Main entry:

Contosta, David R.

Title & Author:

Lancaster, Ohio, 1800-2000 : frontier town to edge city / David R. Contosta.

Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©1999.

Description:

xx, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Series:

Urban life and urban landscape series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-320) and index.
Introduction: The Town and American Life -- 1. Frontier Lancaster: The Town Emerges -- 2. Heroic Age: A Town Divided -- 3. Victorian Lancaster: Town Improvement -- 4. Boom Town: Industrial Lancaster -- 5. Turmoil, Depression, and War: The Town Endures -- 6. The Town at High Noon: Postwar Lancaster -- 7. Suburban Lancaster: Toward the Edge City -- Conclusion: Into the Future.

Summary:

"In explaining why Lancaster has remained a small but relatively successful community for some twenty decades, Contosta looks at various factors, including location, natural resources, technology, transportation systems, local leaders, historic preservation, awareness of local history, and national as well as international events."--Jacket.
"As the twenty-first century begins, the widespread use of the automobile, advances in technology, and Lancaster's proximity to the state capital, Columbus, are transforming the community into something new - part town, part city, and part suburb - a phenomenon that is emerging in hundreds of older communities throughout the United States. Contosta's history of the development of one small town, and the over one hundred illustrations enhancing the text, offer a microcosm of the profound changes in American life over two centuries."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0814208258 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780814208250 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0814250270 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780814250273 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Steden.
Lancaster (Ohio) History.
Ohio Lancaster.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Urban life and urban landscape series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232065
Call No.: F499.L2 C66 1999
Status: Available