The Origin of Certain Place Names in Jefferson County, Alabama
Author : Virginia Pounds Brown
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Alabama
ISBN :
Author : Virginia Pounds Brown
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Alabama
ISBN :
Author : Henry Gannett
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN :
Author : Henry Gannett
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780806305448
Author : Henry Gannett
Publisher : [Washington] Public Affairs Press [1947]
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 19,48 MB
Release : 1947
Category : History
ISBN :
Gannett was an American geographer who is described as the "father of mapmaking in America." He was the chief geographer for the United States Geological Survey essentially from its founding until 1902. He served as geographer of the U.S. censuses of 1880, 1890, and 1900, as well as the Philippine, Cuban, and Puerto Rican censuses. During this time, he became interested in place names. He was motivated to publish this alphabetical compilation of the origins of approximately 10,000 place names because it embodies so much local and general history. Gannett's efforts to resolve difficulties caused by proliferation, duplication, and confusion of place names led to the establishment of the U.S. Board of Geographic Names in 1890. He served as the board's chairman until 1910. He was also a founding member and president of the National Geographic Society.
Author : James B. McMillan
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0817359362
A collection of the total range of scholarly and popular writing on English as spoken from Maryland to Texas and from Kentucky to Florida The only book-length bibliography on the speech of the American South, this volume focuses on the pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, naming practices, word play, and other aspects of language that have interested researchers and writers for two centuries. Compiled here are the works of linguists, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and educators, as well as popular commentators. With over 3,800 entries, this invaluable resource is a testament to the significance of Southern speech, long recognized as a distinguishing feature of the South, and the abiding interest of Southerners in their speech as a mark of their identity. The entries encompass Southern dialects in all their distinctive varieties—from Appalachian to African American, and sea islander to urbanite.
Author : Virginia O. Foscue
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 16,85 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 081730410X
Catalogs some 2700 Alabama communities, ranging from Abanda, in Chambers County, to Zip City, in Lauderdale County.
Author : Henry Gannett
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Reference
ISBN : 3849675106
Place names in the United States are often taken from the European nation that first colonized the land. Many names that have been transferred from Britain, as is the case with Barnstable, Massachusetts and Danbury, Connecticut. Many others are of French origin, such as Detroit, Michigan, which was established along the banks of the river they called le détroit du lac Érié, meaning the strait of Lake Erie. Many in the former New Netherland colony are of Dutch origin, such as Harlem, Brooklyn and Rhode Island. Many place names are taken from the languages of native peoples. Specific (personal or animal) names and general words or phrases are used, sometimes translated and sometimes not. However complicated the tracing back of the place names was, this encyclopedia lists thousands and thousands of place names in the United States of America and provides valuable information as to the origin and the history of the name. A fantastic reference work for everyone interested in American history.
Author : W. Stuart Harris
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 10,5 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Author : Mary Gordon Duffee
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 2003-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 081735011X
Mary Gordon Duffee's father, Matthew Duffee was born in Ireland and immigrated to Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1823. In Tuscaloosa he operated a popular tavern, and he later bought a resort hotel at Blount Springs. Mary Duffee was born in Alabama in 1840 and spent many summers with her family at the resort. It was the journey to and from Blount Springs that inspired Duffee's best-known work, Sketches of Alabama, which originally appeared as fifty-nine articles in the Birmingham Weekly Iron Age in 1886 and 1887. She also contributed articles to several out-of-state newspapers, wrote guide books, advertising copy, and poetry. She died in 1920. This collection contains typescripts of some of Mary Gordon Duffee's Iron Age columns "Sketches of Alabama," manuscripts of seven of Duffee's poems, a typed biographical sketch of Duffee, undated, and Duffee's obituary from the Birmingham Age-Herald.
Author : Robert David Ward
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 2003-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0817350578
The gripping story of the 1894 Alabama coal miners strike The Alabama coal miners’ strike of 1894 to gain improved working conditions and to protect themselves from wage reductions. The authors recount the depression of the early 1890s, which set the stage for the strike, and the subsequent use of convict labor, which became a catalyst. The gripping story of the strike includes the dramatic decision to strike and corporate attempts to break the strike by the use of company guards and “scab” labor. In Alabama corporate bosses inflamed passions further by deploying African American “black leg” workers, ultimately requiring the deployment of the state militia to restore peace.