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About Orleans County
The County, the Canal and the Settlers.
In telling this gripping tale, the author offers a brief history of canals through the ages, explains the foresight exhibited by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson regarding the need for a waterway to the west, and outlines the political wars, financing challenges, and seemingly endless delays and false starts to the project.
A comprehensive review of the mom and pop farming era (early 1800s through 1980s) in Orleans County, NY, which ended when local canning factories closed.
Learn about the legend of the Milan, the sunken schooner, and many of Orleans County's notable citizens including George Pullman of railroad car fame, Santa Claus School founder Charlie Howard, and Disney artist Hank Porter.
This atlas shows all of Orleans County, New York in an easily readable format, including all streets, roads, rivers, streams, lakes, railways, cities, towns, and localities.
Orleans County
$26.99
At its peak about 50 quarries employed upwards of 2000 people to mine a unique variety of Medina sandstone. This book explores the geology of how and when the stone was formed, the rise and fall of the regional quarry industry and what remains today.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
About The Haudenosaunee
The Six Nations Confederacy
Several centuries ago, the five nations that would become the Haudenosaunee― Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca― were locked in generations-long cycles of bloodshed. When they established Kayanerenkó:wa, the Great Law of Peace, they not only resolved intractable conflicts, but also shaped a system of law and government that would maintain peace for generations to come.
This book explores the urgent need to understand Indigenous values, support Indigenous Peoples, and to offer a way toward humanity’s survival in the face of ecological and environmental catastrophe.
Sisters in Spirit
$12.86
Women of the Six Nations Confederacy possessed decisive political power, control of their bodies, control of their own property, custody of their children, the power to initiate divorce, satisfying work and a society generally free of rape and domestic violence. Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) women sparked the revolutionary vision of early feminists by providing a model of freedom at a time when American women experienced few rights.
This is the first major book to explore uniquely Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), and specifically Oneida, components in the Native American oral narrative as it existed around 1900.
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