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Product Identifiers

PublisherArcadia Publishing

ISBN-100738535559

ISBN-139780738535555

eBay Product ID (ePID)30510994

Product Key Features

Book TitleGrove City

Number of Pages128 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2004

TopicUnited States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), Pictorials (See Also Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional), United States / General

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Photography, History

AuthorBradley C. Isles, Marjorie J. Hummel, Mike S. Adams, John H. Hummel

Book SeriesPostcard History Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight10.5 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-100478

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal974.8/95

SynopsisIn 1798, Valentine Cunningham dammed Wolf Creek in a wild Pennsylvania landscape for the purpose of starting a mill. By 1876, when Isaac Ketler came to start the nationally recognized Grove City College, it was a thriving village known as Pine Grove. Flowing outward from Cunningham's mill, the area now known as Grove City doubled in size, and it doubled again during the early twentieth century. Marketing slogans such as "Where Industry and Education Unite" and "No saloons" described the expanding town. Prohibitionist sentiments peaked when local tycoon Edwin Fithian ran for U.S. senator on the Prohibition ticket in the 1920s. All the while in the background, Wolf Creek provided the city with inspiration, energy, and recreation and was even once set ablaze. Grove City looks back at the rich history of this growing Pennsylvania community.

LC Classification NumberF159.G83A23 2004