Author: Crisfield Johnson
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Category : Washington County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 816
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History of Washington Co., New York
Author: Crisfield Johnson
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Category : Washington County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 816
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Publisher:
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Category : Washington County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 816
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The Salem Book
Author: Salem Historical Committee (Salem, N.Y.)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781939216021
Category : Salem (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781939216021
Category : Salem (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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History of Washington County, Iowa
Author: Howard A. Burrell
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Category : Washington County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Category : Washington County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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History of Washington County
Author: Alfred Creigh
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Category : Mason-Dixon Line
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Category : Mason-Dixon Line
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Washington County, New York
Author: William Leete Stone
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Category : Washington County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Category : Washington County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Crossing Broadway
Author: Robert W. Snyder
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801455170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear. It shows how a neighborhood once nicknamed "Frankfurt on the Hudson" for its large population of German Jews became "Quisqueya Heights"—the home of the nation's largest Dominican community. The story of Washington Heights illuminates New York City's long passage from the Great Depression and World War II through the urban crisis to the globalization and economic inequality of the twenty-first century. Washington Heights residents played crucial roles in saving their neighborhood, but its future as a home for working-class and middle-class people is by no means assured. The growing gap between rich and poor in contemporary New York puts new pressure on the Heights as more affluent newcomers move into buildings that once sustained generations of wage earners and the owners of small businesses. Crossing Broadway is based on historical research, reporting, and oral histories. Its narrative is powered by the stories of real people whose lives illuminate what was won and lost in northern Manhattan's journey from the past to the present. A tribute to a great American neighborhood, this book shows how residents learned to cross Broadway—over the decades a boundary that has separated black and white, Jews and Irish, Dominican-born and American-born—and make common cause in pursuit of one of the most precious rights: the right to make a home and build a better life in New York City.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801455170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear. It shows how a neighborhood once nicknamed "Frankfurt on the Hudson" for its large population of German Jews became "Quisqueya Heights"—the home of the nation's largest Dominican community. The story of Washington Heights illuminates New York City's long passage from the Great Depression and World War II through the urban crisis to the globalization and economic inequality of the twenty-first century. Washington Heights residents played crucial roles in saving their neighborhood, but its future as a home for working-class and middle-class people is by no means assured. The growing gap between rich and poor in contemporary New York puts new pressure on the Heights as more affluent newcomers move into buildings that once sustained generations of wage earners and the owners of small businesses. Crossing Broadway is based on historical research, reporting, and oral histories. Its narrative is powered by the stories of real people whose lives illuminate what was won and lost in northern Manhattan's journey from the past to the present. A tribute to a great American neighborhood, this book shows how residents learned to cross Broadway—over the decades a boundary that has separated black and white, Jews and Irish, Dominican-born and American-born—and make common cause in pursuit of one of the most precious rights: the right to make a home and build a better life in New York City.
The Story of Hartford
Author: Isabella Brayton
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Washington Heights, Inwood, and Marble Hill
Author: James Renner
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738554785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The history of Washington Heights, Inwood, and Marble Hill is interesting not only because the communities played a major role in the American Revolution but because of their cultural and educational institutions and residents whose culture and ethnicity have contributed to the well-being of the area. These communities have always been a haven for immigrants who have come here to live and work since the pre-Columbian era. Native Americans came to trade goods, Jewish refugees came during the 1930s to flee the tyranny of the Nazis, and since the end of World War II there has been an influx of the Latino community. The area is also noted for its dolomitic Inwood marble, which has been quarried for government buildings in New York City and some of the federal buildings in Washington, D.C. Through vintage images, Washington Heights, Inwood, and Marble Hill illustrates the transformation of this area over the decades.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738554785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The history of Washington Heights, Inwood, and Marble Hill is interesting not only because the communities played a major role in the American Revolution but because of their cultural and educational institutions and residents whose culture and ethnicity have contributed to the well-being of the area. These communities have always been a haven for immigrants who have come here to live and work since the pre-Columbian era. Native Americans came to trade goods, Jewish refugees came during the 1930s to flee the tyranny of the Nazis, and since the end of World War II there has been an influx of the Latino community. The area is also noted for its dolomitic Inwood marble, which has been quarried for government buildings in New York City and some of the federal buildings in Washington, D.C. Through vintage images, Washington Heights, Inwood, and Marble Hill illustrates the transformation of this area over the decades.
Timber Rattlesnakes in Vermont & New York
Author: Jon Furman
Publisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1584656565
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
The fascinating, definitive chronicle of the timber rattlesnake and its fate in the northeast
Publisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1584656565
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
The fascinating, definitive chronicle of the timber rattlesnake and its fate in the northeast
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Publisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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