Author: Richard DeLuca
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819571733
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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The fascinating history of turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys in Connecticut Post Roads & Iron Horses is the first book to look in detail at the turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys (street railroads) that helped define Connecticut and shape New England. Advances in transportation technology during the nineteenth century transformed the Constitution State from a rough network of colonial towns to an industrial powerhouse of the Gilded Age. From the race to build the Farmington Canal to the shift from water to rail transport, historian and transportation engineer Richard DeLuca gives us engaging stories and traces the significant themes that emerge as American innovators and financiers, lawyers and legislators, struggle to control the movement of passengers and goods in southern New England. The book contains over fifty historical images and maps, and provides an excellent point of view from which to interpret the history of New England as a whole. This is an indispensable reference book for those interested in Connecticut history and a great gift for transportation buffs of all kinds.
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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Author: Robert Bradford Marshall
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Category : Bench-marks
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Author: David Nevin
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765313980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Dream West is the New York Times bestselling fictional account of famed North America explorer John Charles Fremont, by David Nevin. Upon its release over twenty years ago, Dream West was deemed a classic novel of the American West by both critics and the reading public. Telling the amazing true story of America's famed explorer, John Charles Fremont, and his beloved supporter and muse, Jessie Benton, it quickly found its way onto the New York Times bestsellers list and adapted into a CBS mini-series starring Richard Chamberlain. Now available for the first time ever in trade paperback, Nevin's epic of adventure and discovery will once again give readers a chance to witness the passion of an early explorers dreams of the great unknown, and the love and perseverance that saw his dream come to life.
Author: William Henry Anderdon
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Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Author: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. Central Committee on Public Relations
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Author: Robert Bradford Marshall
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Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Author: Max R. Miller
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819577383
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 161
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The Connecticut Valley Railroad once carried both passengers and freight along the west bank of the Connecticut River between Hartford and Old Saybrook. Completed in 1871, today the railroad is known throughout New England for the nostalgic steam-powered excursion trains that run on a portion of the line between Essex and Chester. Until now the history of this popular tourist attraction has been the stuff of local lore and legend. This book, written by railroad historian and former vice president and director of Valley Railroad, Max R. Miller, provides the first comprehensive history of the Connecticut Valley Railroad through maps, ephemera, and archival photographs of the trains, bridges, and scenery surrounding the line. Offering tales of train wrecks, ghost sightings, booms and busts, Along the Valley Line will be treasured by railroad enthusiasts and historians alike.
Author: Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society
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Category : Cumberland (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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List of members included in each volume except v. 1.
