{"id":394,"date":"2011-02-05T23:28:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T06:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/wake\/?p=394"},"modified":"2011-02-05T23:28:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T06:28:20","slug":"index-to-raleigh-city-of-oaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/index-to-raleigh-city-of-oaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Index to Raleigh, City of Oaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t live anywhere near Wake County, but I try and do what I can to help provide access to information about the area. \u00a0Last weekend while shopping at a local used bookstore, I found a copy of James Vickers&#8217; <em>Raleigh, City of Oaks: an Illustrated History<\/em>, originally published in 1982 by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakehistory.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wake County Historical Society<\/a>. \u00a0Since I can always stand to learn more history of the area, I snapped it up for only $5!<\/p>\n<p>The book is slightly under 200 pages and as the title indicates has many pictures. \u00a0The history of the county is covered from the area&#8217;s beginnings to 1982. \u00a0 It is organized as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chapter I &#8211; An Eventful Birth: to 1792<\/li>\n<li>Chapter II &#8211; A Planned City: 1792-1820<\/li>\n<li>Chapter III &#8211; The City of Oaks Grows: 1829-1850<\/li>\n<li>Chapter IV &#8211; Yankees Come and Go: 1850-1880<\/li>\n<li>Chapter V &#8211; Capital Improvements: 1880-1905<\/li>\n<li>Chapter VI &#8211; From Prosperity to Depression: 1905-1940<\/li>\n<li>Chapter VII &#8211; A Modern City Blossoms: 1940-1982<\/li>\n<li>Chapter VIII &#8211; Heading Toward the 21st Century<\/li>\n<li>Chapter IX &#8211; Chronicles of Leadership<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/48065395\/Index-to-Raleigh-City-of-Oaks\" target=\"_blank\">scanned the index so it&#8217;s easy to see who is or is not included in the book<\/a>. \u00a0Also, I&#8217;ve added information about the book to the small but growing\u00a0<a href=\"\/wake\/bibliography\">Bibliography page<\/a> on this site. \u00a0 There&#8217;s some interesting history covered in the book. \u00a0If you have any questions or would like a lookup, just let me know (email address on sidebar).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t live anywhere near Wake County, but I try and do what I can to help provide access to information about the area. \u00a0Last weekend while shopping at a local used bookstore, I found a copy of James Vickers&#8217; Raleigh, City of Oaks: an Illustrated History, originally published in 1982 by the Wake County &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/index-to-raleigh-city-of-oaks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Index to Raleigh, City of Oaks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5884],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}