The ocean highway : New Brunswick, New Jersey to Jacksonville, Florida / compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration.

Title & Author:

The ocean highway : New Brunswick, New Jersey to Jacksonville, Florida / compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration.

Publication:

New York, [NY] : Modern Age Books,
©1938.

Description:

xxix, 244 pages : illustrations, 1 color map ; 21 cm

Series:

American guide series

Notes:
"Barlow's description of the North Carolina coast": pages 215-225
"Sponsored by Charles L. Terry, Jr., Secretary of State of Delaware."
Folded map tipped in inside lower cover.
Includes index.
Also issued online.

Summary:

To follow the course of the Ocean Highway along the shore of the Atlantic New Jersey to Florida is like taking a living course in American history. You will journey through romantic legend-haunted regions like the Dismal Swamp (V.A. and N.C.); past such historical spots as Tangier Island, still guarding its ancient independence as it did in the War of 1812. You will pass the Georgia scene of Julia Peterkin's novel "Black Skin" and "Scarlet Sister Mary"; and the house which was the setting for George Alfred Townsend's story of antebellum days in Maryland, "The Entailed Hat". From the road across Butler's Island you can see the house where Fanny Kemble, the English actress, kept her unhappy diary as the wife of Pierce Butler. Also contains an excerpt from one of the earliest descriptions of the North Carolina coast by an English person

Subject:

Automobile travel Atlantic States Guidebooks.
Voyages en automobile États de l'Atlantique (États-Unis) Guides.
Automobile travel
Travel
Roads 1930-1940.
Atlantic States Guidebooks.
Atlantic States Description and travel.
Etats de l'Atlantique (E.-U.) Descriptions et voyages Guides.
États de l'Atlantique (États-Unis) Guides.
États de l'Atlantique (États-Unis) Descriptions et voyages.
United States Atlantic States

Form/genre:

Guidebook
travel guidebooks.
Guidebooks
Guides touristiques.

Added entries:

Barlowe, Arthur, approximately 1550-1620. First voyage to Roanoke, 1584. Selections.
Federal Writers' Project.
American guide series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318029
Call No.: 318029
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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