, for $20,000. He moved many workers from his Lowell, Massachusetts, plant to the new location, rebuilt the factory, and prepared it for the manufacture of his patented iron woodworking machinery. Smith began to improve the aging housing in the surrounding village. He opened a school and, later, constructed a new school building. Smith erected a boardinghouse for factory workers that contained shops and a concert hall. Through farming on land adjacent to his mansion, he made fresh produce and milk available to his workers. Smith's company also expanded into new industries by working with outside inventors, like George Washington Pressey, who needed a manufacturer for his American Star Bicycle. Later, Arthur Hotchkiss contacted the company to build the world's first bicycle railroad to transport workers from Mount Holly to the Smithville factory. This book captures life in the village and factory, memorializing the intertwining lives of the Smithville workers and H.B. Smith through photographs.
Download or read book Blackbeard the Pirate and Other Stories of the Pine Barrens written by Larona C. Homer and published by B B& A Publishers. This book was released on 1979 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories set in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, featuring both real people and legendary figures who were connected with the area.
Download or read book History and Present Condition of the Newspaper and Periodical Press of the United States written by Simon Newton Dexter North and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Wheelways written by Robert L. McCullough and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How American bicyclists shaped the landscape and left traces of their journeys for us in writing, illustrations, and photographs. In the later part of the nineteenth century, American bicyclists were explorers, cycling through both charted and uncharted territory. These wheelmen and wheelwomen became keen observers of suburban and rural landscapes, and left copious records of their journeys—in travel narratives, journalism, maps, photographs, illustrations. They were also instrumental in the construction of roads and paths (“wheelways”)—building them, funding them, and lobbying legislators for them. Their explorations shaped the landscape and the way we look at it, yet with few exceptions their writings have been largely overlooked by landscape scholars, and many of the paths cyclists cleared have disappeared. In Old Wheelways, Robert McCullough restores the pioneering cyclists of the nineteenth century to the history of American landscapes. McCullough recounts marathon cycling trips around the Northeast undertaken by hardy cyclists, who then describe their journeys in such magazines as The Wheelman Illustrated and Bicycling World; the work of illustrators (including Childe Hassam, before his fame as a painter); efforts by cyclists to build better rural roads and bicycle paths; and conflicts with park planners, including the famous Olmsted Firm, who often opposed separate paths for bicycles. Today's ubiquitous bicycle lanes owe their origins to nineteenth century versions, including New York City's “asphalt ribbons.” Long before there were “rails to trails,” there was a movement to adapt existing passageways—including aqueduct corridors, trolley rights-of-way, and canal towpaths—for bicycling. The campaigns for wheelways, McCullough points out, offer a prologue to nearly every obstacle faced by those advocating bicycle paths and lanes today. McCullough's text is enriched by more than one hundred historic images of cyclists (often attired in skirts and bonnets, suits and ties), country lanes, and city streets.
Download or read book A History of Inventing New Jersey written by Linda J Barth and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans are familiar with Thomas Edison's "invention factory" in Menlo Park, where he patented the phonograph, the light bulb and more than one thousand other items. Yet many other ideas have grown in the Garden State, too. New Jerseyans brought sound and music to movies and built the very first drive-in theater. In addition to the first cultivated blueberry, tasty treats like ice cream cones and M&Ms are also Jersey natives. Iconic aspects of American life, like the batting cage, catcher's mask and even professional baseball itself, started in New Jersey. Life would be a lot harder without the vacuum cleaner, plastic and Band-Aids, and many important advances in medicine and surgery were also developed here. Join author Linda Barth as she explores groundbreaking, useful, fun and even silly inventions and their New Jersey roots.
Download or read book Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey written by Francis Bazley Lee and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada written by American Association for State and Local History and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-functional reference is a useful tool to find information about history-related organizations and programs and to contact those working in history across the country.
Download or read book A Report to the President and the Congress of the United States written by United States. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Standard American Encyclopedia of Arts Sciences History Biography Geography Statistics and General Knowledge written by John Clark Ridpath and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of New Jersey written by Thomas Francis Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History and present condition of the newspaper and periodical press of the United States with a catalogue of the publications of the census year by S N D North written by United States census office and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Builder written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bicycle written by David V. Herlihy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century's "mechanical horse" offered an exciting new world of transportation for all and ushered in an era of changes that resonates to the present day, changes cataloged and described in a fascinating history of an engineering marvel.
Download or read book Periodical Source Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
