Episodes Nearest to June 7, 1892 to May 18, 1896: 1 through 25 of 25

  1. The Emergence of Oil
    date June 7, 1894map PAGE, Virginiatags Economy, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    The Emergence of Oil

    For several decades leading up to the 1900's, the coal and iron industries had grown to become the backbone of the southern economy. Places such as Luray, Virginia, located in Page County, and other Appalachian mining areas became large centers of industry, attracting workers, railroads, and Northern investors.

    However, with the depression of the 1890's...

  2. Yacht Me
    date June 7, 1894map BALTIMORE, Marylandtags Arts/Leisure, Migration/Transportation

    Yachting, in all of its splendor, has finally reached the mid-Atlantic and has spread quickly throughout the region in the late nineteenth century. The Baltimore Yacht Club, tracing its origins to 1891, was formed in Baltimore City where it is situated on Sue Island. To commence the building of a new yacht for Mr. J.D. Mallory, John Farlow, Percy Donaldson, and other members of the club, the B.Y.C....

  3. A Black Man's Search for Recognition as a Writer
    date February, 1894map CHATHAM, Georgiatags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    In 1893 the Reverend Robert Anderson began traveling throughout Georgia, Florida, and the North in order to sell his newly published book entitled Rev. Robert Anderson's Surpriser. Anderson's book consisted of his telling of his earlier years living in Georgia and working for several banks and how the officers of the banks placed their utmost confidence in him as an employee. Anderson's...

  4. Working Man Blues
    date February 10, 1894map PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvaniatags Law/Government/Crime, Violence/Politics/Urban

     

    "But, oh master, thou hast given us one great enjoyment which man has never dream of before - a free church organ, so that we can take our shabby families to church to hear your great organ pour forth its melodius strains."  The quote came from the 1894 prayers "A Workman."  The satrirical prayers gave praise to Pennsylvania's powerful Andrew Carnegie.  The steel giant had...

  5. Prohibition and Organized Crime in the 19th Century South
    date February 8, 1894map RICHLAND, South Carolinatags Crime/Violence, Law, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    As read in The Sentinel, a crowd of men had set up a whiskey store in the area of Glassy Mountain. With sufficient evidence to investigate the situation, Chief Constable Fant and his men made their way down to the anti-Prohibition display. In order to find the hidden whiskey, an undercover man had to buy the liquor; a man then went into the swamp to fetch the alcohol. According to the testimony...

  6. Picnic for Family, Friends, and Politicians
    date September 23, 1894 to September 24, 1894map FREDERICK, Marylandtags Government, Politics, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    Frederick, Maryland, once again, demonstrates its political prowess by holding a political picnic and barbeque for the surrounding areas political parties. Held at the New Market, members of the two major political parties, the Republican and Democratic Party, as well as family and friends attended the community-sanctioned event. Political candidates were at the political picnic to discuss the community's...

  7. Winthrop Normal College Embraces Education of Women
    date January 24, 1894map YORK, South Carolinatags Education, Women

    In The Pickens Sentinel, the final construction of the State Industrial and Winthrop Normal College at Rock Hill is described in a board of trustees meeting. The board decided that the courses of study were to be designed to secure to all pupils, besides the opportunity of higher culture, the requisites of at least a sound English education and the concept of teaching as a subject were...

  8. Annual Public School Report of Superintendent
    date September 7, 1894 to 1894map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags African-Americans, Education, Race-Relations, Women

    In the Portsmouth Star, Superintendent John C. Ashton reported the public

    school demographics for the year ending July 31, 1894. The school year was in session

    for 195 days in three districts. There was racial segregation at this point with seventeen

    schools for white children and seven for colored children. There were a total of 3,610

    school-aged children and of...

