Gravestone Inscriptions from the Prospect Hill Cemetery, York County, Pa., Pertaining to the Meals Family
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Stowman Family Gravestone Inscriptions from the Cedar Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa
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The Waterman Family
Title | The Waterman Family PDF eBook |
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Pages | 846 |
Release | 1939 |
Genre | Genealogy |
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The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884
Title | The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884 PDF eBook |
Author | James Hammond Trumbull |
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Pages | 726 |
Release | 1886 |
Genre | Hartford County (Conn.) |
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History Etched in Stone
Title | History Etched in Stone PDF eBook |
Author | W. P. Kerr |
Publisher | Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2011-01-01 |
Genre | Annapolis Royal (N.S.) |
ISBN | 9781100183329 |
Explores the compelling history of Port-Royal/Annapolis Roys, as told through the gravestones of one of the most historic graveyards in Canada.
Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia
Title | Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Channing Moore Page |
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Pages | 300 |
Release | 1893 |
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Pleasant Bend
Title | Pleasant Bend PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Worrall |
Publisher | Dan Michael Worrall |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0982599625 |
Today’s Greater Houston is a vast urban place. In the mid-nineteenth century, however, Houston was a small town – a dot in a vast frontier. Extant written histories of Houston largely confine themselves to the small area within the city limits of the day, leaving nearly forgotten the history of large rural areas that later fell beneath the city’s late twentieth century urban sprawl. One such area is that of upper Buffalo Bayou, extending westward from downtown Houston to Katy. European settlement here began at Piney Point in 1824, over a decade before Houston was founded. Ox wagons full of cotton traveled across a seemingly endless tallgrass prairie from the Brazos River east to Harrisburg (and later to Houston) along the San Felipe Trail, built in 1830. Also here, Texan families fled eastward during the Runaway Scrape of 1836, immigrant German settlers trekked westward to new farms along the north bank of the bayou in the 1840s, and newly freed African American families walked east toward Houston from Brazos plantations after Emancipation. Pioneer settlers operated farms, ranches and sawmills. Near present-day Shepherd Drive, Reconstruction-era cowboys assembled herds of longhorns and headed north along a southeastern branch of the Chisholm Trail. Little physical evidence remains today of this former frontier world.