Download e-book for iPad: Cape St. George Lighthouse and Apalachicola Bay (Images of by James L. Hargrove,Carol A. Talley

By James L. Hargrove,Carol A. Talley

ISBN-10: 1467124974

ISBN-13: 9781467124973

ISBN-10: 1540215660

ISBN-13: 9781540215666

The beacon of the old Cape St. George Lighthouse nonetheless courses mariners into Apalachicola Bay. based in 1831, the city of Apalachicola took its identify from Creek Indians, to whom it signified a land of pleasant humans. Sheltered from the Gulf of Mexico via a string of barrier islands, the port flourished because the in simple terms web site in Florida on a river that's navigable for over three hundred miles to the autumn line at Columbus, Georgia, Apalachicola�s sister urban. Generations of lighthouse keepers have been guaranteed to St. George Island and its nice bay by way of an severe experience of responsibility to maintain seagoing trade and a love for a spot the place they can increase their households in freedom. whilst the basis washed away in 2005 after a really lively storm season and a last surge from typhoon Wilma, citizens took motion to salvage and rebuild the old lighthouse. viewers should climb the lighthouse tower, surrounded by way of bricks that have been first laid in 1852.

Show description

Read or Download Cape St. George Lighthouse and Apalachicola Bay (Images of America) PDF

Similar architecture books

Download e-book for iPad: Sprawling Places by David Kolb

Humans frequently bemoan the unfold of shops, suburban strips, subdivisions, and different sprawling areas in modern the USA. yet are those locations as undesirable as critics declare? In Sprawling locations, David Kolb questions extensively held assumptions approximately our outfitted environments. Kolb consents there's a lot to not like approximately many modern locations, yet to jot down them off easily as commodified “nonplaces” doesn't deal with them severely.

New PDF release: Growing up and older

George Hinds (B Arch '49, MCP '53, from Yale collage) has released the ebook "Growing up and older"(Createspace,2010), a magazine with sketches from his early years, lively carrier in international warfare II,travel and paintings within the usa, Sweden, France, Switzerland, Italy and Indonesia. The creation of greater than 2 hundred sketches have been the the results of a furnish from the Graham beginning for improve reports within the tremendous Arts,and twenty are within the everlasting choice of the paintings Institute of Chicago.

Download e-book for kindle: Greek and Roman Architecture in Classic Drawings (Dover by Hector d'Espouy

Might be the best list of classical architectural aspect ever made. accomplished within the challenging means of India ink and water colour rendering, the illustrations comprise the Parthenon, Roman temples, Pantheon, Colosseum, many others. exceptional three-dimensionality and results of scale. more suitable with Introductory Notes by means of John Blatteau and Christiane Sears.

Juhani Pallasmaa's Os Olhos da Pele: A Arquitetura e os Sentidos (Portuguese PDF

Escrito por um dos maiores arquitetos da Finlândia, este livro sobre teoria da arquitetura trata da percepção sensorial das edificações sob um ponto de vista muito unique: critica a arquitetura que considera apenas o sentido da visão, deixando de lado os demais sentidos, e propõe uma forma multissensorial de projetar a arquitetura.

Extra resources for Cape St. George Lighthouse and Apalachicola Bay (Images of America)

Example text

Download PDF sample

Cape St. George Lighthouse and Apalachicola Bay (Images of America) by James L. Hargrove,Carol A. Talley


by Edward
4.4

Rated 4.70 of 5 – based on 37 votes