History of Clinton and Franklin Counties, New York
Author : Duane Hamilton Hurd
Publisher :
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Clinton County (N.Y.)
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Author : Duane Hamilton Hurd
Publisher :
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Clinton County (N.Y.)
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Author : Franklin Benjamin Hough
Publisher : Albany, N.Y. : Little
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 13,57 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Franklin County (N.Y.)
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Author : Lawrence P. Gooley
Publisher :
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 23,84 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Churubusco (N.Y. )
ISBN : 9780979574153
Author : Duane Hamilton Hurd
Publisher :
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 1978
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Author : Charles Allcott Flagg
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 31,68 MB
Release : 1901
Category : New York (State)
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Author : Jason Barney
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1467141690
Vermont played a critical role in the War of 1812. Burlington was a significant military base and harbor for American vessels, but history isn't just about the larger hubs of activity. From Swanton to Isle La Motte, many smaller communities in northern Vermont played a key role in the war. Local militia--composed of farmers, blacksmiths and merchants--came from all over the northern border communities of the state to contribute to the war effort. When towns got the statewide order to muster, timing depended on the occupations of those called to duty, the distance they needed to march or sail, the unpredictable weather conditions and the condition of the roads. Local historian Jason Barney uncovers the unique stories of border smuggling, daring raids and everyday struggle.
Author : New York State Historical Association
Publisher :
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 1919
Category : New York (State)
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Author : Cheri Register
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0873519965
Under the corn and soybean fields of southern Minnesota lies the memory of vast, age-old wetlands, drained away over the last 130 years in the name of agricultural progress. But not everyone saw wetlands as wasteland. Before 1900, Freeborn County’s Big Marsh provided a wealth of resources for the neighboring communities. Families hunted its immense flocks of migrating waterfowl, fished its waters, trapped muskrats and mink, and harvested wood and medicinal plants. As farmland prices rose, however, the value of the land under the water became more attractive to people with capital. While residents fought bitterly, powerful outside investors overrode local opposition and found a way to drain 18,000 acres of wetland at public expense. Author Cheri Register stumbled upon her great-grandfather’s scathing critique of the draining and was intrigued. Following the clues he left, she uncovers the stories of life on the Big Marsh and of the “connivers” who plotted its end: the Minneapolis land developer, his local fixer, an Illinois banker, and the lovelorn local lawyer who did their footwork. The Big Marsh, an environmental history told from a personal point of view, shows the enduring value of wild places and the importance of the fight to preserve them, both then and now.
Author : Nancy L. Todd
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 14,24 MB
Release : 2006-09-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0791480992
Winner of the 2007 Excellence in Historic Preservation Award presented by the Preservation League of New York State Winner of the 2007 Building Typology Award presented by the Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America New York's Army National Guard armories are among the most imposing monuments to the role of the citizen soldier in American military history. In New York's Historic Armories, Nancy L. Todd draws on archival research as well as historic and contemporary photographs and drawings to trace the evolution of the armory as a specific building type in American architectural and military history. The result of a ten-year collaboration between the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and the New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs, this illustrated history presents information on all known armories in the state as well as the units associated with them, and will serve as a valuable reference for readers interested in general, military, and architectural history. Built to house local units of the state's volunteer militia, armories served as arms storage facilities, clubhouses for the militiamen, and civic monuments symbolizing New York's determination to preserve domestic law and order through military might. Approximately 120 armories were built in New York State from the late eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, and most date from the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when the National Guard was America's primary domestic peacekeeper during the post–Civil War era of labor-capital unrest. Together, New York's armories chronicle the history of the volunteer militia, from its emergence during the early Republican Era, through its heyday during the Gilded Age as the backbone of the American military system, to its early twentieth-century role as the nation's primary armed reserve force.
Author : Herbert C. Hallas
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1438448120
An American success story about the life of William Almon Wheeler, a poor boy from Northern New York who became the nineteenth Vice President of the United States. William Almon Wheelers life is an American success story about how a poor boy living near the Canadian border in Malone, New York, achieved fame and fortune. Often referred to as the New York Lincoln, Wheeler was a lawyer, banker, railroad president, state legislator, five-term congressman, and the nineteenth Vice President of the United States under Rutherford B. Hayes. Using a variety of sources, including newspapers, letters, government reports, county histories, and biographies of Wheelers contemporaries, Herbert C. Hallas examines Wheelers role in shaping state and national public policy. Highlights include construction of the North Country and transcontinental railroads, the creation of the Adirondack and Niagara Falls state parks, the extension of voting rights in New York, the termination of racial civil war in Louisiana, and the curtailment of unnecessary government spending. The book traces Wheelers path as he wound his way through the minefields of county, state, and national politics and helped found the Republican Party, without compromising his integrity or religious principles. Hallas rescues Wheelers story from the dustbin of history. Along the way he debunks long-held myths about Wheeler and restores his place as an influential nineteenth-century political force.