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Native American Treaties
There had been a lot of death in the years prior to this Great Peace of Montreal between the settlers of New France and the First Nation tribes. There had also been some attempts at peace like the alliance formed in 1603 beween the French, Montaignais, Algonquins, and Miliseets. This allowed Samuel de Champlain to establish the town of Quebec in 1608 and follow it up with the French-Huron peace treaty one year later. However, that's where the peace began to fracture with much of the dissent centering around the fur trade. Finally, on August 4, 1701, New France signed the Great Peace of Montreal with the 39 First Nations.
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Historic Site of the Month
Sáttítla Highlands National Monument
Okay, the name is from the Ajumawi language, easy to say when you know the pronunciation, but harder to code. Okay, enough about us. The translation is obsidian place, or from a dictionary sense, a hard, dark, glasslike volcanic rock formed by the rapid solidification of lava without crystallization. This is a volcanic place. The Medicine Lake Volcano is ten times as large as Mt. Saint Helen's. This place and its deposits are important to the Native Americans who lived, and still live here. Home to and sacred to the Pit River and Modoc Tribes. Today, as a National Monument designated during the Biden administration, it is a place of Native heritage, with moonscapes, dark night skies, and recreation. You can camp here. You can hike here. You can snowmobile here, as well as hunt and canoe.
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Spotlight on Lesser Known History
Atalaya Castle
It was built along the Atlantic Ocean as the winter home of a sculptress and industrialist. Anna Hyatt Huntington and Archer Huntington were rich and famous, although their move south from New York for months per year, was not the only early transplants from the north for better weather. It was a common occurrence. Uncommon was the shelter that Archer Huntington had designed. It would be of Moorish architecture, in the form of a castle, as he was an expert in Spanish studies. Perhaps more uncommon is that the beach here has gotten bigger, due to a jetty, and the house now sits back several hundred yards.
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Expo 1993, Taejon, South Korea
Expo '93 was a small scale specialized expo that extended its agreed upon area to include a science park next door. The Bureau of International Exhibitions frowns on that, but, overall, despite a location in an unknown area to most world visitors, Teajon and Expo 1993 did well. The Republic of South Korea had been very aggressive in using international events to promote their economy and country despite the tension that existed, and still does, with its namesake neighbor to the north.
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Timeline 1990s
A presidential scandal amidst prosperity and a world that is beginning to show signs of the conflicts to come with the first Gulf War and attacks in New York City.
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Colonial Money
December 10, 1690 - First paper money issued in North America by the Massachusetts Bay Colony, bills of credit to pay for their military expeditions in King William's War.
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Germanna Ford
Nestled behind trees next to Germanna Community College along Route 3 just past the Wilderness and closing in on Culpeper, is a Visitor Center, Museum, and famous ford you'll pass if you don't look hard. Look hard for their sign and turn in at the college. We'll take you on a walk where the colony of John Spotswood existed in 1714 as fort and mining operation, as well as the ford the Union crossed in late 1863 and 1864 when Meade and Grant combined into the Overland Campaign.
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Battlefield Preservation
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