Southern Homes and Plan Books

Southern Homes and Plan Books

Author: Sarah J. Boykin

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2018-08-01

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 0820351814

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Southern Homes and Plan Books showcases the architectural legacy and design philosophy of Leila Ross Wilburn (1885–1967), a legacy that includes hundreds of houses in a variety of popular house styles, from bungalows to ranch houses, built using Wilburn’s plan books during the first six decades of the twentieth century. Wilburn opened her own firm in Atlanta in 1908 and practiced until her death in 1967. She published nine plan books that offered mail order house designs to contractors, builders, and prospective homeowners and allowed them the ease of choosing a preconceived design and construction plan. Sarah J. Boykin and Susan M. Hunter provide a survey of the southern homes built from Wilburn’s plan books, examining Wilburn’s architectural legacy and her achievements as a plan book architect. The book provides beautiful photographs of houses built from her plans, along with illustrations from the plan books themselves and other related documents from the time. Readers can thus see how her designs were realized as individual houses and also how they influenced the development of some of the Atlanta area’s beloved historical neighborhoods, most notably Druid Hills, Morningside, Virginia-Highland, and Candler Park, as well as the McDonough–Adams–Kings Highway (MAK) Historic District in Decatur. Today, Wilburn’s houses are enjoyed as appealing, historic homes and represent some of the richest examples of southern vernacular architecture to emerge from the plan book tradition.


Southern Legacy

Southern Legacy

Author: H.G. Manning

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2011-08-16

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1465350470

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“Southern Legacy” provides the reader with a look at the common man who fought in the Confederate army for four long years. The book explores some of the reasons at least from the viewpoint of the southern soldier. The author also liberally sprinkles family anecdotes about actual wartime occurrences at the southern home front.


Southern Legacy

Southern Legacy

Author: Jerri Hines

Publisher: Jerri Hines' Writings

Published: 2017-01-27

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13:

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Now the bestselling serial is under one title— SOUTHERN LEGACY! Including Belle of Charleston, Shadows of Magnolia, Born to Be Brothers and the dramatic conclusion, The Sun Rises! Set against the backdrop of Antebellum Charleston with the martial clash of brother against brother looming on the horizon--here is an absorbing, tantalizing saga of life during one of our country's most turbulent times--Southern Legacy Series. In a world of pageantry and show, the Montgomery family accepts the way of life that has been antebellum Charleston for over a hundred years. Two cousins, the handsome and debonair, Wade Montgomery and the bold and brooding Cullen Smythe, were born to be brothers. Raised as Southern gentlemen, their character could never be questioned--loyalty, honor, duty to one's country, God and family. It was the tie that binds until...their bond is threatened, not only by the cry for secession but by a woman--Josephine Buchanan Wright. Josephine Buchanan Wright is a dutiful, southern belle. Her future seems fated to the two Montgomery cousins...until all she has placed her faith in falls apart. As her life spirals out of control, she tries desperately to cling to the honor and duty that has been instilled in her. But how can she do so when all she has known is no more?


SOUTHERN LEGACY RISING

SOUTHERN LEGACY RISING

Author: RUSS L. HEIN

Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.

Published: 2023-01-10

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13:

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Seeking a new challenge, Senator Elliot Reinhart arrives in Washington, DC, determined to make a difference in the United States. Most of his battles entail committee meetings with men who have little interest in anything but power and being reelected. By chance, he runs into Representative Rebecca Sheldon, an incredibly attractive woman much younger than him. Little does he know, other men determined to seize power will force him to take actions not even remotely related to being a senator. From there, the escapade escalates into a fullaEUR"blown incident far beyond anything he imagined. Over the next few weeks, a national incident rocks Washington, DC, to the core. Multiple law enforcement agencies answer the call to avert a national crisis. Together, Elliot, Rebecca, and many dedicated men and women piece together the answers, but can they prevent the upheaval some desire?


Southern Timberman

Southern Timberman

Author: Archer H. Mayor

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2009-08-01

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0820334480

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In Southern Timberman, Archer H. Mayor traces the legacy of William Buchanan and the companies he owned along the borders of Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas, from his first lumber mill in the early 1880s to the sale of the last company in 1979. Like many self-made men, Buchanan was known for both his compassion and his relentlessness. To the hundreds of workers who lived in his company-built mill towns, “Old Man” Buchanan was a caring father figure. To his business associates, he was a strong-willed profiteer--a God-fearing, “cut-out-and-get-out” lumberman whose crews laid waste to thousands of acres of virgin pineland. Whatever his tactics, William Buchanan had a gift for making money. By the time he died in 1923, he was one of the wealthiest men in the South. Southern Timberman is also the story of a strong, volatile family who fought--sometimes among themselves--to preserve that fortune. Tracing the growth of Buchanan’s ventures from the first acre of virgin pine to the charged atmosphere of the corporate boardroom, Mayor paints a compelling family portrait set against the background of America’s oil and timber industries.


A Southern Legacy

A Southern Legacy

Author: Roger David Chambers

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781478351566

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This reprint includes the first five generations of John Muse of Westmoreland County, Virginia and his descendants. Over 1,000 Muse family ancestors are identified, with sixty-two documented biographies, listings of children, grandchildren and marriages. Also includes information on Muse family research sources, the Muse family English connection, the Muse and Washington family connection. This 2012 reprint also includes six pages of additions and corrections to the 1994 edition. Fully indexed.


Bittersweet Legacy

Bittersweet Legacy

Author: Janette Thomas Greenwood

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2001-02-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780807849569

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Bittersweet Legacy is the dramatic story of the relationship between two generations of black and white southerners in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1850 to 1910. Janette Greenwood describes the interactions between black and white business and p


Southern Man

Southern Man

Author: Connie Chastain

Publisher: Brasstown Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780615298016

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It is 1983 and Troy Stevenson, a former college football legend, is living the life he dreamed of since boyhood. As an executive at a small corporation in moss-draped Verona, Georgia, he relishes his role as breadwinner, protector and leader of his family -- his adoring wife and two beautiful children. But his good life shatters when his emerging alcohol abuse unleashes a family crisis and sends his son to the hospital Deeply frightened, he moves to their weekend cottage to confront his demons. He cannot return home until he is certain his wife and children have no reason to fear him. Patty, his sweet, reserved wife, stays the course at home with their increasingly troubled children and defiantly withstands the buffeting winds of gossip and scandal that sweep through their small town in the wake of Troy's departure. She longs for the day his self-imposed exile ends and she can welcome him home. But busybodies at Troy's workplace assume he left home because his marriage is in trouble. Brook Emerson, new to the company and romantically obsessed with Troy, is encouraged by the assumption and attempts to seduce him, setting in motion a chain of events with harrowing consequences for Troy and his family.


The Legacy of the Civil War

The Legacy of the Civil War

Author: Robert Penn Warren

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2015-11

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13: 0803299273

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In this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred thousand men killed) and economic (beyond reckoning) but social and psychological. He touches on popular misconceptions, including some concerning Abraham Lincoln and the issue of slavery. The war in all its facets "grows in our consciousness," arousing complex emotions and leaving "a gallery of great human images for our contemplation."


Southern Rockers

Southern Rockers

Author: Marley Brant

Publisher: Billboard Books

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780823084203

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Provides a history of Southern rock, documenting the lives and careers of rockers such as the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Charlie Daniels Band, and .38 Special