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Resting on the banks of the Ohio River, Ashland is eastern Kentucky's largest city. After the Poage family settled on land between Hoods and Keys Creeks in Boyd County, the area came to be known as...

What is known as Ashland today was historically less of a destination than a crossroads. Native Americans had passed through the valley for centuries, often establishing small villages. Farmers in...

Ashland, first known as Uniontown, was established in 1815 on a trail blazed and traveled largely by Native Americans in a setting covered by primitive trees nestled in the heart of Ohio. Growing...

In 1837, the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad laid its iron-capped wooden rails from Richmond to Aquia Creek. There, passengers could meet a stagecoach that would transport them to the...

On September 13, 1804, Henry Clay entered into an agreement to purchase 125 acres on Todd's Road just outside the city limits of Lexington, Kentucky. With this transaction, Clay began the creation of...

Situated within northeastern Utah's mountainous Uinta Basin, the Ashley Valley takes its name from William Ashley, a trapper who passed through the area in 1825. Both beautiful and rugged, the Ashley...

Ashtabula, Ohio has long been a major Great Lakes port city. During the peak of its harbor traffic in the early to middle 20th century, Ashtabula was a shipping and railroading boom town that...

The story of firefighting in Ashtabula is almost as old as the community itself, beginning with the informal citizen bucket brigades of frontier necessity in the early decades of the 1800s. Between...

Post-World War II Ashtabula was a major Great Lakes port with a thriving downtown. Local photographer Richard E. Stoner began taking photographs of the growing city in 1938, and for the next 58...

From the infectious rhythm of the bhangra dance and the sizzle of the tandoori platter to landmark achievements in research laboratories and corporate boardrooms, the Asian Indian presence has very...

The sleepy town of Assabet Village woke up very quickly when the Assabet Mills was built in 1847. Dams were constructed on the river, millponds were created, and large mills began producing yarn and...

Assateague IslandAuthor: Myrna J. CherrixPublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublication Date: Sep 12, 2011Number of Pages: 130 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

Association IslandAuthor: Timothy W. LakePublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublication Date: May 27, 2013Number of Pages: 130 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

Nestled along Bayou Lafourche just south of the Mississippi River, Assumption Parish boasts a particularly bountiful heritage as an ancient and proud community. Descendants of founding families still...

The pictorial history of Assyrian immigration to Chicago encompasses more than 100 years. Their first pioneers came to the United States in the late 1800s. Eventually, by the turn of the century,...

The widespread persecution of the Christian Assyrians by neighboring populations in the Ottoman Empire led to their immigration to the United States. Beginning at the end of the 19th century, with an...

The first Assyrians arrived in Connecticut during the beginning of the 20th century. Initially brought here through a mission organized by the South Church of New Britain, larger numbers of Assyrian...

AstoriaAuthor: Jeffrey H. SmithPublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublication Date: Jul 25, 2011Number of Pages: 130 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 1531649696ISBN-13:...

Atascadero, California--located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco on US Highway 101--is the brainchild of E.G. Lewis. Thought by some to have been a visionary, others considered...

Atchison CountyAuthor: Kim A. EvansPublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublication Date: Feb 11, 2013Number of Pages: 130 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 153166119XISBN-13:...

In the late 1700s, a group of men, largely from Massachusetts, came into the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and settled a village in southeastern Ohio alongside the Hocking River. Calling it...

Athens and Limestone CountyAuthor: Kelly KazekPublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublication Date: Sep 08, 2010Number of Pages: 130 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

Athens County, Ohio, came out of the pioneer spirit of a new nation expanding westward after the Revolutionary War into the Northwest Territory. Upon declaration of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787,...

With Athens, Sayre, and Waverly, the first pictorial history of the valley, Bonnie Stacy has created a nostalgic look at the picturesque communities where the Susquehanna and the Chemung Rivers flow...

Nestled among the hills of Massachusetts, 70 miles west of Boston, Athol lies on the banks of the Millers River. First settled as "Pequoiag" in 1735 and incorporated as Athol in 1762, the evolution...

AtlantaAuthor: Heather Ridpath PilcherPublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublication Date: Aug 01, 2011Number of Pages: 130 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 1531656609ISBN-13:...

Atlanta ExpositionAuthor: Sharon Foster JonesPublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublication Date: Jan 27, 2010Number of Pages: 130 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

Atlanta, the thriving capital of the New South, has a rich and fascinating history. In Atlanta Scenes, authors Kimberly S. Blass and Michael Rose draw from the works of some of the city's earliest...

Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta was founded in 1886. The name Ebenezer means "rock or stone of help." From a small group of believers, many of whom were former slaves, in a boxlike structure on...

Since the city's beginnings after the War of 1812, Atlanta has had a tradition of building with a regard for becoming a world-class metropolis. Before being burned by Union general William T. Sherman...