Lokale Geschichte

Dieses Buch ist dem Bergbau der Stadt Essen gewidmet, sowie an Bergbauinteressierte und die, die es gerne werden möchten.Die Stadt Essen verzeichnet bis zu 980 Bergwerke. Der größte Teil der Bergwerke standen zueinander, die sogenannte Konsolidierung. Diese Konsolidierung der Bergwerke ist in Form von Grafiken von mir dargestellt. Hinzugefügt sind historische Fotos und heutige Fotos als Relikte von mir fotografiert, hinterlegt mit Erläuterungen zum Thema Bergbau.

Oklahoma s central location makes it a natural crossroads, and the trails of yesterday became the superhighways of today. Perhaps the best example is Route 69, also known as the Jefferson Highway. The paved highway was begun in 1915, but its course was heavily traveled for centuries before that. Engineers could map no better path than the generations who cut it through the wilderness out of necessity. Author Jonita Mullins leads a journey along this ancient way that recalls some of Oklahoma s most important history and celebrates some of its most fascinating characters."

Isaac Cavin, of Ligonier, Pennsylvania, traveled to Indiana in 1830. He returned home and married Elizabeth Marker in 1834, and they traveled together to northern Indiana. In May 1835, he planned a new town and named it Ligonier. He built his home a few miles north of town and lived there for 52 years. The next big players were two German Jewish peddlers, Solomon Mier and Frederick William Straus, who traveled to the United States and settled in Indiana. After training with their uncle, they moved to Ligonier around 1854 because they were told the railroad would be coming to Ligonier and that it might be a good place to start up a business. The suggestion led to some wonderful times for Ligonier. Straus developed one of his businesses into the largest farm brokerage firm in the United States, and Mier developed one of his businesses into one of the largest farmland dealers in the Midwest. Images of America: Ligonier explores one of the most unusual small towns in the United States.

Irving, Texas, was founded in 1903 by two eager individuals, J.O. Schulze and Otis Brown, of the Chicago, Rock Island & Gulf Railway Company. Beginning as an agrarian area of farmland, cotton, and cattle, Irving grew to include industrial facilities while persevering through the financial difficulties resulting from the Civil War and the two world wars. Irving maintained its growth when other cities in the United States could not. Schulze and Brown recognized the importance of utilizing both agricultural and industrial resources in creating and sustaining a successful city. Remnants of early communities, such as Bear Creek, Elm, Estelle, Kit, Sowers, Twin Wells, and Union Bower, can still be identified. Situated between Dallas and Fort Worth, Irving is a robust and thriving city that has greatly contributed to the creation and preservation of Texas history.

Residents of Bel Air, a small county seat located in northern Maryland, played inordinately large roles in the evolution of the state and nation. Bel Air boasts two Maryland governors, William Paca and Augustus Bradford; the fi rst woman elected to the Maryland State Senate, Mary Risteau; as well as Milton Reckord, whose 65-year military career is unequaled. Other local legends include radio personality Diane Lyn, artist Jim Butcher, and Kimmie Meissner, the youngest member of the 2006 US Olympic team. There are villains as well. The civil rights era brought the mysterious 1970 explosion that rocked the town on the eve of H. Rap Brown s scheduled trial in the Bel Air Courthouse. Peruse the pages of Legendary Locals of Bel Air and fi nd generations of talented and passionate people who turned a wilderness town into a thriving suburban center that still manages to maintain its unique beauty and sense of community."

It is hard to imagine a version of Cranberry Township that was comprised of lush forests, gently rolling hills, and cascading waves of open fields. For the settlers who arrived here in the late 1700s, it was an Eden of abundant opportunity tranquility that proved irresistible. They purchased hundreds of acres, built self-sustaining farms, and planted their roots. These pioneers had names like Graham, Garvin, Duncan, Meeder, Rowan, and Goehring, and many of their descendants still remain. While its name pays homage to the marshy bogs that produced succulent cranberries, its heritage is rooted in humble beginnings that remained largely untouched for centuries. Only with the dawn of an expanding highway system beginning in the 1950s did Cranberry Township begin its rapid transformation from farm community to suburban hot spot."