  9. All men are created equal
    date December 11, 1893map BALTIMORE CITY, Marylandtags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Law, Race-Relations

    Religious faith and rhetoric dominated nearly every aspect of life for both blacks and whites following Reconstruction in the South. For them, God was an integral factor that offered life guidance in religious terms. Thus, if one failed to adhere to the principles upheld by their religion, they were condemned in religious and social regards. In 1893, Reverend W. Walker Jubb gave a sermon describing...

  10. Finding Utopia in Baldwin County
    date November, 1894map BALDWIN, Alabamatags Economy, Race-Relations, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    In the summer of 1894 there was hope for a new way of life in the reconstruction of the South. E.B. Gaston took a group of people down to Baldwin County, Alabama on the Mobile Bay. A colony free from all forms of private monopoly, a colony where working people could come together to form a single-tax community was founded. Members of the Fairhope Industrial Association were all followers of economist...

  11. Confederate Veteran Pensions in Mississippi
    date November, 1893map FRANKLIN, Mississippitags Economy, Government, Politics, War, Women

    In November of 1893, a Mrs. Jones of Jefferson County, Mississippi sought out, by way of a letter, the assistance of Major P.C. Harrington, CSA of Franklin County, Mississippi. It seems Mrs. Jones, most likely a widow at the time of her writing (note that it was she and not her veteran husband who penned the request), had been unable to secure the pension entitled to her by state law as the widow...

  12. Livestock to Leisure
    date December 16, 1894map HENRICO, Virginiatags Agriculture, Arts/Leisure, Economy, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    On December 16, 1894 a man in Richmond County, Virginia, recorded the weight of hogs that he killed. He killed over 4000 pounds of hogs, but gave away 400 pounds to a friend. Perhaps the meat would provide for his family throughout the cold winter, or he might sell it to a local market. Either way, livestock was an important alternative to crops, which were difficult to depend on as they often had...

  13. Emmanuel K. Love's Sermon Concerning Lynching and Rape
    date November 5, 1893map CHATHAM, Georgiatags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    On November 5, 1893, a prominent Baptist preacher gave a sermon concerning lynching, rape, and mob violence against African Americans in the South. In his sermon, Rev. E. K. Love of the First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia advocated equality for all people, black and white. Fifteen hundred people attended the evening church service to hear the sermon given by Love. Love noted that...

  14. Dissent in the Democratic Party
    date January 16, 1895map CLARKE, Virginiatags Economy, Government, Law, Politics

    Dissent in the Democratic Party

    The big issue leading up to the election of 1896 was the question of the free coinage of silver. With the decline of the economy following Grover Cleveland's election and his repealing of the Sherman Silver Purchase act, his Democratic base began to falter, and the Populist Party support of the free coinage of silver began to invade much of the Democratic...

  15. Massachusetts Cotton Mills Move South
    date January 23, 1895map JEFFERSON, Alabamatags Agriculture, Economy

    On January 23, 1895, the Alabama Birmingham Age-Herald published a front page article titled “Beyond Any Doubt, Two leading Cotton Mills of Lowell, Mass. Will Come South and Build.' The Massachusetts legislative committee on mercantile affairs heard the petitions of two cotton mills, Boott and Merrimac, to manufacture goods outside of the commonwealth. The mills were created in 1835 for...

  16. Feuds Between the North and South
    date January 26, 1895map HENRICO, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Government, Law, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Slavery

    Judge M.L. Buchwalter lived in Cincinnati, Ohio. He convicted a prisoner and sent him to Kentucky. Once he arrived in Kentucky, not long after he got off the train, the prisoner was lynched. This greatly disturbed Judge Buchwalter, and the next time Kentucky asked him to send his prisoner to their state, he worried about what would happen to the prisoner. He first contacted Kentucky and pleaded...

  17. Railroad Ruckus
    date January 30, 1895map HAWKINS, Tennesseetags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    On an ordinary day in Rogersville the Southern Railway train, run by Conductor Shell, pulled into the station to unload its cargo of flour and take on the next load of lumber. Lewis Boyd, a black man, hopped up into the car to help unload the flour. As he removed the sacks of flour from the car, he happened to throw some of them to the ground. Conductor Shell reprimanded Boyd for his carelessness...

