Author: Henry Isham HazeltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, Counties of Nassau and Suffolk, Long Island, New York, 1609-1924
Author: Henry Isham HazeltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, Counties of Nassau and Suffolk, Long Island, New York
Author: Henry Isham HazeltonThe Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, Counties of Nassau and Suffolk, Long Island, New York, 1609-1924
Author: Henry Isham HazeltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, Counties of Nassau and Suffolk, Long Island, New York, 1609-1924,
Author: Henry Isham HazeltonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780788449857
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, Counties of Nassau and Suffolk, Long Island, New York, 1609-1924
Author: Henry Isham HazeltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boroughs
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Collected indexes of Hazleton's seven volume work.
Long Island and the Civil War: Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties During the War Between the States
Author: Harrison Hunt & Bill BleyerPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1626197717
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Although no battles were fought on Long Island, the Civil War deeply affected all of its residents. More than three thousand men-white and black-from current-day Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties answered the call to preserve the Union. While Confederate ships lurked within eight miles of Montauk Point, camps in Mincola and Willets Point trained regiments. Local women raised thousands of dollars for Union hospitals, and Long Island companies manufactured uniforms, drums and medicines for the army. At the same time, a little-remembered draft riot occurred in Jamaica in 18G3. Local authors Harrison Hunt and Bill Bleyer explore this fascinating story, from the 1860 presidential campaign that polarized the region to the wartime experiences of Long Islanders on the battlefield and at home. Book jacket.
North Fork Cemeteries
Author: Clement HealyPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738538341
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The ancient burial grounds that dot the East End of Long Island tell the tale of the North Fork preserved in stone with names like Booth, Conklyn, Corwin, Fanning, Hallock, Latham, Terry, Tuthill, Wickham and Youngs.
St. James
Author: Geoffrey K. FlemingPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738546100
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
St. James sits among a variety of old and intensely interesting communities that dot the north shore of Long Island, many of which date to the mid-1600s. After being named in the mid-1800s, it quickly became one of the hot spots that stars of the American vaudeville stage made their own. Built beside the homes of farmers and millers were hotels, a casino, and the mansions of the rich and famous, giving the community a fascination all its own--a fascination that is clearly captured in the pages of St. James.
Handbook of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States
Author: William A. KretzschmarPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226452838
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Who uses "skeeter hawk," "snake doctor," and "dragonfly" to refer to the same insect? Who says "gum band" instead of "rubber band"? The answers can be found in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS), the largest single survey of regional and social differences in spoken American English. It covers the region from New York state to northern Florida and from the coastline to the borders of Ohio and Kentucky. Through interviews with nearly twelve hundred people conducted during the 1930s and 1940s, the LAMSAS mapped regional variations in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation at a time when population movements were more limited than they are today, thus providing a unique look at the correspondence of language and settlement patterns. This handbook is an essential guide to the LAMSAS project, laying out its history and describing its scope and methodology. In addition, the handbook reveals biographical information about the informants and social histories of the communities in which they lived, including primary settlement areas of the original colonies. Dialectologists will rely on it for understanding the LAMSAS, and historians will find it valuable for its original historical research. Since much of the LAMSAS questionnaire concerns rural terms, the data collected from the interviews can pinpoint such language differences as those between areas of plantation and small-farm agriculture. For example, LAMSAS reveals that two waves of settlement through the Appalachians created two distinct speech types. Settlers coming into Georgia and other parts of the Upper South through the Shenandoah Valley and on to the western side of the mountain range had a Pennsylvania-influenced dialect, and were typically small farmers. Those who settled the Deep South in the rich lowlands and plateaus tended to be plantation farmers from Virginia and the Carolinas who retained the vocabulary and speech patterns of coastal areas. With these revealing findings, the LAMSAS represents a benchmark study of the English language, and this handbook is an indispensable guide to its riches.
Of Cabbages and Kings County
Author: Marc LinderPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9780877457145
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
In particular, they question whether sprawl was a necessary condition of American industrialization; could the agricultural base that preceded and surrounded the city have survived the onrush of residential real estate speculation with a bit of foresight and public policies that the politically outnumbered farmers could not have secured on their own?