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Book 87th Annual Excursion of the Sandwich Historical Society

Download or read book 87th Annual Excursion of the Sandwich Historical Society written by and published by Sandwich Historical Society. This book was released on with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Georgetown

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  • Author : Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780738509761
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Georgetown written by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Referred to as "one of the prettiest and pleasantest places of all New England towns," Georgetown grew rapidly and, by the mid-nineteenth century, the population had risen dramatically. This town, "a pleasant and flourishing place," saw the Boston & Maine Railroad laid out in 1854, with depots at Pentucket Square and at Baldpate, and two street railways in 1896-the Haverhill, Georgetown & Danvers Line and the Georgetown, Rowley & Ipswich Line, both of which greatly facilitated the ease of transportation. Join the author in Georgetown as he takes you on a tour through the town's early years. Visit the schools and churches, the Old Home Week in 1909, the Georgetown Peabody Library, and the Baldpate Inn and Hospital. Experience the natural features, including Pentucket and Rock Ponds, and Bald Pate Hill, the highest elevation in Essex County. See the local tanneries during the pre-Civil War years, which produced enough leather for 32,300 pairs of boots and over 300,000 pairs of shoes.

Book Two Vermonts

Download or read book Two Vermonts written by Paul M. Searls and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Vermonts establishes a little-known fact about Vermont: that the state's fascination with tourism as a savior for a suffering economy is more than a century old, and that this interest in tourism has always been dogged by controversy. Through this lens, the book is poised to take its place as the standard work on Vermont in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. Searls examines the origins of Vermont's contemporary identity and some reasons why that identity ("Who is a Vermonter?") is to this day so hotly contested. Searls divides nineteenth-century Vermonters into conceptually "uphill," or rural/parochial, and "downhill," or urban/cosmopolitan, elements. These two groups, he says, negotiated modernity in distinct and contrary ways. The dissonance between their opposing tactical approaches to progress and change belied the pastoral ideal that contemporary urban Americans had come to associate with the romantic notion of "Vermont." Downhill Vermonters, espousing a vision of a mutually reinforcing relationship between tradition and progress, unilaterally endeavored to foster the pastoral ideal as a means of stimulating economic development. The hostile uphill resistance to this strategy engendered intense social conflict over issues including education, religion, and prohibition in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The story of Vermont's vigorous nineteenth-century quest for a unified identity bears witness to the stirring and convoluted forging of today's "Vermont." Searls's engaging exploration of this period of Vermont's history advances our understanding of the political, economic, and cultural transformation of all of rural America as industrial capitalism and modernity revolutionized the United States between 1865 and 1910. By the late Progressive Era, Vermont's reputation was rooted in the national yearning to keep society civil, personal, and meaningful in a world growing more informal, bureaucratic, and difficult to navigate. The fundamental ideological differences among Vermont communities are indicative of how elusive and frustrating efforts to balance progress and tradition were in the context of effectively negotiating capitalist transformation in contemporary America.

Book Annals of Old Home Week

Download or read book Annals of Old Home Week written by Pittsfield (N.H.) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transportation

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  • Author :
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  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1072 pages

Download or read book Transportation written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John Smith I the Miller 1595 1650 Thirteen Generations of Direct Descendants

Download or read book John Smith I the Miller 1595 1650 Thirteen Generations of Direct Descendants written by Joan Smith Gazzuolo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Vermonter

Download or read book The Vermonter written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Belmont

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  • Author : Diane M. Marden
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 0738545848
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Belmont written by Diane M. Marden and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belmont, originally the upper parish of Gilmanton, was laid out by proprietors in 1765. The first settlers began arriving before the beginning of the American Revolution. It was not until 1790 that Belmont Village was settled, when Joseph Fellows built the first sawmill and gristmill. Shortly thereafter, a store, blacksmith shop, and post office became the nucleus around which the village of Fellows Mills developed. In 1825, William Badger, who later became governor of New Hampshire, acquired the mills. In 1832, Badger was instrumental in building the brick cotton mill, which is today's Belmont Mill. Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, this mill was the town's primary employer.

Book Family and Community Life in Northeastern Ontario

Download or read book Family and Community Life in Northeastern Ontario written by Françoise Noël and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How people lived, played, and celebrated when radio was new, dance bands the rage, and Quintland the place to visit.

Book Reports

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  • Author : New Hampshire
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1901
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1424 pages

Download or read book Reports written by New Hampshire and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report

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  • Author : New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1901
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 560 pages

Download or read book Report written by New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report

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  • Author : New Hampshire. Dept. of Agriculture
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1901
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 560 pages

Download or read book Report written by New Hampshire. Dept. of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States

Download or read book Handbook of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States written by William A. Kretzschmar and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-09-15 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who uses "skeeter hawk," "snake doctor," and "dragonfly" to refer to the same insect? Who says "gum band" instead of "rubber band"? The answers can be found in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS), the largest single survey of regional and social differences in spoken American English. It covers the region from New York state to northern Florida and from the coastline to the borders of Ohio and Kentucky. Through interviews with nearly twelve hundred people conducted during the 1930s and 1940s, the LAMSAS mapped regional variations in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation at a time when population movements were more limited than they are today, thus providing a unique look at the correspondence of language and settlement patterns. This handbook is an essential guide to the LAMSAS project, laying out its history and describing its scope and methodology. In addition, the handbook reveals biographical information about the informants and social histories of the communities in which they lived, including primary settlement areas of the original colonies. Dialectologists will rely on it for understanding the LAMSAS, and historians will find it valuable for its original historical research. Since much of the LAMSAS questionnaire concerns rural terms, the data collected from the interviews can pinpoint such language differences as those between areas of plantation and small-farm agriculture. For example, LAMSAS reveals that two waves of settlement through the Appalachians created two distinct speech types. Settlers coming into Georgia and other parts of the Upper South through the Shenandoah Valley and on to the western side of the mountain range had a Pennsylvania-influenced dialect, and were typically small farmers. Those who settled the Deep South in the rich lowlands and plateaus tended to be plantation farmers from Virginia and the Carolinas who retained the vocabulary and speech patterns of coastal areas. With these revealing findings, the LAMSAS represents a benchmark study of the English language, and this handbook is an indispensable guide to its riches.

Book Historic Elizabeth  1664 1914

Download or read book Historic Elizabeth 1664 1914 written by Warren Rogers Dix and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Illustrated Milliner

Download or read book The Illustrated Milliner written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: