When Donna Jacobs and her husband, Jeffrey, decided to buy a home in the mid-'80s, Byrnes Downs was the only neighborhood they looked at. The only one they seriously considered.

Bettie Cole remembers when she and her friends were only allowed in Sewickley's Nickelodeon one day a week.

“Images of America Susanville” is a book, which captures the history and growth of the town from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s.

SEAPLANE CRUISE: Perhaps because we frequently close off all entry points and barricade ourself in the backyard with nothing but a jug of loudmouth and an old copy of Argosy magazine for days at a time, we don't "learn something new every day," despite the generally unassailable (except in terms of its redundancy) folk cliche.

“Kenosha on the Go” covers the full spectrum of transit services in Wisconsin’s fourth-largest city from the early 1900s to now. In 1932, Kenosha’s streetcar lines and gasoline buses were replaced by four trackless trolley routes, becoming the sole municipality in the U.S. with that distinction.

The Sunshine State has a rich maritime history spanning more than five centuries. Tragically, part of that history includes thousands of ships that have met their fates in Florida waters.

''Akron is surprisingly filled with a stunning array of beautiful churches,'' says Kally Mavromatis in her book Akron Churches: Early Architecture.

Local authors who collaborated on Arcadia Publishing’s “Gadsden Public Library: 100 Years of Service” will take part in a book signing at noon Sept. 8. The signing is at noon in the library.

In 2007, Arcadia Publishing launched the softcover book Georgian Court University, by Edwarda Barry, RSM, Ph.D., as part of their Campus History Series.

For years, Elizabeth Jewell kept waiting for someone to write a book about her beloved town of Franklin. Eventually, she realized that she was the one who was meant to write it. She is the author of "Franklin, Then and Now" an edition of Arcadia Publishing Company's "Then and Now" series.

From the days when U Street was hailed as "Black Broadway" to the current revitalization and gentrification of the new millennium, Ben's Chili Bowl survived it all.

When Karen Proctor moved to Pembroke about 24 years ago, she knew there was something familiar about the town name. An avid genealogy researcher, Proctor had quite a collection of local history books, and after she unpacked she went to them to make the connection.

Bettie Cole remembers when she and her friends were only allowed in Sewickley's Nickelodeon one day a week.

A new picture-filled book in the Images of America series (Arcadia Publishing), The Black Horse Pike details the historically rich southern New Jersey path that initially was a route for the Leni-Lenape (the original inhabitants of our region) and “remains virtually unchanged today.”

MARSHALL — How many books can be written about Marshall history? Never enough, according to local historians Debbie Pardoe and Susan Collins.