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Follow on Google News | Costco to Host Book Signing for Local Georgia AuthorsAuthors will be available to sign copies of Historic Roswell, Duluth, and Cobb County pictorial histories
Join the Authors for a Book Signing of Historic Roswell Where: Costco 2855 Jordan Couty, Alpharetta GA 30004 When: Saturday, June 15th, 2013; 12:00 —3:00 p.m. Duluth was originally founded as Howell’s Crossroads in 1821 by prosperous farmer Evan Howell. The little farming village got a boost and a name change when the railroad came through in 1871. At the dedication of the new depot, Evan Howell’s grandson named the town Duluth in honor of a little railroad town in Minnesota that had taken a drubbing in Congress. The name stuck, and in the next 100 years Duluth grew from an agricultural hamlet to a populous suburb of metropolitan Atlanta. Duluth was home to Alice Strickland, a prohibitionist and the first woman mayor in Georgia. It was also the site of early genetic engineering that resulted in the ubiquitous white chickens now dominating the poultry industry. The town’s community spirit also built a hospital and inspired a nation to provide medical care to rural areas. Historic Roswell, Georgia by Joe McTyre and Rebecca Nash Images of America Series 128 pages/ softcover Published: July 15, 2001 Join the Author for a Book Signing of Duluth! Where: Costco 3980 Venture Drive, Duluth GA 30096 When: Saturday, June 15th, 2013; 12:00 —3:00 p.m. Duluth by S. Lorraine Norwood Images of America Series 128 pages/ softcover Published: August 29, 2011 Cobb County was a wilderness of virgin forests and unspoiled vistas inhabited by the Creek and Cherokee Indians when the first settlers began arriving in the early 1800s. Farms, railroads, booming trade, new houses, schools and churches, and industrial development soon marked the area. After the state land lottery in 1832, wagonloads of people poured into the new county, encroaching on American Indian lands. The federal government’s removal of the Native Americans, construction of the state-owned railroad, and the Civil War greatly affected Cobb County in the 1800s. Reconstruction and the Great Depression forced a severe economic downturn on the entire South, and the area lagged behind the rest of the nation until after World War II. Unprecedented growth in the last half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st has boosted Cobb’s economic stance and its place as the fourth largest county in Georgia. Join the Authors for a Book Signing of Cobb County! Where: Costco 645 Barrett Parkway NW, Kennesaw GA 30144 When: Saturday, June 15th, 2013; 12:00 —3:00 p.m. Cobb County by Rebecca Nash Paden, Joe McTyre Images of America Series 128 pages/ softcover Published: September 19, 2005 End
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