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Author : Donald R. Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0738562386
Author : Donald R. Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0738511560
For decades, the vast Adirondack wilderness has beckoned. Some, having sampled the treasury of Adirondack art and literature, are drawn by its spectacular beauty; many are lured by its year-round sports and recreational opportunities; others are enticed by its health-giving qualities-the clear air, sparkling waters, and refreshing woodlands. The Adirondacks: 1931-1990 celebrates the years in which the six-million-acre preserve truly became a people's park. With some two hundred rare images, the book includes views of the Winter Olympics held at Lake Placid in 1932, attended by thousands from the world over. It applauds the American boys working in the CCC camps in the Adirondacks during the Great Depression. It follows the steamboats as they ply Lake George and the Fulton Chain and other lakes, as well as the railroads as they bring in more and more visitors. It traces the rise and fall of the grand hotels and their successors: the cabins, motels, cottages, second homes, and campsites of the motoring public. It highlights the music, the architecture, the animals, the crafts-the more recent history of the Adirondack culture.
Author : Donald R. Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0738536482
Native Americans called the area Couxsaxrage, "beaver hunting ground." Professor Ebenezer Emmons named it Adirondack, after one of the native tribes. Along the Adirondack Trail traces the history and lore of the Adirondacks up the scenic roadway through the heart of New York's mountain-and-lake country. Included are tales of the Mohawk Indians and their beatified princess, Tekakwitha; the site of the mansion of Sir William Johnson, one of America's most influential citizens of the 1700s; and an important battleground of the Revolution. Rare original photographs portray each of the twenty settlements on the trail from Fonda to Malone, reflecting the lives of the guides, loggers, trappers, sportsmen, camp owners, tourists, leather workers, and health seekers who opened up the unknown county.
Author : David R. Starbuck
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781512602630
While numerous books have been written about the great camps, hiking trails, and wildlife of the Adirondacks, noted anthropologist David R. Starbuck offers the only archeological guide to a region long overlooked by archeologists who thought that "all the best sites" were elsewhere. This beautifully illustrated volume focuses on the rich and varied material culture brought to the mountains by their original Native American inhabitants, along with subsequent settlements created by soldiers, farmers, industrialists, workers, and tourists. Starbuck examines Native American sites on Lake George and Long Lake; military and underwater sites throughout the Lake George, Fort Ticonderoga, and Crown Point regions; old industrial sites where forges, tanneries, and mines once thrived; farms and the rural landscape; and many other sites, including the abandoned Frontier Town theme park, the ghost town of Adirondac, Civilian Conservation Corps camps, ski areas, and graveyards.
Author : Donald R. Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0738545600
Adirondack Ventures explores the early man-made features that were introduced into New York States great mountain and lake region. With some 200 rare photographs, this book recounts the memories of those who took part in the development of the Adirondacks, an area that covers one quarter of the state. To open up these millions of acres, pathways and roadways and, later, small airports and railways were constructed. To enhance the use and enjoyment of the wilderness, bikeways and ski slopes, as well as amusement parks and golf courses, were built. Adirondack Ventures explores the early man-made features that were introduced into New York States great mountain and lake region. With some 200 rare photographs, this book recounts the memories of those who took part in the development of the Adirondacks, an area that covers one quarter of the state. To open up these millions of acres, pathways and roadways and, later, small airports and railways were constructed. To enhance the use and enjoyment of the wilderness, bikeways and ski slopes, as well as amusement parks and golf courses, were built.
Author : Donald R. Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738591698
Archival photographs and text describe the history, social life and customs of the Adriondack Mountain region in New York.
Author : Donald R. Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0738557692
The Adirondack region evolved over years from vast, impassable wilderness to a land of logging camps, tanneries, sawmills, and small settlements. By the end of the 19th century, the area grew again, becoming a tourist destination famed for its great hotels, quaint inns, cottages, and rustic cabins. The hotels and inns spread throughout the Adirondacks, beginning after the Civil War and continuing during the Gilded Age between World Wars I and II. The region drew the rich and famous, as well as workers and families escaping the polluted cities. This volume contains 200 vintage images of those famed accommodations that catered to years of Adirondack visitors. Most of the buildings seen in this book no longer exist, having been destroyed by fires, the wrecking ball, or simply forgotten over time. Adirondack Hotels and Inns provides a timeless look at the vacation retreats of the past.
Author : Vincent Engels
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 081560291X
Documents the decline in Adirondack fishing in the '30s. The author offers a nostalgic view of the Adirondack wilderness 50 years ago, capturing the moods of forest, stream and lake. Classic characters - Big Smith, the hermit of Boiling Pond, Noah Rondeau and others - are brought to life.
Author : Donald R. Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-21
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439618035
Adirondack Ventures explores the early man-made features that were introduced into New York State’s great mountain and lake region. With some 200 rare photographs, this book recounts the memories of those who took part in the development of the Adirondacks, an area that covers one quarter of the state. To open up these millions of acres, pathways and roadways and, later, small airports and railways were constructed. To enhance the use and enjoyment of the wilderness, bikeways and ski slopes, as well as amusement parks and golf courses, were built.
Author : Harold E. Hinds (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Essex County (N.Y.)
ISBN : WISC:89082459983
Author : Harvey H. Kaiser
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 156792073X
The author does a thorough job in explaining the beginnings of rustic architecture and why it has a permanent place in the culture. The mix of social background and the history of the early Adirondack camps provides a designers guidebook.
Author : Geoffrey Tweedale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521334586
The book provides an important contribution to the technological and commercial history of crucible and electric steelmaking by thoroughly examining its development in Sheffield and American centres such as Pittsburgh. It also discusses cutlery, saw and file manufacturing, where the Americans quickly shed Sheffield's traditional technologies and, with the help of superior marketing, established a word lead by 1900. It is also shown, however, that this did not free the US from its dependence on Sheffield steel. Sheffield's innovation in special steelmaking, which began with the Hunstman crucible process in 1742, continued with a series of brilliant 'firsts', which gave the world tool, manganese, silicon, vanadium and stainless steel alloys. Thus the US continued to draw from Sheffield know-how, even in the twentieth century - a transfer of technology that was facilitated by the foundation of Sheffield's own subsidiary firms in America, the history of which is recounted here.
Author : Forest History Society
Publisher : Santa Barbara, Calif. : Published under contract with the Forest History Society, Incorporated [by] Clio Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951000387795G
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Industrial archaeology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022094473
Author : William H. Gerdts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : UOM:49015002907278
Collection of three volumes. Vol 1 : New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic. Vol 2 : The South, Near Midwest. Vol 3 : The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific.