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A history of Midland, Texas
"When the Midland Sentinel, a predecessor to the Midland Daily News, opened its door 150 years ago, Midland County had a booming lumber industry. But soon that lumber industry would fade and the city's future and growth would become dependent on a new industry that today is known as The Dow Chemical Co. As you open the pages of this book, you will see pictures from the those early days of Midland County. And you will see local history unfold as our book progresses through the decades right up to the present . We hope you are reminded that today is just another part of that history, a part you have a role in. Enjoy the moment." - back cover.
This iconic company was founded in the late 19th century and traded into the 1960s. Midland produced 1000s of guns during this time, many still in service today. They also produced a huge range of accessories & equipment for virtually every type of shooter. A selection of products feature in this book along with photographs, drawings and diagrams.
The aim of this lavishly illustrated book is to provide an in-depth study of the many medieval peasant houses still standing in Midland villages, and of their historical context. In particular, the combination of tree-ring and radiocarbon dating, detailed architectural study and documentary research illuminates both their nature and their status. The results are brought together to provide a new and detailed view of the medieval peasant house, resolving the contradiction between the archaeological and architectural evidence, and illustrating how its social organisation developed in the period before we have extensive documentary evidence for the use of space within the house. Nat Alcock and Dan Miles' work on Medieval Peasant Houses in Midland England has been nominated for the 2014 Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year.
The historic steamship City of Midland 41 sailed the waters of Lake Michigan for nearly half a century, transporting railroad cars, automobiles, and passengers. After her construction in 1941 by the revered Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, the nation's newspapers and newsreel services covered her launching and maiden voyage with enthusiastic flair. In time, she became the most beloved of all the Great Lakes car ferries. She was built as the flagship for the Pere Marquette Railway's Lake Michigan ferry fleet, and signified a bold departure from traditional Great Lakes vessel design. Her sleek outboard profile, spacious passenger accommodations, and modern interior furnishings were a hit with the traveling public. By the time she was retired from service in 1988, she had served both the Pere Marquette and Chesapeake & Ohio Railroads, transported thousands of travelers as a passenger ferry, and become known as the "Queen of the Great Lakes Car Ferries."
From the bestselling author of 1177 B.C., a comprehensive history of archaeology—from its amateur beginnings to the cutting-edge science it is today In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun’s tomb for the first time, the only light coming from the candle in his outstretched hand. Urged to tell what he was seeing through the small opening he had cut in the door to the tomb, the Egyptologist famously replied, “I see wonderful things.” Carter’s fabulous discovery is just one of the many spellbinding stories told in Three Stones Make a Wall. Written by Eric Cline, an archaeologist with more than thirty seasons of excavation experience, this book traces the history of archaeology from an amateur pursuit to the cutting-edge science it is today by taking the reader on a tour of major archaeological sites and discoveries. Along the way, it addresses the questions archaeologists are asked most often: How do you know where to dig? How are excavations actually done? How do you know how old something is? Who gets to keep what is found? Taking readers from the pioneering digs of the eighteenth century to today’s exciting new discoveries, Three Stones Make a Wall is a lively and essential introduction to the story of archaeology.
This second edition includes additional chapters containing family memories from Edward's daughters, Thelma and Della. Also, included are the memories of grandson Ed Jr. A chapter covering Edward's son, Eddie, is also included. The book is the result of research compiled from 2017-2020 by a descendant of Edward Vaughn, grandson Dennis R. Vaughn. This is a history and genealogy of the Edward Vaughn family in 10 chapters and 5 appendices. It covers the origins of the Vaughan/Vaughn surname as well as the likely origins of the family in the Wales and western Midlands region of the British Isles. The narrative follows seven generations of Vaughns beginning in the early 1700s with Daniel Vaughan and his son, William "T" Vaughan, and ends with Edward living in Greene County in the 1940s. We follow the family from the early Virginia Colony in Charles City and later Mecklenburg County. By the late 1700s, this Vaughn branch headed to Washington (Marion) County in pioneer Kentucky. The Vaughns would eventually migrate to Indiana, settling first in Owen and then Greene Counties by 1900. With the help of genealogists using Vaughan/Vaughn DNA matches and other Vaughan family trees, the book discloses how the origins of Edward's branch of the Vaughn family tree were established. Chapter 4 describes the migration of Samuel Vaughan and Richard Gregory families from southern Virginia to Nelson (Washington) County, Kentucky, around 1790.Chapters 9 and 10 explore the lives of Edward Vaughn and his wife Anna Mary Cadwell in Midland, Indiana, from the early 1900s to the late 1940s.Appendix 3 lists eleven Vaughn-Murphy intermarriages from 1825 to 1899. Most of the marriages were between descendants of Samuel Vaughan Sr. and Kanellum Murphey Sr. of Washington County, Kentucky.Appendix 5 includes notes collected by the researcher on the arrival of William "T" Vaughan's descendants into Gasconade, Maries and Osage, Missouri, between 1820 and 1840.Other families the Vaughns interacted with along the way include the Gregorys, Averitts, Swans, Yowells, Murphys, Cadwells, Alsops, Bradfords, Woods, Arthurs, and Geabharts.The 173-page book includes an index, photographs, color illustrations and documents, and 27 maps in color.