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Colonial History
March 24, 1644 - Roger Williams petitions and receives an official grant to establish the Rhode Island colony from the seperatist Providence Plantation, despite protests from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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James Monroe's Highland
Nestled in the Virginia countryside outside Charlottesville and near his friend's Monticello, sits a gem of a historic site that too many people miss. Walk around the site with us, sit back and enjoy a tour of the guest home, and out buildings. Yes, Monroe owned slaves. Monroe had lots of friends in high places; Thomas Jefferson who visited often, and even Napoleon Bonaparte, whose daughter went to school with Monroe's daughter.
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Brookgreen Gardens
While looking for some historic sites while in Myrtle Beach for a history friend to visit, I came across Brookgreen Gardens, a reknowned, but unknown to me, sculpture garden not far down the South Carolina coast. Now, I hate to admit this, but my history preferences run Civil War and the American West, and sculpture and art and flowers are lower on the totem pole. However, boy was I wrong. Brookgreen Gardens is an amazing collection of art and sculpture on nine thousand acres of land just off the beach in Murrells Inlet. It has over two thousand seven hundred works of art by four hundred and twenty-five artists, including the originators and owners of the property, famed and one of the female first sculptresses, Anna Hyatt Hutchinson, and her industrialist husband Archer Hutchinson.
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Timeline 1840's
Impossible to conquer, yet with the intrepid spirit of the mountain men, miners, and pioneers, they would begin an earnest try as the nation moved, in its first real phase, from east to west.
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Historic Site of the Month
Vienna International Expo 1873
It was a fair fostered by prosperity in the decade of the 1860's and propelled by the need for Austria to join the first class European nations of Great Britain and France in the competition to host the world with a world exposition. So, they did just that, constructing a large Rotunde building, plus additional buildings around the large fair site. The city had begun its modernization program, building roads from the suburbs to the city. They were ready when Emperor Franz Joseph signed the documentation on May 24, 1870 to host the world on the 25th anniversary of his reign, inviting the nations to participate. Thirty-five accepted. But unforseen circumstances would arise, particularly an outbreak of cholera that would dampen the enthusiam and attendance when it caused travelers to think twice about visiting.
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Food History
Has there been an investigation into the history of popcorn that can trace back to the Native Americans who roamed New England and the Plymouth Colony? Well, let's go back to geneology for a bit. A man named Quadequina Wampanoag existed, part of the Wampanoag tribe who lived in southeast Massachusetts and Rhode Island. They had been living on the land there for twelve thousand years. When the English came in 1620, there were sixty-seven villages of the tribe and forty thousand tribe members. Quadequina was among them, born around 1581, and lived til near 1661. Therefore, we can assume, that he was there during the beginning of the myth, or truth.
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American Newspapers 1775
January 31, 1775 - By the end of January 1775, there were thirty-seven newspapers being printed in the American colonies. Seven newspapers were published in Massachusetts; one in New Hampshire; two in Rhode Island; and four in Connecticut. Three papers were published in New York City, with one additional New York paper published in Albany. Nine were published in Pennsylvania; two in Maryland; two in Virginia (both at Williamsburg); two in North Carolina; three in South Carolina, and one in Georgia.
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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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