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Author: City of Upper Arlington
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Published: 2017-12-20
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781939710680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of a city designed with strong roots, a foundation that was built to last. One of the early planned communities, it was conceived and executed by a self-made man who chose not to isolate himself in a walled castle. Instead, he envisioned a place where he himself would like to live with a family.
Author: Charlie Clark
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1625859236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor over two centuries, Arlington County has been a steadfast center for government institutions and a vibrant part of the Washington, D.C., community. Many notable figures made their home in the area, like Supreme Court chief justice Warren Burger, General George Blood 'n' Guts Patton and a beauty queen who almost married crooner Dean Martin. The drama of Virginia's first school integration unfolded in Arlington beginning in the late 1950s. In the 1960s, two motorcycle gangs clashed in public at a suburban shopping center. Local author, historian and Our Man in Arlington Charlie Clark uncovers the vivid, and hidden, history of a capital community.
Author: Ric Murphy
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2020-03-13
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1476677301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom its origination, Arlington National Cemetery's history has been compellingly intertwined with that of African Americans. This book explains how the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the home of Robert E. Lee and a plantation of the enslaved, became a military camp for Federal troops, a freedmen's village and farm, and America's most important burial ground. During the Civil War, the property served as a pauper's cemetery for men too poor to be returned to their families, and some of the very first war dead to be buried there include over 1,500 men who served in the United States Colored Troops. More than 3,800 former slaves are interred in section 27, the property's original cemetery.
Author: Richard A. Duffy
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 1997-08-01
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738590431
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArlington, the first photographic history of this Massachusetts town ever produced, presents a unique look at its rich heritage and remarkable transformations. From sleepy nineteenth-century village to renowned center of mills and market gardens, from elegant summer resort to flourishing commuter suburb of Boston, the many facets of Arlington's growth come alive through the fascinating images in this volume.
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: 2019-10-08
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1250313082
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The best fantasy novel I’ve read in years, because it’s about real people... Impossible to put down." —Stephen King The smash New York Times bestseller from Leigh Bardugo, a mesmerizing tale of power, privilege, and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite. Goodreads Choice Award Winner Locus Finalist Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most prestigious universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. Their eight windowless “tombs” are the well-known haunts of the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street’s biggest players. But their occult activities are more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And, sometimes, they prey on the living. Don't miss the highly-anticipated sequel, Hell Bent.
Author: Charlie Clark
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2021-09-13
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1467150649
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArlington began three centuries ago as the farm section of Alexandria County and emerged in the 1900s as a vibrant suburb of the nation's capital. Global notice came after the creation and expansion of Arlington National Cemetery, the Pentagon and Fort Myer, site of history's first airplane casualty--September 17, 1908. Add in some modern marquee employers--PBS, WETA, Nestlé, the Foreign Service Institute and Amazon--and it's a recipe for accelerating change. Unsurprisingly, residents are increasingly at odds over rising housing costs and demolitions of long-valued homes and businesses. A key to preserving Arlington's character is a deeper knowledge of history. Local journalist and author Charlie Clark provides a compendium of gone-but-not-forgotten institutions, businesses, homes and amusements.
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 254
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 1408
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 262
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stuart J. Koblentz
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738552262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUpper Arlington was founded by brothers King and Ben Thompson, who purchased farmland in 1913 from James T. Miller. Inspired by the garden city movement, the Thompsons envisioned an idealistic residential community. The brothers engaged William Pitkin Jr., a prominent landscape architect from Rochester, New York, to provide the most modern concepts of city planning. Over the years, Upper Arlington annexed land to reach its current boundaries. Upper Arlington has had a Native American trail and a military training camp, and its historic district earned a place on the National Register of Historic Places. The community is still known for gracious living, celebrated schools, and the largest noncommercial Fourth of July parade around. Golfing legend Jack Nicklaus, Ohio State University football coaches Woody Hayes, John Cooper, and Jim Tressel, developer John Galbreath, Ohio governor James Rhodes, and United States senator John Bricker have all called Upper Arlington home.
