The Book Company: New Products - United States

Greeneville - 9780738553993

Sun, 31 Jul 2016 22:28:19 +0000

As in most towns, Greeneville’s citizens balance the need to modernize and the desire to preserve structures from the city’s 1800s heyday. Some buildings are being renovated with their historic grandeur in mind, and others are being sacrificed to accommodate contemporary necessities. Many of these..

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Golf in Florida: (1886-1950)

Sun, 31 Jul 2016 21:56:18 +0000

Florida has depended on tourism since the earliest days of American ownership. Entrepreneurs, scoundrels, and visionaries flocked to the Sunshine State to take advantage of the natural resources—land, water, climate, natural beauty, flora, and fauna—to implement their schemes and dreams. The major..

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Nashville Broadcasting

Sun, 31 Jul 2016 21:50:45 +0000

Built by a 16-year-old high school student named Jack DeWitt, the first radio station in Nashville went on the air in 1922. Three years later, DeWitt helped start WSM, arguably one of the nation’s greatest radio stations, and in 1950, he and WSM put Nashville’s first television station on the air...

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Philadelphia Friends Schools

Sun, 31 Jul 2016 21:49:21 +0000

William Penn envisioned a society dedicated to religious toleration, participatory government, and liberty. Central to this Holy Experiment was his belief that all children deserved a moral education. In 1689, Penn established a Friends Public School in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Over the y..

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Cocoa Beach

Sun, 31 Jul 2016 21:44:10 +0000

Cocoa Beach welcomes millions of visitors every year, but the city has always managed to keep a small town atmosphere. In 1940, it was a cozy little waterfront town with less than 50 people. A few years after World War II, America’s space race began, and the city was never the same.

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Montreat

Sun, 31 Jul 2016 21:26:30 +0000

Montreat is nestled in a cove of 4,500 acres on the eastern edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville and Black Mountain. Established in 1897 by an interdenominational group largely from the North, it was the first religious assembly to be founded in the Swannanoa Valley. True to its initial..

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Nashville's Inglewood

Sun, 31 Jul 2016 21:22:06 +0000

Settled north of Nashville in 1782, Inglewood began as a farming community on the Cumberland River. Early prominent citizens built many grand homes in the area, including Weakley and Riverwood, which are still standing today. A new community called “Inglewood Place” began in 1908 and churches, sch..

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Vandergrift

Sun, 31 Jul 2016 21:20:52 +0000

Established in 1895 when other factory towns consisted of shabby mill-owned structures and dirt streets, Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, was uniquely designed by the firm of Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot to be greener and more architecturally pleasing for residents. The town’s early emphasis on green spac..

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Fort Gordon

Sun, 31 Jul 2016 21:20:38 +0000

Fort Gordon is a sprawling military base encompassing portions of four counties in and around Augusta. Now the U.S. Army Signal Center, the base has a long and illustrious history going back to Camp Gordon in Atlanta, where doughboys were trained for the bloody fields of Flanders. Over the years, ..

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Peachtree City

Sun, 31 Jul 2016 21:02:57 +0000

In 2009, Peachtree City is a 50-year-old thriving “new town.” But when it was incorporated in 1959, it was 5,000 acres of farmland with little more than potential. The 1960 census did not record an official count until implored to three years later so that the city could apply for federal funds. E..

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