Episodes Nearest to June 28, 1872: 1 through 25 of 25

  1. The Freedman's Bureau is abolished
    date June 28, 1872map Washington City, District of Columbiatags African-Americans, Education, War

    The Freedman's Bureau, officially known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, was created on March 3rd, 1865 to aid refugees of the U.S. Civil War as part of the U.S. government's effort to aid and assist its meager population. The Bureau also controlled and managed controversial or uncharted U.S. lands, but its main job was as an asset to newly freed slaves. These newly...

  2. A West Virginians Bookkeeping
    date 1872map JEFFERSON, West Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy, Migration/Transportation

    Migrants headed to the frontier in the nineteenth century were eager to work. Many, unable to immediately settle down and begin anew, worked on farms they encountered in order to make money. On the other side were the farmers who could charge these migrants room and board and pay them set wages to do the work around their farm. Franklin Osburn not only ran a farm but also a country store on his...

  3. Northern Neck of Virginia Desires Immigrants
    date 1872map HENRICO, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy, Politics, Migration/Transportation, Slavery

    The Board of Immigration from the counties of Richmond, Westmoreland, Lancaster, and Northumberland assembled to compose their forthcoming pamphlet enticing immigrants to their regions of Virginia: ...our earnest desire is to attract to it and immigration not only from the northern and north-western states, but also from Canada and Europe. This immigration will bring the industry and capital requisite...

  4. Northern Neck of Virginia Desires Immigrants
    date 1872map RICHMOND, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy, Politics, Migration/Transportation, Slavery

    The Board of Immigration from the counties of Richmond, Westmoreland, Lancaster, and Northumberland assembled to compose their forthcoming pamphlet enticing immigrants to their regions of Virginia: ...our earnest desire is to attract to it and immigration not only from the northern and north-western states, but also from Canada and Europe. This immigration will bring the industry and capital requisite...

  5. The Queen of Puddings
    date 1872map RICHLAND, South Carolinatags food, cook book, Recipe

    “I have often been asked what is the difference between puddings and custards, as, in the receipts usually give in cookery books, there seems but little distinction made.  My classification is simply this: Puddings are baked without crusts and usually in deeper vessels; are generally served hot and eaten with sauces.  Custards, on the contrary, are, as a general thing, baked in rich paste, and...

  6. Women's Rights Activist Experiences Effects of the Communication Revolution
    date 1872map COOK, Illinoistags Juries, Powerful Women in History, Communication Revolution, Female Authors, Women

    During the first of three visits to America in the fall of 1872,  Emily Faithfull, an Englishwoman and women's rights activist described the problematic state of affairs that existed in the American government. During her stay, she closely followed the news articles published in the The New York Daily, The Boston Herald, and The Chicago Tribune, which all related stories...

  7. Silas McDowell's Discovery of Native American Burial Relics
    date June 16, 1872map MACON, North Carolinatags Agriculture, Arts/Leisure, Health/Death, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans

    On June 16, 1872, Silas McDowell plowed with a team of oxen through his field in Macon County, North Carolina. McDowell's plow struck the side of a heavy object and he dug through the ground to discover a burnt clay sepulchre. He pulled a small portion of an arm out of the dirt and waited for a scientist to properly disinter the entire sepulchre. The sepulchre was a long slab, almost seven...

  8. Sugar Cane on Small Farms in Louisiana
    date July 17, 1872map ASSUMPTION, Louisianatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Economy, Slavery

    With the end of slavery, the large sugar plantation of Louisiana suffered major setbacks in output. Slavery had powered the profitable sugar industry in the Delta region, but with its abolition, many planters were left with huge plantations and acres of fertile land, but no labor to cultivate them. Soon, many Southerners realized this trend and began to sell pieces of their land so that a network...

  9. Mollie Netherland's Death
    date September 20, 1872map HAWKINS, Tennesseetags Arts/Leisure, Church/Religious-Activity, Health/Death, Migration/Transportation, Women

    On the afternoon of September 20, 1872, Mollie Netherland, a 22-year-old woman from Hawkins County, Tennessee, rode out from the town of Rogersville with a gentleman friend. On their return to town, her horse became frightened and unmanageable. The horse ran away, but Netherland's friend could do nothing to stop the horse. While Netherland managed to cling to the saddle for almost a mile, she...

  10. Women's Roles in the Rambin's Household
    date September 29, 1872map DE SOTO, Louisianatags African-Americans, Education, Women

    Running the Rambin household, Sally Young Rambin wrote to her sister on September 29, 1872, kept her far too busy to be a regular correspondent. Rambin explained to her sister that the effort she put into cooking, housework, and the washing caused her to seldom feel like writing. Rambin put special emphasis on the fact that she did her own washing, because many women paid others to do their washing...

  11. Newspapers after the Civil War
    date March 14, 1872map CLARKE, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Economy, War

    On March 14, 1872 The Clarke Courier Newspaper printed an article concerning the failure of the mail for the past two weeks. Not receiving the mail was a source of great concern to the citizens of Clarke County, Virginia. The newspaper stated we would almost prefer to go without our super than fail to receive that excellent newspaper-a better is not to be found in all the country- The Baltimore...

  12. THRILLS ON CAPITAL HILL: The Election of James T. Rapier
    date November 5, 1872map MONTGOMERY, Alabamatags African-Americans, Government, Race-Relations, Slavery

    November 5, 1872, was much more than Election Day in the State of Alabama. November 5, was a chance to right the wrongs of the election of 1870, only two years prior. The 1870 election included the race for secretary of state and James T. Rapier, born a free black in Florence, Alabama just thirty-three years prior, was on the ballot. Rapier became a prominent figure early in his life, participating...

