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A gazetteer of the many fine Shropshire country houses, which covers the architecture, the owners' family history, and the social and economic circumstances that affected them.Shropshire is the largest English inland county, and has a wide variety of important landed country houses, with owners from diverse social groups, with links to trade in Liverpool, Manchester and London as well as the local gentry. This book is not simply about the houses they built, but also about the people who lived in them and the context in which the houses are set. The architecture is of course fully covered. What is distinctive about the author's approach is that he treats the histories of the families, their a...
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Take a journey back in time as we recount the history of Huntington County, Indiana from 1834 - 1993. This comprehensive history makes the past come alive with hundreds of never before published photographs and nearly 1,000 family biographies. This will be a treasured volume for anyone with a link to this county.