Mockingbird Song
and government parks and attractions. Many others doubtlessly dis- appeared into nature, their rotted wood feeding and hastening ...
town development. Jamestown itself was ultimately abandoned to slip un- der the James’s tidal muds and marshes. West Point becam ...
corn, wheat, tobacco, and sawn boards that urban merchants, warehouse- men, and shippers needed. During the s a dynamic grou ...
dition, a dispute over business led to James and Susan’s migration upriver. There, by the Mattaponi shore opposite West Point, J ...
Postcard of Terminal Hotel and Beach Park, West Point, Virginia, ca. . Courtesy Virginia Historical Society, Richmond. ...
railroaders, lost control of their network during the panic of . J. P. Mor- gan, New York financier and merger maker, melded ...
Digesting wood chips into pulp slurry is magical chemistry and one smoky, smelly business. Huge plumes, usually white but occasi ...
. (The mill is just north of the highway.) Jacobs prescribed short blocks, a convenience to pedestrians offering more corners, ...
Residential D Street, West Point, Virginia, ca. . Courtesy Virginia Historical Society, Richmond. ...
mostly—took spectacular exercise singly and in small packs. Ambling onto the pier’s shoreline planks, they galloped southeastwar ...
chronological margin. Jacksonville would seem to be beneath such bother as competitor. Jacksonville does notlookold, whereas St. ...
Florida, to the Aucillia River. There is evidence that dozens of Timucuan chiefs, perhaps more, occasionally confederated, rathe ...
of corn in return for gift trinkets. Timucuan populations slid lower and lower as Spanish hunger and military requirements grew, ...
enclosed yard, then through a loggia or covered porch. Some fences were wood, others wattle, others coquina. Walls were plastere ...
Street scene, St. Augustine, Florida, . Courtesy Florida State Archives. ...
took profitable advantage of competition among railroads for large cargo shipments. He was the transport negotiator whose prowes ...
sulfuric water from artesian wells, and its towers stored , gallons of water in case of fire. (No West Point would St. Augu ...
Hotel Ponce de Leon, St. Augustine, Florida, . Courtesy Florida State Archives. ...
Ultimately, though, Henry Flagler came back to St. Augustine. When he died in , his remains were secured within the Flagler ...
Bureau of the Census defined a city as a settlement of more than , resi- dents—a modest measure of the urban, indeed, yet on ...
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