Author : Caroline Loughlin
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 23,91 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN :
Forest Park is a large park that St. Louis residents have used for over a century.
Author : Marcy Cottrell Houle
Publisher : Oregon State University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 30,5 MB
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870715884
Portland's Forest Park is one of the largest urban parks in the world and the only city wilderness park in the United States. The park is home to hundreds of native plants and animals and offers more than eighty miles of trails-all within minutes of downtown Portland. This updated and expanded edition of One City's Wilderness provides directions to twenty-nine hikes of varying length, difficulty, and scenery, covering every trail within the 5,100-acre park. Marcy Houle shares the history of Forest Park, introduces the people who fought to preserve it, and explores the role stewards play today. She encourages people of all ages to take an "All Trails Challenge"-learning about the unique nature of the park by exploring every trail. Includes Full color trail maps for 29 hikes Fold-out color map of the entire park and its watersheds More than 80 color photographs of native plants and birds Park history, geology, watersheds, vegetation, and wildlife
Author : Doug Garner
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 13,57 MB
Release : 2007-10-31
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1439619018
Forest Park Highlands was once St. Louiss largest and best-known amusement park. In its earliest years, the Highlands boasted a fine theater and one of the largest public swimming pools in the United States. After the 1904 worlds fair closed, several attractions found a new home at the Highlands; the large pagodaa re-creation of the temple of Nekko, Japanserved as the parks bandstand for several years. Roller coasters are the lifeline of every good amusement park, and the Highlands always had two. The end came for the Highlands in a spectacular fire that decimated almost the entire park on July 19, 1963. Only the Comet roller coaster, the Ferris wheel, the Dodgems, the carousel, and the Aero Jets survived. Forest Park Highlands covers other historic amusement parks in St. Louis as well, starting with the earliest, West End Heights, and ending with Holiday Hill, the last remaining park.
Author : Carolyn Mueller
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 24,31 MB
Release : 2020-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781681062211
Author : Traci Bliss
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 11,95 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1467145041
The epic saga of Big Basin began in the late 1800s, when the surrounding communities saw their once "inexhaustible" redwood forests vanishing. Expanding railways demanded timber as they crisscrossed the nation, but the more redwoods that fell to the woodman's axe, the greater the effects on the local climate. California's groundbreaking environmental movement attracted individuals from every walk of life. From the adopted son of a robber baron to a bohemian woman winemaker to a Jesuit priest, resilient campaigners produced an unparalleled model of citizen action. Join author Traci Bliss as she reveals the untold story of a herculean effort to preserve the ancient redwoods for future generations.
Author : Reading Group Choices
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,23 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780975974476
Author : Sally J. Altman
Publisher : St. Louis Post-Dispatch Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 2007-11
Category : Forest Park (Saint Louis, Mo.)
ISBN : 9780979605413
Author : Robert Wood
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780898866186
You'll find new information on 177 hikes and extensive material on history, geology, native plants, and wildlife. New features in this updated, expanded edition include: numbered hikes for quick reference; detailed information blocks for each trail; and weather information for each section of the Olympics.
Author : Janet Kusterer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 24,27 MB
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1625845944
Rediscover the magic of the Enchanted Forest in this history of Maryland's Storybook Park, the first children's theme park on the East Coast. The history of the Enchanted Forest is one of magical beginnings. When it first opened in 1955, Ellicott City's storybook land became the first children's theme park on the East Coast. Young visitors could climb aboard rides like the Little Toot tugboat, Mother Goose and Ali Baba or encounter animals like peacocks and burros. Upon its closing in 1989, Marylanders who cherished memories of the Enchanted Forest were deeply disappointed. However, many of the park's beloved figures were moved to nearby Clark's Elioak Farm, where they were restored and displayed to the delight of new generations. Even today, the farm is a popular destination that evokes the whimsical spirit of the iconic park. Local author Janet Kusterer and Martha Anne Clark of Elioak Farm trace the park's history through vintage images and interviews with the Harrison family, former employees and visitors. Join Kusterer and Clark to rediscover the magic of the Enchanted Forest.
Author : Gregory C. Randall
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 2003-11-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780801877520
At the close of World War II, Americans became increasingly concerned about the problem of housing for returning veterans, relocated defense workers, and their families. Designs such as the garden city that dated from the turn of the twentieth century or earlier were prominent once again, as planners saw a renewed need for ready-made communities. One such community—among the first and, perhaps, most representative—was Park Forest, Illinois, a privately built and publicly managed town twenty-six miles south of Chicago. In this book, Gregory Randall presents the history of the planning, design, construction, and growth of Park Forest. He shows how planners—who dubbed the new community a "GI town"—drew on lessons learned from English garden cities and New Deal greenbelt towns to cope with America's emerging peacetime housing crisis. He also shows how this new town changed community planning throughout the United States, including its effects on community development up to the present.
