Egg Harbor City de Mark W. Maxwell

Egg Harbor City: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)

Autor Mark W. Maxwell

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2010

Egg Harbor City celebrates the historic beginnings of this city through rare and vintage photographs.

Egg Harbor City was founded as a refuge from the sweeping nativism of the Know-Nothings, a group that tried to limit immigration and naturalization into the United States. Egg Harbor City was a place where German Americans could maintain the traditions, language, and lifestyle of their fatherland. The city was designed in rectangular blocks with lots for building, gardening, or farming. Parks were built and a harbor was planned on the north side of the city with rail lines connecting it to the Camden and Atlantic Railroad. Following the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Egg Harbor City's wines earned the community great respect, and it became known as the "Wine City," drawing hundreds of visitors to its many wineries. Egg Harbor City celebrates the early years of the place once known as the most German city in the United States of America.

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ISBN-13: 9780738565729
ISBN-10: 0738565725
Pagini: 127
Dimensiuni: 163 x 231 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Seria Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)

Notă biografică

Mark W. Maxwell has lived most of his life in Egg Harbor City and can trace his family roots in the area back to the early 1700s. He is a forensic scientist for the New Jersey State Police and is the president of the Egg Harbor City Historical Society.

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Egg Harbor City was founded as a refuge from the sweeping nativism of the Know-Nothings, a group that tried to limit immigration and naturalization into the United States. Egg Harbor City was a place where German Americans could maintain the traditions, language, and lifestyle of their fatherland. The city was designed in rectangular blocks with lots for building, gardening, or farming. Parks were built and a harbor was planned on the north side of the city with rail lines connecting it to the Camden and Atlantic Railroad. Following the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Egg Harbor City's wines earned the community great respect, and it became known as the "Wine City," drawing hundreds of visitors to its many wineries. Egg Harbor City celebrates the early years of the place once known as the most German city in the United States of America.