Episodes Around: 18980927 to 18980928

  1. Town Affected by Railroad Commissioners Illegal Collaborations with the Southern Railway Company
    date October 6, 1897 to January 25, 1899map CATAWBA, North Carolinatags Crime/Violence, Economy, Government, Law, Politics, Migration/Transportation

    The charges were grave and the punishment severe. On Wednesday, October 6, 1897, North Carolina Governor Daniel L. Russell dismissed Otho Wilson, the railroad commissioner, for conspiring with the Southern Railway Company to promote his own economic interest. Wilson did this by appealing to the railway company to stop at his hotel in order to increase the eating-house's business. According to...

  2. Southside Virginians in the Spanish American War
    date 1898 to 1899map CAMPBELL, Virginiatags Agriculture, Government, War

    July 31 - Pendleton, Charles - Harris Creek - Amherst County - Railroad Brakesman - 27 years of age - Single - 5'7.5 - 136 pounds - Chest Measurement 34 and 36.5 - Ruddy Complexion - Blue Eyed - Light Brown Hair - Accepted - Vaccinated was how the many Army documents read in the collection of James Dearing Fauntleroy. All of them were Army documents titled Monthly Report of Physical Examination...

  3. The Poetry of Henry Clarkson
    date 1898map PRINCE WILLIAM, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, War

    In 1898, Henry Clarkson published a collection of poems called Songs of Love and War. In his collection, he portrayed the soldiers of the South as heroes. Clarkson had first hand experience in the Civil War. He trained as a physician and performed medical duties as a member of the army. After the war, he settled permanently in Haymarket, in Prince William County, Virginia. He continued to practice...

  4. The Lasting Tradition of Eatonville
    date 1898map ORANGE, Floridatags Eatonville, Black History

    A report on the Eatonville Farmers' Conference by a speaker from the conference Nathalie Lord shows that the meeting was geared towards continuing the goals and dreams set forth at the establishment of the Hungerford School and the town of Eatonville. At the conference, the town came to their resolutions regarding the direction of the school through the democratic process. They...

  5. Chief Osceola and his resistance to European influences
    date 1898map OSCEOLA, Floridatags Osceola, Chief Osceola

    Chief Osceola

    Chief Osceola represents the struggle to resist European influence amongst Indian tribes in the early eighteenth century. "He led by his own charisma, bravery in battle, and outspoken views against removal"(Kimball 2002). His cultural ties to the Muskogee tribe were undermined because he was thought to have a European father. This identification and relationship...

  6. The Portsmouth Star calls for the repairing of the neglect of the South
    date May 3, 1898 to 1898map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Government, Politics, War

    The South had been neglected according to the Portsmouth Star. The newspaper

    accused the US, then in the middle of war with Spain, of being reluctant to spend any

    more of the government's money in the South than has seemed absolutely necessary.

    The US would regret spending so little on the South especially when the majority of the

    war was being fought on the front...

  7. Fighting for Equality in the Public Sphere
    date August 25, 1898 to November 18, 1898map GRAYSON, Texastags African-Americans, Law, Race-Relations, Women

    Though Reconstruction ended officially in 1877, the country and its people were far from united as racism and segregation became a growing force. Texas, though on the edge of the South, was certainly no stranger to this battle over inequality. On November 18, 1898, the Galveston News ran an article detailing how Isabelle E. Mabson, a black resident of Galveston, TX, filed suit in the district court...

  8. Cotton Growers Unite Over Deflation
    date September 27, 1898 to September 28, 1898map RICHLAND, South Carolinatags Agriculture, Economy, Politics

    In The State, a special address was made from a committee of the Cotton Growers' union of South Carolina to the cotton growers of the state. Immediately, the committee addresses exceedingly low prices of cotton of the time period and the further deflation to come. With prices...lower than they have ever been previously at the time, foreign speculators were holding off purchases to wait...