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A place called Crockett's Corner began as a seventeenth century colonial settlement that grew into a stable and sustainable nineteenth century American agrarian landscape. During thetwentieth century, in a rapid but staged process, the landscape was changed into an edge city. These changes were the direct result, especially after 1938, of prevailing public policies which acted to constrain some land uses while supporting others.Landscape change has had unintended consequences, including local social network destruction,historic building demolition, and unmitigated air and non-point source water pollution. Raising awareness of the deep history of this place may help empower advocates for historic preservation, open space, environmental protection and more sustainable land use practices in the future.
"You are making history today," the University of Virginia Extension Division agent Samuel Crockett observed to a gathering of students and faculty on September 15, 1954, in Wise, Virginia. The occasion was the opening convocation of what would become Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, and the 109 students assembled, many of whom were Korean War veterans or women, were indeed part of something quite special. People in Southwest Virginia and friends in Charlottesville--not the least being University of Virginia President Colgate W. Darden Jr.--had worked tirelessly to make this day possible. A snowbound discussion at the Colonial Inn in Wise had resulted in the conversion of...
Reproduction of the original: Joan of the Sword Hand by Samuel Rutherford Crockett
This book covers the factual guardianship records of Williamson Country over a 130 year period.
What began as a list of names, a box of documents, a number of family Bibles, and idle curiosity gradually evolved into a book about the settlement of Virginia and the western conquest of the great Valley of the Shenandoah, the birth of the New River settlements, and the emergence of the Watauga and Holston pioneers on the western slopes of the Appalachian Mountains. Placing the generations into a format of historic events began to bring these fugitives from the European wars and catastrophes into focus as real people. Since this story concerns the early foundation of this nation, the author did not choose to go back beyond the immigration from Europe. In a few cases, however, where the mate...
The third volume of this series documents the death date order of 27,524 graves in the Jackson and Sandy Ridge Townships, Union Co., NC.
Genealogical extracts from the county court minute books of Williamson Co. Tennessee - indexed to the official records
Книга для викладача до практичного курсу англійської мови для студентів третього курсу вищих закладів освіти (філологічні спеціальності та спеціальність «Переклад») має на меті допомогти викладачам у роботі зі згаданим підручником. До її змісту ввійшли “Вступ”, який повторює інформацію, що міститься у передмові до підручника, робочий план на увесь навчальний рік із приблизни...