Main street blues the decline of small-town America

By:

Davies, Richard O

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Urban life and urban landscape seriesPublication details: Columbus Ohio State University Press 1998Description: xiii,234pISBN:

9780814207826

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DDC classification:

977.171 22 DA-M

Contents:

Prologue. Plainville, U.S.A.: The Towns We Left Behind -- 1. Dover: The Building of a Community -- 2. Winesburg: Life along Main Street -- 3. Camden: The Halcyon Days of the 1920s -- 4. Depression: "The Worst of Times" -- 5. War: "Camden Behind the Men Behind the Guns" -- 6. The Last Picture Show -- 7. Main Street In Repose -- Epilogue. Camden: The Town We Left Behind.

Summary: Richard O. Davies takes the reader through two hundred years of American history as reflected in the small Ohio farming village of Camden. Davies describes the development of the relatively self-sufficient community that emerged from the Ohio land rush of the early nineteenth century, a community that reached its apex during the 1920s and then entered into a period of slow decline caused by forces beyond its control.Summary: He details the roles of land speculation, the railroad era, the impact of the automobile, the emergence of a tightly knit community, and finally the post-World War II loss of business and population to the nearby cities of Dayton, Hamilton, and Cincinnati.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-220) and index.

Richard O. Davies takes the reader through two hundred years of American history as reflected in the small Ohio farming village of Camden. Davies describes the development of the relatively self-sufficient community that emerged from the Ohio land rush of the early nineteenth century, a community that reached its apex during the 1920s and then entered into a period of slow decline caused by forces beyond its control.

He details the roles of land speculation, the railroad era, the impact of the automobile, the emergence of a tightly knit community, and finally the post-World War II loss of business and population to the nearby cities of Dayton, Hamilton, and Cincinnati.

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