A Fluid Frontier
A Fluid Frontier

Author: Karolyn Smardz Frost

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2016-02-15

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0814339603

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Scholars of the Underground Railroad as well as those in borderland studies will appreciate the interdisciplinary mix and unique contributions of this volume.

Monticello
Monticello

Author: Tom Rue

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738573281

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Latin for "heavenly mountain," Monticello's founders supported Thomas Jefferson's populist ideals, naming their village for his Virginia home. Center of the Town of Thompson and seat of Sullivan County since 1809, Monticello was founded in 1804 and incorporated in 1830 by John and Samuel Jones. Tanning, lumbering, farming, and manufacturing gave way to tourism. The railroad came in 1871. A fire in 1909 decimated the downtown, but automobiles and an artery nicknamed "the Quickway" connected New York City to the mountains and made Monticello a recreation center. The years 1920 to 1930 saw a population increase of 48 percent. Sidewalks brimmed with shoppers as Broadway, lined with stately and beautiful shade trees, clattered with traffic at all hours. Slightly over an hour from Manhattan, Monticello had two identities: a community built and sustained by workers, residents, and businesses and a busy "borscht belt" vacation center of boardinghouses, hotels, bungalows, and recreation.

Camden County Centennial
Camden County Centennial

Author: Abraham Charles Corotis

Publisher:

Published: 1944

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13:

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"...We offer a chronology of outstanding events in each of the 100 years Camden County has lived. Within these covers is the name of every person who has represented Camden County on its governing bodies, in its various public offices, in Trenton and in Washington. ...We have charted the origin of each of the county's 36 municipalities in a brand-new way ...you will find a comprehensive analysis of each of the county's physical improvements made during the century, the cost of each, how each was financed, how much remains unpaid and the schedule of payments projected into the future." -- P. 3.