wyszukanych pozycji: 31
Captain Billy Bush and the Bush Settlement, Clark County, Kentucky, A Family History
ISBN: 9781329640665 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. No one played a more important role in the settlement of Clark County than Capt. William "Billy" Bush. Born in Orange County, Virginia, Billy came out with Daniel Boone in 1775, resided for a time at Fort Boonesborough, then spent the rest of his life living a few miles from the fort. He thus became one of the first permanent settlers in Kentucky. He thus became one of the first permanent settlers in Kentucky. He fought in the "Indian Wars" from the Battle of Point Pleasant (1774) to General Harmar's defeat (1790). Billy was also a key figure in establishing Providence Baptist Church, the...
No one played a more important role in the settlement of Clark County than Capt. William "Billy" Bush. Born in Orange County, Virginia, Billy came out...
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198,04 zł |
Autobiographical Sketches of Barzilla R. Shaw, Coshocton, Ohio
ISBN: 9781312771420 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Barzilla R. Shaw (1836-1935) was born in a log cabin near Coshocton, Ohio, and died in that city at the age of 99. He lived to see his little town grow from 250 inhabitants to a city of 12,000. Barzilla was a farmer, merchant, Civil War veteran, local civic leader, and devoted family man. When he died he was the oldest resident of the city and the oldest Civil War veteran in Ohio. Although he quit school to make his own way at age 14, Barzilla left a wealth of written material. He submitted numerous editorial letters and poems to the local newspaper, kept daily journals at various periods,...
Barzilla R. Shaw (1836-1935) was born in a log cabin near Coshocton, Ohio, and died in that city at the age of 99. He lived to see his little town gro...
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74,01 zł |
John Martin of Lower Howard's Creek, Clark County, Kentucky
ISBN: 9781329138582 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. John Martin was a pioneer of Clark County, Kentucky, where he lived on Lower Howard's Creek. John had been a blacksmith in Goochland County, Virginia, where he married Rachel Pace. He owned a small farm there before moving to Ballenger Creek in what is now Fluvanna County. John and Rachel were the parents of thirteen children. In the late 1780s, the parents and children moved to Kentucky. John settled on a hillside farm in an area then known as the Bush Settlement. John now has descendants too numerous to count, some still in Clark County, the others spread all over. Our John Martin has been...
John Martin was a pioneer of Clark County, Kentucky, where he lived on Lower Howard's Creek. John had been a blacksmith in Goochland County, Virginia,...
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59,41 zł |
Where In The World? Volume 3, Historic People and Places in Clark County, Kentucky
ISBN: 9781387716241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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89,11 zł |
A Year in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne, 1969-1970
ISBN: 9781329657137 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The author was one of many reluctant soldiers who served in the Vietnam War. Drafted out of graduate school and trained in the infantry, he spent a year with the 101st Airborne. This work is a journal of the experience, a day to day description of what it was like in a "grunt unit" fighting in the Central Highlands, dealing with the heat, the bugs, the rain, the endless patrolling in the villages and mountains, the ever present boredom and occasional violence. It's not all exciting action but it's always real.
The author was one of many reluctant soldiers who served in the Vietnam War. Drafted out of graduate school and trained in the infantry, he spent a ye...
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74,27 zł |
Colonel John Holder Boonesborough Defender & Kentucky Entrepreneur
ISBN: 9781956027150 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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98,77 zł |
Captain Billy Bush and the Bush Settlement, Clark County, Kentucky, A Family History
ISBN: 9781329625488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. No one played a more important role in the settlement of Clark County than Capt. William "Billy" Bush. Born in Orange County, Virginia, Billy came out with Daniel Boone in 1775, resided for a time at Fort Boonesborough, then spent the rest of his life living a few miles from the fort. He thus became one of the first permanent settlers in Kentucky. He thus became one of the first permanent settlers in Kentucky. He fought in the "Indian Wars" from the Battle of Point Pleasant (1774) to General Harmar's defeat (1790). Billy was also a key figure in establishing Providence Baptist Church, the...
No one played a more important role in the settlement of Clark County than Capt. William "Billy" Bush. Born in Orange County, Virginia, Billy came out...
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123,77 zł |
Papers of John C. Enoch, Mt. Sterling, Kentucky
ISBN: 9781312794870 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. John C. Enoch was born in 1859 in Champaign County, Ohio, near the town of West Liberty. When he was eleven years old, John's parents, William D. and Ann Eliza Enoch, moved the family to Coshocton, Ohio. In 1879 John married Emma Shaw of Coshoction. In about 1888, they moved to Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, where John opened a general merchandise store-Enoch's Bargain House. Shortly thereafter he started a factory manufacturing fiber lunch boxes-the Novelty Lunch Box Co. This successful business expanded into the manufacture of cotton jersey work gloves. The glove business flourished until it was...
John C. Enoch was born in 1859 in Champaign County, Ohio, near the town of West Liberty. When he was eleven years old, John's parents, William D. and ...
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74,01 zł |
Rise and Fall of Orson Martin, Blacksmith
ISBN: 9781300607885 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 89 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Orson Martin was born in Goochland County, Virginia, the son of John and Rachel Martin. Orson learned the blacksmith trade from his father. After the Revolutionary War, the family moved to Kentucky and settled near Boonesborough in an area that became one of the earliest industrial centers west of the Allegheny Mountains. Orsons brothers William and Valentine became prominent figures in the neighborhood. It was Orson, however, who had the vision to recognize the commercial potential of the Lower Howards Creek valley, along with the initiative and skills to take advantage of the...