Paleo-Indians hunted Ice Age mammoths and ancestral bison in what is now Roxborough, Colorado. In 1820, Stephen A. Long s expedition traveled west across the plains into America s western frontier and camped along the South Platte River where water rushed into the Platte Valley from Rocky Mountain peaks. They discovered an area described by their geologist as a range of naked and almost perpendicular rocks . . . resembling a vast wall, parallel to the base of the mountain . . . the whole scenery truly picturesque and romantic. During the next 200 years, Roxborough has been home to Native Americans, mountain men, homesteaders, farmers, miners, dam builders, ranchers, railroad men, cowboys, and rocket scientists. Families live in sight of hogback formations, soaring red rocks, foothills, and mountains. Thousands arrive each year to hike trails in Roxborough State Park, Waterton Canyon, Colorado Trail, and Highline Canal. Roxborough s history, geologic wonders, and wilderness is a story of those whose eyes reached toward the stars."

The Gunnison country, 4,000 square miles of high valleys, heavy snows, deep canyons, and 14,000-foot-high mountains, is one of Colorado s most beautiful regions. Located on the Western Slope of Colorado, the Gunnison country has a long history involving Native Americans, mining, narrow-gauge railroads, ranching, Western State Colorado University, and recreation. The region has also been influenced by nearby Lake City in the San Juan Mountains, Aspen in the Elk Mountains, and towns on the east side of the famed and historic Alpine Railroad Tunnel. Today, the Gunnison country still is beautiful and tranquil, hosting nearly 2,000,000 visitors yearly while remaining much the same as it was over 125 years ago."

Winona, located on an island where the upper Mississippi River flows from west to east, has been linked to the river from its earliest days. Before the community s settlement, Native Americans and white explorers sailed past Wapasha s Prairie in birchbark canoes, keel boats, and small sailboats. As early as the 1820s, steamboats plied the river while carrying people and goods to and from the state s interior. Before bridges began to crisscross the river, merchants had to use boats to bring people and supplies to Winona before they could travel farther west. The first bridge to cross the river was a swing bridge that allowed steamboats to pass. Images of America: Upper Mississippi River at Winona uses images collected and archived in the Winona County Historical Society s History Center to illustrate the history of the Mississippi River near Winona. Many of the photographs exhibited in this book have rarely been seen by the general public and have never been published."

When Quaker colonists arrived in Southern California in 1887 to establish their ideal city of dreams between the San Gabriel River and the base of the Puente Hills, this land already had a storied past. It was once a place where native Tongvans gathered, the site of Spanish land grant holder Manuel Nieto s rancho, and home to the mansion of the last governor of Alta California, Pio Pico. Named by the early settlers after the abolitionist poet, Ye Olde Friendly Towne of Whittier grew from a small colony of Quaker pioneers to a bustling center for the production of citrus, walnuts, and avocados. After incorporation in 1898, Whittier also became a flourishing suburb connected to Los Angeles via the Pacific Electric trolley; the home of Whittier College, celebrated for its academics and the mascot Johnny Poet; and home to several notable Americans, including the 37th president of the United States."

Nestled in the rolling hills of the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York, Caroline is a true community and always has been. In 1795, the first two families came with horses and settled in permanently. The founding mother, Widow Earsley, and her children returned to the cabin that she and her oldest son had built the previous autumn, and Captain Rich and his family began work on their own abode. From these first families to those who followed, pulling together to make circumstances better for everyone has been an important facet of life in Caroline. Residents clustered in several hamlets, including Slaterville Springs, Speedsville, Caroline, and Motts Corners (now Brooktondale), and carved farms out of the wilderness between them. They built houses, churches, and businesses. Recreation included picnics, band concerts, baseball, the Grange, parades, and youth groups.

