Archives for November 2014

Koss Construction has been the paving business for one hundred years. 1912, George W. Koss began pouring concrete for railroad bridges in Iowa and the Upper Midwest. When automobiles began to supplant rail transportation in the 1920s, Koss converted its expertise in concrete bridge construction into paving concrete highways, and the rest, as they say, […]

“The Jay Birds of Fort Bend County” is a narrative history of the political life of a Texas county from 1865 to 1970. The background for the story is traced to the tormented years in Texas following the War Between the States. These years witnessed the destruction of the old way of life and blocked […]

The first 75 years of Inter-County Energy Cooperative, powering your life…empowering your dreams.

The story of Hilltop National Bank, in Casper, WY and it’s first 50 years.

Across the expanses of the Great American West, there is much to see and do. Thousands of inns are there to serve you. Many are beautiful, some historic, and a few are even haunted. The ones in this book are all three. Not all things go bump in the night; some even go bump in […]

One hundred and twenty-five years in the making, today’s Dwight-Englewood School has been shaped by legions of teachers and administrators who have shepherded many thousands of students into adulthood, and also by the events and assumptions of each era of the schools’ substantial history. The volume provides a framework for understanding the evolution and growth […]

Douglas Machine: A 50th Anniversary of service, success and significance.

Discover Indiana Regional Medical Center in this new limited-edition book. This 8 1/2” x 11” 128 page volume captures the heritage and accomplishments over the past 100 years through fascinating text and photographs.

In these pages you will read a superb history of men and women attempting, against long odds, to prove they could indeed provide affordable, reliable electricity to the people of western Oregon. The CPI story is a story of rapid expansion, technological innovation, and me who helped navigate the treacherous water of power supply in […]

It is commonly thought that Concordia University Chicago began as the Addison Teachers Seminary in Addison, IL, in 1864, which is, for the most part, true. But before Addison Seminary, there was the Fort Wayne Teachers Seminary in Indiana. Its founding is said to be the “birth of Concordia Teachers College.” And even before that, […]