Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 221 p)
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ill
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2007 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780813539690
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0813539692
Content:
New Jersey has a varied and fascinating history-from its earliest Native American settlements, through its central role in the Revolutionary War, to its strategic position in the major events of our country's past. In History Walks in New Jersey, Lucy D. Rosenfeld and Marina Harrison treat readers to a comprehensive statewide guidebook that includes detailed information on forty-eight of the best sites for historical walks. These outings take the history enthusiast through beautiful green landscapes, natural preserves, and picturesque settlements. Whether you are an amateur historian
Note:
Includes index
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Contents; Introduction; 1. Paterson Falls: Magnificent Natural Beauty and Its Historic Uses; 2. Weehawken: Memorials and Spectacular Views; 3. Ellis Island: An Evocative Journey into America's Immigrant Experience; 4. Fort Lee: America's First Movie Town; 5. Undercliff: In Search of a Long-Gone Fishing Village on the Banks of the Hudson; 6. Skunk Hollow: A Nineteenth-Century African American Community; 7. Ringwood and Long Pond: An Ironworks Saga; 8. Edison National Historic Site: Exploring an Extraordinary Legacy; 9. Feltville: A Forgotten Utopian Village in the Watchung Reservation
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10. Historic Speedwell: A Village of Inventions11. Pyramid Mountain: A Leni-Lenape Legacy; 12. Jockey Hollow: Woodland Trails and Soldiers' Huts; 13. Cooper Mill and the Black River: History amid Wooded Splendor; 14. The Sussex Branch Rail Trail: Old Mines, Bridges, and Ruins; 15. Waterloo Village: A Walk through a Nineteenth-Century Canal Town; 16. Millbrook Village: Exploring a Nineteenth-Century Ghost Town; 17. Hope: A Moravian Settlement; 18. Belvedere: A Victorian Architectural Gem; 19. Clinton: A Riverside Mill Village and Quarry
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20. The Prallsville Mills: A Tiny Historic Gem and Walk along the Delaware and Raritan Canal21. Princeton Cemetery: Burial Site of Presidents and Other Notables; 22. Princeton Battlefield State Park: Scenes from the Revolutionary War; 23. The Delaware and Raritan Canal: A Towpath and Rail Trail Loop from Kingston to Rocky Hill; 24. Washington Crossing State Park: A Ferry Landing and Historical Center from the Revolutionary War; 25. Monmouth Battlefield State Park: Walking through Revolutionary War History
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26. Georgian Court College: The Robber Baron's Estate and the Glories of Excess and Elegance27. Twin Lights of Navesink: Exploring a Historic Lighthouse and Center of Invention; 28. Allaire: A Deserted Nineteenth-Century Village and Company Town; 29. Ocean Grove: A Victorian Camp Meeting Village on the Shore; 30. Cattus Island and Barnegat Light: The Shore's Heritage of Pirates and Patriots; 31. Double Trouble and Whitesbog Villages: Cranberry Towns in the Pinelands; 32. Lakehurst: The Naval Air Station, the History of Flight, and the Hindenburg Disaster
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33. Historic Walnford: A Mill Village Reflecting 250 Years of History34. Roosevelt: A New Deal Hideaway; 35. Bordentown: Architectural Pleasures from a Colonial Past to the Bonapartes; 36. Burlington: New Jersey's Oldest Colonial Streetscape on the Delaware; 37. Burlington and its Neighbors: Stops on the Underground Railroad; 38. Roebling: A Turn-of-the-Century, One-of-a Kind Factory Town; 39. Rankokus Indian Reservation: An Introduction to Powhatan Renape Culture; 40. Mount Holly: A Walking Tour through a Village of Colonial Beauty and Quaker Roots
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41. Batsto: A Bog Iron Forge Village in the Pine Barrens
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813539690
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe History Walks in New Jersey
Language:
English
