Lokale Geschichte

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When Michigan joined the Union, in 1837, it acquired nearly 14 million acres of land from the 1836 treaty. It took several years to survey the land, at which point the complex process of land "disposal" began, ultimately resulting in private ownership. This occurred just in time for the lumber industry to move its focus from exhausted lands in New England to the great pine forests of Michigan.By the time the great pine lumbering industry arrived in mid-Michigan, in the 1880s and '90s, the industry had reached its apogee in cutting massive swaths of forests in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. The lumber companies then turned their focus on three counties: Roscommon, Gladwin, and Clare, which included West Nester Township, and two major logging rivers, the Muskegon and the Saginaw. Here, standard-gauge rail lines were needed to extend the range of the river systems to deliver these remote harvests. After the harvest, land speculation of the cut-over sections was the order of the day. Attempts to extract additional value from these lands included agriculture and turpentine production. Using the exemplar of West Nester Township, the author proves the folly of these efforts and reveals the true value of this land.This historical description of that development is rich and fascinating.

"From the National Book Award-longlisted author of Finding Florida, a sparkling, sweeping chronicle of the author's life and discoveries in an ancient town in "Deep France," from nearby prehistoric caves to medieval dynastic struggles to the colorful characters populating the area today. When T. D. Allman purchased an 800-year-old house in the mountain village of Lauzerte in southwestern France, he aimed to find refuge from the world's tumults. Instead, he found that humanity's most telling melodramas, from the paleolithic to the postmodern, were graven in its stones and visible from its windows. Indeed, the history of France can be viewed from the perspective of Lauzerte and its surrounding area-just as Allman, from one window, can see Lauzerte unfold before him in the Place des Corniáeres, where he watches performances of the opera Tosca and each Saturday buys produce from "Fred, the Foie Gras Guy"; while from the other side facing the Pyrenees he surveys the fated landscape that generated many events giving birth to the modern world. The dynastic struggles of Eleanor of Aquitaine, he finds, led to Lauzerte's remarkably progressive charter issued in 1241, which even then enshrined human rights in its 51 articles. From Eleanor's marriage to English king Henry II in 1154 dates the never-ending melodrama pitting English arrogance against French resistance; in 2016 Brexit demonstrated that this perpetual contretemps is another of the vaster conditions life in Lauzerte illuminates. Allman chronicles the many conflicts that have swirled in the region, from the Catholic Church's genocidal campaign to wipe out "heresy" there; to France's own sixteenth-century Wars of Religion, which saw hundreds massacred in the town square, some inside his house; to World War II, during which Lauzerte was part of Nazi-occupied Vichy. In prose as crystalline as his view to the Pyrenees on a clear day, Allman animates Lauzerte and its surrounding communities-Cahors, Moissac, Montauban-all ever in thrall to the magnetic impulse of Paris. Witness to so many dramas over the centuries, his house comes alive as a historical protagonist in its own right, from its wine-cellar cave to the roof where he wages futile battle with pigeons, to the life lessons it conveys. "The onward march of history, my House keeps demonstrating, never takes a rest," he observes, pulling us vividly into his world"--

Greetings! It is truly remarkable that, after six decades, I find myself inspired and given the opportunity to delve into the historical and current struggles of Black Americans in the South and various states across the nation. Despite enduring immense hardships, such as poverty, their predicaments are seldom addressed by the media. Regrettably, I fear that without direct action from politicians who recognize the urgent need for change, these issues will persist, leaving them neglected. They are now hopeful that their struggles can be remedied before White supremacists' prejudiced attitudes towards Black individuals worsen. I would deeply appreciate it if fellow Americans could spare a moment to peruse this book. I am confident that you will find the accounts of Black people's experiences in life-and-death circumstances intriguing and thought-provoking. So fasten your seat belts and prepare for a challenging journey through the past, present, and future. While reading this book may be unsettling as you venture further into an era that few of us would have survived--enduring the unimaginable conditions of physical and mental enslavement by White supremacists--please know that it is entirely understandable.

Fayetteville and Washington County came into being almost 200 years ago. A lot of things happen in two centuries-all kinds of things, good and bad. Much of the history of the area has been preserved and is easily accessed, but sometimes, our local history gets lost or simply drops out of the public's consciousness.Forgotten Fayetteville is a book devoted to retrieving ignored, lost, or forgotten history, mostly in Fayetteville but in the surrounding county, too. Traverse family legacies, untold crimes, and pivotal figures now lost to our communal awareness. Walk down our local memory lane to visit our original schools, movie theaters like the Ozark, Palace, and Victory-the latter almost wiped clean from our past-and the history of Wilson (City) Park. Discover the true account of the murder of an African American police officer... in 1928. Learn how a car wreck near West Fork in 1939 changed the course of American political history and how an internationally-known local author made a triumphant hometown return, only to find that you really can't go home again. Take a trip into forgotten history. It's a journey well worth the effort.

