Author: Dan Dixey
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ISBN: 9780999107423
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Languages : en
Pages :
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This book is a four hundred year timeline of events of Marblehead, Massachusetts. There are stories based on the experiences and observations of one family continuously living in Town. William Dixey was a servant of Isaac Johnson and arrived in Naumkeag in 1629. The Dixey family settled in Marblehead and has lived in this coastal town for almost four hundred years. The author is also a descendant of Isaac Allerton, a Mayflower passenger that used Marblehead as a base for his fishing fleet. Along with the timeline and stories, are four hundred and twenty photographs and maps from the author's private collection. Thirty pages of genealogy in the back of the book show connections to most of Marblehead's old families. Hundreds of names are listed, with some families going back to the late 1500s. Old books, documents, town records, probate records, wills, old newspapers, interviews with Marbleheaders, family letters and other family documents were used in writing the book.
Author: Samuel Roads
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ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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The History and Traditions of Marblehead by Samuel Roads, first published in 1880, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author: Joseph Everett Chandler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Author: Mary H. Northend
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734048133
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Reproduction of the original: Historic Homes by Mary H. Northend
Author: Mary Harrod Northend
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Colonial
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Author: Hugh Howard
Publisher: Artisan Books
ISBN: 1579655106
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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Presents a tour of the houses belonging to some of America's early leaders, sharing an inside look at the domestic world of the Founding Fathers to chronicle their private lives, families, culture, interests, and aspirations.
Author: Library of Congress
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ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1480
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Author: John Fitzhugh Millar
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786479620
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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Perhaps the most important architect ever to have worked in America, Peter Harrison's renown suffers from the destruction of most of his papers when he died in 1775. He was born in Yorkshire, England in 1716 and trained to be an architect as a teenager. He also became a ship captain, and soon sailed to ports in America, where he began designing some of the most iconic buildings of the continent. In a clandestine operation, he procured the plans for the French Canadian fortress of Louisbourg, enabling Massachusetts Governor William Shirley to capture it in 1745. This setback forced the French to halt their operation to capture all of British America and to give up British territory they had captured in India. As a result, he was rewarded with commissions to design important buildings in Britain and in nearly all British colonies around the world, and he became the first person ever to have designed buildings on six continents. He designed mostly in a neo-Palladian style, and invented a way of building wooden structures so as to look like carved stone--"wooden rustication." He also designed some of America's most valuable furniture, including inventing the coveted "block-front," and introducing the bombe motif. In America, he lived in Newport, Rhode Island, and in New Haven, Connecticut, where he died at the beginning of the War of Independence.
Author: Frank B. Sarles
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ISBN:
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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