Abington (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780738536071)

Once known to native inhabitants as Manamooskeagin, or "the land of many beavers," Abington became an important manufacturing and financial center in Plymouth County by the early twentieth century. Postcard photographers and publishers caught every stage of the community's growth and broadcast it to the world through images of workmen at shoe factories, parades celebrating the town's 1912 bicentennial, and the dedication of the Island Grove Soldiers and Sailors Monument, a nineteenth-century gathering site for abolitionists that is today one of America's newest districts in the National Register of Historic Places. Abington captures the nostalgia of this town during the postcard era.

Author: Donald Cann, John Galluzzo
ISBN-10: 0738536075
ISBN-13: 9780738536071
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Language: English
Published: 08/06/2004
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.52w x 0.36d