PENFIELD [NEW YORK] (Images of America)

Wamp, Martin M.

ISBN 10: 0738535257 / ISBN 13: 9780738535258

Editore: Arcadia Publishing, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 2004

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128pp ---- Signed by author on title page, dated 12-25-06 ---- Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Codice articolo 011913

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Titolo: PENFIELD [NEW YORK] (Images of America)

Casa editrice: Arcadia Publishing, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Data di pubblicazione: 2004

Legatura: Soft Cover

Illustratore: B&w illustrations

Condizione: Very Good+

autografato: Signed by Author

Edizione: First Edition.

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Penfield began as a milling town in the early 1800s, evolved into a farming community by the 1850s, and grew into one of Rochester's finest suburbs in the 1900s. Within the pages of Penfield are stories of founder Daniel Penfield and why, as a successful merchant and landowner, he left eastern New York to settle in an uninhabited wilderness; of twelve-year-old "Little Nellie" Williams, who operated the town's newspaper during the Civil War; of Almon Strowger, the inventor of the dial telephone switch; and of Timothy and Lydia Bush, direct ancestors of President George W. Bush. One of the only remaining mud houses in New York State still stands in Penfield; it and many other early structures are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.