publishing founded 1993 headquarters mount pleasant south carolina products books number of employees 108 website www.arcadiapublishing.com arcadia publishing is an american publisher of local history . 1 2 3 contents 1 history 2 distribution 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit it was founded in dover new hampshire in 1993 by united kingdom based tempus publishing but became independent in 2004 . the corporate office is in mount pleasant south carolina . its formula for regional publishing is to use local writers or historians to write about their community using 180 to 240 black and white photographs with captions and introductory paragraphs in a 128 page book . 4 the images of america series is the company s largest product line . other series include images of rail images of sports images of baseball black america postcard history campus history corporate history legendary locals images of modern america and then & now . it has a catalog of more than 8 500 titles in print and hundreds of new titles released every year . 5 distribution edit the books are printed in the united states . it handles its own sales and distribution with the following each accounting for one third of the company s sales bookstore chains independent bookstores libraries museums nontraditional outlets historical societies hardware stores 6 see also edit alan sutton references edit histories in the making the philadelphia inquirer april 11 2002 . nolte carl . mini americana publisher finds small to be bountiful san francisco chronicle october 27 2005 . rice mark . arcadian visions of the past columbia journal of american studies volume 9 fall 2009 retrieved september 27 2010 analysis of the successful images of america series . hall alan . the book is at the printer march 20 2005 and steubenville a book written by librarians july 3 2005 . public library of steubenville and jefferson county ohio . accessed august 24 2007 . hall is a co author and describes the process of writing and editing an acadia book steubenville isbn 978 0 7385 3399 5 . our story arcadia publishing . accessed june 11 2009 . milliot jim . arcadia publishing adopts national view publishers weekly august 9 2004 . accessed august 24 2007 . external links edit south carolina portal companies portal books portal official website arcadia publishing expands distribution to reach more readers alexander street and arcadia publishing launch local history collection containing hundreds of thousands of images and texts retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title arcadia publishing & oldid 741874807 categories book publishing companies of the united statespublishing companies established in 19931993 establishments in new hampshire navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 30 september 2016 at 05 56 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view