History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Vol. 1 of 4 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Thomas McAdory Owen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330660927 ISBN 13 : 9781330660928

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Hurtsboro reveals a small Alabama town’s growth through its streets, rails, and civic projects. This excerpt offers a concise look at Hurtsboro as it stood in the early 20th century, detailing its services, bonds, and local industry.

The description covers the town’s incorporation history, key infrastructure completed in the 1910s, and the mix of banking and manufacturing that supported daily life. It also notes the town’s origins as Station No. 4 on a regional railroad and the sequence of name changes that followed.

• Infrastructure and services added in 1914, including electric power, water works, and public works.


• Financial details such as bonded debt and the types of bonds due in the 1920s–1930s.


• Local industries listed, from cotton-related operations to mills and a bottling plant.


• The town’s origins as a railroad station and its evolution through name changes.

Ideal for readers interested in Alabama history, small-town development, and how early 20th-century towns managed growth and debt.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Within these pages is to be found, under specific topics and biographical sketches, the history of a people mainly British by descent, conservatively progressive by tradition and habit, deeply rooted in love of country, and with a genius for politics and government. With as fine a record of achievement as characterizes any of our sisterS tates, we have shown with them an equal indifference to preserving our annals for the enlightenment and inspiration of posterity. Dr. Owen hoped to repair this omission for A labama. The work is especially rich in aboriginal, pioneer, local, political, and military history and in biographies of men who have been leaders in their several professions and walks of lite in theS tate. Every important event and period of our history has been treated, from the advent of DeS oto and hisS panish adventurers in 1540, to the welcome home accorded the returned soldiers of theW orld War, in 1919. A few persons worthy to appear in a book of this character are not included here owing to their failure to furnish data which they were asked by the author to supply. We are, as a people, proud of our history. As individuals and families we boast of our good blood. But we have been careless about putting our claims into such form as will substantiate them to the satisfaction of future historians and critics. This work is an effort to overcome that failure, and to implant in the minds and hearts of Alabamians a consciousness of merit and of greatness, not that we may be boastful, but that we may realize our responsibility to those men and women who bore the brunt of pioneering, to those who staked all their hard earned gains upon the hazard of battle for honors sake, who overthrew I nvasion, and who with dauntless courage preserved a civilization and brought a commonwealth to the forefront of a nation in science, material development, and civic a
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330660927
• ISBN 13: 9781330660928
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 739
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