A Trip Round the Cumberland Coast
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Page : 16 pages
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Release : 1884
Category : Cumbria (England)
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 43,1 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Cumbria (England)
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Author : Henry Edward Stone
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Page : 130 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 1896
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Page : 1262 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 1884
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Author : Kris Applegate
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 2009-06-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1439622892
Lake Cumberland is a premier vacation destination for millions of people each year. Before Lake Cumberland became a recreational paradise, the wild and wondrous Cumberland River ruled the land. With its 1,255 miles of federally protected shoreline, an average depth of 90 feet, and a surface area of more than 60,000 acres, Lake Cumberland is one of the largest man-made lakes in the United States, yet visitors may not realize the storied history that lies beneath the deep water. Although plagued by spring floods, towns and communities prospered along her banks. In an effort to control the Cumberland River and reduce flooding, Wolf Creek Dam was constructed following the Flood Control Act of 1938. With the dam in place, Lake Cumberland began filling in 1951. The dam offered protection to South Central Kentucky, but it drowned or forever changed many thriving towns and communities. Images of America: Around Lake Cumberland shows what life was like along the banks of the Cumberland River before Lake Cumberland was born.
Author : Mary R. Bullard
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,21 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820327419
Cumberland Island is a national treasure. The largest of the Sea Islands along the Georgia coast, it is a history-filled place of astounding natural beauty. With a thoroughness unmatched by any previous account, Cumberland Island: A History chronicles five centuries of change to the landscape and its people from the days of the first Native Americans through the late-twentieth-century struggles between developers and conservationists. Author Mary Bullard, widely regarded as the person most knowledgeable about Cumberland Island, is a descendant of the Carnegie family, Cumberland's last owners before it was acquired by the federal government in 1972 and designated a National Seashore. Bullard's discussion of the Carnegie era on Cumberland is notable for its intimate glimpse into how the family's feelings toward the island bore upon Cumberland's destiny. Bullard draws on more than twenty years of research and travels about the island to describe how water, wind, and the cycles of nature continue to shape it and also how humans have imprinted themselves on the face of Cumberland across time--from the Timuca, Guale, and Mocamo Indians to the subsequent appearances of Spanish, French, African, British, and American inhabitants. The result is an engaging narrative in which discussions about tidal marshes, sea turtles, and wild horses are mixed with accounts of how the island functioned as a center for indigo, rice, cotton, fishing, and timber. Even frequent visitors and former residents will learn something new from Bullard's account of Cumberland Island.
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Page : 296 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Lay preaching
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Author : George Eyre-Todd
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Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 1903
Category : England
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Page : 320 pages
File Size : 24,57 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Advertising
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Author : Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 35,8 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Cumberland (England)
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List of members included in each volume except v. 1.
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Page : 1708 pages
File Size : 31,78 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Bibliography
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Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.