Since the 1820s, the Aiken Rhett House remains to be one of the most grandiose houses to visit in Charleston. Until 1975 when the Charleston History Museum purchased the house and converted it into a house museum, the Aiken Rhett house remained in the family line for 142 years. The house was first built and owned by John Robinson, a Charleston merchant. Due to a financial crisis, Mr. Robinson sold the house to William Aiken Sr., an Irish immigrant and successful merchant, in 1827. When Mr. Aiken died of an unfortunate carriage accident, his son, William Aiken Jr. who was a very prosperous businessman and rice planter as well as a politician and governor of South Carolina, was bequeathed the house. He and his wife made three main changes to …show more content…
owned fourteen African American slaves who maintained the elegance and high standards of living at the Aiken Rhett House. The two original slave corridors still reside on the grounds of the house. The family also traveled all across Europe and many of the treasures acquired remain in the house. In 1887, William Aiken Jr. died, and his wife and daughter inherited the house. Mrs. Aiken lived in the house with her daughter, Henrietta, son-in-law, Major A.B. Rhett, and their four sons and daughter until she died in 1892. When the daughter died, her children and their descendants inherited the Aiken Rhett House. I’On Rhett and Andrew Burnet Rhett, Jr., the two sons of Henrietta, lived in the house until the mid-1900s. In 1995, the Historic Charleston Foundation purchased the house and turned it into a house museum. The Aiken Rhett House exemplifies the three preservation approaches—preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation/adaptive. (Butler, Aiken-Rhett House Museum - Historic Charleston …show more content…
Visitors are able to see a realistic version of the collection from the antebellum South that the Aikens once owned. The Aiken Family built a private art gallery to showcase their rare findings. Brandy Culp, the Historic Charleston Foundation Curator, restored the art gallery to its original condition from the nineteenth century. In the late twentieth century, the Historic Charleston Foundation made additional restoration works to protect the rare artworks by adding climate control. In late 2013, restoration commenced thanks to the donations from a descendant of the family, Harold J. Bowen Jr.. The artworks were carefully taken down so that the existing damage on the cornice could be repaired and restored to its original state. The wall coloring replicated the original color in 1858. A team of designers then worked to put the artworks back in their original places. The restoration of the art gallery ended in 2014, and the art gallery appeared to be back in its original state in the mid 19th century. (Butler, Aiken’s Art Gallery Restored - Historic Charleston
A rookie NHL All-Star, the number one overall pick, an 18 year old from Arizona, and the future of the NHL, number 34 of the Toronto Maple Leafs Auston Matthews is fifth overall in total goals this season. Auston Matthews was born in San Ramon, California on September 17, 1997 and at two months old, moved to Scottsdale, Arizona. To start, his Uncle had season tickets to then, Phoenix Coyotes games, now Arizona Coyotes, where Auston went to his first hockey game when he was three years old and fell in love with the sport. He first started hockey at age five and was once better at baseball than he was at hockey. He was good baseball because he had good eye-hand coordination and hitting was his strength. Anyhow, there weren't
The waffle house shooter was the same person who jumped the white house fence with an AR-15 couple mouths ago. So his gun was seized from him, But in stead of destorying the gun. The police gave the AR-15 to travis dad, and his dad gave the gun back to travis a few mouths after the incident and travis dad said “I think he is ready to have his gun back” but a few days’ latter Travis walk into a waffle house in Tennessee with only waering a jacket, Reinking allegedly shot two people outside the restaurant in Antioch Tennessee, then he killed two more people inside. Before James Shaw Jr. jumped on travis and took him down before the cops arrived.
While many of these large stately homes perished under the torch of Sherman’s Army, those that remain provide a unique glimpse into what life must have been like in antebellum America.
On January 5, 1931, in Rogers, Texas Alvin and Lula Elizabeth Ailey gave birth to Alvin Ailey Jr. An African American choreographer/activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. When Alvin was only less than one year old, his father, a labor, left the family. Being an only child at the age of six, Alvin Jr. moved with his mother to Navasota, Texas.
