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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherArcadia Publishing
ISBN-100738584460
ISBN-139780738584461
eBay Product ID (ePID)102908409
Product Key Features
LanguageEnglish
TopicPostcards, Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), Railroads / Pictorial, Civil / Bridges, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Pictorials (See Also Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional), Travel, Transportation, Technology & Engineering, Photography, Antiques & Collectibles, History
AuthorJudy Adler, Den Adler
IllustratorYes
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 In.
Item Length9.2 In.
Item Weight10.5 Oz
Item Width6.5 In.
Additional Product Features
Publication Year2010
SeriesPostcard History Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Book TitleJanesville
Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisIn 1837, Henry Janes applied for a post office called Black Hawk for the southern Wisconsin settlement where he ran a ferry across the Rock River. The postmaster general, however, noticed a town already by that name in the Iowa part of Wisconsin Territory, and he assigned the name Janesville, with Janes as postmaster. Two years later, Janes moved his family west, but the community grew to become the Rock County seat, and by 1860 it was Wisconsin's second-largest city. Today more than 62,000 people call the "City of Parks" home.