Author: Alexia Jones Helsley
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439666261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
From a home to the fierce Westo tribe to a hub of the equestrian industry, Aiken County has had a huge influence on South Carolina. And some of the structures that mark that history have disappeared. More than two hundred years ago, the Horse Creek Chickasaw Squirrel King held court near North Augusta. The first locomotive built for public transportation, the "Best Friend" from Charleston to Hamburg, first ran in the area. The home of noted businessman Richard Flint Howe hosted both the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and students of the University of South Carolina Aiken. William Gregg and the Graniteville Mill helped shape the textile industry in the state. Author Alexia Jones Helsley details the lost history of Aiken County.
Lost Aiken County
Author: Alexia Jones Helsley
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439666261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
From a home to the fierce Westo tribe to a hub of the equestrian industry, Aiken County has had a huge influence on South Carolina. And some of the structures that mark that history have disappeared. More than two hundred years ago, the Horse Creek Chickasaw Squirrel King held court near North Augusta. The first locomotive built for public transportation, the "Best Friend" from Charleston to Hamburg, first ran in the area. The home of noted businessman Richard Flint Howe hosted both the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and students of the University of South Carolina Aiken. William Gregg and the Graniteville Mill helped shape the textile industry in the state. Author Alexia Jones Helsley details the lost history of Aiken County.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439666261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
From a home to the fierce Westo tribe to a hub of the equestrian industry, Aiken County has had a huge influence on South Carolina. And some of the structures that mark that history have disappeared. More than two hundred years ago, the Horse Creek Chickasaw Squirrel King held court near North Augusta. The first locomotive built for public transportation, the "Best Friend" from Charleston to Hamburg, first ran in the area. The home of noted businessman Richard Flint Howe hosted both the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and students of the University of South Carolina Aiken. William Gregg and the Graniteville Mill helped shape the textile industry in the state. Author Alexia Jones Helsley details the lost history of Aiken County.
Hidden History of Aiken County
Author: Tom Mack
Publisher: Hidden History
ISBN: 9781609496906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Situated between the mountains and the coast, Aiken County attracted ailing members of the southern planter class once the railroad from Charleston to Hamburg was completed in 1833. After the Civil War, grand hotels and sporting activities drew wealthy northern capitalists south for the winter here. A third era of prosperity came in the 1950s, when the Cold War prompted the construction of a nuclear reservation. Local author Tom Mack uncovers the lesser-known stories behind the major events that shaped the area's colorful past. Meet inventor James Legare, political insider George Croft and singing sensation Arthur Lee Simpkins. Learn about the controversial Graniteville murder of 1876 and how an abdicated king found solace in Aiken in 1936. And discover so many more interesting stories.
Publisher: Hidden History
ISBN: 9781609496906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Situated between the mountains and the coast, Aiken County attracted ailing members of the southern planter class once the railroad from Charleston to Hamburg was completed in 1833. After the Civil War, grand hotels and sporting activities drew wealthy northern capitalists south for the winter here. A third era of prosperity came in the 1950s, when the Cold War prompted the construction of a nuclear reservation. Local author Tom Mack uncovers the lesser-known stories behind the major events that shaped the area's colorful past. Meet inventor James Legare, political insider George Croft and singing sensation Arthur Lee Simpkins. Learn about the controversial Graniteville murder of 1876 and how an abdicated king found solace in Aiken in 1936. And discover so many more interesting stories.
Report of State Officers, Board and Committees to the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina
Author: South Carolina. General Assembly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1686
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1686
Book Description
Reports and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina
Author: South Carolina
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
Book Description
The early years include principally resolutions, with few reports.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
Book Description
The early years include principally resolutions, with few reports.
