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  • Turner Station

    by Jerome Watson, Turner Station Heritage Foundation ...
    Series series Images of America
    Turner Station documents the stories of this historic passenger freight station.In 1888, a passenger freight station was built by the Baltimore and Sparrows Point Railroad on land owned by Joshua J. Turner, a local businessman. The train stop was called Turner Station, and as the nearby community grew, it took on that name. The community's first church, St. Matthews Methodist Church, was founded ... Read more

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  • Ramp Hollow

    The Ordeal of Appalachia

    by Steven Stoll ...
    How the United States underdeveloped AppalachiaAppalachia—among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America—has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in U.S. history, with a special emphasis on how ... Read more

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  • Witches of Pennsylvania

    Occult History & Lore

    by Thomas White ...
    A folklorist chronicles the history and lore of witchcraft in the Keystone State from William Penn's 17th century witch trial to 20th century occultism.As English and German settlers migrated to Pennsylvania, they brought their beliefs in magic with them from the Old World—sometimes with dangerous consequences. In 1802, for example, an Allegheny County judge helped an accused witch escape an angry ... Read more

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  • The Assassination of New York

    by Robert Fitch ...
    Series Book 8 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    The story of how the richest city in the world became one of the poorest in North America, with a new introduction by Peter KwongHow did New York City come to be a network of steel towers, banks, and nail salons, with chain drugstores on every block—a place where, increasingly, no one can afford to live except the lords of Wall Street and foreign billionaires, and where more and more of the Big ... Read more

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  • A Pickpocket's Tale

    The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York

    by Timothy J. Gilfoyle ...
    "A true story more incredible than fiction." —Kevin Baker, author of Striver's RowIn George Appo's world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucrative green-goods game. On a good night Appo made as much as a skilled laborer made in a year. Bad nights left him with more than a dozen scars and over a decade in prisons ... Read more

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  • Ghost Towns and Other Quirky Places in the New Jersey Pine Barrens

    by Barbara Solem-Stull ...
    The Pine Barrens of New Jersey contain more ghost towns, some say, than the entire American west. In Ghost Towns and Other Quirky Places in the New Jersey Pine Barrens author Barbara Solem-Stull tells the story of the towns that rose up around the iron furnaces, glass factories, paper mills, cranberry farms, and brick making establishments of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. A popular ... Read more

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  • The 1972 Flood in New York's Southern Tier

    by Kirk W. House ...
    In June 1972, Hurricane Agnes hit the East Coast with a monstrous and devastating force, bringing a deluge across multiple states and slamming four counties in the Southern Tier: Steuben, Chemung, Tioga, and Broome.Dozens died and property damage ran into the millions as Corning, Elmira, Owego, Binghamton, and other communities suddenly found themselves under water. The flood destroyed the Erie ... Read more

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  • Angels of Mercy

    White Women and the History of New York's Colored Orphan Asylum

    by William Seraile ...
    This history of the nation's first orphanage for African American children, founded in New York City nearly two centuries ago.This book uncovers the history of the Colored Orphan Asylum, founded in 1836. Through three wars, two major financial panics, a devastating fire during the 1863 Draft Riots, several epidemics, waves of racial prejudice, and severely strained budgets, it cared for orphaned, ... Read more

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  • Coatesville and the Lynching of Zachariah Walker

    Death in a Pennsylvania Steel Town

    by Dennis B Downey, Raymond M. Hyser ...
    "A compelling narrative that moves crisply through the murder, the lynching, and the cover-up by silence that local residents thereafter affected."— The Journal of American HistoryOn a warm August night in 1911, Zachariah Walker was lynched—burned alive—by an angry mob on the outskirts of Coatesville, a prosperous Pennsylvania steel town. At the time of his very public murder, Walker, an African ... Read more

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  • Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad

    by Kenneth C. Springirth ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    Andrew Carnegie�s vision of transporting iron ore from his boats on Lake Erie to his Pittsburgh steel mills was realized when he obtained ownership of a series of railroad companies in the region. In 1900, these companies became the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, which connected the Lake Erie ports of Erie, Pennsylvania, and Conneaut, Ohio, south to North Bessemer near Pittsburgh. Through ... Read more

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  • Maywood

    The Borough, the Railroad, and the Station

    by Edward S. Kaminski ...
    Series series Images of America
    Originally settled by Dutch farmers in the 1600s, the borough of Maywood experienced population and industrial growth in the late 1800s with the coming of the railroad. New Jersey Midland Railway, predecessor to the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad, arrived in 1872, a time when Maywood consisted mainly of farmland. Maywood was incorporated in 1894, when the railroad expanded into the ... Read more

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  • The Bronx

    by Kathleen A. McAuley, Gary Hermalyn ...
    With a population of more than one million and covering over 42 square miles, the Bronx is a vibrant part of New York. The Bronx was given its name in 1898 when the new borough was named after its single largest geographical feature: the Bronx River. The Bronx showcases the borough's rich history in a personal way through vintage and contemporary images. Kathleen A. McAuley is the director of ... Read more

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