At the turn of the 20th century; the township of Livonia was largely a rural community populated with farms; dirt roads; and a number of cheese factories. A few decades later; as the auto industry boomed in Detroit; white-collar workerssought places to raise their families outside of the city; and neighborhoods in Livonia went up seemingly overnight. The result was the creation of a quintessential American suburban city; one in which urban and rural lifestyles converged and formed a new kind of community. This bookcelebrates Livonias development from the 19th to the 21st century; as it evolved from wilderness into a city that is routinely rated as one of the best places to raise a family in the United States.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Love this. and if you love stories of VancouverBy Estevan LaraLove this. and if you love stories of Vancouver. Washington. you wont be disappointed. This author really knows her history.!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Three StarsBy DrakeGoogle for money saving stories.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A great book on history of my hometown!By Kilo DeltaThis was a GREAT book. It tells us why Esther Short Park was named so (got some interesting stuff about Esther!). as well as the naming of some of our better known streets (Fourth Plain and Mill Plain... I always wondered about those). Also contains a lot of history on Officers Row and the fort. and its inhabitants. I knew nothing about Mother Joseph before reading this book. and now I know how she influenced the building of Vancouver. Of particular interest to me. the book gives a lot of the little reasons why Portland ended up growing so much bigger than Vancouver. even though Vancouver is older.This book has a few tidbits about people in Vancouver that remind me how very much that they werent just names in a history book. When the law declared that the St. James Church belonged to the Army and not to the Catholic Church (the book didnt give the year. but with searching online. found out this was in the 1890s). a young Army officer went to the church to help the priest move out. and I laughed out loud when I read how the angry priest reacted to the officers offer of help. I also liked the bit about the practical joke a pilot made at the dedication festival for Pearson Field in 1925.My husband and I only noticed one thing that could have been a glaring typo. It was in reference to a photo (on page 25) telling us where Pearson Field would later be.... however. the book said the photo was taken in the 1970s. Were guessing it had been actually taken in the 1870s. as Pearson Field was dedicated in 1925 and it has never changed locations. If it had been taken in the 1970s. we would have seen Pearson Field in the photo.Like the other reviewer said. I wish there were more in this book. However. what is there is nicely laid out. Each section begins with a page of history in text. followed by pages of photos with descriptive captions.The Fort Vancouver library system has this book. by the way. ^_^
