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Coachella was founded by Jason L. Rector in 1884 under the name of Woodspur. Rector established a wood siding for the railroad company and cleared the mesquite trees in the local area. As the town...

Nestled between the Wasatch Plateau and the Book Cliff Mountains, hundreds of feet underground, vast coal deposits make up the heart of Utah's coal country. This high-grade bituminous coal attracted...

Coal Camps of Sweetwater CountyAuthor: Karen Spence McLeanPublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublication Date: Apr 16, 2012Number of Pages: 130 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

In his Annual Report of the Territorial Geologist to the Governor of Wyoming 1890, Louis D. Ricketts wrote, "The coal of this district has little other use than that of supplying a local market."...

Uniquely, Jefferson County had all of the elements necessary for the fabrication of iron and steel within its borders. Coal, limestone, and iron ore all lay within close proximity to Birmingham. The...

Situated on the northern end of North Carolina's Outer Banks, Elizabeth City has a strong aviation tradition. The Wright brothers used the "Harbor of Hospitality" as a final way station before...

The Coast Guard's deepest roots run through Massachusetts, the ancestral home to three of the five predecessor agencies that make up the service today. The Coast Guard formed in 1915 and since that...

Coast Guard in San DiegoAuthor: Coast Guard Sector San DiegoPublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublication Date: Apr 28, 2010Number of Pages: 130 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

Coatesville has always been a city of visionaries, from its namesake, Moses Coates, a prosperous farmer and the area's first postmaster, to Rebecca Lukens, the "Woman of Steel" and one of the first...

Cobb County was a wilderness of virgin forests and unspoiled vistas inhabited by the Creek and Cherokee Indians when the first settlers began arriving in the early 1800s. Farms, railroads, booming...

The history of Cocoa and its bedroom community, Rockledge, falls into two time frames: the first is exploration and settlement; the second began in the 1950s when the Space Age began and drastic...

On February 19, 1967, all but four of the 240 registered voters in the Coconut Creek residential development gathered at a local church to vote on a single issue: whether or not to incorporate the...

Coconut GroveAuthor: Arva Moore ParksPublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublication Date: Sep 15, 2010Number of Pages: 130 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 1531657702ISBN-13:...

First settled in the late 1600s and incorporated in 1770, the small seacoast town of Cohasset became an important center for fishing and shipbuilding during the great age of sail. As the maritime era...

Cohoes has always held a special attraction for everyone--from the first settlers to the tourists of the twentieth century. Revolutionary War commanders, canal builders, boatmen, a schoolteacher who...

Cohoes Revisited continues the pictorial history begun in Cohoes, the Spindle City Historic Society's first book. It offers a second view of the city and its residents from the 19th century forward,...

Since the development of photography in the mid-nineteenth century, the camera has been used as a tool of both discovery and preservation. Photographs bring alive our image of the past, and can open...

Chartered in 1763 and rumored to be one of Vermont's best-kept secrets, Colchester is among the state's oldest and largest communities, with twenty-seven miles of shoreline on Lake Champlain...

A bustling industrial community in the 19th century, Cold Spring Harbor was once described as "a sweet bay of beauty." The area briefly served as a whaling port and was a center for shipbuilding,...

Cole Camp AreaAuthor: Kenneth L. BirdPublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublication Date: Jul 18, 2011Number of Pages: 130 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 1531655149ISBN-13:...

Colerain TownshipAuthor: Frank SchollePublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublication Date: May 19, 2010Number of Pages: 130 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 153165617XISBN-13:...

Centered in Placer County, Colfax lies northeast of the state capital, Sacramento, in the California foothills. The Gold Rush of 1849 transformed these serene surroundings overnight into a flurry of...

Colfax County is unique with having two towns within its boundaries, Schuyler and Clarkson, plus four villages: Leigh, Howells, Richland, and Rogers. A number of farm precincts were once bustling...

Colfax TownshipAuthor: Anita Price DavisPublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublication Date: Jan 24, 2011Number of Pages: 130 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

College Hill, Cincinnati's fifth largest and most diverse neighborhood, owes much of its character to the nineteenth-century colleges that gave the neighborhood its name. Though Farmers' College and...

The success of the American Revolution produced a need for the creation of new national systems of government, finance, education, commerce--and health care. No one recognized the need for better...

College Park, Maryland, owes its name and much of its history to the Maryland Agricultural College, which was founded in 1856 under the Morrill Act and built on land donated by the Calvert family...

A world away from the bustle of Manhattan, College Point, Queens, boasts one of the most interesting histories of any New York City neighborhood. College Point began as a sleepy rural hamlet, but by...

The first land-grant college in Texas called the Agricultural and Mechanical College was predominantly a military school, built in 1876 in a then-remote area of Central Texas. Like other...

Since 1950, Omaha's Rosenblatt Stadium (formerly Municipal Stadium) has hosted the nation's top college baseball programs in the College World Series. Baseball fans from every corner of the country...