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  • Ocean City

    Volume I

    by Ph.D., Nan DeVincent-Hayes, John E. Jacob ...
    Series series Images of America
    Discover the beloved town of Ocean City, Maryland and it's vibrant, historic past. Originally the land of the Algonquian people, the barrier island on which Ocean City is now located, served as a protective wall for the mainland Delmarva peninsula. It was a somewhat remote area until five men, having formed the Atlantic Hotel Company Corporation, built the first lodging facility, and Ocean City as ... Read more

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  • Ocean City

    Volume II

    by Ph.D., Nan DeVincent-Hayes, John E. Jacob ...
    Series series Images of America
    Discover how tiny Ocean City has overcame obstacle after obstacle and matured into the jewel of Maryland's shore. Ocean City, Maryland's own seaside resort, has become so popular that it is almost too small - five square miles - to hold all its tourists. The last few decades have brought tremendous growth to the area in the form of both population and development. Bridges and tunnels have been ... Read more

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  • Salisbury in Vintage Postcards

    by John E. Jacob ...
    Series series Postcard History
    Located in the center of the Delmarva Peninsula on the Wicomico River, Salisbury is a town steeped in history. Formed by an act of provincial legislature in 1732, Salisbury lies on the east bank of the river on the original land of William Winder. Salisbury developed into the commercial center of the peninsula by the time of the Civil War'it was the southernmost point at which all goods were ... Read more

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  • West Seneca

    by James Pace ...
    Series series Images of America
    West Seneca�s history as a working community can be seen in its humble Native American cabins, sturdy Ebenezer Society buildings, simple farms, hardscrabble shops, and blue-collar housing tracts. In the 1700s, the Seneca Indians became the most dominant tribe when the town was part of the Buffalo Creek Reservation. In the 1840s, the arrival of the Ebenezer religious community from Germany ... Read more

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  • Love Goes to Buildings on Fire

    Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever

    by Will Hermes ...
    A vivid, dramatic account of how half a dozen kinds of modern music--punk rock, art rock, disco, salsa, rap, minimalist classical--emerged in new forms and cross-pollinated all at once in the middle seventies in NYC.Punk rock and hip-hop. Disco and salsa. The loft jazz scene and the downtown composers known as Minimalists. In the mid-1970s, New York City was a laboratory where all the major styles ... Read more

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  • The North Country Murder of Irene Izak

    Stained by Her Blood

    by Dave Shampine ...
    A road trip becomes a dead end for a schoolteacher in this haunting cold case of murder that became a fifty-year fight for justice.In June of 1968, Irene Izak, a young French teacher from Scranton, Pennsylvania, was pulling an all-nighter on the road toward the promise of a new life in Quebec. The last time she was seen alive was at 2:09 a.m. by a toll collector at Thousand Island Bridge who ... Read more

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  • Chalfont and New Britain

    by Robert L. Showalter ...
    Series series Postcard History
    New Britain Township, founded in 1723, was a rural farming community originally settled by Welsh Baptists and German Mennonites. This changed dramatically in 1856 when the North Pennsylvania Railroad was built. Two train stations were built in the township and were named Chalfont and New Britain. The villages next to these stations attracted numerous new residents and businesses. The local picnic ... Read more

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  • Haunted Catskills

    by Lisa LaMonica ...
    Series series Haunted America
    Discover the ghosts who wander these upstate New York mountains—includes photos!Washington Irving called the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York a "spellbound region"—and the ghosts that linger from more than four hundred years of history provide proof of Irving's intuition.In Hudson, Maggie Houghtaling's ghost haunts the Register-Star building, where she was hanged in 1817 for murdering her ... Read more

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  • Mansfield Township, Burlington County

    by Mansfield Township Historical Society Book Committee ...
    Series series Images of America
    Mansfield Township was established as a constabulary in 1688 and became incorporated in 1798. It is one of the oldest townships in Burlington County. Made up of one town, Columbus, and the four villages of Hedding, Kinkora, Georgetown, and Mansfield Square, the township continues to retain the rural, agricultural landscape that its first settlers witnessed. Mansfield Township has had a number of ... Read more

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  • Front Stoops in the Fifties

    Baltimore Legends Come of Age

    by Michael Olesker ...
    This personal history of prominent Baltimoreans sheds light on the social transformations already taking place in the supposedly innocent 1950s.Front Stoops in the Fifties recounts the stories of some of Baltimore's most famous personalities as they grew up during the "decade of conformity"—just before they entered the turbulent 1960s. Focusing on the period before JFK's assassination, Olesker ... Read more

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  • Murder on Long Island

    A Nineteenth-Century Tale of Tragedy & Revenge

    by Geoffrey K. Fleming, Amy K. Folk ...
    A meticulously researched account of one of the North Fork's most infamous crimes: the Wickham Axe Murders of 1854.In the mid-nineteenth century, James Wickham was a wealthy farmer with a large estate in Cutchogue, Long Island. His extensive property included a mansion and eighty acres of farmland that were maintained by a staff of servants. In 1854, Wickham got into an argument with one of his ... Read more

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  • The New York State Capitol and the Great Fire of 1911

    by Paul Mercer, Vicki Weiss ...
    In the early morning hours of March 29, 1911, a fire broke out in the New York State Capitol at Albany. By sunset, the entire western portion of the building had sustained extensive structural damage. Within lay the entire collection of the New York State Library, almost completely reduced to ashes. Founded in 1818, this had been one of the finest research libraries in the country and home to ... Read more

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