North Georgias Dixie Highway

Author : Amy Gillis Lowry
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738544311
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North Georgia's Dixie Highway written by Amy Gillis Lowry and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of this early twentieth century tourism route that connected the South to the urban North, the growth of businesses serving the route's visitors, and the evolution of the handmade chenille coverlets sold along the route that laid the groundwork for the modern carpet industry. Original.

Author : Tammy Ingram
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469612984
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dixie Highway written by Tammy Ingram and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dixie Highway: Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930

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ISBN 13 : 9780615833033
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dixie Highway written by and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the beginning of the Dixie Highway and its selection of routes through Southwest Georgia

Author : Claudette Stager
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572334670
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking Beyond the Highway written by Claudette Stager and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking beyond the Highway is an examination of road history and roadside attractions specific to the South. Focused in part on numerous aspects of thematerial culture landscape of the Dixie Highway, the essays consider the politics of roadbuilding, roadside entertainment, the buildings and businesses one might encounter along the road, and regional adaptations to the needs and desires of northern tourists. Following the Dixie Highway from southern Illinois to Florida with sidetrips down other southern roads, the essays cover a wide variety of subjects, many of which will resonate with anyone who has ever lived in or vacationed in the South: Harrison Mayes's “Get Right With God” signs; the park-and-pray craze of outdoor drive-in church services; the rise and demise of brick highways; the fierce political battle over the route of the Dixie Highway; beach music and the evolution of motel architecture in Myrtle Beach; Florida's early tourist towers; and the commercial development of Tennessee caves as tourist attractions. Covering a landscape that includes Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Indiana, Virginia, Arkansas, Ohio, Kentucky, Alabama, and Illinois, the anthology shows that there was and still is a distinctive southern culture and how roads have influenced that culture. As lively as they are diverse, thearticles provide a solid background for understanding roadside ephemera that have disappeared or are quickly disappearing. Ranging from the serious to the light-hearted and including descriptions of American road and roadside icons to kitsch, the book will appeal to anyone with an interest in road history and roadside architecture.

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Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dixie Highway written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tammy Ingram
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469612992
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dixie Highway written by Tammy Ingram and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners. In their place, a jumble of dirt roads covered the region like a bed of briars. Introduced in 1915, the Dixie Highway changed all that by merging hundreds of short roads into dual interstate routes that looped from Michigan to Miami and back. In connecting the North and the South, the Dixie Highway helped end regional isolation and served as a model for future interstates. In this book, Tammy Ingram offers the first comprehensive study of the nation's earliest attempt to build a highway network, revealing how the modern U.S. transportation system evolved out of the hard-fought political, economic, and cultural contests that surrounded the Dixie's creation. The most visible success of the Progressive Era Good Roads Movement, the Dixie Highway also became its biggest casualty. It sparked a national dialogue about the power of federal and state agencies, the role of local government, and the influence of ordinary citizens. In the South, it caused a backlash against highway bureaucracy that stymied road building for decades. Yet Ingram shows that after the Dixie Highway, the region was never the same.

Author : Billy Stonewall Birt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781680260427
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rock Solid written by Billy Stonewall Birt and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of Georgia's 'Dixie Mafia' has never been told. At its core was one man and he was bigger than life. He was the author and enforcer of the rules that governed the entire organization. He set the standard of code that made the 'Dixie Mafia" impenetrable. And he was the one that anyone who broke that code would have to face. His name was Billy Sunday Birt and this is his story" --page 4 cover.

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Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dixie Highway written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Howard Lawrence Preston
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870496776
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dirt Roads to Dixie written by Howard Lawrence Preston and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the conclusion of the nineteenth century, one of the issues that attracted the attention of reformers in the South was road improvements. Populists who subscribed to the tenets of the good roads movement sought to provide farmers with better access to markets, make the cultural and employment opportunities of cities more available, and perhaps even halt the mass exodus of young people from the farms.

Author : Lisa M. Russell
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439658277
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Towns of North Georgia written by Lisa M. Russell and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the bustle of a city slows, towns dissolve into abandoned buildings or return to woods and crumble into the North Georgia clay. In 1832, Auraria was one of the sites of the original American gold rush. The remains of numerous towns dot the landscape - pockets of life that were lost to fire or drowned by the water of civic works projects. Cassville was a booming educational and cultural epicenter until 1864. Allatoona found its identity as a railroad town. Author and professor Lisa M. Russell unearths the forgotten towns of North Georgia.