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100	1		_aPowell, Lyman P. _q(Lyman Pierson), _d1866-1946
245	1	0	_aHistoric towns of the southern states
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aAmerican historic towns
500			_aRelease date is 2025-07-04
508			_aCarla Foust, Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520			_a"Historic towns of the southern states" by Lyman P. Powell is a collection of historical essays written in the early 20th century. It surveys notable Southern towns and cities—their founding, growth, conflicts, and civic culture—through contributions by regional scholars and is richly illustrated. Expect engaging local narratives paired with analysis of economics, war, and reconstruction that together chart the making of the urban South. The opening of the volume sets a patriotic, educational, and conciliatory tone in the preface, then, in W. P. Trent’s introduction, challenges the idea of a non-urban South by explaining how geography, plantation agriculture, slavery, interstate jealousy, and fragile finance slowed city-building even as railroads, trade conventions, and postwar recovery spurred it. The first major chapter, on Baltimore, shows how waterways initially discouraged towns; how private initiative created Baltimore, Jonestown, and Fell’s Point; and how trade routes, immigration, and wartime pressures fueled rapid growth. It recounts Baltimore’s Revolutionary contributions, its War of 1812 defense and privateering, subsequent booms and busts, and the rise of civic institutions from turnpikes and the B&O Railroad to the Peabody, Hopkins, and Pratt foundations. The next chapter turns to Annapolis, tracing Maryland’s Calvert beginnings, early religious toleration, the Puritan settlement at Providence, and the town’s role as seat of government. It evokes St. Anne’s Church, St. John’s College, and the State House where Washington resigned his commission, then begins a tour of its colonial houses and the “Peggy Stewart” tea-burning episode. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1900
653			_aCities and towns -- Southern States
830		0	_aAmerican historic towns
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76439
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