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About this book
The spot where the most famous manhunt in United States history came to a bloody end languishes in the litter-strewn median of a four-lane highway. There are no physical traces left of the Garrett farmhouse, where John Wilkes Booth died, and few historic footprints to be found at all in this unlikely place, a common right-of-way. The Garrett place is one of scores of sites on the East Coast that society cast aside, places of historic value left to the natural world as orphans of the American landscape. Orphaned Heritage: The East Coast's Disappearing History tells the story of the Atlantic seaboard's historic castaways and explores what we can learn from the ruin.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Introduction: On the Trail of Disappearing History
- 1 – Shell Middens: The Drowning Traces of Ancient Footprints
- 2 – Gold Lust: Glittering Dreams that Scarred the Land
- 3 – Civil War Earthworks: What’s Left When War Hits Home
- 4 – Tide Mills: The Forgotten Art of Trapping Lunar Energy
- 5 – The Garrett Farm: A Manhunt and a Median
- 6 – Mallows Bay: Nature Claims a Boondoggle
- 7 – Watts Island: The Wet Fate of a Chesapeake Hermitage
- 8 – Anthracite Coal Towns: Communities Consumed by Undying Fire
- 9 – The Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike: Apocalypse as an Attraction
- 10 – The New River Gorge: When Nature Returns, Aliens Do, Too
- 11 – Kiptopeke’s Concrete Ships: A Second Life for Unlikely Vessels
- 12 – Nike Missile Batteries: Annihilation Beneath Suburban Streets
- Conclusion: History is not Abandoned if You Find It
- Endnotes
- About the Author