Author: MACGREGOR, DAVID
Title: Livonia (Images of America)
Description: Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2005. Paperback. ISBN: 0738534250. MI Series; B&W Illustrations; 9.0 X 6.3 X 0.4 inches; 128 pages; Soft cover has a brown spine with white lettering. Slight rubbing and bumping to covers. Tidy gift inscription on half title page, 2005. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with b/w pictures, including several plats/maps. Livonia is a western suburb of Detroit. "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 workers sought 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 book celebrates Livonia s 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.". Very Good+ .

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