In the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains about 60 miles east of Pittsburgh, the fertility of Indiana County has provided its inhabitants for generations. Starting with predated Native American Ind
More than just a farming community turned residential over time, Southern Lehigh has a diverse past the includes mines, mills, factories, taverns, and baseball. A trip through the area today is like
Worcester, the ?Heart of the Commonwealth”, developed an extremely diverse industrial base. This diversity was a magnet for drawing immigrants from all parts of the world to work in the industries an
A photographic record of the past hundred years showing Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania throughout the twentieth century compared to the city as it is today.
Since the time of French and British fur hunters and traders, the river cities along the Ohio River have had their hand on the pulse of westward expansion across the United States
Bay View has a very rich and diverse history, so much so that it is impossible to cover all of its deserving scenes and stories here in this one book. In order to narrow it down a bit, this volume wil
Richmond is a city with a pedigree, a past that can be traced back to the first English settlers who landed at Jamestown in 1607. Yet the focus of this volume is the twentieth century, which was, by a
Most of Oregon east of the Cascade Mountains is a raw and inhospitable land, largely the product of recent volcanic activity. Railroad builders constructed a couple mainlines skirting the edges of th
This history of Newport News is about a new city in a new century—the twentieth century—with attention to the importance to the first years after incorporation to the nascent years of the twenty-first
On May 21, 1927 the Carquinez Bridge opened to traffic between Crockett and Vallejo, California. Just a few miles north of San Francisco, the Carquinez Bridge was the longest highway bridge in the wor
This family saga of westward migration is told through the voices of people who lived 100 years ago by means of letters, diaries, oral history and photographs. It includes a memoir of the author’s imp
Amelia Island: Birthplace of the Modern Shrimping Industry, tells the story of how a small barrier island community in Northeast Florida left its mark on a worldwide industry. At the beginning of the
Chicago's South Shore Line is a photographic essay of the last interurban electric railroad operating in the United States. Completed as the Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend Railway (CLS&SBR) connect
