Author: Frederic James Wood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The Turnpikes of New England and Evolution of the Same Through England, Virginia, and Maryland
Author: Frederic James Wood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The Turnpikes of New England and Evolution of the Same Through England, Virginia, and Maryland
Author: Frederic James Wood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845
Author: John R. Stilgoe
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300030464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Looks at the ways Americans have altered the landscape from the arrival of early Spanish settlers to the beginning of the country's rapid urbanization
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300030464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Looks at the ways Americans have altered the landscape from the arrival of early Spanish settlers to the beginning of the country's rapid urbanization
The New England Village
Author: Joseph S. Wood
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801866135
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
New England colonists, Wood argues, brought with them a cultural predisposition toward dispersed settlements within agricultural spaces called "towns" and "villages." Rarely compact in form, these communities did, however, encourage individual landholding. By the early nineteenth century, town centers, where meetinghouses stood, began to develop into the center villages we recognize today. Just as rural New England began its economic decline, Wood shows, romantics associated these proto-urban places with idealized colonial village communities as the source of both village form and commercial success.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801866135
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
New England colonists, Wood argues, brought with them a cultural predisposition toward dispersed settlements within agricultural spaces called "towns" and "villages." Rarely compact in form, these communities did, however, encourage individual landholding. By the early nineteenth century, town centers, where meetinghouses stood, began to develop into the center villages we recognize today. Just as rural New England began its economic decline, Wood shows, romantics associated these proto-urban places with idealized colonial village communities as the source of both village form and commercial success.
Reading Rural Landscapes: A Field Guide to New England's Past
Author: Robert Stanford
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN: 0884483703
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
William Faulkner once said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Nowhere can you see the truth behind his comment more plainly than in rural New England, especially Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and western Massachusetts. Everywhere we go in rural New England, the past surrounds us. In the woods and fields and along country roads, the traces are everywhere if we know what to look for and how to interpret what we see. A patch of neglected daylilies marks a long-abandoned homestead. A grown-over cellar hole with nearby stumps and remnants of stone wall and orchard shows us where a farm has been reclaimed by forest. And a piece of a stone dam and wooden sluice mark the site of a long-gone mill. Although slumping back into the landscape, these features speak to us if we can hear them and they can guide us to ancestral homesteads and famous sites. Lavishly illustrated with drawings and color photos. Provides the keys to interpret human artifacts in fields, woods, and roadsides and to reconstruct the past from surviving clues. Perfect to carry in a backpack or glove box. A unique and valuable resource for road trips, genealogical research, naturalists, and historians.
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN: 0884483703
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
William Faulkner once said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Nowhere can you see the truth behind his comment more plainly than in rural New England, especially Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and western Massachusetts. Everywhere we go in rural New England, the past surrounds us. In the woods and fields and along country roads, the traces are everywhere if we know what to look for and how to interpret what we see. A patch of neglected daylilies marks a long-abandoned homestead. A grown-over cellar hole with nearby stumps and remnants of stone wall and orchard shows us where a farm has been reclaimed by forest. And a piece of a stone dam and wooden sluice mark the site of a long-gone mill. Although slumping back into the landscape, these features speak to us if we can hear them and they can guide us to ancestral homesteads and famous sites. Lavishly illustrated with drawings and color photos. Provides the keys to interpret human artifacts in fields, woods, and roadsides and to reconstruct the past from surviving clues. Perfect to carry in a backpack or glove box. A unique and valuable resource for road trips, genealogical research, naturalists, and historians.
The Construction of Ante-bellum Railroads in the East
Author: Frank Williams Prescott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Quarterly List of New Books
Author: Public Library of Brookline
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Quarterly Bulletin
Author: Brockton Public Library (Brockton, Mass.)
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Accommodating the Republic
Author: Kirsten E. Wood
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
People have gathered in public drinking places to drink, relax, socialize, and do business for hundreds of years. For just as long, critics have described taverns and similar drinking establishments as sources of individual ruin and public disorder. Examining these dynamics as Americans surged westward in the early nineteenth century, Kirsten E. Wood argues that entrepreneurial, improvement-minded men integrated many village and town taverns into the nation's rapidly developing transportation network and used tavern spaces and networks to raise capital, promote innovative businesses, practice genteel sociability, and rally support for favored causes—often while drinking the staggering amounts of alcohol for which the period is justly famous. White men's unrivaled freedom to use taverns for their own pursuits of happiness gave everyday significance to citizenship in the early republic. Yet white men did not have taverns to themselves. Sharing tavern spaces with other Americans intensified white men's struggles to define what, and for whom, taverns should be. At the same time, temperance and other reform movements increasingly divided white men along lines of party, conscience, and class. In both conflicts, some improvement-minded white men found common cause with middle-class white women and Black activists, who had their own stake in rethinking taverns and citizenship.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
People have gathered in public drinking places to drink, relax, socialize, and do business for hundreds of years. For just as long, critics have described taverns and similar drinking establishments as sources of individual ruin and public disorder. Examining these dynamics as Americans surged westward in the early nineteenth century, Kirsten E. Wood argues that entrepreneurial, improvement-minded men integrated many village and town taverns into the nation's rapidly developing transportation network and used tavern spaces and networks to raise capital, promote innovative businesses, practice genteel sociability, and rally support for favored causes—often while drinking the staggering amounts of alcohol for which the period is justly famous. White men's unrivaled freedom to use taverns for their own pursuits of happiness gave everyday significance to citizenship in the early republic. Yet white men did not have taverns to themselves. Sharing tavern spaces with other Americans intensified white men's struggles to define what, and for whom, taverns should be. At the same time, temperance and other reform movements increasingly divided white men along lines of party, conscience, and class. In both conflicts, some improvement-minded white men found common cause with middle-class white women and Black activists, who had their own stake in rethinking taverns and citizenship.