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  1. DeWitt Clinton Explores Possible Canal Route
    date August 5, 1810map NIAGRA, New Yorktags Erie Canal, Agriculture, Transportation/Migration, Economy

    In 1810 a group of government officials were sent out to explore and navigate a route for an artificial canal between Lake Erie and the Hudson River. Among the group commissioned to take this journey was DeWitt Clinton, who was the mayor of New York City for many years prior to this exploration. Along this journey Clinton kept a personal diary in which he documented all aspects of the land that surrounded...

  2. John Johnston’s Tile Drainage and its Profound Effects on Agriculture
    date 1848 to 1852map SENECA, New Yorktags Market Revolution, Immigration, Technology, New York, Agriculture

    John Johnston was an immigrant from Scotland who brought the tile drainage technique to the United States in 1821.  Once he arrived he immediately traveled to and settled in upstate New York after he bought a cheap plot of land.  The reason for its low price was because it was believed to be unprofitable soil.  But Johnston started to raise animals and slowly integrated his tile drainage idea throughout...

  3. McCormick’s Improved Reaper Takes to The Fields
    date August, 1832 to 1832map ROCKBRIDGE, Virginiatags Agriculture, Science/Technology

    Cyrus McCormick gave a public demonstration of his newly improved Reaper near the little town of Lexington, Virginia in 1832. Around 100 people were present to watch the twenty-three year-old innovator’s contraption take to a field of grain. Herbert N. Casson explained in his book, Cyrus Hall McCormick: His Life and Work, that the crowd included “several political leaders of local fame, farmers,...

  4. 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 for cheaper...

  5. Our Indian Difficulties
    date May 19, 1828 to May 30, 1828map CHATHAM, Georgiatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Government, Law, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans, Race-Relations, Slavery, Women

    People often want what they cannot have. At least, this was true in Georgia in 1828. On May 19, 1828 the Argus, a newspaper in Savannah, printed an extract of a letter from a member of Congress, to the Editor. In this letter the politician explained that the mood in Washington was changing in favor of removal of the Native Americans currently living where they had been for a long time on some of the...

  6. Railroads; the new form of transportation in the South
    date July 23, 1891 to September 1, 1896map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy, Migration/Transportation

    Newspapers, like the Portsmouth Star were filled with railroad advertisements displaying the price and rates for which a passenger could travel from Portsmouth to Virginia Beach, Petersburg, Philadelphia, and even New York with no more than a day of travel for even the farther distances. A company called the Bay Line and Pennsylvania railroad offered to take people in Norfolk to the Niagara Falls for...

  7. Dueling in the Bayou
    date May 21, 1881map MADISON, Louisianatags Agriculture, Crime/Violence, Law

    The shot sliced through the quiet, heavy bayou air at Willow ditch. The bullet from the double-barreled shot gun grazed Joseph Richburg's coat. Almost immediately, a second shot tore through his pants. Responding quickly, Richburg fired back at his adversary, Brewer, who had begun to flee. Then Richburg aimed his shot gun at Brewer's son, prepared to fire again. However, when Brewer's son dropped his...

  8. Tobacco Sales
    date February 3, 1829map HENRICO, Virginiatags Agriculture

    In February of 1829, a salesman named H.B. Montague posted an ad in the Richmond Enquirer advertising his services as a middleman in the sales of tobacco. Montague had taken out the official license to do this, which cost him sixty dollars. He also went into detail on his past doings in this realm, recalling how he began this enterprise when no one else would, and incurred losses at first, but he stayed...

  9. More than Just Dancing at the Ball
    date April, 1862map LAFOURCHE, Louisianatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Arts/Leisure, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations, Slavery

    Every year the Fearn plantation threw a ball in honor of the magnitude of work that had been done the year prior. The slaves put much effort into the night to make it the happiest of times. Slaves on the plantation looked forward to the ball each year. This year the ball fell on a beautiful night. The Fearns were the last to leave for the ball. As they followed the path to get there, a large slave...

  10. Henry Banks' Land Sale
    date May 8, 1816map HENRICO, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy, Law

    In May of 1816, Henry Banks put up his estate for sale. Banks had incurred debt to a man named Neil McCaul, and he needed the profit from this sale to settle up with him. The land for sale was property on both sides of the canal, just a mile or so south of Richmond, Virginia. Banks put an ad in a local Richmond paper, the Virginia Argus, to inform his neighbors of the sale. He did not, however, include...

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