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Mount Tambora Volcano Erupts
April 10, 1815 - The Mount Tambora volcano erupted in Indonesia, causing unprecedented climate change across the USA and world, leading to the entire "Year without a Summer" in 1916.
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Battle of Kelly's Ford 160th Anniversary
Take a driving and walking tour with battle guides and visitors from the American Battlefield Trust, Dan Davis, and Culpeper Museum of History, John Christiansen, as they trace the steps of the cavalry at the Battle of Kelly's Ford, March 17, 1863, during the 160th Anniversary tour. Narrated to the words of Union Cavalry General William Averell, you will see the locations of the three phases of the battle while listening to the report of the commander on the field.
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Spotlight on Lesser Known History
Fort Fisher
Our visit for Fort Fisher was for its 160th Anniversary, and from the moment we traversed the road along the ocean and saw the traverses of the fort, plus an impressive building that serves as the Visitor Center, we knew we were in for something huge (even huger during the Civil War) and something special. Even though this fort is much less known outside the North Carolina and South Carolina area, it's attendance, as one park ranger told us, approaches one million visitors per year.
Historic Site of the Month
Jewel Cave
What was long ago, okay 1900, stumbled upon by two prospecting brothers, Frank and Albert Michaud, who blew open the Historic Entrance with dynamite and expected to find gold, was rather quickly turned into a tourist attraction. Problem was, it's pretty far from anywhere, so the various schemes; bars, hotels, casinos by the brothers failed. They couldn't even get the government to make it a game preserve. However, the government did something else, they made it the first National Monument devoted to a cavern on February 7, 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt.
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Timeline 1400's
A decade when the men who discovered the New World began the exploration and colonization of the Americas, even if they weren't the firsts they thought they were. Follow the voyages of men like Christopher Columbus for the Spanish and John Cabot for the English.
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World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, New Orleans 1884-5
With the success of the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia eight years earlier, proving to the world's the emerging industrial might of the United States, various cities around the U.S.A. began to prepare exhibitions that would show the world their industrial strength. In the south, the New South movement was urging a cessation of their sectional differences and movement toward commerce. For New Orleans that commerce certainly centered around cotton. One third of all exports of cotton in the United States went through its port. So when the city leaders decided to host the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in 1884 and 1885, the theme was a natural (one hundred years earlier the first bale of cotton had been shipped from America to England) and they were going to do it up big.
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Fort Scott Evacuated
Fort Scott would serve many functions throughout its history, built in 1842 for namesake General Winfield Scott, and needed as a supply base along the Santa Fe Trail. However, its main function, it would turn out, would be to suppress rebellion, by both the tribal nations of the area as well as the settlers. And the odd thing is, this event, the evacuation by the Army on April 22, 1853, would be short lived and foolish. As Fort Scott would be needed again and again through the trying times of Bleeding Kansas through the Civil War.
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Battlefield Preservation
Even in these difficult times, work continues on preserving the battlefields of the Civil War, American Revolution, and the War of 1812. The amazing work of the Battlefields Trust is currently attempting to preserve land at Gaines Mill and Cold Harbor, what some think is the most important land to be preserved at those locations. Check them out.
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