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  1. A Son Worries over Fathers Corn Harvest
    date April 16, 1882 to 1882map SCOTT, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy, Education

    Very few young men in the nineteenth century had the privilege of going to college, much less to the University of Virginia. One not only had to be intelligent, but also wealthy. James N. Greear of Scott County, Virginia was one such man. In a letter home, Greear informed his father of his great interest in medicine and of the recent examinations he had taken. He noted that he had taken the examinations...

  2. Brothers embark on mill buying adventure
    date November 20, 1890 to September 11, 1891map LOUISA, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy

    Brothers James Bibb and W.E. Bibb decided to invest in building a cotton mill. James was a real estate developer and W.E. Bibb was a lawyer. They corresponded by mail over several months trying to get other investors involved and talked about financial matters. James was the person who was mostly in charge of this deal although he always was asking his brother for advice and of course for more...

  3. Mechanization
    date April 23, 1896map ROWAN, North Carolinatags Agriculture, Economy, Migration/Transportation

    A local newspaper in Salisbury, North Carolina published an article on April 23, 1896, reporting the effects that labor-saving machinery was having on their community. The Salisbury Truth article was composed of statements and facts gathered by a person who has given the subject a great deal of thought. The piece described how, with the help of modern machinery, one man and his two sons were able to...

  4. Journey Through the Cotton Plantations of Augusta
    date 1870 to 1875map RICHMOND, Georgiatags Agriculture, Economy

    A traveler through the South noticed Augusta, Georgia for its cotton production. Being located along a river and along a railway line, he saw that cotton production proved to be very prosperous for those in Augusta because they could easily ship their products throughout the nation. Along with the cotton factories, he noticed that there were flour mills and tobacco factories taking advantage of the...

  5. Alcohol and its Influence on the South
    date September 30, 1817 to October 7, 1817map BUCKINGHAM, Virginiatags Agriculture, Health/Death, Law

    Between the dates of September 30, 1817 and October 7, 1817, Archibald Austin of Buckingham County, Virginia was legally able to distill spirits according to the license issued by the Commissioner of the Revenue. This license enabled Mr. Austin to distill from domestic materials for one week only. The rules set forth by this license were issued by the United States, not the state of Virginia. Mr. Austin's...

  6. Suicide of Lafayette Maupin
    date August, 1877map CLARKE, Georgiatags Agriculture, Economy

    Lafayette Maupin invested his money in a local store in town.One night it burned down and he lost everything he had put into his investment.Later that night he went into the woods and killed himself.He had been married to a young girl who was only 16 years old when he shot himself.Since she no longer had him to care for her, she went back to live with her family for support. After the Civil War, Reconstruction...

  7. A Lonely Woman Outside Charleston
    date May, 1891map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags Agriculture, Women

    A woman identifying herself only as T.S. wrote a letter to the Ladies' Home Journal to express sympathy for another reader, Janet, who had complained of feelings of loneliness and desolation during the winter months in the Sea Islands off of South Carolina. The letter writer explains that she came to South Carolina by way of Vermont and Pennsylvania, and that the level salt marshes with the water oozing...

  8. Desolation Leads to a Soldier's Desertion
    date December 4, 1864 to 1865map RAPIDES, Louisianatags Agriculture, Government, Politics, Slavery, War, Women

    On December 5, 1864, John L. Sharitt, Jr., a Confederate soldier, epitomizes the eventual doom of the southern cause.He reflects gloomily upon Abraham Lincoln, the South's lack of supplies, weakening morale, and, more specifically, the barren and ruined physical state of Louisiana.On this day, Sharitt rode with his company seven miles up the Cane River.Throughout the entire ride, all he saw was wasted...

  9. Lands Key in Social Standing
    date March 2, 1893map CHARLES, Marylandtags African-Americans, Agriculture, Economy

    On March 2, 1893, the land would be handed down from the Jerdone and Coleman family to the Archer Williams. The deed needed to be witnessed, signed, and sealed. The land was 132 acres and all the boundaries were listed. Land was essential in social standing and those with land were of higher class than those who weren't even if they were of different races. Land not only provided social standing,...

  10. The Deadly Cash Crop
    date January 11, 1868 to 1868map HENRICO, Virginiatags Agriculture, Health/Death, Economy, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    Even a hundred years before Surgeon General Warnings, we already had begun to understand tobacco's effects. On January 11, 1868, HarpWeek published a two-picture political cartoon entitled The Pleasure of Tobacco. The first picture featured a young man in bed enjoying his pipe. The caption under the drawing said, To which young and promising Tom Smudger abandons himself. He wasteth the midnight oil....

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