Wesley Chapel originated in the mid-1800s as a cohesive community of settlers who demonstrated a uniquely rural authenticity and independence of spirit. Evidence of Native American presence in the area has been documented as early as 10,000 BC. Lumber harvesting and turpentine production became prominent industries, while cash-crop farming, citrus, and livestock ranching provided sustenance for the pioneer settlement. Charcoal kilns, gator hunting, and moonshine stills supplemented incomes and spawned legends. The community was also identified by the monikers Gatorville, Double Branch, and Godwin. From 1897 to 1902, Wesley Chapel boasted its own post office, two sawmills, and a general store. Primitive roads left residents with an informal town nucleus, and services shifted to surrounding towns until the late 20th century, when postal service and incorporation emerged, and the lumber trusts of John D. Rockefeller, Otto Hermann Kahn, and Edwin Wiley morphed into sizeable ranches.

The Army of the Potomac s mounted units suffered early in the Civil War at the hands of the horsemen of the South. However, by 1863, the Federal cavalry had evolved into a fighting machine. Despite the numerous challenges occupying officers and politicians, as well as the harrowing existence of troopers in the field, the Northern cavalry helped turn the tide of war much earlier than is generally acknowledged. It became the largest, best-mounted, and best-equipped force of horse soldiers the world had ever seen. Further, the 1863 consolidation of numerous scattered Federal units created a force to be reckoned with a single corps ten thousand strong. Award-winning cavalry historian Eric J. Wittenberg chronicles this story, debunking persistent myths that have elevated the Confederate cavaliers over their Union counterparts."

The incredible story of millionaire manufacturer William Skinner, a leading founder of the American silk industry, who lost everything in a devastating flood only to stage “one of the greatest comebacks in the annals of American industry” (Boston Sunday Post). In 1845, a young, penniless William Skinner sailed in steerage class on a boat that took him from the slums of London to the United States. Skilled in the rare art of dyeing, he acquired work in a fledgling silk mill in Massachusetts, parlaying that one job into a lucrative new career and pioneering the way for American-made silk. Soon he had turned a barren stretch of countryside into a bustling factory village, “Skinnerville,” filled with men, women, and children producing the country’s most glamorous thread in his very own mill. Then in 1874, disaster struck. A nearby dam burst, unleashing an inland tidal wave that tore down the Mill River Valley. Within fifteen minutes, Skinner’s factory, his village, and his life’s work were completely swept away in the worst industrial disaster the nation had yet known. What followed was even more extraordinary, for out of this ruin came an empire. With grit, determination, and uncanny resolve, Skinner rebuilt his business into one of the leading silk manufacturing companies in the world. Now Sarah S. Kilborne—Skinner’s great-great-granddaughter—incorporates both the nation’s and her family’s past into a page-turning story of ambition, triumph, unthinkable loss, and heroism. With evocative details and a compelling, timeless message, American Phoenix is the inspiring account of the success of one man against the odds, and of the spirit that shaped a nation.

Die reichlich und mit erstmals veröffentlichtem Bildmaterial versehenen Publikation widmet sich der Historie bekannter Zeitzer Kinderwagenfirmen. Damit wird ein weiterer Beitrag zur Aufarbeitung der vielseitigen Zeitzer Industrie- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte geleistet, an die am deutlichsten die Dauerausstellung im Deutschen Kinderwagenmuseum im Barockschloss Moritzburg Zeitz erinnert.Für alle an diesem speziellen Thema Interessierten stellt das auf aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen beruhende Buch über die Entwicklung der Zeitzer Kinderwagenindustrie eine wichtige kulturgeschichtliche Quelle dar. Der Band wird von Gloria-Maria Holzhey geb. Naether und Ernst-Albert Naether herausgeben.