  13. The founding of Lander University
    date February 12, 1872map ANDERSON, South Carolinatags Williamston, Lander, college, founding

    On August 25, 1873 Luther Hawkins wrote in a letter to his betrothed, Mary Roe, “Going to have a big day at Williamston on Wednesday laying the corner stone of the female college.” The female college Hawkins refers to was the Lander University, founded in 1872 by Reverend Samuel Lander as a private school for women.

     

    During the town planning for Williamston, two lots were reserved...

  14. War Orphans
    date November 13, 1872map CHOCTAW, Mississippitags Church/Religious-Activity, War

    The Civil War was completely devastating to the citizens of the United States of America. Two percent of the entire population was killed as a direct result of the war. With over 500,000 people dead, the casualties far out number those of Americans in any other war. Americans were killing Americans, and the ruin that came about tore apart families and left many in complete bewilderment.

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  15. War Orphans
    date November 13, 1872map LAUDERDALE, Mississippitags Church/Religious-Activity, War

    The Civil War was completely devastating to the citizens of the United States of America. Two percent of the entire population was killed as a direct result of the war. With over 500,000 people dead, the casualties far out number those of Americans in any other war. Americans were killing Americans, and the ruin that came about tore apart families and left many in complete bewilderment.

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  16. The Death of John H. Crease
    date December 15, 1872map PULASKI, Arkansastags Church/Religious-Activity, Health/Death, Education

    News traveled slowly in the late nineteenth-century South, but on occasions such as a death in the family, news traveled faster by way of telegram. John Crease's daughter received a letter from her grandmother expressing her condolences. The grandmother had written the letter on December 15, 1872, when she had received a telegram notifying her of Crease's death. The grandmother assured Crease's...

  17. Wiley College Founded
    date 1873map HARRISON, Texastags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Education

    Wiley College is the first historically black college located west of the Mississippi River. It was co-founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church Bishop Isaac Wiley and the Freedmen's Aid Society as a black teachers' college. Administered by white men for the first two decades of its existence, black Methodist leaders took over the leadership of the school in 1893. Wiley became an important...

  18. CULLMANN'S COLONIZATION: The Inception of Cullman County Alabama
    date January 5, 1873map CULLMAN, Alabamatags Economy, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    Colonel John Gottfried Cullmann, a Bavarian immigrant, came to the United States in order to flee the wrath of Bismarck, a tyrant who terrorized Germany in the mid-nineteenth century. After docking, Cullmann found his way to Cincinnati, Ohio where we managed to reconnect with friends from the old country. Realizing his dream, a colony for immigrants specifically from his country, Cullmann ventured...

  19. Supreme Court Overrules Decision in United States vs. A. Given
    date January 9, 1873map NEW CASTLE, Delawaretags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    In order to make the Fifteenth Amendment ineffective in Delaware and fend off potential black voters for the Republican Party, the Democratic legislators enacted the Assessment and Collection Laws of 1873. These laws were a means of assessing property and establishing voter eligibility. Simply put, these laws made it the responsibility of a Delaware resident to see that his name was on the assessment...

  20. Fighting in the Schoolyard
    date January 10, 1873map AUGUSTA, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Education, Race-Relations, Women

    The schoolyard of the Colored Academy at Pine River was alive with excitement on the afternoon of the tenth of January, 1873. George Green, a sturdy young man of around eighteen years, attempted to kiss the little bronze beauty Roberta. When Professor Thomas Henaforth discovered what had transpired outside of his school, he set out to punish the mischievous youth. At four o'clock in the afternoon,...

  21. Ku Klux Faction in Florida Democratic Club Exposed
    date November 24, 1871 to November, 1871map LEON, Floridatags Politics, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations

    Hon. Horace Maynard, the Chairman of the Sub-Ku Klux Committee of Florida, faced a difficult predicament in late November of 1871. The members of the Young Men's Democratic Club of Leon County, Florida, were in extreme state of alarm and this was brought to the committee chairman's attention. They were worried about the recent outing of the Ku Klux division of their political club before...

  22. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Completed
    date January 29, 1873map HENRICO, Virginiatags Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway began as the Louisa Railroad of Louisa County, Virginia in 1836. By 1850, the Louisa Railroad was built east to Richmond and west to Charlottesville. As the railway extended, it was renamed the Virginia Central Railroad. Desiring to move forward with internal improvements, the Commonwealth of Virginia allotted money to continue to expand the line. Moving westward,...

  23. Destroying the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina
    date November 22, 1871map YORK, South Carolinatags Crime/Violence

    On November 22, 1871, The Farmer's Cabinet reported that one hundred and two members of the Ku Klux Klan had been arrested, two hundred more members confessed to involvement and were at large on parole, and about one hundred and fifty went into hiding in the woods around Yorkville, South Carolina.

    Men continued to confess and beg for mercy. This was due in large part to the...

  24. Mississippi House Signs a Social Equality Bill
    date February 5, 1873map HINDS, Mississippitags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    On Wednesday, February 5, 1873, the Mississippi House passed a bill forbidding owners of hotels, theaters, or other places of amusement, common carriers, etc., from making any distinction on account of color. Under this enactment, a proprietor would face heavy penalties for disobeying the act. An African American member of the House introduced the bill, and the proposal passed along a virtually...

  25. Christian Brothers University Established
    date November 19, 1871map SHELBY, Kentuckytags Church/Religious-Activity, Education, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    The Brothers of the Christian Schools had tried to establish Catholic education in Memphis in 1864 but were unsuccessful because epidemics of yellow fever had killed much of its clergy in Galveston and New Orleans. In 1871, the Chicago fire made it possible for a college to be established in Memphis because the fire destroyed the Brother's Academy in Chicago. The Memphis order now had enough...