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Paperback. Zustand: Good. The Schuylkill River got its name, meaning hidden river, from Dutch settlers who discovered its mouth sequestered behind the Delaware River s League Island. It later became a river of revolutions. Along its banks Revolutionary War battles were fought, and George Washington s army famously camped at Valley Forge. Later the river helped fuel the Industrial Revolution with coal from Schuylkill County shipped to Philadelphia via the Schuylkill Canal. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad began here and grew into the largest corporation in the world. The iron and steel industry flourished along its waters. The Schuylkill River Desilting Project of the 1950s was the first large-scale cleanup of its kind and helped usher in an environmental revolution. The nation s first public water supply was developed here, and its first zoo and university overlook the river.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Schuylkill River got its name, meaning hidden river, from Dutch settlers who discovered its mouth sequestered behind the Delaware River's League Island. It later became a river of revolutions. Along its banks Revolutionary War battles were fought, and George Washington's army famously camped at Valley Forge. Later the river helped fuel the Industrial Revolution with coal from Schuylkill County shipped to Philadelphia via the Schuylkill Canal. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad began here and grew into the largest corporation in the world. The iron and steel industry flourished along its waters. The Schuylkill River Desilting Project of the 1950s was the first large-scale cleanup of its kind and helped usher in an environmental revolution. The nation's first public water supply was developed here, and its first zoo and university overlook the river.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hess's Department Store was a unique department store that with a combination of style and showmanship became a shopping legend for almost 100 years.Founded in 1897 in Allentown by brothers Max and Charles Hess as a dry goods store, it became the downtown heart of Pennsylvania's third-largest city for much of the 20th century. The Hess family was from Germany, and it was Max Hess Sr. who realized the Germans in Pennsylvania had limited access to quality dry goods; with his sons' backgrounds in the retail industry, and a higher quality of merchandise, particularly Hess's French Room, filled with the most in vogue fashions from France. The department store entered its golden age under by Max Hess's son, a showman for merchandising who embraced the life of a department store mogul, living in a giant mansion and rubbing shoulders with celebrities such as Bob Hope and Zsa Zsa Gabor. From the single store in Allentown to more than 80 by the 1990s, it seemed that Hess's was unstoppable, but a national recession and increased retail competition would eventually sink the titan of Pennsylvania retail. Through a series of photographs, many from private collections and seldom seen, Hess's Department Storebrings the glory days of Hess's to life again.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorSchuylkill River Heritage Area executive director Kurt D. Zwikl and staff writer Laura Catalano have compiled photographs from dozens of collections, including some of the earliest images of the river, in an effort to .

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorFor 26 years, Frank A. Whelan was the historical feature writer for the Allentown Morning Call and has won numerous awards for his articles. He was on-air historian for an Emmy award-winning PBS documentary about Hess .