Episodes Around: 18490525

  1. Kicked Out of Virginia?
    date 1848 to 1850map LOUDOUN, Virginiatags African-Americans, Government, Law, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Slavery

    While some slaves were able to gain their freedom in nineteenth century Virginia, they were often by law forced to leave the state shortly after their emancipation. Many went to the free states of Ohio or Pennsylvania. However, several petitions made by the residents of Loudoun County reveal that the newly freed blacks were often inclined to stay in Virginia. As the petitions disclose, they received...

  2. The Theatre of Everyday Life
    date January 1, 1848 to January 1, 1850map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Women, Urban Society

    As the daughter of Don Andres Almonaster y Rojas, the Cabildo's original benefactor, the Baroness Pontalba was no stranger to the notion of civic duty expressing itself through architecture. After a tumultuous marriage and divorce to a Parisian nobleman, sensationalized in various newspapers, she returned permanently to her hometown and sought to transplant the culture and sophistication she...

  3. California Gold Rush
    date 1849map TALLAPOOSA, Alabamatags Migration/Transportation

    The California Gold rush occurred many hundreds of miles from the American South, but its affect was felt throughout the country, drawing large populations of “49ers from most of the Southern States. <br />Alabama in particular was affected. While small in comparison to the California gold rush, a gold rush in the Alabama Creek lands in the 1830's lead to the spread of gold mining...

  4. Cholera Epidemic
    date 1849map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Health/Death

    In late May, 1949 the Virginia legislature reconvened, though their work and discussion was often interrupted by the fears regarding the Cholera outbreak affecting the region, especially Richmond where the legislature met.<br />After much discussion and debate on whether it was necessary to leave, the legislature decided to move to the Fauquier Springs Hotel (though more like a country club)...

  5. Nathaniel Wilkinson House
    date 1849map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Gothic Architecture, New Orelans

    Located at 1015 South Carrollton Avenue in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Nathaniel Wilkinson House serves as a reflection of the Romantic Gothic architecture that invaded the region during the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Erected in 1849, an Englishman named Nathaniel Newton Wilkinson attempted to capture the Gothic style in his own residential structure. Undoubtedly unpopular within Louisiana...

  6. The Southern Press
    date May 25, 1849map PICKENS, South Carolinatags Economy, Government, Politics

    The Keowee Courier published Senator Butler's contention that shocked the local town of South Carolina that the Southern Press was not to be found in the North. His statement read that not a Southern newspaper is to be seen in a large newspaper reading room in Washington D.C. Finally, the Courier insisted that Southerners must open their eyes to the truth and tyranny of the North. The...