<p>Chris Edwards and Faye Axford left no stone unturned to find the little-known historical facts of the people, places, and events that make up Limestone County, Alabama. They found rare photographs, forgotten plantation cemeteries, abandoned ante-bellum mansions, and the people who remembered, to produce this outstanding reference and interesting collection of Limestone County's priceless past. Interwoven stories, fables, and recollections lost to the soft black of the past have been carefully recorded, along with the genealogy of these pioneers and squires, and their final resting places. The towns of Greenbrier, Athens, Mooresville, Belle Mina, Tanner, Brown's Ferry, French's Mill, and other communities, as well as towns that are long gone, have been preserved for historians and everyone who loves a well-told story.</p>

Lure and Lore of Limestone County: Alabama Antebellum Houses and Families

History

Gamble, Robert S.

Axford, Faye Acton

Edwards, Christine Williams

Oxford, Faye A.

Limestone County Historical Society

Americas

Portals Pr

<p>SILENT IN THE LAND is a unique depiction of the major styles and periods of Southern architecture. With photographs by artist Chip Cooper and essays by Harry Knopke and Robert Gamble, the book's visual and written images provide impressionistic comments on the 19th century southern landscape viewed through the prism of time. Featuring 60 houses in more than 150 full, four-color photographs, SILENT IN THE LAND is an artistic and historical guide to houses as diverse as simple dogtrots and elegant Palladian mansions, it captures each house as it resides in its setting, sometimes calling the eye to a small detail that delights because of its idiosyncrasy. Essays accompanying the photographs provide new insights through interviews with descendants, owners, or neighbors of each house, as well as through archival research. The historical context for the artistic treatment is established in the introduction and is completed in the descriptive, black-and-white pictorial appendix. This is a book with an urgent message: there are elegant homes, lovingly maintained, some painstakingly restored; there are wasting structures that face slow disintegration through neglect and indifference. SILENT IN THE LAND bridges both worlds, showing the grandeur of one and fragility of the other. By compelling us to look anew at old, familiar structures it gives a vivid call to action for preserving a proud architectural heritage.</p>

Silent in the Land

Cooper, Chip

Knopke, Harry J.

C K M Pr

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