The Lost World of Langley Hall: The Story of Katherine Trousdale & William Young Allen by Judith A. Morgan - 2013

Nashville, TN: Sumner County Historical Society, 2013. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. Jacket has minor shelf wear, binding tight, front endpage has an address label, and a date written in ink, else pages clean and unmarked. The Lost World of Langley Hall tells the story of two people and their families, the Trousdales and the Allens, over the course of a century from 1853 to 1952. Through the events of their lives, the history of the small Tennessee town of Gallatin emerges. Time and again the people of these families and this town find themselves caught up in the greater tides of History. Celebrate with them stirring events from the glorious United States' Centennial of July 4, 1876, to the universal elation at the end of World War II. See through their eyes elegant social affairs in grand mansions as well as country pastimes and pleasures. Experience with them the vagaries of life from shipwreck to war to epidemic, from natural disaster to the Alaska Gold Rush to financial boom and bust. Enter with them a world that exists now only in memory• the lost world of Langley Hall.