New- Experience Aberdeen’s Eclectic Railroad City

MT. PLEASANT, S.C. - April 30, 2013 - PRLog -- New to Arcadia Publishing’s popular Images of America series is Aberdeen by local author Troy McQuillen. This pictorial history boasts more than 200 vintage images and provides readers with a unique opportunity to reconnect with the history that shaped their community.

The Industrial Revolution, along with free land, created fierce competition among American railroad companies to connect the country with a web of track. Goods, as well as people, needed to be transported. The railroads would create towns, then profit from the sale of the land and transporting of people and goods. The plan worked brilliantly, as there were no other means of transportation--or roads--to these new communities.

Aberdeen, platted in 1881, was known as an "end of line" stop for several years. During this time, the town boomed into a city. Main Street sprawled southward and wooden boomtown businesses were quickly replaced with elaborate brick buildings, some six stories tall. Examples of Aberdeen's eclectic style of architecture, spanning nearly 60 years, can be found within Images of America: Aberdeen. Many of these treasures still exist today; others, along with their lost stories, are forever preserved here.

Highlights of Aberdeen include:
•   The conception of a railroad cross-town and distribution point
•   Features Aberdeen’s architecture
•   Zoomed photography revealing incredible building detail
•   People who contributed to the look of the town
•   New economic and population boom

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online.

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