Early Lakewood

Author : Robert Autobee,Kristen Autobee
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0738574414

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Early Lakewood by Robert Autobee,Kristen Autobee Pdf

Since Lakewood's settlement in the 1860s, it has been a community in search of an identity, fluctuating from farm center to factory town, from Denver streetcar suburb to the map's stopover point between the big city and the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Once known for its fruit orchards and dairy and poultry farms, Lakewood in modern times has been home to the western third of the nation's longest commercial street, Colfax Avenue, and houses more federal agencies than any community outside of Washington, DC. Most of the buildings associated with Lakewood's agricultural and manufacturing past are gone, but the can-do spirit of the men and women who forged and fashioned the city's destiny as a microcosm of western American life from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries is recalled in these pages.

Author : Jason Burnett
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0738588032

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Early Bessemer by Jason Burnett Pdf

In 1887, iron and steel magnate Henry Fairchild DeBardeleben founded Bessemer and named it for English inventor Sir Henry Bessemer. DeBardeleben's dream was to make the city a steel center that would attract companies and people from all over the United States. Bessemer, like nearby Birmingham, is located within a few miles of all raw materials needed to make steel (coal, limestone, and iron ore). DeBardeleben bought 4,040 acres of land and marked off blocks for the town along Alabama Great Southern Railroad lines. With $2 million in starting capital, he built several blast furnaces for his coal and iron company. Within three years, Bessemer was Alabama's eighth largest city. The population grew so rapidly that Bessemer was nicknamed "The Marvel City." The town quickly developed a thriving business district, beautiful neighborhoods, recreations ranging from parks to boating and dances at Westlake, and industries that spread iron, coal, and railcars across the nation.

Author : Thea Gallo Becker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 073852333X

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Lakewood by Thea Gallo Becker Pdf

Named for its natural setting on the south shore of Lake Erie, Lakewood, Ohio was one of Cleveland's original suburbs. Incorporated as a city in 1911, Lakewood experienced tremendous growth during the early 20th century, and became known as "Cleveland's Fashionable Suburb," and a "City of Beautiful Homes," as it boasted some of the finest Victorian residences in the area. Using a wonderful collection of historic photographs, many from the Lakewood Historical Society, the pages of this book take you on a tour of Lakewood's history, chronicling the people, places, and events that have made the suburb one of the area's best places to live.

Author : Betty Boles Ellison
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-08
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780786479344

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The Early Laps of Stock Car Racing by Betty Boles Ellison Pdf

The first organized, sanctioned American stock car race took place in 1908 on a road course around Briarcliff, New York--staged by one of America's early speed mavens, William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. A veteran of the early Ormond-Daytona Beach speed trials, Vanderbilt brought the Grand Prize races to Savannah, Georgia, the same year. What began as a rich man's sport eventually became the working man's sport, finding a home in the South with the infusion of moonshiners and their souped-up cars. Based in large part on statements of drivers, car owners and others garnered from archived newspaper articles, this history details the development of stock car racing into a megasport, chronicling each season through 1974. It examines the National Association for Stock Car Automobile Racing's 1948 incorporation documents and how they differ from the agreements adopted at NASCAR's organization meeting two months earlier. The meeting's participants soon realized that their sport was actually owned by William H.G. "Bill" France, and its consequential growth turned his family into billionaires. The book traces the transition from dirt to asphalt to superspeedways, the painfully slow advance of safety measures and the shadowy economics of the sport.

