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Lake County 1871 1960
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0738560170 |
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Native Americans roamed the beautiful lands of northern Michigan for many years, leaving a legacy of mature forests, clear waters, and plentiful game. By 1871, waves of immigrants were arriving from Europe, as well as Union soldiers after the Civil War. These pioneers brought with them the tools, know-how, and determination to transform the wild land into an economy based on the timber, railroads, and farming. Schools, churches, businesses, and tourism blossomed. The county's 156 lakes and 46 trout streams offered pristine settings for swimming, boating, hunting, and fishing. Resorts, sporting clubs, and cottage colonies sprang up to meet the needs of seasonal visitors. Early fishing guide and hotelier Andrew J. Bradford, financiers Curtis W. MacPhail and Robert J. Smith, philanthropist Martin Johnson, and others nurtured the growth of the communities. The Civilian Conservation Corps replanted the forests and built roads, the African American resort of Idlewild showcased black entertainers, and Raymond W. Overholzer built Shrine of the Pines, all promoting the county's development.
Lake County 1871 1960
Author | : Lake County Historical Society |
Publsiher | : Arcadia Library Editions |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2009-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1531638945 |
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Justus S Stearns
Author | : Michael W. Nagle |
Publsiher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780814341278 |
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Near the turn of the twentieth century, “Pine King” Justus S. Stearns was Michigan’s largest producer of manufactured lumber and the owner of a prosperous coal mining operation headquartered in Stearns, Kentucky, a town he founded. Over the course of his career, Stearns would own at least thirty manufacturing businesses—making everything from finished lumber to kitchen utensils, game boards, and motors—as well as hotels, a railroad, and a power company. He was also an active member of the Republican Party who served one term as Michigan’s secretary of state and a philanthropist who gave a great deal of his wealth to causes in both Michigan and Kentucky. In Justus S. Stearns: Michigan Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 1845–1933, author Michael W. Nagle details Stearns's astounding range of accomplishments and explores the influence of both paternalism and Social Darwinism in his business practices. Nagle begins by addressing key events in the first few decades of Stearns’s life and his initial foray into the lumber industry. Subsequent chapters explore Stearns’s political career, his timber operations in Wisconsin, and his coal, lumber, and railroad operations in Kentucky and Tennessee. Nagle also details the ancillary businesses that Stearns founded or purchased in the early twentieth century, even as his Stearns Salt & Lumber Company served as the anchor of his Michigan holdings, while Stearns Coal & Lumber did the same for his operations in Kentucky. The final chapter offers an overview and analysis of Stearns’s lifetime of accomplishments, including his impact on the town of Ludington, Michigan, where he maintained a residence for over fifty years. Nagle makes extensive use of primary source material from several historical archives as well as contemporary newspaper accounts, court documents, company records, and other primary sources. American history scholars, as well as general readers interested in Michigan’s lumbering era and Kentucky’s mining history, will enjoy this biography of an exceptionally influential businessman.
Idlewild
Author | : Ronald J. Stephens |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2013-09-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780472035908 |
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An in-depth study of an important African American resort town and the intersections among race, class, tourism, entertainment, and historic preservation in the United States
Lake Co TN
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Turner Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1993-02 |
Genre | : Lake County (Tenn.) |
ISBN | : 9781563110993 |
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Decisions on Names in the United States
Author | : United States Board on Geographic Names |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 798 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Geography |
ISBN | : UOM:39015055323946 |
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Utah Place Names
Author | : John W. Van Cott |
Publsiher | : University of Utah Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0874803454 |
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Utah toponyms, or place names. Where are they? What istheir history? Their importance? Over thousand toponyms are listed alphabetically, marking the passagesof peoples and cultures from earliest times.
Artists in Ohio 1787 1900
Author | : Mary Sayre Haverstock,Jeannette Mahoney Vance,Brian L. Meggitt |
Publsiher | : Kent State University Press |
Total Pages | : 1096 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0873386167 |
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A three-volume guide to the early art and artists of Ohio. It includes coverage of fine art, photography, ornamental penmanship, tombstone carving, china painting, illustrating, cartooning and the execution of panoramas and theatrical scenery.