Clovernook: Home for the Blind is a brief history originally published in 1957. Clovernook was built on the grounds of the home of noted poets Alice and Phoebe Cary in Cincinnati, Ohio. Within a decade it became one of the most innovative homes for the blind, incorporating a weaving shop and, importantly, a braille press which, by the 1920s, was the second leading publisher of braille books in the country. It remains to this day one of the largest braille producers in the world. This brief history traces Clovernook's origins to the middle of the twentieth century.

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Das Vigiljoch, der bewaldete Bergrücken an der Ostseite des Etschtals, führte bis zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts ein Schattendasein. Erst im Zuge des expandierenden Tourismus um 1900 zog der Berg vermehrt Aufmerksamkeit auf sich. Das nahe Meran hatte sich zu dieser Zeit bereits längst vom "Kuhdorf" zum Kurort entwickelt. Der Wettbewerb um die Erschließung des Jochs wurde so hartnäckig geführt, dass sogar Gerichte damit befasst waren und der Streit bis nach Wien getragen wurde.Maria Heidegger und Brigitte Mazohl zeigen in diesem Band gemeinsam mit Gerhard Siegl und Simon Peter Terzer am Beispiel des Vigiljochs den engen Zusammenhang zwischen industriellem und technischem Fortschritt, zwischen sozialem Wandel und touristischer Erschließung der Landschaft. Aktuelle Fotografien des Vigiljochs von Andreas Schalber und zahlreiche historische Bilddokumente ergänzen die Texte.

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Das Leipziger Land - kaum hundert Meter über dem Meeresspiegel, Ebene, so weit das Auge reicht, nur von Flussauen durchzogen, eine Schule fürs Sehen? Es ist eine ebenso gern wie unscharf verwendete Bezeichnung, dieses »Leipziger Land«. Als Naturraum betrachtet, gehört es der oft synonym verwendeten Leipziger Tieflandsbucht an, einer eiszeitlichen Altmoränenlandschaft, die wiederum die südöstliche Ausbuchtung der Norddeutschen Tiefebene ins sächsische Hügelland darstellt und bis an die Mittelgebirgsschwelle heranreicht. Unter der Leipziger Tieflandsbucht werden das südöstliche SachsenAnhalt und das nordwestliche Sachsen verstanden, daher auch Halle-Leipziger oder thüringisch-sächsische Tieflandsbucht genannt, die im Osten an die Mulde mit dem Nordsächsischen Platten- und Hügelland grenzt.Das Leipziger Land ist freilich mehr als Naturraum. Im geschichtlichen Werden hat es seine heutige Gestalt gefunden, in Wechselwirkung von Mitte und Rändern. Letztere zeigen sich weit bewegter in ihrem Landschaftsrelief mit markanten Höhen wie dem Petersberg und Landsberg im Nordwesten, dem Collm und Rochlitzer Berg im Südosten. Oder die Ränder liegen an Saale, Weißer Elster, Pleiße und Mulde wie Merseburg, Weißenfels, Naumburg, Zeitz, Altenburg, Leisnig, Grimma, Wurzen, Eilenburg - immer sind es frühe Herrschaftspunkte gewesen. Auch wo sie unmerklich ins nordsächsische Flachland und Ostelbische auslaufen wie bei Torgau oder in die Lommatzscher Pflege bei Oschatz. Welche frühen Impulse Leipzig in naturräumlicher Lagegunst im Gewässerknoten aus seinen »Rändern« bezogen hat und wie es unter zielstrebiger Förderung der zu mitteldeutscher Landesherrschaft aufsteigenden Wettiner Vorort des Osterlandes und erster Handelsplatz (»geografisches Zentrum Mitteldeutschlands«) wurde, ist Thema des Buches

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Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Um das Jahr 1155 beginnen im damaligen Wackersberger Gebiet umfangreiche Rodungen. Gute 100 Jahre später erscheint erstmals ein Neuburger Amt im Isarwinkel.Welche Spuren der ehemaligen Burganlage sind noch zu finden? Wie könnte die Burg einmal ausgesehen haben?Was haben ein Zwist zwischen dem Bischof von Freising und dem Kloster Tegernsee mit der Entstehung der Burg zu tun? Wer und was hat zu ihrem Untergang geführt?Mit diesem Büchlein wollen wir die bisher wenig beachtete Neuburg / Schellenburg im Isarwinkel genauer betrachten und versuchen etwas mehr Licht ins Dunkel zu bringen.Der erste Abschnitt widmet sich der Ruine, ihrer Lage und dem möglichen Aussehen der ehemaligen Burg. Der zweite Abschnitt behandelt den aktuell gebräuchlichen NamenSchellenburg und ob dieser überhaupt zutreffen kann, sowie die möglichen Bewohner der Anlage.