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A brief history of the Gault family of Union County, SC. This book traces the author's particular line of this influential family.

This book is a compilation of the senior class group photos from Nescopeck High School (Nescopeck, PA) from 1903-1967. These photos were displayed in the main hall. Since we had “open” lunch hours and many evening school events, the whole community had these photos available to view (people frozen in an earlier time--parents, aunts and uncles, neighbors, friends, teachers, or anyone else we knew). They were never vandalized. Once the school merged with the Berwick Area School District, the photos were taken down and put into storage. This book was published in an effort to bring them back to the community to share once again with families reminiscing about NHS. The photos have been digit ...

100 Year History 1883 - 1983 Thatcher, Arizona

100 Years 1883 - 1983 Thatcher, Arizona Vol. II

From December 1884 through May 1885, New Orleans hosted a now nearly forgotten event: The World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition. Seeking to commemorate the first export of cotton from the United States in 1784, the National Cotton Planters Association selected New Orleans, the largest city in the south, as the site for the great international exposition. The citizens and business community of New Orleans, eager to promote the city's recovery from both the ravaging effects of the Civil War and the aftermath of Reconstruction, welcomed the chance to stage an event which would attract visitors and investors to the commercially revitalized city. Established in 1875, the Cent ...

A personal account of the land wars to save the farmland in Fauquier County, Virginia.

The history of the Lattier family is told in parallel with the history of France and Louisiana. There are many photographs and images throughout the book, along with a family tree at the end.

A short biography of Abraham Piersey, an early colonist in Jamestown and one of the wealthiest landowners of the Virginia Colony. Also included is a brief sketch of Piersey's father-in-law, Clement Draper, an alchemist.

"I was born at home. Well sure, we all was in those days." So begins this true story of Addie May Smith Treder, who was born on an Iowa farm in 1895 and came west to California with her sisters when she was 17 years old. Based on a 1969 interview, this is Addie's story about her early years in Iowa in South Dakota and the journey to California, her marriage and the untimely death of her husband, raising her two children through the Great Depression, and the important role that her sisters played in her life.