Orson Martin was born in Goochland County, Virginia, the son of John and Rachel Martin. Orson learned the blacksmith trade from his father. After th...
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54,46 zł |
David Enoch Family in Ohio, 1798-1953
ISBN: 9781387493739 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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42,08 zł |
Indian Old Fields
ISBN: 9781365189142 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Over 50 significant prehistoric and historic archaeological sites have been identified in the Indian Old Fields area of Clark County, Kentucky. These date from 8000 B.C. to A.D. 1800. Several of these sites are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Indian Old Fields was the one-time home of Shawnee chief Catahecassa (Black Hoof), the reputed site of John Finleys trading post, as well as Eskippakithiki, one of the last Indian towns in what is now Kentucky. Pioneers who explored the Indian Old Fields area in 1775 reported evidence of old buildings, Indian fortifications,... Over 50 significant prehistoric and historic archaeological sites have been identified in the Indian Old Fields area of Clark County, Kentucky. These...
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49,51 zł |
Affair at Captina Creek
ISBN: 9780788411120 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With the end of the Revolutionary War, the United States not only gained independence from the British Empire but also secured control of a sizable territory west of the Allegheny Mountains. Native Americans of the Ohio River Valley refused to accept claims of the fledgling nation and militantly resisted white settlements in their homelands. Constant border strife turned into open war in the spring of 1791. The Shawnee, emboldened by their defeat of General Josiah Harmar the previous autumn, crossed the Ohio River and struck the settlement of Ohio County (West) Virginia and Washington County,...
With the end of the Revolutionary War, the United States not only gained independence from the British Empire but also secured control of a sizable te...
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106,45 zł |
A Barnard Family Trilogy
ISBN: 9781387115365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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64,37 zł |
History of the Kerr Building and Eclipse Mills, Winchester, Kentucky
ISBN: 9781329792371 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Kerr Building encompasses two separate buildings: the S. P. Kerr Business Block and the Eclipse Mills. George Taylor and Leslie Webster put up the Eclipse Mills in about 1867. Smith Kerr erected the Business Block in 1889. After serving as a prominent business house in Winchester for over a century, in the late 1990s the Kerr Building fell into disrepair and was in danger of being razed. The Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation placed the Kerr Building on its 1999 list of most endangered buildings in the region, what it called "11 in their 11th hour." Mayor Dodd Dixon, deciding...
The Kerr Building encompasses two separate buildings: the S. P. Kerr Business Block and the Eclipse Mills. George Taylor and Leslie Webster put up the...
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30,51 zł |
Bound for New Orleans! John Halley's Journal of Flatboat Trips from Boonesborough in 1789 & 1791
ISBN: 9781329794344 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. John Halley's journals provide the earliest first-hand accounts of the voyage down the Kentucky, Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. Halley supplies insightful accounts of what became one of Kentucky's major early industries-shipping goods and produce by flatboat to the port of New Orleans-and he does so almost at the birth of that industry, just two years after Gen. James Wilkinson's inaugural trip in 1787. Although rivermen often suffered at the hands of Native Americans and Spanish officials, Halley seems to have gotten along well with everyone he met. He describes every encounter...
John Halley's journals provide the earliest first-hand accounts of the voyage down the Kentucky, Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. Halley su...
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Historical Records of the Enoch Family in Virginia and Pennsylvania
ISBN: 9781312201972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Brothers Henry Enoch and Enoch Enoch came to Virginia before 1750, settling on the sparsely populated frontier west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Their Virginia years were defined by the French and Indian War (1755-1763) and their close association with young George Washington. By 1757, their children had begun to explore more westerly lands, where they ultimately resettled with their families in what is now Washington County, Pennsylvania. Henry Jr., David, and Enoch Enoch were among the first "over the mountain men," settling west of the Allegheny Mountains by 1767. Their Pennsylvania...
Brothers Henry Enoch and Enoch Enoch came to Virginia before 1750, settling on the sparsely populated frontier west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Thei...
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103,97 zł |
Grimes Mill, Kentucky Landmark on Boone Creek, Fayette County
ISBN: 9780788420313 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Grimes Mill complex and the nearby Grimes House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Charles Grimes' merchant mill was originally built to manufacture wheat for export to New Orleans. The business continued under various owners for over 100 years. The mill ceased operating in 1928 and since that time has served as headquarters for the Iroquois Hunt Club. This book tells the story of the men and women who built and tended the mill, the various commercial enterprises carried on in its shadow, and the outside events that swirled around it. The work is divided into seven...
The Grimes Mill complex and the nearby Grimes House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Charles Grimes' merchant mill was original...
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113,87 zł |
Where in the World? Volume 2, Historic People and Places in Clark County, Kentucky
ISBN: 9781365889103 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Unusual place names evoke a sense of mystery and wonder. How did a place come to be called the "Wolf Pen" or the "Shot Factory"? Where in the world were the "Indian Old Fields" and "Brandenburg's Mill"? Researching these names often reveals fascinating stories about local history, families, events, and politics. Clark County, Kentucky is blessed with many such interesting places. The articles in this book are collected from a column in the Winchester Sun called "Where in the World? " Each article describes an historic place or person in Clark County, some well known, some not so well known....
Unusual place names evoke a sense of mystery and wonder. How did a place come to be called the "Wolf Pen" or the "Shot Factory"? Where in the world we...
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89,11 zł |
Where In The World?
ISBN: 9781300463245 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,97 zł |