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  1. Disease Ravages Pulaski County
    date April 22, 1870map PULASKI, Virginiatags Health/Death, Migration/Transportation, Women

    When Typhoid fever and other diseases hit Appalachia, they hit hard. In 1870, Ella Painter wrote her Aunt Lena many letters from Dublin, Virginia, with updates and inquiries about Lena's new husband and children. On her fourteenth birthday, Ella wrote her Aunt a lengthy letter which she felt was long overdue. Ella's love and admiration for her Aunt is clear as she nearly begs her to come back and visit....

  2. Inheriting Property
    date September 22, 1842map ORLEANS, Louisianatags African-Americans, Economy, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans, Slavery, Urban-Life/Boosterism, War

    By the 1840s, it was clear to most Americans that the United States existed on a fair bit of land. This vast space stretched westward, father than many imaginations even reached. Word trickled back east of rich soil and bountiful harvests, but also of great hardships. Thousands of Native Americans perished on the over 2000 mile long Trail of Tears in 1838. It was in this context that O.G. Murrell...

  3. Lear's Plan for the Education of Blacks
    date September, 1826map ALBEMARLE, Virginiatags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Education, Migration/Transportation, Slavery

    B.L. Lear administrated a large fund for the education of slaves that had been established by General Thaddeus Kosciusko, a famous Polish hero in the American Revolution. Upon Kosciusko's death in 1817, he had left the fund to his longtime acquaintance and fellow son of liberty, Thomas Jefferson. In September 1825, B.L. Lear wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, grandson of Jefferson and apparent...

  4. Methods of Shipment and Transportation throughout the South
    date November 21, 1825map ADAMS, Mississippitags Migration/Transportation

    The country is new, timber plenty, cheep, convenient; and consequentially we have, on good terms, the best materials for building bridges and causeways stated the author of a Mississippi newspaper article. People began settling throughout the east coast, transforming transportation into an extremely important part of life. Consequently, as the economy began to bloom, items needed to be brought to different...

  5. Opposition to Westward Migration
    date March 13, 1884map WYTHE, Virginiatags Migration/Transportation

    Manifest destiny was supposed to be just that, a destiny. The West would offer opportunities for wealth that no longer existed on the eastern seaboard. In March 1884 word quickly spread throughout Wytheville, Virginia that several country boys were leaving their small town for the vast frontiers of the West; their imaginations filled with fertile lands and crop surpluses. The townspeople had other...

  6. Perry's Detainment
    date 1831map TERRITORY, Territorytags Agriculture, Economy, Government, Politics, Migration/Transportation

    An unidentified man named Perry (likely a relative of James Perry) had finally arrived in Texas. As he is mentioned in a letter to James Perry, who had a number of business interests in Texas, it is probable that he was there in a role of some relation to James Perry's investments. Unfortunately for Perry, the winter of 1831 was the worst winter that Texas had experienced for several years. Upon disembarking...

  7. Technological Progress in Louisiana
    date 1853map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Economy, Government, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    New Orleans' geographical location made it a prime final destination for all sorts of shipable goods. The city had become one of the premier metropolises of not only the state but also the entire South, thanks to the convergence of the Mississippi with the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Despite the abundance of water routes, the need for other methods of transportation grew along with the city. Far...

  8. From Freedom to Slavery
    date 1841map ORLEANS, Louisianatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Economy, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Slavery

    Born and raised a freeman, Solomon Northup met a group of men in his hometown of Saratoga Springs one March day in 1841. They claimed to have heard of his propensity at the violin and requested to hire him to accompany their traveling circus performances. The pay was quite reasonable and Northup eagerly took on the job. He accompanied them the entire way down to Washington, D.C. without realizing that...

  9. Traveling Epidemics Affected People in all areas of the Country
    date August 13, 1817 to March 3, 1818map WILKINSON, Mississippitags Health/Death, Economy, Migration/Transportation

    As a public warning, lists of certain items that had serious potential of making one sick were often created and published in newspapers to inform the community. A Mississippi paper proclaimed that anybody who sold offer[ed] or expos[ed] any tainted, putrid or unwholesome fish or flesh, or the flesh of any animal dieing otherwise than by slaughter; or slaughtered when diseased for the purpose of being...

  10. Mr. Brown and the Indians
    date January 13, 1831map TERRITORY, Territorytags Crime/Violence, Government, Politics, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans, Race-Relations, War

    Mr. Brown's absence was a strain on the family that he left behind. Taking care of day-to-day business without a husband and father in the rough settlement of San Felipe de Austin was not an easy feat. The pressures upon the family increased as time went by, and the news of him they received after his absence spanned one month was not heartening. Brown was taking part in an exploration of the upper...

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