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Real Philly History, Real Fast: Fascinating Facts and Interesting Oddities about the City's Heroes and Historic Sites (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 31 ratings — published
Vanishing Philadelphia:: Ruins of the Quaker City (Lost)
by (shelved 4 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 32 ratings — published 2014
Wicked Philadelphia: Sin in the City of Brotherly Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.56 — 98 ratings — published 2010
Philadelphia Area Cemeteries (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.57 — 7 ratings — published 2005
The Story of Coventry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 1911
Remembering Northeast Philadelphia (American Chronicles)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 12 ratings — published 2009
Last Don standing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.71 — 198 ratings — published
Cellar Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 564 ratings — published 2013
Just a Kid from Swampoodle to Vietnam (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 126 ratings — published
Magical Destinations of the Northeast: Sacred Sites, Occult Oddities & Magical Monuments (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 35 ratings — published
The Removers: A Memoir (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.27 — 1,011 ratings — published 2014
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Phantom Killer: John Wesley Wable (True Crime)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 2.77 — 26 ratings — published
Philadelphia Organized Crime in the 1920s and 1930s (Images of America: Pennsylvania)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.68 — 22 ratings — published 2014
Wisconsin Lore: Antics and Anecdotes of Wisconsin People and Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.52 — 27 ratings — published 1962
Stevens Point Brewing Company (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 5.00 — 6 ratings — published
Forever Struggle: Activism, Identity, and Survival in Boston's Chinatown, 1880–2018 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.55 — 29 ratings — published
Cellar of Horror: The Story of Gary Heidnik (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,424 ratings — published 1989
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Wisconsin: Nature’s Army at Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 85 ratings — published
Philadelphia Perspectives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.60 — 5 ratings — published 2015
God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 457 ratings — published 2018
Philadelphia, a 300 year history after 25 years (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published
Pennsylvania Ghost Towns: Uncovering the Hidden Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.68 — 94 ratings — published 2007
Philadelphia: City of Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.50 — 6 ratings — published 2006
In Eddie's Name: One Family's Triumph over Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.45 — 83 ratings — published 1999
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 307,291 ratings — published 1994
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 12,070 ratings — published 2017
Philadelphia Railroad History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 22 ratings — published 2012
A Firefighter's Journal: Thirty-Seven Years on the Firegrounds and in the Firehouses of Philadelphia (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.67 — 24 ratings — published
Remembering Kensington & Fishtown: Philadelphia's Riverward Neighborhoods (American Chronicles)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 27 ratings — published 2008
Oxford Circle: The Jewish Community of Northeast Philadelphia (Images of America: Pennsylvania)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 8 ratings — published 2004
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 785,913 ratings — published 2003
The Cop Who Would Be King : The Honorable Frank Rizzo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 23 ratings — published 1977
Philadelphia: The World War I Years (Images of America: Pennsylvania)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 17 ratings — published 2013
The Perfect Square: A History of Rittenhouse Square (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 18 ratings — published 2009
Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs 1839-1914 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.57 — 28 ratings — published 1976
News Hound: From Half-ball in South Philly to TV News (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 2012
Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.52 — 29 ratings — published 1983
Philadelphia: A 300-Year History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 127 ratings — published 1982
Philadelphia's City Hall (Images of America: Pennsylvania)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.33 — 12 ratings — published 2003
Lower Northeast Philadelphia (Images of America: Pennsylvania)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 9 ratings — published 2005
Along the Schuylkill River (Images of America: Pennsylvania)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.43 — 7 ratings — published 2009
Frankford (Images of America: Pennsylvania)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.56 — 9 ratings — published 2005
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 75,790 ratings — published 1999
Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.35 — 841 ratings — published 2009
The Making of Milwaukee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.43 — 146 ratings — published 1999
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,161 ratings — published 1983
They Died Crawling: And Other Tales of Cleveland Woe (Cleveland Crime and Disaster Series by John Stark Bellamy II)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 157 ratings — published 1995
A Short History of Boston (Short Histories)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.65 — 224 ratings — published 2004
Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery (Images of America: Ohio)
by (shelved 3 times as local-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 26 ratings — published 2004
California: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
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avg rating 3.78 — 1,924 ratings — published
“For years, walking round London, I had been aware of the actual land, lying concealed but not entirely changed or destroyed, beneath the surface of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century city. It has been said that 'God made the country and man made the town', but that is not true: the town is simply disguised countryside. Main roads, some older than history itself, still bend to avoid long-dried marshes, or veer off at an angle where the wall of a manor house once stood. Hills and valleys still remain; rivers, even though entombed in sewer pipes, still cause trouble in the foundations of neighbouring buildings and become a local focus for winter mists. Garden walls follow the line of hedgerows; the very street-patterns have been determined by the holdings of individual farmers and landlords, parcels of land some of which can be traced back to the Norman Conquest. The situation of specific buildings - pubs, churches, institutions - often dates from long distant decisions and actions on the part of men whose names have vanished from any record.”
― The Fields Beneath
― The Fields Beneath
“Nothing truly beautiful without its element of strangeness, nothing whole without its own incongruity, these (Jacksonville-area pioneer house) ruins sand up from the earth in sacred conjunction. These ruins conjoin the earth and the manmade, moving from one to the other and back again. The Browards built their house out of shell and limestone, and limestone forms naturally from the shells and skeletons of miniscule sea creatures over great periods of time. The Browards shaped the earth upright toward the sky. THey shaped it with doorframes and windows and chimneys. THey shaped the earth up around them as a shelter. But shaped earth was always the earth. Now the walls fall back down and join once again the ground, taken over by roots of ferns and weeds and small trees. The house was always the ground, only contained in an upward suspension. The house was always the earth, but brought up into architecture, and now the house that was always the earth crumbles back into the earth and nourishes new green things -- dog fennel and morning glories and palmettoes and cabbage palms and cedars. A true symbol of sacredness of the earth is earth's reclaiming of human ingenuity.”
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