  18. Murder Warrants No Fair Trial
    date September 16, 1893 to September 27, 1893map AIKEN, South Carolinatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    According to The State, at two in the morning of September 27, Calvin Stewart was lynched. After being captured due to accusations of murdering Charles Carter, a white man, on September 16, Stewart was taken to Langley to be held for several hours; however, a mass of angry whites gathered and a group of men escorted Stewart toward Aiken in hopes of getting him to a jail for safe keeping...

  19. Death of Frederick Douglass
    date February 20, 1895map WASHINGTON, Virginiatags African-Americans, Health/Death, Race-Relations

    On February 20, 1895, after attending a women's rights meeting, Frederick Douglass was struck by a heart attack and died at the age of 77. Crowds gathered to pay their respects at the Washington Church where he lay in state. His body was later brought to Rochester, N.Y., where he was laid to rest.<br />Douglass was born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland in 1818* (exact date unknown;...

  20. E.P. Buford's Political Rise
    date September 4, 1893map BRUNSWICK, Virginiatags Economy, Government, Politics

    The Virginia State Democratic Committee met in Richmond, Virginia and made its decision on their nominees for Committee positions in the coming campaign year. J. Taylor Ellyson, the Chair of the Virginia State Democratic Committee, sat down with the Secretary, James R. Fisher, to write letters to the nominees. In Ellyson's September 4, 1893, letter to E.P. Buford, Esquire, he congratulated Buford...

  21. Black Laborers Attacked
    date February, 1895 to March 13, 1895map ORLEANS, Louisianatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Race-Relations

    In February of 1895, the Harrison Steamship Line of Liverpool discharged many white longshoremen and screwmen in New Orleans, Louisiana and contracted 300 non-union and unskilled black workers. Other shipping firms followed suit. The firms, which appealed to the US Courts for protection, claimed that they hired blacks, not because they would work for lower wages, but because the central issue...

  22. North Carolina Legislature Adjourns for Frederick Douglass's Death
    date February 21, 1895 to February 22, 1895map WAKE, North Carolinatags African-Americans, Health/Death

    The day after Frederick Douglass's death, on February 21, 1895, the North Carolina legislature adjourned for a day to honor Douglass. The legislature was dominated by black republicans and white populists who voted in favor of the adjournment, while all of the Democrats voted against it. <br />Representative Crews, an African American from Granville County brought the resolution before...

  23. Panic of 1893
    date May 5, 1893 to 1893map WASHINGTON, Virginiatags Economy

    On May 5, 1893, the United States economy began a steady decline. Americans became unable to turn in their bank notes for gold because the limit for gold in the federal reserve was met. Over 500 financial institutions throughout the country were forced to close down and 153 national banks in the South and West failed. Rumors spread like wildfire about the failing U.S. economy and the depleted U.S....

  24. Charleston Suffers a Cold Spell
    date February, 1895 to March, 1895map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Health/Death

    In February of 1895, Charleston experienced the coldest winter ever on record up to that date. It reached a low of twelve degrees Fahrenheit. Entire crops of strawberries, cabbage, lettuce, and peas were destroyed both within the city and across the state. The cold weather decimated both the city's food supply and its ability to export food products. While the account of the cold spell focuses...

  25. Ignoble and Impotent
    date March 4, 1895map ARKANSAS, Arkansastags Crime/Violence, Economy, Government, Politics

    On the evening of Monday March 4, 1895, the Fifty-third Congress came to an end. The headlines that ran in the New York Times that day took the opportunity to let lose a harsh critique on that particular Congress. They read: A DISGRACE TO AMERICA, FAITHLESS TO PARTY AND COUNTRY, and, NO ONE REGRETS THE DISSOLUTION. The prestigious newspaper commented on the corruption and ineptitude of the political...