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Pre-Owned Red River Floods: Fargo and Moorhead (Images of America) Paperback

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Images of America: River Towns of Central Kentucky (Paperback)

While hard to believe today the banks of the Kentucky River were once home to bustling port villages and popular excursion destinations the most popular of these being High Bridge. Local communities supported businesses that brought commerce to the... more

Images of America: Bethlehem (Paperback)

Situated on the west bank of the Hudson River Bethlehem traces its history to the Dutch settlement era of the 1600s. Incorporated on March 12 1793 Bethlehem s rich soil abundant timber river access and proximity to Albany drew Dutch English Scottish... more

Images of America: Suffern (Paperback)

Suffern incorporated in 1896 is the gateway to the Ramapo Pass. Thirty miles from New York City the village is at the confluence of several major interstate highways and the Ramapo River. By the 1840s this rural farming community was transformed with... more

Images of America: Jacksonville in the 1920s (Paperback)

The Jacksonville architecture of the 1920s was a marvel as it dotted the glowing skyline--which could easily be seen across the St. Johns River at that time. Jacksonville in the 1920s shows a drastically different city compared to how it looks in the... more

Images of America: Fort Worth Parks (Paperback)

Fort Worth sits on a blend of timber and prairie land that is transected by the Trinity River and its tributaries. These physical attributes invited the creation of parks to preserve scenic landscapes and to provide Fort Worth residents with access to... more

Images of America: Middletown (Paperback)

In 1650 Middletown earned its name due to its location halfway between the mouth of the Connecticut River and the first Connecticut settlement of Windsor. Growing from a key Native American village into a colonial one then into a major seaport... more

Images of America: Monongahela City (Paperback)

Monongahela City is a gentle residential community located 17 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. With origins dating back to 1769 it is the oldest settlement in the Monongahela Valley. The town takes its name from the Monongahela River called sliding banks... more

Images of America: Elbert County (Paperback)

Established in 1790 Elbert County was carved from adjacent Wilkes County and named in honor of American patriot and former governor Samuel Elbert. Located in Northeast Georgia on the Savannah and Broad Rivers the territory witnessed Revolutionary War... more

Images of America: Hagerstown in the Civil War (Paperback)

Wedged strategically between the Mason-Dixon Line and the Potomac River Hagerstown was destined to play a significant role in the Civil War. A diverse community most residents gravitated toward the blue while some sided with the gray. Slavery was not a... more

Images of America: Route 66 in Madison County (Paperback)

Route 66 zigzagged southwest across Madison County Illinois before crossing the Mississippi River into Missouri. Various alignments of this segment of the Mother Road rolled through pastoral farmland headed down main streets and later straightened as... more

Images of America: Cottonwood (Paperback)

In the last quarter of the 19th century a circle of 16 tall Cottonwood trees stood in the wash that extended to the Verde River just north of where the old jail building now stands. Cattlemen and ranchers from Oak Creek and the mountains made their... more

Images of America: Stanton County (Paperback)

The boldest and bravest of pioneers headed west by covered wagon and on foot to carve out new lives from verdant prairie sod near the riverbanks in the beautiful Elkhorn Valley. French fur trappers called the river Corne de Cerf French for the horn of... more

Images of America: Pike County (Paperback)

Nestled between the Pine Mountains and plentiful Flint River Pike County and its county seat were named after army general and adventurer Zebulon Pike. Early settlers as adventurous and independent as the county s famed namesake explorer built homes... more

Images of America: Chesapeake Bay Shipwrecks (Paperback)

North America s largest estuary the Chesapeake Bay is fed by more than 150 major rivers and streams from parts of six states and the District of Columbia. Two hundred miles long with a shoreline that includes more than 11 500 miles of tributaries the more

Images of America: Dutch Heritage in Kent and Ottawa Counties (Paperback)

On February 9 1847 Rev. Albertus C. Van Raalte chose a site on Michigan s Black River and founded what became Holland. Motivated in part by a potato famine and crop failures the settlers also sought religious freedom. Other countrymen followed leaving... more

Images of America: Delta County (Paperback)

