Ninety Years of Aiken County
Author : Gasper Loren Toole
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Aiken County (S.C.)
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Author : Gasper Loren Toole
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Aiken County (S.C.)
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Author : Gasper L. Toole, II
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Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,57 MB
Release : 1993-12-01
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ISBN : 9780832835452
Author : Gasper Loren Toole
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Page : 401 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 19??
Category : Aiken County (S.C.)
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Author : Dr. Tom Mack
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1614237360
Situated between the mountains and the coast, Aiken County attracted ailing members of the southern planter class once the railroad from Charleston to Hamburg was completed in 1833. After the Civil War, grand hotels and sporting activities drew wealthy northern capitalists south for the winter here. A third era of prosperity came in the 1950s, when the Cold War prompted the construction of a nuclear reservation. Local author Tom Mack uncovers the lesser-known stories behind the major events that shaped the area's colorful past. Meet inventor James Legare, political insider George Croft and singing sensation Arthur Lee Simpkins. Learn about the controversial Graniteville murder of 1876 and how an abdicated king found solace in Aiken in 1936. And discover so many more interesting stories.
Author : P. F. Henderson
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Page : 74 pages
File Size : 15,65 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Aiken (S.C.)
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Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,22 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Aiken County (S.C.)
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Author : Alexia Jones Helsley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 28,81 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1467141496
From a home to the fierce Westo tribe to a hub of the equestrian industry, Aiken County has had a huge influence on South Carolina. And some of the structures that mark that history have disappeared. More than two hundred years ago, the Horse Creek Chickasaw Squirrel King held couty near North Augusta. The first locomotive built for public transportation, the "Best Friend" from Charleston to Hamburg, first ran in the area. The home of noted businessman Richard Flint Howe hosted both the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and students of the University of South Carolina Aiken. William Gregg and the Graniteville Mill helped shape the textile industry in the state. Author Alexia Jones Helsley details the lost history of Aiken County.
Author : William A. Kretzschmar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 34,1 MB
Release : 1993-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226452838
Who uses "skeeter hawk," "snake doctor," and "dragonfly" to refer to the same insect? Who says "gum band" instead of "rubber band"? The answers can be found in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS), the largest single survey of regional and social differences in spoken American English. It covers the region from New York state to northern Florida and from the coastline to the borders of Ohio and Kentucky. Through interviews with nearly twelve hundred people conducted during the 1930s and 1940s, the LAMSAS mapped regional variations in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation at a time when population movements were more limited than they are today, thus providing a unique look at the correspondence of language and settlement patterns. This handbook is an essential guide to the LAMSAS project, laying out its history and describing its scope and methodology. In addition, the handbook reveals biographical information about the informants and social histories of the communities in which they lived, including primary settlement areas of the original colonies. Dialectologists will rely on it for understanding the LAMSAS, and historians will find it valuable for its original historical research. Since much of the LAMSAS questionnaire concerns rural terms, the data collected from the interviews can pinpoint such language differences as those between areas of plantation and small-farm agriculture. For example, LAMSAS reveals that two waves of settlement through the Appalachians created two distinct speech types. Settlers coming into Georgia and other parts of the Upper South through the Shenandoah Valley and on to the western side of the mountain range had a Pennsylvania-influenced dialect, and were typically small farmers. Those who settled the Deep South in the rich lowlands and plateaus tended to be plantation farmers from Virginia and the Carolinas who retained the vocabulary and speech patterns of coastal areas. With these revealing findings, the LAMSAS represents a benchmark study of the English language, and this handbook is an indispensable guide to its riches.
Author : Dr Tom Mack
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781540207296
Situated between the mountains and the coast, Aiken County attracted ailing members of the southern planter class once the railroad from Charleston to Hamburg was completed in 1833. After the Civil War, grand hotels and sporting activities drew wealthy northern capitalists south for the winter here. A third era of prosperity came in the 1950s, when the Cold War prompted the construction of a nuclear reservation. Local author Tom Mack uncovers the lesser-known stories behind the major events that shaped the area's colorful past. Meet inventor James Legare, political insider George Croft and singing sensation Arthur Lee Simpkins. Learn about the controversial Graniteville murder of 1876 and how an abdicated king found solace in Aiken in 1936. And discover so many more interesting stories.
Author : Edgar N. Braddy
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Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Aiken County (S.C.)
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