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The Huguenots are French Protestants, a product of turmoil during the early sixteenth century. The Huguenot community oscillated between celebration and persecution in France. On August 24, 1572, while celebrating Saint Bartholomew's Day, thousands of Huguenots were massacred. After decades of fighting occurred, an edict of peace was issued, which largely remained in place until October 18, 1685 when Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes. Many Huguenots fled France, then, or before, to escape persecution. Some came to the United States, with the majority deciding to reside in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina. Others settled in England, Sweden, Denmark, and Switzerland. This work offers an interesting account of the Huguenots in Florida and their interactions with the local populace. This edition is dedicated to Sam Hier, who knows about communities in strife.

Through the stories of their ancestors Bush and Kemp take us on a compelling journey through African American history into the hearts of individual lives. In tracing their ancestral roots, these family historians discover their connections to some of the South's most powerful men, both famous and forgotten. The community at the heart of this historical study is Edgefield, South Carolina, yet the stories in this book form a microcosm of events experienced by black communities throughout the South. An enslaved maternal line is traced to 1799; hopes are raised, then dashed, when a family of freedmen acquire land after the Civil War, only to later lose it; the "Dark Corner" of Edgefield is exposed. Shining a bright, sometimes uncomfortable light, deep truths are unearthed through DNA results and new family is found. Follow the authors through years of meticulous genealogical research, historical settings, and DNA testing as they reclaim their family stories and inspire others to embark on their own journeys of discovery. By leaving no stone unturned, these family historians show how they overcame the brick walls of slavery.

Ghosts abound in the haunted land of North Carolina. Spooks, spirits, and specters flourish throughout the Old North State. Every small town and big city has its share of ghosts or strange haunted spots, and there is always someone ready to tell a tale of a peculiar ghostly legend. Whether around a campfire under the Carolina Pines, a rising moon on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, or deep in the darkness of an Appalachian mountains, the tales of ghosts know no end.In Did You See That Ghost? you will discover new haunted tales, revisit some classic North Carolina ghost stories, and even read a few great urban legends. Read about ghost ships and pirates, haunted lighthouses and old restaurants from the coast. Spectral sailors haunt the USS North Carolina. Young girls still stare listlessly out their windows at the Nell Cropsey House and the Blakeney House. A popular debutante wanders the campus at Chowan University. Haunted bridges and floating lights crisscross the state. Rediscover the legends of Lydia's Bridge, the Devil's Tramping Ground, and the Little Red Man of Old Salem. You can even visit a paranormal museum replete with possessed dolls.Did You See That Ghost? shares all of these stories and more with readers, complete with the GPS locations and a guide on how scary each place truly is. Your haunted adventure awaits within.

On December 20, 1917, an express train crashed into the rear of a local passenger train at Shepherdsville, Kentucky, in a collision that would leave 49 dead, and as many seriously injured. With Christmas fast approaching, many of these had been to Louisville for a day of shopping, and were heading to their homes in Shepherdsville, Bardstown, Springfield, and places in between. Christmas would never be the same for them or their families. This is the story of that horrendous crash, and of the people whose lives were changed forever.

"In its heyday, Kensington was an architectural showplace, but Kensington: Portal to a Family, Place & Time chronicles the history of not just a house, but also the Singleton family, with whose lives it was intertwined. The Singletons were rich and powerful, rubbing elbows with governors, presidents, and European royalty. The halls of Kensington echoed with the voices of the high and mighty, the laughter of children, the clamor of war, and the laments of slaves. It is a slice of history, well worth savoring." - Cyndi Carter The Singletons arrived in South Carolina in the 1750s and built a vast antebellum plantation empire of wealth and power. The Kensington was the crown jewel of it all. This story is about people-the good, the bad, and the ugly, told through their letters, legal documents, and stories handed down through generations. There are heroes and villains, triumph and tragedy, joy and betrayal. It is also about social class and slavery. This story makes you laugh and maybe cry, shake your head, see the ironies, and marvel at it all. We get to know these people a little and maybe ourselves a little more.

The stories and recipes written by the McCrary Sisters, Ann, Deborah, Regina and Freda, are shared with love. Love for their mother who was known as Mudear, to whom this book is dedicated, and love for their own individual families. I know firsthand what it's like to share food made with love by the Sisters. One of my earliest experiences was visiting them at a recording studio and from the moment I walked in, they were trying to feed you. Regina walked me back to the kitchen area and spooned up a large, wonderful dish of her homemade chicken soup and it was so good. Good, flavorful and healthy. The McCrary Sisters are four in a group of eight siblings raised in Nashville by their mother and father, the Reverend Samuel McCrary, one of the founders of the Fairfield Four. The girls were raised in harmony singing together from the time they were very little, but they were also raised in a house full of the wonderful smells of some of the recipes you'll find in this book. I sat with the sisters one day in the very same dining room where they ate Mudear's famous cooking and Ann McCrary told me her Daddy said Mudear wasn't always a great cook. She learned how to become a great cook and she passed this skill on to the Sisters who are sharing their recipes with you, with love. -Joan Williams

Moore County, NC has long been a challenging place to do genealogical research, even more so if your family lived in Northern Moore County. Due to the immense loss of records in the 1889 Moore County courthouse fire combined with Northern Moore's large mix of Scotch-Irish, German, Swiss, English and other settlers who often kept to themselves and left very little evidence behind - genealogical and historical research on these families generally leaves researchers with no shortage of dead ends, brick walls and ancestors who disappear into genealogical black holes. With this series, Morgan Jackson (www.MooreCountyWallaces.com) seeks to shine a light on these families and piece together the records that survived the fire and the test of time.Utilizing over thirty years of personal research and a multitude of information from numerous sources, he abstracts rare and hard to find land grants, deeds, church records, school records, wills, estates, tax lists, pension records, family bibles, newspaper accounts and court records. This first volume abstracts thousands of these records in a timeline format from the first 85 years of recorded history beginning in 1746 including several hundred images and hard to find maps. A full name index includes over 5,000 individuals and over 750 place names.

