Author: Leland R. Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Falls City Engineers
Author: Leland R. Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Falls City Engineers
Author: Leland R. Johnson
Publisher:
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Category : Hydraulic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Annual report of the Illinois Society of Engineers and Surveyors (Incorporated). Proceedings of the Society at the ... annual meeting
Author: Illinois Society of Engineers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
List of engineers and surveyors in Illinois, in 9th-13, 18th-21st reports, 1894-98, 1903-06
Publisher:
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
List of engineers and surveyors in Illinois, in 9th-13, 18th-21st reports, 1894-98, 1903-06
The Kentucky River
Author: William E. Ellis
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813189896
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A sweeping cultural history, The Kentucky River reflects the rich tapestry of life along the banks. Flowing with tales of river ghosts and hidden treasures lying in the backwaters, the book records the myths and events the river has spawned. Bill Ellis also celebrates the Kentucky's influence on such figures as writer Wendell Berry and painter Paul Sawyier. Beginning with an intriguing overview of the river's formation and characteristics, Ellis shows how the stream has helped shape Kentucky's environment, economy, and political culture. In centuries past, flotillas of flatboats carried whiskey, pork, and valuable raw materials downriver to markets in Louisiana. Later, the river became a source of entertainment as showboats brought theater, movies, music, and dancing to otherwise isolated communities. The book describes the environmental impact of settlement, logging, mining, and industrialization, developments that have sometimes tainted the Kentucky's mighty waters with silt, sewage, and trash. In the last thirty years, however, Kentuckians have come together in major efforts to clean and preserve the Kentucky's waters and the life along its banks. Advocates for the river achieved a victory in protecting the stunning Kentucky River Palisades between Boonesborough and Frankfort, and efforts continue to preserve the irreplaceable river for future generations.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813189896
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A sweeping cultural history, The Kentucky River reflects the rich tapestry of life along the banks. Flowing with tales of river ghosts and hidden treasures lying in the backwaters, the book records the myths and events the river has spawned. Bill Ellis also celebrates the Kentucky's influence on such figures as writer Wendell Berry and painter Paul Sawyier. Beginning with an intriguing overview of the river's formation and characteristics, Ellis shows how the stream has helped shape Kentucky's environment, economy, and political culture. In centuries past, flotillas of flatboats carried whiskey, pork, and valuable raw materials downriver to markets in Louisiana. Later, the river became a source of entertainment as showboats brought theater, movies, music, and dancing to otherwise isolated communities. The book describes the environmental impact of settlement, logging, mining, and industrialization, developments that have sometimes tainted the Kentucky's mighty waters with silt, sewage, and trash. In the last thirty years, however, Kentuckians have come together in major efforts to clean and preserve the Kentucky's waters and the life along its banks. Advocates for the river achieved a victory in protecting the stunning Kentucky River Palisades between Boonesborough and Frankfort, and efforts continue to preserve the irreplaceable river for future generations.
Creativity, Conflict & Controversy
Author: Raymond H. Merritt
Publisher:
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Category : Dams
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Dams
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
A Young General and the Fall of Richmond
Author: G. William Quatman
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821445162
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Despite his military achievements and his association with many of the great names of American history, Godfrey Weitzel (1835–1884) is perhaps the least known of all the Union generals. After graduating from West Point, Weitzel, a German immigrant from Cincinnati, was assigned to the Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans. The secession of Louisiana in 1861, with its key port city of New Orleans, was the first of a long and unlikely series of events that propelled the young Weitzel to the center of many of the Civil War’s key battles and brought him into the orbit of such well-known personages as Lee, Beauregard, Butler, Farragut, Porter, Grant, and Lincoln. Weitzel quickly rose through the ranks and was promoted to brigadier general and, eventually to commander of Twenty-Fifth Corps, the Union Army’s only all-black unit. After fighting in numerous campaigns in Louisiana and Virginia, on April 3, 1865, Weitzel marched his troops into Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, capturing the city for the Union and precipitating the eventual collapse of the Southern states’ rebellion. G. William Quatman’s minute-by-minute narrative of the fall of Richmond lends new insight into the war’s end, and his keen research into archival sources adds depth and nuance to the events and the personalities that shaped the course of the Civil War.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821445162
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Despite his military achievements and his association with many of the great names of American history, Godfrey Weitzel (1835–1884) is perhaps the least known of all the Union generals. After graduating from West Point, Weitzel, a German immigrant from Cincinnati, was assigned to the Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans. The secession of Louisiana in 1861, with its key port city of New Orleans, was the first of a long and unlikely series of events that propelled the young Weitzel to the center of many of the Civil War’s key battles and brought him into the orbit of such well-known personages as Lee, Beauregard, Butler, Farragut, Porter, Grant, and Lincoln. Weitzel quickly rose through the ranks and was promoted to brigadier general and, eventually to commander of Twenty-Fifth Corps, the Union Army’s only all-black unit. After fighting in numerous campaigns in Louisiana and Virginia, on April 3, 1865, Weitzel marched his troops into Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, capturing the city for the Union and precipitating the eventual collapse of the Southern states’ rebellion. G. William Quatman’s minute-by-minute narrative of the fall of Richmond lends new insight into the war’s end, and his keen research into archival sources adds depth and nuance to the events and the personalities that shaped the course of the Civil War.
The Headwaters District Roundtables
Author: Leland R. Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Ohio River Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Author: Leland R. Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio River
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio River
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The Davis Island Lock and Dam, 1870-1922
Author: Leland R. Johnson
Publisher:
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Category : Dams
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dams
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Annual Report of the City Engineer
Author: Minneapolis. Engineering Department
Publisher:
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Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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