TERRA UKERADie Geschichte der Region ' Seite 33 MITTELALTER UND BAUHAUSBernau ' Seite 52PARADIES FÜR WASSERWANDERERDer Finowkanal ' Seite 86AUF DEN SPUREN DER INDUSTRIEGESCHICHTEEberswalde ' Seite 88 MEISTERWERKE DER INGENIEURSKUNSTDie Schiffshebewerke in Niederfinow ' Seite 97 BEDEUTENDES BAUWERK DER ZISTERZIENSERKloster Chorin ' Seite 106EINES DER GRÖSSTEN WALDGEBIETE DEUTSCHLANDSDie Schorfheide ' Seite 118 STAMMSITZ DER FAMILIE VON ARNIMSchloss Boitzenburg ' Seite 147 TABAK UND THEATERSchwedt/Oder ' Seite 174DIE HAUPTSTADT DER UCKERMARKPrenzlau ' Seite 195Das nordöstliche Brandenburg gilt als landschaftlich besonders reizvoll und ist seit jeher eine der beliebtesten Ausflugsregionen Berlins.Mit dem Naturpark Barnim, dem Biosphärenreservat Schorfheide-Chorin, dem Naturpark Uckermärkische Seen und dem Nationalpark Unteres Odertal besitzt die Region großflächige Schutzgebiete. Eberswalde und Schwedt, Bernau und Prenzlau mit mittelalterlichen Stadtmauern und Wehrtürmen, die Fachwerkperle Angermünde sowie das mittelalterliche Thermalbadestädtchen Templin eignen sich gut als Ausgangspunkte für ausgedehnte Touren. Dieser aktuelle Reiseführer stellt alle Sehenswürdigkeiten ausführlich vor, die Touristenmagneten genauso wie die unbekannten Orte, und gibt zahlreiche Tipps für Freizeitaktivitäten. Sowohl Tagesausflügler als auch Urlaubsgäste werden viele Anregungen finden.>>> Weitere Reiseführer zu Ostdeutschland finden Sie auf der Website des Trescher Verlags.

UTLUCHT, ZWERCHHAUS, TREPPENTURMDie Weserrenaissance ' Seite 38GESCHICHTENSAMMLER AUS LEIDENSCHAFTDie Brüder Grimm und ihre Märchen ' Seite 47KURVIGES FAHRVERGNÜGEN IM WESERBERGLANDThematische Motorradtouren ' Seite 109, 125MEILENSTEIN DER KAROLINGISCHEN BAUKUNSTWestwerk und Civitas Corvey ' Seite 119MÄRCHENHAFTES RENAISSANCEJUWELSchloss Hämelschenburg ' Seite 160RATTENFÄNGERS FACHWERKPERLEHameln ' Seite 173WESER TRIFFT MITTELLANDKANALDas Mindener Wasserstraßenkreuz ' Seite 236STILLES LAND ZWISCHEN MINDEN UND NIENBURGDie Petershäger Weseraue ' Seite 244WELTOFFENE METROPOLE MIT CHARMEBremen ' Seite 300MYSTISCHE KULTURLANDSCHAFTENTeufelsmoor und Uchter Moor ' Seite 256, 341'Wo Werra sich und Fulda küssen', beginnt in Hann. Münden die Weser. Bis zu ihrer Mündung in die Nordsee durchfließt sie eine abwechslungsreiche Kulturlandschaft - vom lieblichen Weserbergland durch die Porta Westfalica in die weite Norddeutsche Tiefebene. Wer ihren Kehren und Windungen folgt, kann schmucke Fachwerkstädtchen, Renaissanceschlösser und Wind-mühlen, einsame Moore, Auen und Wälder entdecken. Wohl nicht zufällig haben die Brüder Grimm hier aus einem reichen Sagenschatz schöpfen können. Die legendären Märchenfiguren grüßen allerorten, ob Dorn-röschen in der Sababurg oder der Rattenfänger in Hameln.Dieser Reiseführer stellt den gesamten Weserlauf mit allen Sehenswürdigkeiten zwischen Hann. Münden und Cuxhaven ausführlich vor, zusätzliche Kapitel führen zu nahegelegenen Attraktionen. Er richtet sich gleichermaßen an Aktivurlauber, Naturliebhaber und Architekturinteressierte. Zahlreiche Tipps für Aktivitäten, Übernachtung, Gastronomie und vieles mehr machen dieses Buch zu einem unverzichtbaren Reisebegleiter.>>> Weitere Reiseführer zu interessanten Flüssen und Regionen in Deutschland finden Sie auf der Website des Trescher Verlags.

