Landmarks

The Landmarks American history books series offers readers accessible, well-illustrated histories of USA landmarks and historic sites. Learn the secret history of the Chicken Ranch, Texas’s iconic brothel. Let loose at Detroit’s Rock’n’Roll palace, shop the hallowed shelves of Kaufmann’s, then relax at the Sandy Hook Highland beach resort. From the rise of Idlewild to the fall of Younkers, these Landmark books will bring iconic locations to your backyard. [View all Landmarks books]
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Cover image for Sagamore Hill, isbn: 9781467118095
Sagamore Hill
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$21.99
Cover image for Landmarks & Historic Sites of Long Island, isbn: 9781609497262
Landmarks & Historic Sites of Long Island
Paperback
$19.99
Cover image for Brooklyn's Barren Island, isbn: 9781467144315
Brooklyn's Barren Island
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$23.99

Sagamore Hill

9781467118095

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No house better reflects the personality and interests of its owner than Theodore Roosevelt's cherished Sagamore Hill. After Roosevelt returned to Oyster Bay following the death of both his beloved wife and mother, he and his second wife, Edith, made the house a home for their growing and rambunctious family. What began as the perfect getaway from unhealthy New York City summers in his grandfather's day became the Summer White House during Roosevelt's presidency. He hosted political guests like Henry Cabot Lodge and cultural luminaries like novelist Edith Wharton. Roosevelt spent his final years happily at Sagamore Hill, and after his death in 1919, the Theodore Roosevelt Association and the National Park Service preserved the house. With previously unpublished photographs and a detailed guide to the house and grounds, historian Bill Bleyer recounts bygone days at Roosevelt's haven.
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Landmarks & Historic Sites of Long Island

9781609497262

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New York's Long Island is long on history from land to sea! Ralph Brady covers well known and unknown sites, events, homes, places and people.


Everyone lucky enough to live on Long Island already knows that it's like nowhere else in the world. From lighthouses and a one-hundred-year-old carousel to World War II camps and missile sites, Long Island native Ralph Brady reveals the secrets to what makes this little-big island so special with a tour of some of Nassau and Suffolk's most historic locations. Walt Whitman, William Vanderbilt, Theodore Roosevelt and many others occupied remarkable homes around the island. Charles Lindbergh made his historic flight to France from what is now a shopping mall. For many years, a Long Island factory gave the world the game of Scrabble. Even the waters teem with history, with the modern submarine making its start off the coast. Come explore these and other settings from Long Island's past.

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Brooklyn's Barren Island

9781467144315

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Unbeknownst to most of the city’s inhabitants, a rural community of garbage workers once existed on a now-vanished island in New York City.


Barren Island was a swampy speck in Jamaica Bay where a motley group of new immigrants and African Americans quietly processed mountains of garbage and dead animals starting in the 1850s. They turned the waste into useful industrial products until their eviction by Robert Moses in 1936, all in the name of progress. Barren Islanders built businesses, fought fires, demanded a public school and worshipped at churches as they created a quintessentially American community from scratch. Author Miriam Sicherman tells the story of a Brooklyn neighborhood lost in the annals of New York City history.

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