Author : Christopher C. Sellers
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807869901

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Crabgrass Crucible by Christopher C. Sellers Pdf

Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs--not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late nineteenth century, new suburbanites turned to taming the wildness of their surroundings. They cultivated a fondness for the natural world around them, and in the decades that followed, they became sensitized to potential threats. Sellers shows how the philosophy, science, and emotions that catalyzed the environmental movement sprang directly from suburbanites' lives and their ideas about nature, as well as the unique ecology of the neighborhoods in which they dwelt. Sellers focuses on the spreading edges of New York and Los Angeles over the middle of the twentieth century to create an intimate portrait of what it was like to live amid suburban nature. As suburbanites learned about their land, became aware of pollution, and saw the forests shrinking around them, the vulnerability of both their bodies and their homes became apparent. Worries crossed lines of class and race and necessitated new ways of thinking and acting, Sellers argues, concluding that suburb-dwellers, through the knowledge and politics they forged, deserve much of the credit for inventing modern environmentalism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556033408048

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Sound Transit Lakewood-to-Tacoma Commuter Rail and SR-512 Park-and-ride Expansion by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steve Dunkelberger,Walter Neary
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781439642962

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Legendary Locals of Lakewood by Steve Dunkelberger,Walter Neary Pdf

Lakewood was a vibrant community long before it incorporated in 1996, though cityhood helped give the area one name and identity. In the mid-19th century, Lakewood was the site of British farms and the first US military base in Washington Territory. Men who became famous in the Civil War, such as George Pickett, served there. Native American leader Leschi, the victim of “judicial lynching” by civilians, spent his last days there. As Lakewood became a retreat for Puget Sound’s rich and famous, names such as Carman and Alexander—as famous in their day as the name Weyerhaeuser was and is—settled here, leaving behind reminders like Lakewold Gardens. One of Lakewood’s most famous residents was Ivan, a captive gorilla who captured the hearts of animal lovers worldwide.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000052066405

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030089577

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Chambers Creek Sewerage System by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Zeruk, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476612195

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Peg Entwistle and the Hollywood Sign Suicide by James Zeruk, Jr. Pdf

This is the first complete biography of actress Peg Entwistle, known as the “Hollywood Sign Girl” because of her suicide fall from the HOLLYWOODLAND sign in 1932. It details her childhood, stage and film career, marriage and divorce, and her suicide and almost cult-like pop culture status today. Extensively researched and written with the complete cooperation of the Entwistle family, this work includes excerpts from interviews with Peg Entwistle’s brother Milton and her cousin Helen Reid, both of whom recalled much of Peg’s years living in Hollywood, her career and private life, and her final weeks. It also features many of Peg Entwistle’s own words from extant letters to her family and newly discovered interviews with theatrical reporters. Nearly 30 previously unpublished images from the author’s collection, the Entwistle family, and a number of other sources complete an intimate look at a life that was defined by far more than its famously unhappy end.

Author : Robert Autobee,Kristen Autobee
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1531648983

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Early Lakewood by Robert Autobee,Kristen Autobee Pdf

Since Lakewood's settlement in the 1860s, it has been a community in search of an identity, fluctuating from farm center to factory town, from Denver streetcar suburb to the map's stopover point between the big city and the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Once known for its fruit orchards and dairy and poultry farms, Lakewood in modern times has been home to the western third of the nation's longest commercial street, Colfax Avenue, and houses more federal agencies than any community outside of Washington, DC. Most of the buildings associated with Lakewood's agricultural and manufacturing past are gone, but the can-do spirit of the men and women who forged and fashioned the city's destiny as a microcosm of western American life from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries is recalled in these pages.

Author : Iowa. Department of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924078265596

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Iowa Year Book of Agriculture by Iowa. Department of Agriculture Pdf

Author : David Goldfield
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452265537

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Encyclopedia of American Urban History by David Goldfield Pdf

After a generation of pathbreaking scholarship that has reoriented and enlightened our perception of the American city, the two volumes of the Encyclopedia of American Urban History offer both a summary and an interpretation of the field. With contributions from leading academics in their fields, this authoritative resource offers an interdisciplinary approach by covering topics from economics, geography, anthropology, politics, and sociology.

Author : United States. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : UOM:39015077828609

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Annual Report - Comptroller of the Currency by United States. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Pdf

Author : Iowa. Dept. of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : CORNELL:31924078264979

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Annual Iowa Year Book of Agriculture by Iowa. Dept. of Agriculture Pdf

Includes proceedings, reports, statistics, etc. of different county and district agricultural institutes and societies.