A historical novel based on real life characters and events during the early days of the Republic of Texas.Texas in 1841 was a sovereign state, bordered by Mexico and hostile Indian Territory. Texas Ranger William "Will" Smith gives up ranging after the Battle of Plum Creek and settles in Austin near his family.Will's brother, Judge James W. Smith is murdered by Comanche Indians who also abduct his son, Fayette. Will sets out alone along the treacherous Comanche Trace to find his nephew and avenge his brother's death. A premonition during his pursuit sends Will to Santa Fe where the locals assume Will is a spy for President Lamar's well-publicized Santa Fe Expedition. The Mexican Territorial Governor posts a bounty for him: dead or alive. Texas sympathizers John Rowland, William Workman, and W. G. Dryden have befriended Will and help plan his escape, but not before Will falls in love with John Rowland's niece, Bella.Fayette is on a parallel journey with Will. The nine-year-old attempts to escape several times, but fails, and the Indians ultimately trade him for horses.Fayette is reunited with his family in the fall of 1842 and becomes a successful merchant, living a good life until his death in Navasota, Texas in 1906.

A look at the history of Tassajara Hot Springs, for millennia used by Native Americans who went there to cure their ills. In the 1800s the Spanish came, then trappers and homesteaders. First accessible only by foot or horse, a road was cut through the mountains by Chinese laborers so that horse-drawn wagons could make the treacherous trip. With photos and stories of those times up to the mid-eighties: tents, log cabins, fish and game, the early cars, the people and their attire, the sandstone hotel. This famed resort in the 1960s become the site of the Western world's first Zen Buddhist monastery founded by Shunryu Suzuki, author of the classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.With its healing waters, rugged remoteness, memorable characters, perilous road, fires, restorations, conversations under Gossip Oak, peace and quiet, Tassajara has a special place in the hearts of those who've traveled there. Marilyn McDonald has given us its history which endears us even more to this unique retreat nestled in the Santa Lucia Mountains of Monterey County, California.

The native people, known today as the Sinagua, inhabited the Verde Valley of Arizona for centuries. From around 700 AD to early 1400 AD, they farmed the land and built large pueblo communities throughout the area. They accomplished this task using only primitive stone tools, materials from their environment, and the strength of their intellect and muscle. One of the largest communal dwellings, and later the most extensively excavated, is called Tuzigoot. This sprawling, hilltop complex contained over 100 rooms and was once home to several hundred people before it was mysteriously abandoned. Excavated and partially restored between 1933 and 1934, Tuzigoot is currently administered by the National Park Service after being designated a national monument by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939. Today, although off the beaten track, it hosts more than 100,000 visitors a year.

It takes stubborn dedication and passionate optimism to brave the frosty, wet conditions for the chance to shoot ducks and geese. And yet the tradition continues every year as more than one million waterfowl occupy the waters of the Chesapeake. Whether you are setting decoys or watching the sun rise from a blind, hunting the bay is as challenging as it is rewarding. No one understands that better than the generations who have experienced it, from the goose pits of Rock Hall and Chestertown to the frothing whitewater of the Tangier Sound. Join author and hunter C.L. Marshall as he recounts more than forty years of stories and anecdotes chock-full of dogs, good friends and fast-paced waterfowl action.