Randolph County History

The new program was very different from that which came before it. For starters, the CWR only employed 31 artists who were given very specific instructions on the type of artwork they were to produce. “The artists themselves represented a cross section of the Canadian art community. Some had been well established before the war; others had shown promise and were chosen on that account.” Unlike their predecessors, who had been bound by nothing and were free to paint anything which provoked feeling, the artists were limited not only in subject matter but also in the medium of artwork, its size, and the quantity needed. “The instructions charged the artists with portraying “significant events, scenes, phases, and episodes in the experience of the Canadian Armed Forces,” and required each of the 31 artists hired to produce two 40x49 inch canvases, two 20x34 inch canvases, and ten 22x30 inch watercolours.” The artists were divided among the Army, Navy, and the Air Force, with the home front being largely ignored.

Camden is one of Georgia’s eight original counties. Camden County combined the early townships of St. Mary and St. Thomas, and it is a part of lands surrendered by the Creek Indians. “Camden County is named for Charles Pratt, the earl of Camden from 1714-94, he was also chief justice and a lord chancellor of England that supported the American colonies before the Revolution 1775-83.” (Kissinger)

Laurel Valley Village Plantation located at 595 Hwy. 308, Thibodaux, LA 70301 in Lafourche, Parish is a museum of the history of farming sugar cane. I visited the museum on April 26, 2016 and viewed the past as if it still sits in the present. The land that Laurel Valley Plantation sits on originally belonged to a Mr. Etienne Boudreaux. He received the land as a grant in 1783.The main plantation house was burned down by Union soldiers in the Battle of Lafourche Crossing on June 20th through the 21st of June 1863. Joseph W. Tucker purchased the land and surrounding lands in 1832. Mr. Tucker was one of many plantation owners in the south that owned slaves and by 1850 had 162 slaves maintaining his fields at Laurel Valley. The plantation switched owners several times, but in 1915 Mr. J. W. Lepine the current owner invented a tractor that enabled him to plant faster than the use of mules and slaves.

In Bolivar County, Mississippi, stands Mound Bayou, one of the first black towns in the U.S. It is located twenty-eight miles southwest of Clarksdale, Mississippi. It was founded by Isaiah T. Montgomery and his cousin Benjamin T. Green. Both Montgomery and Green were former slaves. They both were formerly owned by Joseph Emory Davis, a lawyer turned successful planter & the older brother/mentor to Jefferson Davis, the former President of Confederacy. The town is a national significance because it represented many towns established by African American who moved from the South to the North after slavery.

Located in the hilly terrain of North Alabama, Winston County was originally part of Walker County and was named Hancock County before it became Winston County in 1850. At the time of the Civil War, Winston County also included the areas that later became Cullman and Blount Counties. Its rugged terrain, characterized by hills and steep-walled gorges was highly unsuitable for plantation-style agriculture and because of the lack of unsuitable soil, the county was never home to many slaves. The 1860 United States Census lists only 3,450

Project: The Middle Tennessee History Coalition (MTHC), in collaboration with the Tennessee State Library and Archives the North Carolina State Library, and the University of North Carolina, proposes a project that will digitize the Colonial and State Records of North Carolina. This is a collection of approximately 9,400 documents that cover a period from European settlement to the founding of the United States and beyond. All twenty-six volumes will be digitized. The colonial records of North Carolina were originally compiled before 1886 by William Saunders, and covered the period between early settlement of the colony and 1776. Saunders was a newspaper editor, lawyer, and ultimately the Secretary of State for North Carolina. Saunders

Virginia Union was founded in 1865 to give emancipated slaves the chance to get and education. The school was actually a combination of four different schools, Richmond Theological Seminary, Wayland Seminary, Hartshorn Memorial College, and Storer college. The first founders day took place on Feburary 11, 1899, and the first classes began in 1899. There were nine buildings made designed by John Coxhead. These places were Pickford Hall named after a former trustee board member C.J. Pickford, Kingsley Hall named after Chester Kingsley a former president of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. Coburn Hall named after Maine Governor Abner Coburn, Dr. King preached at the chapel and W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington gave lectures there, it burned in 1970 but is now restored and holds services each Thursday at 11. The Martin E. Gray hall named

was named after Peter Hansborough Bell, who was born in Virginia in 1812 and passed away in

efferson was primarily of English ancestry, born and educated in colonial Virginia. He graduated from the College of William & Mary and briefly practiced law, at times defending slaves seeking their freedom. During the American Revolution, he represented Virginia in the Continental Congress that adopted the Declaration, drafted the law for religious freedom as a Virginia legislator, and served as a wartime governor (1779–1781). He became the United States Minister to France in May 1785, and subsequently the nation's first Secretary of State in 1790–1793 under President George Washington. Jefferson and James Madison organized the Democratic-Republican Party to oppose the Federalist Party during

There was about 3,511 in 1990, 3,774 in 2000, and 4,866 people in 2010 that lived in this area. The large number of fruits being harvested in the are in what gave this town the name Fruitland. Fruitland is a city but is surrounded by many farming areas. On the Fruitland logo, there is holly from the holly tree because hollies and mistletoe were grown in many parts of this area. They were made into wreaths and then sold in auctions or many local stores. Fruitland started growing rapidly because of its very close neighbor Salisbury. These are the two biggest cities in Wicomico County that attract many

This introduction to Kentucky history is a collaboration between the state's leading historian, James C. Klotter, and educational consultant Freda C. Klotter. In five compact chapters, they outline major influences and developments of the frontier, statehood, Civil War, industrial, and modern periods. Seven other chapters are thematic, focusing on Kentucky government, regions and regionalism, agricultural and material culture, commercial transformation, literature and music, and demography. Occasional sidebars document the lives of well-known and anonymous Kentuckians to illustrate economic, social, and cultural themes. A Concise History of Kentucky will be useful to many readers new to the state.

Kentucky’s open grasslands had attracted the type of settler who loved horses because of its great beauty. Also, Kentucky imposed richness of soil minerals, abundance of water, and suitable climate, terrain, and vegetation that attracted these people. People that lived in Kentucky possessed a great love and pride for sporting horses. Their love and passion of horses would shape the Thoroughbred world of today.

In the seventeenth century, the populace that left England for America were influenced by the prospects that could either help them personally, or the mother country. The English settled in regions in America based on the religious acceptance of that area and ones that offered a preferable lifestyle.

Numerous bills have been proposed throughout the history and timeline of Texas. Though many bills have been introduced, only a few from the batch will proceed to the House and Senate committees for further speculation and debate. Bills do not instantly become laws over night. It could take weeks, months or perhaps years for a bill to become a law. There are processes and even sub-processes when reviewing a bill and determining whether or not it shall be passed. Public policymaking includes five important steps, which are agenda setting, policy formulation, policy adoption, policy implementation, and policy evaluation. With that being said, this essay will focus on Senate Bill 11 – the Texas bill that allowed individuals with a license to carry concealed handguns on campus and in campus buildings.

Scary literature is powerful in the sense that it can cause readers to be on the edge of their seats, keep them up all night, and leave them even more attracted to the allure of fear. In Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” a man visits his mentally-ill old friend, Roderick Usher, and experiences unordinary events following the death of Usher’s twin sister Madeline. Another spine-tingling short story is “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortazar, which falls into the category of Magical Realism and is about a pair of siblings who are driven out of their grand home after a mysterious entity takes control over it. The genres and settings of “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “House Taken Over” share several of the same elements but also differ in numerous ways.