Kingston

by Edwin Millard Ford

Book Overview

Kingston offers a visual essay of two unique communities that put aside rivalry and distrust to unite under one banner. Less than two miles apart but light-years away in appearance and personality, uptown Kingston and downtown Rondout Landing joined to form the city of Kingston in 1872. Founded as a stockaded settlement in 1658, uptown was where New York State's constitution was written in 1777. In the nineteenth century, the port downtown swelled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738536814
• ISBN13: 9780738536811
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.6" x 9.3"