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In the 1880s, a serial killer terrorized Austin, Texas, setting a pattern for the many who followed him. In the 1890s, an Atlanta boardinghouse resident shot several of his fellow boarders. These and other true crime stories, spanning from Texas to West Virginia, are interesting and historically significant as opposed to depressing or lurid.
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Joel Kelley was born in South Carolina about 1775. He married Letta (Darlton?) prior to 1800. Both died about 1862 and are buried in Bradley Co., Tennessee. They spent most of their married life in McMinn and Bradley Counties, Tennessee. Descendants and relatives lived in Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, Illinois, Oklahoma, California, and elsewhere.
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The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves. Once-thriving communities in the Northeastern and Midwestern U. S. have decayed sharply as the high-wage manufacturing jobs that provided the foundation for their prosperity disappeared. A few larger cities had the resources to adjust, but most smaller places that relied on factory work have struggled to do so. Unless and until they find new economic roles for themselves, the small cities will continue to decline. Reinventing these smaller cities is a tall order. A few might still function as nodes of industrial production. But landing a foreign-owned auto manufac...