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Little Cities of Black Diamonds

By: Jeffrey T. Darbee,Nancy A. Recchie

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Little Cities of Black Diamonds

By: Jeffrey T. Darbee,Nancy A. Recchie

Sitting astride the 14-foot Great Vein of bituminous coal, the communities of the Hocking Valley Coalfield were inextricably linked to the fortunes of a 50-year coal boom. Life in the Little Cities of Black Diamonds was not always easy or prosperous. Employment in the mines and clay plants rose and fell with economic conditions, and labor-management conflict led to strikes and violence. Even today, smoke from a mine fire, set deep underground during a strike in the 1880s, occasionally appears at the surface. Little Cities of Black Diamonds takes an intimate look at the miners, merchants, managers, and magnates who built the cities, villages, businesses, and homes of the Hocking Valley coal boom period. Since collapse of the coal industry around 1920, much has been lost, but the coal boom legacy lives on. In places such as Shawnee, New Straitsville, Eclipse, Glouster, and Haydenville, a small group of dedicated citizens works tirelessly to record, preserve, and celebrate the region's rich heritage.

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0738560413

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The AIA Guide to Columbus

By: Jeffrey T. Darbee,Nancy A. Recchie

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The AIA Guide to Columbus

By: Jeffrey T. Darbee,Nancy A. Recchie

Annotation This travel guide to the architectural sites of Columbus, Ohio, is being produced under the auspices of the Columbus Architecture Foundation and is intended to identify and designate that buildings considered his-toric, notable, or otherwise of interest in the greater Columbus area. Re-plete with photographs and locater maps.

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Ohio University Press

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0821416847

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9780821416846

German Columbus

By: Jeffrey T. Darbee,Nancy A. Recchie

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German Columbus

By: Jeffrey T. Darbee,Nancy A. Recchie

German Columbus celebrates the lives and work of the German immigrants who made their homes and their livelihoods in a tight-knit, cohesive neighborhood in the Old South End of Columbus, Ohio. Natives of Germany arrived in the capital city as early as its founding in 1812, but it was only after 1830, when new transportation routes from the east facilitated travel, that a major wave of German immigration began. By the 1850s, the area just south of downtown Columbus had a distinct flavor, with school lessons and church services conducted entirely in German and with several newspapers printed in the German language to serve the community. Merchants, business owners, and brewers, the hard-working Germans were the largest immigrant group in the city, totaling a third of the population through the end of the 19th century. Later, a shift in public opinion against immigrants and anti-German sentiment arising from World War I resulted in a rapid assimilation of Germans into the general population. Today, some of the Old South End survives in historic areas such as the Brewery District and German Village.

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0738533963

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Cincinnati Parks and Parkways

By: Nancy A. Recchie,Jeffrey T. Darbee

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Cincinnati Parks and Parkways

By: Nancy A. Recchie,Jeffrey T. Darbee

Over more than two centuries, Cincinnati evolved from a riverside settlement in the wilderness to a major center of business, commerce, and manufacturing. Boasting titles such as "Queen City of the West" and "Porkopolis" (for its many pork-packing plants), Cincinnati never suffered from a lack of self-esteem. Indeed, the city earned its place in the honor roll of American cities as it spread outward from the Ohio River into the surrounding hills. Blessed with good transportation by river, canal, and railroad, Cincinnati grew rapidly, attracting great numbers of native-born Americans and foreign immigrants alike. Drawn by abundant jobs and economic opportunity, Cincinnati's citizens lived in densely developed neighborhoods, walked crowded streets, and worked hard in mills and factories. Early in the city's history, farseeing individuals saw the benefit of creating public parks where the population could enjoy a few hours of recreation among trees, green grass, and gorgeous vistas of the Ohio River Valley. Starting from modest beginnings, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries Cincinnati developed a system of more than 5,000 acres of parks and connecting parkways that would be the envy of cities many times its size.

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Little Cities of Black Diamonds

Little Cities of Black Diamonds

The AIA Guide to Columbus

The AIA Guide to Columbus

German Columbus

German Columbus

Cincinnati Parks and Parkways

Cincinnati Parks and Parkways

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