The Ashely Slater House was build in 1912 and was finish in 1914 in Douglas, Georgia. John had picked out the wood and bricks for his home himself . The original owner was John Marshall Ashely. Mr. Ashely build the house for his wife Mrs. Christian Ada as wedding present in 1908. But now a days the Ashely Slater home is use for as a museum, and as the Douglas Visitor Information Center for city of Douglas. I did my essay on the Ashley Slater house because how important the owner of the house were to south Georgia, It located here on Gaskin Avenue which is known for having ghosts, also the amount of people who died in the house. John Marshall was born 1861 on a plantation on the Ocmulgee river. He came to coffee county to start a the first
ROME, ITALY -- 18-year-old Alexandria resident, Shayla Thomas-Pollard has broken a world record for the Guinness Book of World Records two weeks ago.
Carrie P. Meek born in tallahassee florida during the year 1926. Meek is an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida. She served in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003, she represented our congresses 17th district. She was a history maker in the running. She used to say, “Service is the price you pay for the space which God has let you occupy”.
Rowena Jackson-Dixon age 73 made her transition at her home in Chicago, Illinois after a brief struggle with cancer on March 14, 2018. Rowena Jackson-Dixon was born on December 4, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois. Out of ten children born to her parents, she was the fifth.
The builder of this seventeen room Greek revival mansion was Stephen S. Speakman. In the early 1840s, the elderly Speakman fell in love with a much younger woman, Sarah Bush, whose father owned a slave-holding plantation in Kentucky. Upon asking her hand in marriage, his bride-to-be refused to marry him unless he built her a southern plantation-style mansion. In 1845, with the use of his father-in-law’s slaves, Speakman erected his mansion on a five hundred acre plot next to Loughery Creek with every brick baked on site (Historical Marker Project).
Althea Gibson was an African American woman born August 25, 1957 in Silver, North Carolina. She attended Florida Agricultural and Mechanical School and later Lincoln University as an athletic instructor. In her early life she moved to Harlem, New York, New York because of the Great Depression. She was also increased in basketball and paddle tennis. She quickly became good at tennis and people stared o notice, so Robert Walter Johnson coached, mentored, and sponsored her. She went on to win 11 Grand Slam titles, cementing her legacy, was the first black woman to play professional tennis, and on top of that she broke he racial barrier in tennis. She also played tennis, played he saxophone, and wrote an autobiography called “I Always wanted to
Background: Born on September 24, 1755 in Virginia, John Marshall started his life pursuing the practice of law and held multiple political positions throughout his life. He was a lieutenant and later captain of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. After 1781, Marshall left his military position to pursue law. Even though his formal training was short lived, Marshall began his law career in the 1780s.
Thurgood Marshall was born on July 2,1908 in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, William Marshall worked as a waiter in an exclusive club. His mother, Norma worked as a kindergarten teacher. (Bio.) Marshall attended high school at Frederick Douglass High in Baltimore which at the time was called Baltimore’s Colored High and Training School he was. He graduated in 1925 and followed his brother William Aubrey Marshall to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. (Thurgood Marshall) At Lincoln many of Marshall’s classmates where important future Black leaders including Langston Hughes and the future President of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah. While there he met and married his wife Vivian “Buster” Burey. After Twenty-five years of marriage it sadly ended in 1955
When a young author from New York City decides to take a trip to the southern city of Savannah, he finds himself falling in love with the town and ends up renting an apartment. He encounters many different characters, including Danny Hansford and Jim Williams, that gives the reader a good look into the aura of Savannah. The main conflict in the book occurs when a murder happens in an old mansion located in the town. The book follows the progression of the trial and the outcome following the court’s decision.
Since it is one of the largest privately owned house in the U.S., it attracts a lot of tourists. About one million tourist visit this house each year. Before a railroad was built near the city in 1880, Asheville was relatively quiet . After the railroad was built, tourists began visiting the city. Of these tourist was George Washington Vanderbilt. He was visiting the city with his mother to find aid for her chronic malaria. At that time, Asheville was known to have a “healing environment” due to its altitude and climate.
He was the eldest of fifteen children and was blessed with outstanding parents. His parents were Thomas Marshall and Mary Randolph Keith. His father was a planter and one of the leading men of Fauquier County, in those times a frontier county. His Mother was a clergyman's daughter that had relations with some first families of Virginia. I think that the influence of these families brought Thomas Marshall a desire and eager to educate his son. He was the most influencing person through John Marshall's early years. As he stated later as an adult, He superintended my education . . . and to his care I am indebted for anything valuable which I have acquired in my youth. (Hobson, 2)
Jackson was born in 1767 in Waxhaw, South Carolina, to Scotch-Irish immigrants. He fought as a boy in the Revolutionary War, studied law, and in 1788 moved west to Nashville. In 1791, he began living with Rachel
John Marshall was born on September 24, 1755 into the care of his loving parents, Mary and Thomas Marshall. His father worked as the land surveyor for Lord Fairfax and made a minuscule amount of money that he somehow found capable of living on.
Regina Olson Hughes In February of 1895, a young girl was born in Nebraska. This young lady was known as Regina Olson Hughes. Hughes was not born deaf but became deaf as a teenager. At a young age, she took an interest in plants and drawing.
First, I will inform you about his life. Thurgood Marshall was born July 2, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland. His name was Thuroughgood, but changed it to Thurgood because it was easier to say and that was how everyone pronounced it. Growing up, he attended Baltimore’s then segregated schools. His parents instilled in him great racial pride. His
The tales of haunted houses is a long held genre in American Gothic literature. The haunted houses are usually described as South plantations homes. When the houses were in their prime, they were the best of the best. They represented the upper echelons of society, where only the super rich could own. The dark secret behind such plantation houses is that they were usually build and maintained by slavery. As time pasted and the Emancipation Proclamation was passed at the end of the American Civil War, slavery ended and the plantation homes fell into ruin. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1892, short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” while the story does not take place in a typical haunted plantation house, it does take place in a vacation home