Local history books

Before the Flood The lost town of Sopris lies silently beneath the depths of Trinidad Lake. Once a thriving...  Read More >>

Denver is the Mile High City, the Queen City of the Plains, and the Gateway to the West. Today, the city attracts...  Read More >>

Timber mills, coal mines and a carnival.In the late 1800s, Lake Whatcom emerged as both the key to the growth of...  Read More >>

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A history of the O'Daniel family from Maryland the emigrated to Kentucky. It also includes information on the Cambron,...  Read More >>

Willard Rouse Jillson's Big Bone Lick is a descriptive history of the Big Bone Lick site in Boone County, Kentucky,...  Read More >>

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""The greatest natural disaster of all time"" That's how observers at the time viewed Agnes. When the storm arrived...  Read More >>

Roger Williams is best known as the founder of Rhode Island who was banished from Massachusetts in 1636 for his...  Read More >>

First explored by naturalist William Bartram in the 1760s, the St. Johns River stretches 310 miles along Florida's...  Read More >>

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By: H.B. Cushman, Pub. 1899, reprinted 2024, 504 pages, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-200-2. The author spent years visiting...  Read More >>

Roger Williams is best known as the founder of Rhode Island who was banished from Massachusetts in 1636 for his...  Read More >>

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A luminous feat of time travel chronicling lives in a Sussex landscape from the prize-winning author of Romantic...  Read More >>

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In the early twentieth century, the Florida Seminoles struggled to survive in an environment altered by the drainage...  Read More >>

"""This book was originally published in 2010 under the title When Hollywood came to town: a history of moviemaking...  Read More >>

Terminal Island: Lost Communities on America’s Edge is the joint effort of two authors, Naomi Hirahara and Geraldine...  Read More >>

America's Only Shelter Established for Holocaust Refugees/ During the height of the second World War, at the order...  Read More >>

A fascinating look at the city's history and heritage, written by Worcester's archaeological officer.  Read More >>

A celebration of Eastbourne’s rich heritage and identity – its special events, achievements, people, industry and...  Read More >>

Secret Clerkenwell and Islington explores the lesser-known history of Clerkenwell and Islington in London through...  Read More >>