A History of Weiss Lake
A History of Weiss Lake

Author: Douglas Scott Wright

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2008-10-20

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1614230668

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Until the late 1950s, the major body of water for residents of northeast Alabama was the Coosa River, which wove prominently through the rural landscape of the region. When Alabama Power Company decided to dam the river in order to build a thirty-thousand-acre reservoir, locals were divided about whether to welcome the hydroelectricity and potential prosperity or resist losing their land and proud agrarian heritage. Three years and millions of cubic yards of earth later, Weiss Lake emerged to alter Cherokee County history permanently. Post editor and county native Scott Wright presents a captivating collection of personal recollections and historical vignettes to illustrate the magnitude of the lake's influence in shaping the future of the area--and damming its past.

Memorial and biographical history of Ellis county, Texas
Memorial and biographical history of Ellis county, Texas

Author: Lewis Publishing

Publisher: Рипол Классик

Published:

Total Pages: 911

ISBN-13: 5884260202

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Memorial and biographical history of Ellis county, Texas: containing a history of this important section of the great state of Texas, from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time, together with glimpses of its future prospects, with full-page portraits of the presidents of the United States, and also full-page portraits of some of the most eminent men of the county, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers, and also of prominent citizens of to-day.