Timeless Books
A visual exploration of historic towns, places and the people who built them.
Timeless McCammon
The Story of a Remarkable Idaho Town
The book traces the early beginnings of McCammon as a frontier toll bridge in 1863 ran by Henry Harkness who became one of the wealthiest men in Idaho. It grew has homesteaders arrived to claim their 160 acres. It was the site of one of the last land rushes in the USA in 1902. It was the sons of the pioneers who left the farm and moved into town that made the town prosper. It is a fascinating story of those pioneers, their children, and their grandchildren who built McCammon Idaho.
McCammon became a town with the influx of early pioneers led by an 80 year-old polygamist who had just been released from prison for unlawful cohabitation. It got another boost from the Idaho Land Rush. Ironically, it was the Portneuf River that turned on Harkness, taking nearly all his possessions, most of his wealth, and all of his health. But, McCammon was untouched by the river and thrived well into its second 50 years due to the hard work of the sons and daughters of those early pioneers.
Timeless Hogansville
The Story of a Remarkable Georgia Town
The story of Hogansville began in 1830 when William Hogan arrived and built his plantation. It continues after his death when the town developed as a cotton shipping point. The town prospered during Reconstruction. Then it continued as manufacturing took hold becoming a national force. The mills gave way to a retail-centered small city in the early 20th century. Throughout this 100 year period, an amazing cast of characters came to make the town grow.
Timeless Beaufort
Historic Homes and the people who shaped them.
This book explores many remarkable historic homes in Beaufort, Georgia, built during the 1700s and early 1800s. These homes were owned by some of the wealthiest plantation families of their time and reveal the social and architectural history of the region. The book includes maps showing where these families lived and how their plantations were connected to the town. Through photographs, maps, and stories, the book brings Beaufort’s historic landscape to life.
Book Details: 6 x 9 perfect bind, 270 pages, 700+ color pictures, maps and illustrations
This is the story of 40 historic homes in Beaufort, Georgia, a place favored for is sea breezes. These remarkable homes were built in the 1700s and early 1800s as an escape from the hot, humid summers. There are amazing stories about the people who built them, plantation owners for the most part. They lived in the remarkable homes in Beaufort but had huge plantations in the area. They were some of the most wealthy people in the USA at the time. You will learn about those plantations, see where they were located and understand how they prospered. One of the best parts of the book is the maps of the area and how they depict the location of the historic homes but of the plantations in the outlying areas. The book focuses equally on the homes with inside and outside pictures, and those that built them. You will come to understand many of the powerful families in Beaufort that thrived for generations.
Timeless Mississippi Plantations
The Historic Mansions and their People
This is not a coffee-table book filled with pretty pictures of old mansion houses. It is an in-depth look at the surviving plantations of the Lower Mississippi and the people who built them—and the generations who followed. In the early 1800s, plantation development along the river exploded. More than 500 plantations once lined the Mississippi between Natchez and New Orleans. Today, fewer than thirty historic plantation houses still remain. Those surviving plantations—and the stories behind them—are the focus of this book.