Reports of State Officers, Boards and Committees to the General Assembly
Author: South Carolina
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
Book Description
The Lost Freedmen's Town of Hamburg, South Carolina
Author: Michael S. Smith
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439672318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Hamburg is perhaps South Carolina's most famous ghost town. Founded in 1821, it grew to four thousand residents before transportation advances led to decline. During Reconstruction, recently freed slaves reshaped Hamburg into a freedmen's village, where residents held local, county and state offices. These gains were wiped away after the Hamburg Massacre in 1876, a watershed event that left seven African Americans dead, most of them executed in cold blood. Yet more than a century after Hamburg, the one white supremacist killed in the melee is canonized by the racially divisive Meriwether Monument in downtown North Augusta. Author Michael Smith details the amazing events that created this unique community with a lasting legacy.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439672318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Hamburg is perhaps South Carolina's most famous ghost town. Founded in 1821, it grew to four thousand residents before transportation advances led to decline. During Reconstruction, recently freed slaves reshaped Hamburg into a freedmen's village, where residents held local, county and state offices. These gains were wiped away after the Hamburg Massacre in 1876, a watershed event that left seven African Americans dead, most of them executed in cold blood. Yet more than a century after Hamburg, the one white supremacist killed in the melee is canonized by the racially divisive Meriwether Monument in downtown North Augusta. Author Michael Smith details the amazing events that created this unique community with a lasting legacy.
Lost
Author: Tim Rayborn
Publisher:
ISBN: 1646433661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
With puzzling disappearances that bewilder investigators to this day and infamous cold cases that will chill you to the bone, Lost is a compendium of the most compelling missing persons cases in history. From planes that took off and never touched down to kidnappings, murders, and people who seem to have vanished into thin air, there are many mysteries to untangle -- jump into the evidence left behind, and ponder the lost souls who disappeared without a trace.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1646433661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
With puzzling disappearances that bewilder investigators to this day and infamous cold cases that will chill you to the bone, Lost is a compendium of the most compelling missing persons cases in history. From planes that took off and never touched down to kidnappings, murders, and people who seem to have vanished into thin air, there are many mysteries to untangle -- jump into the evidence left behind, and ponder the lost souls who disappeared without a trace.
Politics Lost
Author: Joe Klein
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767916018
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
People on the right are furious. People on the left are livid. And the center isn’t holding. There is only one thing on which almost everyone agrees: there is something very wrong in Washington. The country is being run by pollsters. Few politicians are able to win the voters’ trust. Blame abounds and personal responsibility is nowhere to be found. There is a cynicism in Washington that appalls those in every state, red or blue. The question is: Why? The more urgent question is: What can be done about it? Few people are more qualified to deal with both questions than Joe Klein. There are many loud and opinionated voices on the political scene, but no one sees or writes with the clarity that this respected observer brings to the table. He has spent a lifetime enmeshed in politics, studying its nuances, its quirks, and its decline. He is as angry and fed up as the rest of us, so he has decided to do something about it—in these pages, he vents, reconstructs, deconstructs, and reveals how and why our leaders are less interested in leading than they are in the “permanent campaign” that political life has become. The book opens with a stirring anecdote from the night of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. Klein re-creates the scene of Robert Kennedy’s appearance in a black neighborhood in Indianapolis, where he gave a gut-wrenching, poetic speech that showed respect for the audience, imparted dignity to all who listened, and quelled a potential riot. Appearing against the wishes of his security team, it was one of the last truly courageous and spontaneous acts by an American politician—and it is no accident that Klein connects courage to spontaneity. From there, Klein begins his analysis—campaign by campaign—of how things went wrong. From the McGovern campaign polling techniques to Roger Ailes’s combative strategy for Nixon; from Reagan’s reinvention of the Republican Party to Lee Atwater’s equally brilliant reinvention of behind-the-scenes strategizing; from Jimmy Carter to George H. W. Bush to Bill Clinton to George W.—as well as inside looks at the losing sides—we see how the Democrats become diffuse and frightened, how the system becomes unbalanced, and how politics becomes less and less about ideology and more and more about how to gain and keep power. By the end of one of the most dismal political runs in history—Kerry’s 2004 campaign for president—we understand how such traits as courage, spontaneity, and leadership have disappeared from our political landscape. In a fascinating final chapter, the author refuses to give easy answers since the push for easy answers has long been part of the problem. But he does give thoughtful solutions that just may get us out of this mess—especially if any of the 2008 candidates happen to be paying attention.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767916018
