[PDF] Lost Communities Of Virginia eBook

Author : Terri L. Fisher
Publisher : Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,63 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780974270739

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Virginia’s back roads and rural areas are dotted with traces of once-thriving communities. General stores, train depots, schools, churches, banks, and post offices provide intriguing details of a way of life now gone. The buildings may be empty or repurposed today, the existing community may be struggling to survive or rebuilding itself in a new and different way, but the story behind each community’s original development is an interesting and important footnote to the development of Virginia and the United States. Lost Communities of Virginia documents thirty small communities from throughout the Commonwealth that have lost their original industry, transportation mode, or way of life. Using contemporary photographs, historical information, maps, and excerpts of interviews with longtime residents of these communities, the book documents the present conditions, recalls past boom times, and explains the role of each community in regional settlement.

Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : University-Press.org
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 12,45 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781230576886

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 118. Chapters: Jamestown, Virginia, Lost city, Roanoke Colony, Ghost town, St Kilda, Scotland, South Boston, Virginia, Clifton Forge, Virginia, Londontowne, Maryland, Lost counties, cities, and towns of Virginia, History of the Jamestown Settlement, Thinis, Middle Plantation, Percy Fawcett, Tamluk, Paititi, Muziris, Zeugma, Commagene, Henricus, Khara-Khoto, Tamralipta, Manchester, Virginia, Iram of the Pillars, City Point, Virginia, Penniman, Virginia, Davis, Massachusetts, Fort Caroline, Takedda, Historic Jamestowne, The Lost City of Z, Granville, Wisconsin, Lake, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, Carvins Cove, Virginia, Iowaville, Iowa, Magruder, Virginia, Henry Town, Poeville, Nevada, Wash Woods, Virginia, Dana, Massachusetts, Kecoughtan, Virginia, Birmingham, Kentucky, Luni, Italy, Ressad, Unique, Iowa, Matildaville, Virginia, Berlin Historic District (Berlin, Nevada), Enfield, Massachusetts, Denbigh, Virginia, Morrison, Virginia, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rich Neck Plantation, Imachara, City of the Caesars, Lost history, Potomac, Virginia, South Norfolk, Virginia, Sexton, Iowa, Themiscyra, Prescott, Massachusetts, Appleton, Arkansas, Greenwich, Massachusetts, Wolstenholme Towne, Skyland Resort, Apollonia, Destinikon, Mangazeya, Nansemond, Virginia, Opegoi, California, Jambusagaranagara, Tyndis, Fincastle County, Virginia, Basic City, Virginia, Tibula, Yuman, California, Catamount, Massachusetts, Lesnik, Bigler's Mill, Virginia, Doron, Ichana, Allatoona, Georgia, Chomchadila, California, Ahapchingas, California, Evonium, Dorieium, Darieium, Tukutnut, California, Chersonesos, Tisechu, California, Nacona, Abbassus, Masut, California, Prairie City, California, Shanamkarak, California, Tsofkara, California, Honsading, California, Rama, Sawuara, California, Arekw, California, Ololopa, California, Yusumne, California, Chinits, California, ..

Author : Julian Maxwell Hayter
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 36,38 MB
Release : 2017-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813169496

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Once the capital of the Confederacy and the industrial hub of slave-based tobacco production, Richmond, Virginia has been largely overlooked in the context of twentieth century urban and political history. By the early 1960s, the city served as an important center for integrated politics, as African Americans fought for fair representation and mobilized voters in order to overcome discriminatory policies. Richmond's African Americans struggled to serve their growing communities in the face of unyielding discrimination. Yet, due to their dedication to strengthening the Voting Rights Act of 1965, African American politicians held a city council majority by the late 1970s. In The Dream Is Lost, Julian Maxwell Hayter describes more than three decades of national and local racial politics in Richmond and illuminates the unintended consequences of civil rights legislation. He uses the city's experience to explain the political abuses that often accompany American electoral reforms and explores the arc of mid-twentieth-century urban history. In so doing, Hayter not only reexamines the civil rights movement's origins, but also seeks to explain the political, economic, and social implications of the freedom struggle following the major legislation of the 1960s. Hayter concludes his study in the 1980s and follows black voter mobilization to its rational conclusion -- black empowerment and governance. However, he also outlines how Richmond's black majority council struggled to the meet the challenges of economic forces beyond the realm of politics. The Dream Is Lost vividly illustrates the limits of political power, offering an important view of an underexplored aspect of the post--civil rights era.

Author : James Fallows
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1101871857

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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.

Author : Friends of Esmont
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 2020-11-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781952430084

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Esmont, Virginia is a community woven from many vibrant threads of history and story. From the Monacan Indians who first traveled the hills to the plantation owners who created their wealth on this land and the African American people whose labor was used to build that wealth to the stone-quarrying industries and the commercial communities that surrounded them, the story of Esmont is rich and very much ongoing.In this book, you will discover some of the stories that make this quiet community so important, and you may just find yourself inclined to make a visit to this rural place with roots that go deep in the stone of its land. For further information about how to help support the work to preserve and recover the history of Esmont, please visit FriendsOfEsmont.com.

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : VNR AG
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 22,47 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780060161583

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"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.