Download or read book Plantations of Virginia written by Charlene C. Giannetti and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern plantations are an endless source of fascination. That’s no surprise since these palatial homes are rich in history, representing a pivotal time in U.S. history that truly is “gone with the wind.” With the Civil War literally exploding all around, many of these homes were occupied either by Confederate or Union troops. Nowhere else in the south were plantations so affected by the nation’s bloodiest war than in Virginia. At times, families fled, leaving behind slaves to manage the property. There are still more than 60 plantations in Virginia today, most of them open to the public. Some have been restored, others undergoing that process. If only the walls could talk, the stories we might hear! That’s what we hope to bring into this book on The Plantations of Virginia. We’ll take the tours and talk to the guides and dig even further if there is more to discover. We hope that travelers will be enlightened before they travel to Virginia, their visits will thus be enriched, and that residents will equally love exploring this deep history of Virginia. Accompanying the text will be photographs, taken by one of the authors, showing, in all their splendor, the exteriors of these plantations, as well as areas of interest inside the buildings.
Download or read book Eppington on the Appomattox written by Martha W. McCartney and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eppington on the Appomattox" is the story of the founding and evolution from the mid 1700s of Eppington Plantation of Chesterfield County, Virginia. It includes, as well, the associated family history of Eppington's founder, Francis Eppes VI, who married Thomas Jefferson's sister-in-law. The author, noted colonial Virginia researcher and historian Martha W. McCartney, describes the Native American and Tidewater Virginia background of the Eppington lands, identifies the Eppes family's English and colonial American roots, places Eppington's creation in the context of evolving colonial life along the James and Appomattox Rivers, and traces the economic and social forces influencing Eppington's development. McCartney also points out the role of slavery in Eppington's agricultural success; explores the fascinating relationship between the Eppes and Jefferson families, including many Eppington visits and extended stays of Thomas Jefferson and his daughters; reports on details of construction, modification, and expansion of the plantation house itself, which today still stands and is open to limited public visitation; and documents successive Eppington occupants and owners from the Eppes family to the present day, including the Thweatt, Cox, Hinds and Cherry families and public ownership by Chesterfield County government. The book also is amply illustrated and features an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
Download or read book Sketches in Lavender Blue and Green written by Jerome Klapka Jerome and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Haunted Places in the American South written by Alan Brown and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Alan Brown wrote Haunted Places in the American South, only the locals knew what was lurking in these locations. Slamming doors, eerie lights, and Confederate soldiers' ghosts kept some folks too scared to talk with outsiders. Above Peavey Melody Music in Meridian, Mississippi, children may be heard giggling and running down an abandoned hallway that turns icy cold. At the Jameson Inn in Crestview, Florida, an apparition appears on surveillance tapes after filling the lobby with sweet-smelling cigar smoke. Seldom told and rarely—if ever—printed stories such as these join tales from haunted inns, mansions, forests, ravines, and prisons to create Haunted Places in the American South. The book collects ghost stories from fifty-five historically haunted sites in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Alan Brown gathered these stories from newspapers, magazines, museum directors, archaeologists, hotel managers, and many others who shared their disturbing experiences. Most of these stories have never appeared in book form, and some, such as the haunting of Peavey Melody Music, have never been published at all. Haunted Places in the American South differs from most other collections of southern ghost stories, for the featured sites include more than just haunted houses. Bridges, forts, governors' mansions, prisons, hotels, woods, theaters, cemeteries, and even a large rock are included as focal points for these tales. The book provides directions to the sites, notes, and a bibliography that will be useful to folklore scholars and to travelers seeking that cold and creepy brush with the supernatural.
Download or read book Collected Short Stories I written by Jerome J.K. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. "Collected Short Stories" is a series of sketchy tales of relationships and acquaintences. These are gentle, undemanding stories of couples in love, several men with peculiar character traits and anecdotal mishaps.
Download or read book The Idler written by Jerome Klapka Jerome and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Short Stories I written by Jerome J.K. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. This short story collection includes Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green, Malvina of Brittany and Other Stories. Malvina of Brittany is a highly entertaining work that describes the life of Malvina, the Queen's attendant. The book also includes such interesting stories like "Reginald Blake", "Financier and Cad", "An item of Fashionable Intelligence" and others.
Download or read book Colonial Williamsburg written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thomas Jefferson on Wine written by John R. Hailman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A connoisseur's compendium of a great American's passion for fine wine
Download or read book Sketches in Lavender Blue and Green written by Jerome K. Jerome and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book Jefferson s Daughters written by Catherine Kerrison and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s three daughters—two white and free, one black and enslaved—and the divergent paths they forged in a newly independent America FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON PRIZE • “Beautifully written . . . To a nuanced study of Jefferson’s two white daughters, Martha and Maria, [Kerrison] innovatively adds a discussion of his only enslaved daughter, Harriet Hemings.”—The New York Times Book Review Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet by his slave Sally Hemings. Although the three women shared a father, the similarities end there. Martha and Maria received a fine convent school education while they lived with their father during his diplomatic posting in Paris. Once they returned home, however, the sisters found their options limited by the laws and customs of early America. Harriet Hemings followed a different path. She escaped slavery—apparently with the assistance of Jefferson himself. Leaving Monticello behind, she boarded a coach and set off for a decidedly uncertain future. For this groundbreaking triple biography, history scholar Catherine Kerrison has uncovered never-before-published documents written by the Jefferson sisters, as well as letters written by members of the Jefferson and Hemings families. The richly interwoven stories of these strong women and their fight to shape their own destinies shed new light on issues of race and gender that are still relevant today—and on the legacy of one of our most controversial Founding Fathers. Praise for Jefferson’s Daughters “A fascinating glimpse of where we have been as a nation . . . Catherine Kerrison tells us the stories of three of Thomas Jefferson’s children, who, due to their gender and race, lived lives whose most intimate details are lost to time.”—USA Today “A valuable addition to the history of Revolutionary-era America.”—The Boston Globe “A thought-provoking nonfiction narrative that reads like a novel.”—BookPage
Download or read book Historic Virginia Homes and Churches written by Robert Alexander Lancaster and published by Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company. This book was released on 1915 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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