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Images of America, Aliso Viejo
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in Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2011), 128 page(s),
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It was only 30 years ago that the city now known as Aliso Viejo was a 6,600-acre working ranch, with cattle, goats, and sheep and a variety of crops. Located three miles from the Pacific Ocean on the east slope of the San Joaquin Hills, this land had changed little since it was granted to Don Juan Avila in 1821 af...
in Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2011), 128 page(s),
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Images of America, Ames
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in Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2014), 128 page(s),
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Ames began as two communities. At its founding in 1864, Ames Station, on the Chicago & North Western Railway’s main line, lay two miles east of Iowa Agricultural College, across the Squaw Creek. When the Ames & College Railway joined the college to the town in 1891, a cooperative spirit emerged that exists to th...
in Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2014), 128 page(s),
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Images of America, Ardmore
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Although part of the Chickasaw Nation, virgin soil lured pioneers into Indian Territory, and by 1900, intruders outnumbered Native Americans 10 to 1, building communities throughout Native American lands. In 1887, on a grassy prairie where buffalo had roamed, men gathered where the Santa Fe Railroad planned to bui...
in Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2009), 128 page(s),
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Images of America, Artesia: 1875-1975
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in Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2000), 128 page(s),
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This three-generation endeavor started in 1975 when Albert O. Little, known for his dedication to the community as “Mr. Artesia,” began working on two volumes of history: The Artesians: How It Began One Hundred Years Ago and The Artesians: Twenty Years of Incorporation. He gathered photographs and considerable...
in Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2000), 128 page(s),
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in Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2002), 128 page(s),
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Images of America, Cortland
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When Cortland was incorporated as a village in 1853, its population was mainly transplanted New Englanders and Irish immigrants, and it encompassed territory 1 mile from east to west. By 1871, two rail lines crossed the village, and their cargos of coal encouraged the development of industries, particularly carria...
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Images of America, Janesville
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In 1837, Henry Janes, one of the area's first settlers, proposed the name “Black Hawk” for the small southern Wisconsin settlement he lived in, but the US Post Office chose Janesville. The village along the Rock River was selected as the Rock County seat, and by 1860 it had grown to become Wisconsin's second l...
in Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2012), 128 page(s),
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Images of America, Lackawanna
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Known locally as Limestone Hill and later called the "Steel Plant District," Lackawanna, New York, was formed from the westernmost part of the town of West Seneca in 1909. The new city derived its name from the Lackawanna Steel Company that had moved from Scranton, Pennsylvania, at the beginning of the 20th centur...
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Images of America, Lakewood
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in Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2013), 128 page(s),
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Lakewood, California—once the largest planned community in America—grew almost overnight. From lima bean and sugar beet fields, it became a model of postwar suburban development. Everything about the young Lakewood was new: constructing 17,500 homes in just 33 months, opening California’s first regional shop...
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Images of America, Lynwood
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Charles H. Sessions was an early-20th-century landowning businessman who named his dairy creamery after his wife, Lynne Wood. Her name would also grace the remarkable city that he pioneered, Lynwood. Early settlers, visionary residents, and city officials through the years have all helped Lynwood develop into a tw...
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