Author: William Macbeth Pierce
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Category : Hancock County (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Author: John H. Binford
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Category : Greenfield (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Author: Jane Crosen
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ISBN: 9781734640205
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Imagine you're in Hancock County; the year is 1881. With downeast Maine still in the age of sail, goods are shipped by coasting schooner; people get around in boats, by foot, horse and buggy, stagecoach, steamer, and scow ferry. Coastal towns are bustling with local industries-brickyards, shipyards, water-powered saw and grist mills, fishing, farming, lumbering. Quarries ship granite to markets near and far, and a mining boom is in full swing.Everyone who loves exploring downeast Maine, maps, history, old deeds, and genealogy will enjoy using and perusing this remarkably detailed historic Atlas, a fascinating time capsule of Hancock County in the last glow of a 19th-century coastal economy. Compiled and published by George N. Colby, the original Atlas was drawn in Ellsworth based on actual surveys and then-new U.S. Coast Survey charts, and engraved and printed in Philadelphia; only 350 copies were printed, now a collector's item. The new Coastwise Geographic Edition, a facsimile reprint, includes all the archival maps arranged in a more geographically consistent layout for today's users, with period photos, a preface for historic context, lively excerpts from an 1878 county survey complementing the town profiles, a bibliography of complementary sources, and an index of historic and current place names. In publishing the Coastwise Geographic Edition of Colby's Atlas, Jane Crosen, a Maine mapmaker with deep roots in Hancock County, is pleased to keep in print such an important documentation of downeast Maine's history and cultural landscape. Quality paperback with fabric binding, printed in black & white on cream paper with full-color covers, 70 pages, 12"x 153⁄4".

Author: Walter Adelbert Snow
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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The David Grindle family immigrated from England to Newcastle, New Hampshire in 1708, and descendants later moved to Maine.

Author: Samuel Wasson
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Category : Hancock County (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Author: Margaret McMullan
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ISBN: 9781944593100
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Insightful and heart-wrenching, Where the Angels Lived is the true story of a woman's relentless determination to pick up the pieces of her family's fragmented history throughout the Hungarian Holocaust. Straddling memoir and reportage, past and present, this story reminds us all that we can escape a country, but we can never escape history.

Author: Alexander McLean
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 790

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Author: Maria Bryan Harford Connell
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820317274
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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A refined and remarkably well-educated woman, Maria Bryan began corresponding with her sister when she was sixteen years old. As Carol Bleser points out in her introduction, Bryan travels, reads the popular books of the day, entertains visitors, and makes social calls. At the same time, however, notes Bleser, Bryan's letters belie popular notions about the privileged lives of "typical" planters' daughters in the antebellum South, for she also works at housekeeping, tends the sick at home and in the neighborhood, makes clothes for the family's slaves, and tutors younger siblings.

Author: Walter George Gingery
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: A.D. Smith
Publisher: Positive Gain Enterprises
ISBN: 9780977184026
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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