New York City's Hart Island: A Cemetery of Strangers
Title | New York City's Hart Island: A Cemetery of Strangers PDF eBook |
Author | Michael T. Keene |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1467144045 |
Just off the coast of the Bronx in Long Island Sound sits Hart Island, where more than one million bodies are buried in unmarked graves. Beginning as a Civil War prison and training site and later a psychiatric hospital, the location became the repository for New York City�s unclaimed dead. The island�s mass graves are a microcosm of New York history, from the 1822 burial crisis to casualties of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and victims of the AIDS epidemic. Important artists who died in poverty have been discovered, including Disney star Bobby Driscol and playwright Leo Birinski. Author Michael T. Keene reveals the history of New York�s potter�s field and the stories of some of its lost souls.
New York City's Hart Island
Title | New York City's Hart Island PDF eBook |
Author | Michael T Keene |
Publisher | History Press Library Editions |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2019-10-14 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781540240941 |
Just off the coast of the Bronx in Long Island Sound sits Hart Island, where more than one million bodies are buried in unmarked graves. Beginning as a Civil War prison and training site and later a psychiatric hospital, the location became the repository for New York City�s unclaimed dead. The island�s mass graves are a microcosm of New York history, from the 1822 burial crisis to casualties of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and victims of the AIDS epidemic. Important artists who died in poverty have been discovered, including Disney star Bobby Driscol and playwright Leo Birinski. Author Michael T. Keene reveals the history of New York�s potter�s field and the stories of some of its lost souls.
Hart Island
Title | Hart Island PDF eBook |
Author | Melinda Hunt |
Publisher | Scalo Publishers |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Hart Island is a place outside the vision and minds of most New Yorkers, even those who have family buried there. It represents the ultimate melting pot, a place where individual lives are blended beyond recognition. Melinda Hunt
The Psychic Highway
Title | The Psychic Highway PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Keene |
Publisher | Ad-Hoc Productions |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2017-03-23 |
Genre | Erie Canal (N.Y.) |
ISBN | 9780998850801 |
The history of the making of the Erie Canal and the visionaries and prophets who established the great social, religious, and political movements of the 19th century.
The Eastern District of Brooklyn
Title | The Eastern District of Brooklyn PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene L. Armbruster |
Publisher | |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
ISBN |
Folklore and Legends of Rochester
Title | Folklore and Legends of Rochester PDF eBook |
Author | Michael T. Keene |
Publisher | History Press (SC) |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781609491901 |
Born from the chilly waters of Lake Ontario and the Genesee River, Rochester, New York, has been the cradle of the modern spiritualist an anti-Masonic movements and religious sects and communes. This unusual history has given rise to strange legends and shrouded the city in mystery. Was the corner of Main and Elm Streets--McCurdy's Department Store--cursed? Who was Captain William Morgan, and why did he suddenly disappear? What stories lie behind Rochester's first murder and the execution of William Lyman's killer? What is hoodoo, and who is the Hoodoo Doctor? Native American tales, the history of the infamous Fox sisters and the secrets of the Freemasons are woven into these and other legends of Rochester
722 Miles
Title | 722 Miles PDF eBook |
Author | Clifton Hood |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2004-08-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780801880544 |
When it first opened on October 27, 1904, the New York City subway ran twenty-two miles from City Hall to 145th Street and Lenox Avenue—the longest stretch ever built at one time. From that initial route through the completion of the IND or Independent Subway line in the 1940s, the subway grew to cover 722 miles—long enough to reach from New York to Chicago. In this definitive history, Clifton Hood traces the complex and fascinating story of the New York City subway system, one of the urban engineering marvels of the twentieth century. For the subway's centennial the author supplies a new foreward explaining that now, after a century, "we can see more clearly than ever that this rapid transit system is among the twentieth century's greatest urban achievements."