Virginia Town & City
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Municipal government
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Municipal government
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Author : Virginia Municipal League
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Page : 33 pages
File Size : 31,73 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Cities and towns
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Author : James Fallows
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 39,5 MB
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1101871857
NATIONAL BEST SELLER • The basis for the HBO documentary now streaming on HBO Max For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.
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Page : 656 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Municipal government
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Author : Virginia Municipal League
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Page : 15 pages
File Size : 16,24 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Municipal finance
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Author : Marilyn Grant
Publisher : Montana Historical Society
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780917298561
The gold-rush-era town of Virginia City, recently purchased by the State of Montana to preserve for posterity, makes a fitting first subject for the Montana Mainstreet series. Once it was Montana's acting territorial capital and the center of trade for Alder Gulch, the site of the richest placer mines in the world, but Virginia City became a town almost frozen in time once gold deposits played out and the state capital moved to Helena in 1889. Today, Virginia City attracts visitors from all over the world, who marvel at its intact architecture. If walking down Virginia City's streets is like a trip backwards in time, the road map for that journey is Guide to Historic Virginia City.
Author : Ronald M. James
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803240082
Spent cartridges. The pieces of an original Tabasco Pepper Sauce bottle. Shards of a ceramic pot, stained red. For archaeologists each of the thousands of artifacts uncovered at a site tells a story. For noted Comstock authority Ronald M. James, it is a story resulting from decades of research and excavation at one of the largest National Historic Landmarks in America, the Nevada town that, with the discovery of the Comstock Lode, became a boomtown microcosm of the American West. Drawing on the work of hundreds of volunteers, students, and professional archaeologists, Virginia City: Secrets of a Western Past shows how every detail—from unearthed artifacts to reports of local saloons to plans for the cemetery to surviving nineteenth-century buildings—adds to our view of Virginia City when it was one of the richest places on earth. James recreates this unlikely epitome of frontier industry and cosmopolitan living, the thriving hub of corporate executives, middle-class families, miners, prostitutes, and barkeepers—and more foreign-born residents per capita than anywhere else in the country—in a spot that had begun its life a few years earlier as the mining camp of several lucky guys. An excavation of the history of Virginia City, a window on the heyday of the American frontier, James’s book is also an enlightening look at how archaeology brings the story of the past to life.
Author : Charles Louis Knight
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Page : 168 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 1927
Category : African Americans
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This report is intended to present a cross-section picture of the housing and living conditions among the Negroes in the three Virginia cities of Richmond, Lynchburg, and Charlottesville. The first of these cities is a large and rapidly growing industrial and manufacturing center with a population of nearly 200,000. The population consists almost entirely of native white people and Negroes, and the foreign-born element comprises less than three percent of the population. Both the white and the Negro elements are increasing steadily. Lynchburg is a manufacturing city of increasing importance. Its total population is increasing at a satisfactory rate but its Negro population is constantly diminishing. Charlottesville is a city of approximately 12,000 people. The University of Virginia is located here and is one of the chief sources of the town's prosperity. Since 1910 the total population of Charlottesville has almost doubled, but the Negro population has been practically stationary since the Civil War. -- Preface.
Author : Chester Ward Bain
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Page : 170 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 1967
Category : County government
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Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Cities and towns
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