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As west as metropolitan Los Angeles's trendy Westside gets, Santa Monica has enjoyed a colorful history as both a resort community and a bedrock hometown on the Southern California coast. As a...

The panhandle plains were Texas's last frontier, barren lands populated by hostile Comanche and outlaws attempting to outrun civilization. It was Texas Ranger and frontier scout Jim Jackson who first...

This riverside city was established when a rumor surfaced that a military road would be crossing over the Snohomish River. The road never materialized. By 1866, the "mother city" of the new county...

Early SpokaneAuthor: Don PopejoyPublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublication Date: Nov 15, 2010Number of Pages: 130 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 1531653928ISBN-13:...

At the beginning of the 20th century, many Americans moved from farm to town, changing from agricultural employment to jobs in factories and retail shops. Along with these new occupations came a new...

Tucson is a history of time and a river. The roots of prehistoric habitation run deep along the Santa Cruz River, reaching back thousands of years. Later the river attracted 17th-century Spanish...

Known as much today for its theme park, Universal City is also the largest and the longest continuously operating movie studio in "Hollywood." The Universal Film Manufacturing Company was formed by a...

Early Wall Street: 1830-1940 traces the development of New York's financial district, from the low-lying city of the early 19th century, through the building boom of the 1870s and 1880s, and into the...

Early Warner Bros. StudiosAuthor: E. J. StephensPublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublication Date: Jul 21, 2010Number of Pages: 130 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

After the arrival of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad in 1852, Whitewater became a regional shipping center that blossomed into a powerful industrial town. The Esterly Harvesting Machine...

Early Woods CountyAuthor: Beverly KinziePublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublication Date: May 30, 2011Number of Pages: 130 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

At the end of the 19th century, outlaws opined they would rather kill themselves than be taken alive to certain slow-boiled death in the caldron of Yuma's territorial prison, known nationally as "The...

Born of the Industrial Revolution, Easley started with a single rail line brought to the area by Robert Elliott Holcombe at the end of the Civil War along with his promise to build and donate the...

East AmwellAuthor: East Amwell Historical SocietyPublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublication Date: Sep 08, 2010Number of Pages: 130 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

East and West Rockhill TownshipsAuthor: Brenda PhelanPublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublication Date: Sep 05, 2011Number of Pages: 130 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

This original work illustrates the storied history of Southern Pines, focusing specifically on the merging of the East and West sides. West Southern Pines, whose population was comprised entirely of...

East AtlantaAuthor: Henry BryantPublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublication Date: Mar 03, 2014Number of Pages: 130 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 1531668887ISBN-13:...

Originally called Noodle's Island, East Boston was once comprised of five islands connected by marshland. Today, many people identify East Boston as the location of Logan International Airport, but...

Chartered in 1856, the East Broad Top Railroad began operating in 1873 through scenic Huntingdon County in south-central Pennsylvania. This well-managed narrow-gauge railroad connected the isolated...

Using a collection of many never-before-seen photographs, East Bronx: East of the Bronx River celebrates the history of this group of neighborhoods. From the late 1800s to the present day, the area...

Located in central Middlesex County, East Brunswick is a community of more than 40,000 people. Once part of North Brunswick, it broke away and incorporated as a separate entity in 1860. The city has...

In the late 1800s, East Cleveland took root as a small trading post alongside a wagon trail that led from Buffalo, New York, to Cleveland, Ohio. This wagon trail, then known as the "Lakeshore Trail"...

The stretch of land known as "East of the Cooper," featuring the charming town of Mount Pleasant, is interwoven with innumerable waterways; these waters pulsate with the ebb and flow of tides like a...

In Revolutionary days, East Fishkill was on the route of an important highway from Boston to the Hudson River, traveled by Gen. George Washington, Gen. John Burgoyne, and John Jay. The town separated...

Goshen Township is part of the original 1681 William Penn grant and was established in 1704. At that time it covered what today are East Goshen Township, West Goshen Township, the borough of West...

East Greenwich, the eighth-oldest town in the state, was named for the original Greenwich in Kent County, England. The eastern edge rests on the Narragansett Bay, and the western land gracefully...

As early as 1895, seeking to avoid the summer heat of the city, well-to-do executives, heirs and heiresses of family fortunes, bankers, artists, and others began to flock to the bucolic countryside...

Adventurous farmers settled between the Passaic and Whippany Rivers more than three hundred years ago. They led hard but simple agrarian lives, interrupted only by the American Revolution. Life...

Overshadowed by the fame of Harlem and the wealth of the Upper East Side, East Harlem is rarely noted as a historical enclave. However, from the early 1800s through today, East Harlem has welcomed...

East Harlem RevisitedAuthor: Christopher BellPublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublication Date: Dec 13, 2010Number of Pages: 130 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...