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  1. Fourth of July Celebration
    date July 18, 1818map LEXINGTON, South Carolinatags Arts/Leisure, Government, Politics

    The ladies and gentlemen of Lexington County gathered at Mount Pisgah Church to remember and celebrate the 42nd birthday of their young country. The celebration started out with an appropriate hymn and oration from the speaker of the day, Mr. Bossard, who was escorted to the steps of the church by the corps of local Riflemen. The crowd was lead in prayer by the Reverend Mr. Cook. Mr. Bossard read the...

  2. Delage's Last Days
    date July, 1840 to July 21, 1841map SUMTER, South Carolinatags Arts/Leisure, Church/Religious-Activity, Health/Death, Women

    When Natalie Delage fell ill in 1841, she found support in the community around her. The wife of Thomas Sumter Jr. kept a diary detailing the last year of her life on the plantation in Sumter District, South Carolina. She visited doctors in town, and doctors came to visit her. They prescribed all sorts of medicines: Castor oil salts, elixirs, chocolates, chicken broth, snake root, and creamor tartar....

  3. European Tastes in the Antebellum South
    date November 20, 1851map CLARKE, Georgiatags Arts/Leisure

    In November of 1851 the Athens Southern Banner announced that a famous French musician, Monsieur Andrieu, would be giving three concerts in Athens. The newspaper encouraged Athenians to attend saying that Andreiu was well received in Charleston and Augusta where he had been performing. The announcement also told Athenians that the accompanist would, give imitations of the great Prima Donnas of the...

  4. Sally Carter's Letter to her Mother
    date December 21, 1827map HENRICO, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Urban-Life/Boosterism, Women

    In late December of 1827, Sally Champs Carter, living in Richmond at the time, wrote home to her mother who was living in Albemarle County (approximately sixty miles west of Richmond). Sally described her living situation in the city, telling her mother that she participated in the gaieties of the city, however more moderately and prudently than she had in her first year residing there, as some of...

  5. Adventists Pardoned
    date April 17, 1893map RHEA, Tennesseetags Arts/Leisure, Church/Religious-Activity, Law

    In Tennessee, Sunday was a sacred day. In fact, there were state-wide laws expressly prohibiting doing any sort of work on Sundays. So when nine Seventh-Day Adventists were caught doing work on a Sunday, they were arrested, tried, and convicted. They were sentenced to short jail terms and locked up. Later, Judge James C. Parks, the trial judge who passed the prison sentence on the men decided that...

  6. Badly in Need of a Revival
    date February 26, 1887map HAWKINS, Tennesseetags Arts/Leisure, Church/Religious-Activity, Women

    Rogersville needed religion- at least Reverend Jarvis and Reverend Roberts thought so. These two clergymen, along with the ministers of the churches near Rogersville held a series of union meetings or revivals at the Methodist Episcopal Church. The faithful churchgoers who attended prayed together, coming forth to offer their wishes for the success of the revival meeting and for the souls of those...

  7. A Union Soldier Celebrates a Victory
    date February, 1863map ASCENSION, Louisianatags Arts/Leisure, War

    Union troops had finally secured Fort Butler in Donaldsville. Excitement was everywhere. George Smith was one of the proud soldiers who witnessed the raising of the Union flag. The soldiers had worked relentlessly to secure the fort and the moment was very emotional. By late morning the regiment was ready to celebrate. Cannons sounded. The Star Spangled Banner rang loud from the band. Miss Weber smashed...

  8. Bread in the South During the 1860s and 1870s
    date July 31, 1863map SHENANDOAH, Virginiatags Agriculture, Arts/Leisure, Economy

    Levi Pitman was a respectable southern gentleman living in the southern county of Shenandoah in Virginia during the Civil War. Levi kept a careful diary in which he would write the day to day activities he participated in and observed. In 1863 the Rebel soldiers were camped near Levi's home and he could go and watch them march for their leader. He and his wife met some of the soldiers and his wife...

  9. Selected Tales: The Power of a Story
    date Unknownmap ROCKBRIDGE, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Health/Death

    In this day and age, newspapers rarely print fiction. Of course, there is the occasional magical story written by a third grade class that appears every once a week in the Arts and Entertainment section of the paper, but for the most part, fictional stories of real substance are not published in newspapers anymore. This was not the case in the 1800's. Appearing in The Valley Star each week was a selected...

  10. Tempering the Temperance Movement
    date February 19, 1842map WASHINGTON, North Carolinatags Arts/Leisure, Church/Religious-Activity, Education, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    The Newbern Spectator published several articles about the new temperance movements starting up in New York, in Ireland, and in the Newbern area. It was a crusade for self-improvement and the industrial work ethic. One man from nearby Washington, N.C., only identified as 'A Free Drinker,' felt he had to speak up. In a letter to the editor, the writer reminded the reading public that there were two...

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