Arcadia Publishing (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Arcadia Publishing is an American publisher of local history. 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 with other offices in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Chicago; and San Francisco, California. 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. The Images of America series is the company's largest product line.