On August 25, 1980, members of the Rearden Family were summoned to the home of the late Oacy Rearden’s in Edgefield, South Carolina, to formulate plans for a Rearden Family Reunion. Descendants in attendance
Last but not least, completed in 1859, Redcliffe Plantation was once the home of James Henry Hammond, and many of his decedents. Redcliffe Plantation interprets the history of many generations and multiple families that were enslaved at Redcliffe and other plantations. Visitors get to experience African American history whenever they please being that Redcliffe is open year round (Introduction).
The Second Seminole War ended in 1842. Shortly thereafter, Fitzpatrick’s nephew, William English, acquired the former’s Miami River possessions and reconstituted the slave plantation, adding new buildings to the complex. A man of large ambitions and vision, English platted the “Village of Miami” on the south bank of the river. He sold several lots in that development before leaving the area, at the beginning of the 1850s, for California and the gold rush.
Jeffery Humble has established himself as one of the most active and respected community volunteers in Nashville and several other parts of the country. These philanthropic involvements range from volunteering for the Kentucky Junior Historical Society, hosting elaborate soirees and auctions to benefit Nashville CARES, assisting with the efforts of the Tennessee Equality Project (TEP), formerly serving in several leadership roles and functions for the Nashville Steering Committees and the Federal Club for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), and even working with Feed My People in St. Louis, MI. His efforts, fueled by an entrepreneurial spirit and love of service, are starting to gain notice. The Center for Nonprofit Management (CNM) and The Tennessean
John Hill Westbrook was influential to Texas by being the first African-American to play football in the Southwest Conference and becoming a minister. John Hill Westbrook was born in Groesbeck, Texas, November 13,1947. Westbrook grew up being a fourth generation minister. Growing up in parsonages, he moved around a lot. Westbrook ended up going to Booker T. Washington High School in Elgin, Texas. In Elgin, Westbrook played basketball, football, and ran track. Westbrook graduated the salutatorian of his class, and in 1965 he enrolled at Baylor university, ready to take on his dream of playing football.
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Jordan Hall – A National Historic Landmark and a world-class concert hall, Jordan Hall is located a few minutes from Downtown Boston. As such, commuting to the venue is easy. One can ride the Green Line or #1 Bus which has a stop at the Symphony Station, or the Orange Line which has a stop at Massachusetts Avenue. From both stations, Jordan Hall is just a walk away. The fastest way to get to the venue is by cab, Uber, or car.
Mt. Everest is the tallest mountain in the world reaching 5 ½ miles high in the sky. Not only is it the tallest mountain, but it comes with avalanches, huge crevasses and very strong winds. Everest mountain climbers are determined, brave, and courageous people. They never give up. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”- Winston Churchill. This quote represents Everest climber, Rob Hall. Everest climbers have to be strong, fit, and have climbing experience. Not just anyone can be an Everest climber. Rob Hall has these qualities and he has conquered Everest.
William Ball's grandparents had been slaves. They had taken on their owner's last name of Lewis but as Robert Lewis sold his 152 acre plantation, “Annfield”, to Sarah C Ball for nearly $30,000 in 1853, they decided, as many a previous slave did, to give their last slave owner's family name to their children.
England has a long history of periodic architecture and aside from recent war damage and the destruction during the Dissolution of the Monasteries Acts in the 16th century by Henry VIII, much of its historic legacy remains intact.
In 1908, Theodore Huebner Roethke was born in Saginaw, Michigan. There he was raised by his mother and father, who owned a greenhouse with their uncle. As a child, he spent much time in the greenhouse observing the nature, which greatly influenced his future works. Roethke attended Arthur Hill High School and later graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan in 1929. Afterword he took a few graduate classes at Michigan and Harvard, but was unhappy and left (Kalaidjian).