"Copyright 2016 by Philip Thomas Tucker."--Title page verso.

Running for 664 miles along Kentucky's border, the Ohio River provided a remarkable opportunity for the enslaved to escape to free soil in Indiana and Ohio. The river beckoned fugitive slave Henry Bibb onto a steamboat at Madison, Indiana, headed to Cinci

This tour of Memphis goes well beyond the traditional guidebook to offer a historical journey through the Home of the Blues. Explore the city's African American heritage from Church Park to beautiful Mason Temple, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivere

Around the North Carolina village of Guilford Courthouse in the late winter of 1781, two weary armies clashed on a cold, wet afternoon. American forces under Nathanael Greene engaged Lord Cornwallis's British army in a bitter two-hour battle of the Revolu

This work traces the history of the Six Flags Over Texas amusement park, located in Arlington, Texas for over fifty years. Coverage begins with a discussion of the theme parks built around the country after the opening of Disneyland in 1955. The story proceeds to Six Flags' initial planning and construction in the late 1950s and continues through its fiftieth anniversary season in 2011. Presented are hundreds of facts and over 230 images. The images include concept art for the park; original postcards; tourist photographs; public relations photographs; souvenir documents; and original photographs by the author. The book provides background regarding the individuals that designed and built the park. It covers each of the major attractions added each season. Typical information includes the manufacturer of each attraction, with the ride's capacity, speed or height. The author is an attorney in Tarrant County that worked as a ride operator in the park for four years. He has consulted newspaper articles, books, and old park souvenirs and artifacts to collect the information included.

In stinging realism, Mr. Weeks' fictional story offers a tender love story set among the brutal racism that gripped his home in the western sand hills of South Carolina during the late 1960s. With authentic and vivid depictions of the racial vitriol of that time, it is a must read for those that did not live through this period. Given the drama that presently grips our nation, recalling those unspeakable atrocities is a timely reminder of a past to which we must never return.

For the first time, here is a comprehensive history of Charleston - day-by-day, week-by-week. Following events from the founding of Carolina through the American Revolution, the Charleston Almanac is a fast-paced and entertaining journey through wars disasters, slavery, and covering the city's triumphs and many tragedies.

The Family Table is an aptly named cookbook. Be prepared for warm, funny, and memorable stories spun from generations of a southern family and punctuated with prized recipes. The well-tested dishes you can make with this cookbook will be welcome additions to your kitchen repertoire, but you also have the chance to experience family lore unfolding. You'll feel a kinship with the honorable patriarch GrandSir, be swept up in tales of Grammy's youth, and wish terribly that you too had been able to bunk with the giggling Eubanks cousins at the island cottage. Paula Eubanks' family recipes allow us to taste the past, but the stories and photographs in this collection allow us a figurative taste of history as well -- and at a close, personal level that you rarely find in the biography section of the library. The author is an artist and her natural aesthetic awareness and enjoyment is soaked into her cookbook, a joie de vivre that will forever inspire your own role in daily life, family history, and cooking.

IN 2014 CHARLESTON WAS NAMED THE #1 CITY IN AMERICA BY CONDE NAST TRAVELER FOR THE 4TH YEAR IN A ROW! Being FIRST is not out of the ordinary for this extraordinary city. Charleston has a long list of revolutionary events and pioneering accomplishments. If you've ever wondered why Charleston is called "America's Most Historic City" historian and tour guide, MARK R. JONES, gives you an in depth look at the most compelling reasons.

The Relic: Jerusalem to St. AugustineTo the world at large, the eminent professor emeritus Benjamin Schwartz, of Hebraic Studies at the Yeshiva University and an expert on decoding the secrets in the Kabbalah, is a highly respected ultra-Orthodox Jew. In his personal life, he is estranged from his children for being unforgiving, judgmental, and prone to jumping to conclusions.Joel has been overprotective of his younger sister Carol ever since her traumatic experience as a nine-year-old child. He blames himself for its occurrence.After retirement, the professor became a dealer of antiquities, obsessed with locating and gaining possession of the world's most holy relic: Aaron's breastplate, which has been fought over by El-Khattab (the Sword of Islam) and the Mossad (Israel's intelligence agency). It can be found in one of two chests of gold, in the year 1702.After the professor's mysterious death, the Kabbalah's secret of time manipulation is left to his children.First, they must follow his clues to discover the secret of how to transmute. Then in their search through time to acquire the relic and the gold, Carol finds true love in 1702 but dies soon afterward.Joel believes her death was caused by his greed and overbearing personality. He decides to transmute to when they were children to change destiny.