During the frenetic days of Reconstruction Delta County claimed land between two branches of the Sulphur River from Lamar and Hopkins Counties and named itself after its shape and the third letter of the Greek alphabet. From its early days Delta County... more

Images of America: Fairview Park (Paperback)

Fairview Park is truly a postwar community. Before World War II it was mainly rural countryside just beginning to see some development. The Rocky River valley had been enough of a barrier to keep Fairview that much more rural until high-level bridges... more

Journal of the proceedings of the Legislative council of the territory of the United States of America South of the river Ohio; begun and held at Knoxville the 25th day of August

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Journal of the proceedings of the Legislative council of the territory of the United States of America South of the river Ohio : begun and held at Knoxville the 25th day of Augus

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United States of America appellants against the Joint Traffic Association the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company and others respondents. In equity. Preliminary

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An account and history of the Oregon territory together with a journal of an emigrating party across the western prairies of America and to the mouth of the Columbia River. 1846 [Leather Bound]

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Journal of the proceedings of the Legislative council of the territory of the United States of America South of the river Ohio; begun and held at Knoxville the 25th day of August 1794 ... 1852 [Lea

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An account of the countries adjoining to Hudson s Bay in the north-west part of America containing a description of their lakes and rivers the nature of the soil and climates and their methods of c

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Statement respecting the Earl of Selkirk s Settlement of Kildonan upon the Red River in North America its destruction in the years 1815 and 1816 and the massacre [Leather Bound]

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Voyages from Montreal on the River St. Laurence through the continent of North America to the frozen and Pacific Oceans in the years 1789 and 1793 with a preliminary account of

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Shooting and fishing in the rivers prairies and backwoods of North America Volume 1 1865 [Leather Bound]

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America by river and rail; or Notes by the way on the New World and its people 1856 [Leather Bound]

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In the matter of application 5625 5626 9363 9364 9365 9366 9367 9368 and 10588 United States of America Bureau of Reclamation applicant [vs.] Sacramento River and Delta

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Travels in America performed in 1806 for the purpose of exploring the rivers Alleghany Monongahela Ohio and Mississippi and ascertaining the produce and condition of their ban

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Images of America: Kentucky s Green River (Paperback)

Named for Revolutionary general Nathanael Greene Kentucky s Green River begins a 384-mile journey at its source near Kings Mountain in Lincoln County flowing through the Pennyroyal and Western Coal Field regions until its confluence with the Ohio River... more

Images of America: Pikeville (Paperback)

Pikeville was founded in 1824 inside a bend in the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River at the foot of Peach Orchard Mountain. It was a river town for most of the 1800s with huge log rafts being floated downstream to the Ohio River and steamboats... more

Pre-Owned Bridesburg (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) Paperback

Bridesburg is located on a bend in the Delaware River in northeast Philadelphia at the mouth of the old Frankford Creek. Traveling north on the river the bend gives the illusion of a point of land projecting out into the water hence the early Colonial... more

Images of America: Gloucester City (Paperback)

Gloucester City was originally named Fort Nassau. The fort located along the Delaware River was first settled by the Dutch in 1623. The settlement was an ideal port location along the shores of the river used for travel and transportation. The city... more

Images of America: Wichita s Riverside Parks (Paperback)

Wichita was founded in 1870 at the junction of the Little and Big Arkansas Rivers in south central Kansas. From the very beginning the rivers have been a focus for social and recreational activity. Parks both public and private were established along... more

Images of America: Maritime Elizabeth City (Hardcover)

Situated on the Pasquotank River in northeastern North Carolina Elizabeth City is known as the Gateway to the Albemarle. Since its founding in 1793 this small yet industrious river port has relied firmly upon the water as a source of prosperity as well... more

Images of America: Wauconda (Paperback)

To the Algonquin-speaking Native Americans the territory later to be named Wauconda was their land. With the 1833 Treaty of Chicago they were forced to cede it to the US government and move west of the Mississippi River. This action paved the way for... more

Images of America: Old Forge and the Fulton Chain of Lakes (Paperback)

Visit the hamlet of Old Forge and the Fulton Chain of Lakes in this visual history of dwelling camps and resorts that made it a popular destination. Old Forge is nestled at the foot of the Middle Branch of the Moose River more commonly known as the... more