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
People on the right are furious. People on the left are livid. And the center isn’t holding. There is only one thing on which almost everyone agrees: there is something very wrong in Washington. The country is being run by pollsters. Few politicians are able to win the voters’ trust. Blame abounds and personal responsibility is nowhere to be found. There is a cynicism in Washington that appalls those in every state, red or blue. The question is: Why? The more urgent question is: What can be done about it? Few people are more qualified to deal with both questions than Joe Klein. There are many loud and opinionated voices on the political scene, but no one sees or writes with the clarity that this respected observer brings to the table. He has spent a lifetime enmeshed in politics, studying its nuances, its quirks, and its decline. He is as angry and fed up as the rest of us, so he has decided to do something about it—in these pages, he vents, reconstructs, deconstructs, and reveals how and why our leaders are less interested in leading than they are in the “permanent campaign” that political life has become. The book opens with a stirring anecdote from the night of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. Klein re-creates the scene of Robert Kennedy’s appearance in a black neighborhood in Indianapolis, where he gave a gut-wrenching, poetic speech that showed respect for the audience, imparted dignity to all who listened, and quelled a potential riot. Appearing against the wishes of his security team, it was one of the last truly courageous and spontaneous acts by an American politician—and it is no accident that Klein connects courage to spontaneity. From there, Klein begins his analysis—campaign by campaign—of how things went wrong. From the McGovern campaign polling techniques to Roger Ailes’s combative strategy for Nixon; from Reagan’s reinvention of the Republican Party to Lee Atwater’s equally brilliant reinvention of behind-the-scenes strategizing; from Jimmy Carter to George H. W. Bush to Bill Clinton to George W.—as well as inside looks at the losing sides—we see how the Democrats become diffuse and frightened, how the system becomes unbalanced, and how politics becomes less and less about ideology and more and more about how to gain and keep power. By the end of one of the most dismal political runs in history—Kerry’s 2004 campaign for president—we understand how such traits as courage, spontaneity, and leadership have disappeared from our political landscape. In a fascinating final chapter, the author refuses to give easy answers since the push for easy answers has long been part of the problem. But he does give thoughtful solutions that just may get us out of this mess—especially if any of the 2008 candidates happen to be paying attention.
The Lost Garden
Author: Jane Aiken Hodge
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913099282
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Caroline stood beside her chair and looked out at the world she knew. Something very strange was happening. Young Caroline Thorpe has noticed that her world is changing. Strangers have been coming to visit and mysterious packages have been arriving - then, suddenly, she is whisked away from her home... and everything she thinks she knows. Unbeknownst to Caroline, she is in fact the illegitimate child of the Duke of Cley. But arriving at the Duke's stately hope proves less than a fairy-tale ending: Caroline is faced with bitter jealousies and petty resentments upon joining the household. Caught up in a whirlwind of illicit romance and forbidden desires, Caroline struggles to know who's on her side. Inspired by the true story of the Duchess of Devonshire and Lady Elizabeth Foster, The Lost Garden titillates with its reimagining of life in this scandalous and unconventional family. The Lost Garden is the last instalment of the Purchas Family series and was first published in 1982.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913099282
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Caroline stood beside her chair and looked out at the world she knew. Something very strange was happening. Young Caroline Thorpe has noticed that her world is changing. Strangers have been coming to visit and mysterious packages have been arriving - then, suddenly, she is whisked away from her home... and everything she thinks she knows. Unbeknownst to Caroline, she is in fact the illegitimate child of the Duke of Cley. But arriving at the Duke's stately hope proves less than a fairy-tale ending: Caroline is faced with bitter jealousies and petty resentments upon joining the household. Caught up in a whirlwind of illicit romance and forbidden desires, Caroline struggles to know who's on her side. Inspired by the true story of the Duchess of Devonshire and Lady Elizabeth Foster, The Lost Garden titillates with its reimagining of life in this scandalous and unconventional family. The Lost Garden is the last instalment of the Purchas Family series and was first published in 1982.
South Carolina, 2000
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description