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History of the City of Cleveland
History of the City of Cleveland – Walter Scott Robison This finely arranged book of almost 250 pages upon the history of Ohio’s metropolis Cleveland fills the place for which it was intended with no small degree of success, and has the advantage which no former history of the city possesses, that of conciseness combined […]
Historical and descriptive sketches of Suffolk County, New York
Historical and descriptive sketches of Suffolk County, New York – Richard Mather Bayles Stephen Jenkins has chosen for the subject of this volume the oldest and most northerly of the post roads: that over which the first postrider went; which echoed to the war-whoop of the savage, saw the passage of soldiers during the French […]
The Personal Memoirs Of William T. Sherman
The Personal Memoirs Of William T. Sherman William Tecumseh Sherman was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the „scorched […]
The Greatest Street in the World
The Greatest Street in the World – Stephen Jenkins When all its phases are taken in the aggregate, Broadway holds a position that is unique and pre-eminent among the great avenues of the world. In this book Mr. Jenkins has presented the whole history of Broadway, old and new, through all the miles of its […]
The Story of the Bronx
The Story of the Bronx – Stephen Jenkins The romantic history of the northern section of Greater New York from the days of Jonas Bronk, after whom the Bronx was named, through the centuries crowded with events that have issued into the present. The geographical landmarks acquire a new significance as around them this accurate […]
The Old Boston Post Road
The Old Boston Post Road – Stephen Jenkins Stephen Jenkins has chosen for the subject of this volume the oldest and most northerly of the post roads: that over which the first postrider went; which echoed to the war-whoop of the savage, saw the passage of soldiers during the French Wars; beheld the flocking of […]
Old Boston Days & Ways
Old Boston Days & Ways – Mary Caroline Crawford The famous happenings of an eventful period in Boston’s early history, from the dawn of the Revolution until the town became a city, are here handled with a fresh and vigorous touch. Many little-known incidents are introduced and a large amount of material hitherto the possession […]
A history of Lowell, Massachusetts
A history of Lowell, Massachusetts – Charles Cowley Lowell was founded by the ‘Merrimac Manufacturing Company’ in 1822, and named after Francis C. Lowell. The village grew very rapidly from the first. In 1820 it was incorporated as a town and ten years later was chartered as a city. This book tells the story of […]
Rambles around Old Boston
Rambles around Old Boston – Edwin Monroe Bacon The author knows his city and loves it, and has a fund of anecdote as well as history up his capacious sleeve. The Boston of which he tells us reaches up to about hundredandfifty years back, without letting go of the older town of Colonial and Revolutionary […]
Old Cambridge
Old Cambridge – Thomas Wentworth Higginson The first of the chapters in the book is an antiquarian chapter; but the „Three Literary Epochs“ of the second chapter — the epoch of the North American Review, that of the Dial, and that of the Atlantic Monthly — were epochs all in some manner familiar to Higginson, […]