In the middle of the lower coastal plains of Georgia lies a city called Valdosta. Named in honor of Val d’Aosta a plantation home of former Governor George troup. Valdosta has always been a popular gathering place it started off with the Creek and Seminole Indians. Spanish missionaries also American pioneers lived in Valdosta. Fertile and beautiful land intrigued people to make their homes here. Established in 1825 first county seat in 1828 Valdosta’s history has been closely tied into the soil the town was built on sandy loam. Allowed the city to become the inland for Sea Island cotton. When cotton crops were devastated by the boll weevil in the early 1900s, other crops such as pecans, peanuts and tobacco rose in popularity. Historical Earthquake Events …show more content…
No historical earthquake events found in or near Valdosta, GA. Historical Tornado Events A total of 36 historical tornado events that had recorded magnitude of 2 or above found in or near Valdosta, GA. The Role of Valdosta during the Civil War Valdosta contributed men to the Confederate army and took in war refugees. The Union Naval Blockade made consumer goods hardly impossible to obtain. Valdosta became isolated when William T. Sherman's troops uprooted miles of Atlantic and Gulf's tracks west of Savannah during his march to the sea in November 1864. Rail service did not resume until March 1866. Valdosta, wrote Louis E. Schmier, a local historian, was at war's end "little more than an insignificant 'pine hamlet' in a state of total disrepair." Valdosta role during the Westward
This the route to Florida he came from Jamaica he took sail in 1519 and finished in 1528 he sailed to get gold but died battling indians.
1. “The opponents of the annexation of Texas and the Mexican War attacked slavery as the root cause of expansion, but in fact it was no more important than other causes.” Assess the validity of this statement, using the documents and your knowledge of U.S. history from 1820-1860 to support your answer.
The weaknesses in Lowndes County was that although they don't have a high percentage in Hispanics. They don't have many programs for Hispanics In Lowndes. I actually didn't come across any program. Also another weakness in Lowndes is the Crime rate. Lowndes County, Georgia, violent crime, on a scale from 1 (low crime) to 100, is 61. Violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault(Georgiacrime,2016) . Also another weakness in Lowndes County is on a scale from 1 (low) to 100, is 58. A huge issue that affects Lowndes county is that last year Valdosta State was rank one of the top states with the most sexual Transmitted Disease. Valdosta was ranked 87 in 100 top
Dumas was an Iranian immigrant that stayed in America for 2 years in the year of 1972-1973. The young girl from Iran's life changed in many ways one of which being that it adds to the portrait Dumas points to herself as a child and how she interprets life along with the english language. Another is how her family is conceived before and after the Iranian revolution. Another is how the effect of the revolution in Iran affected the families relationships with the other people in their community in California. The Iranian revolution was the turning of the Iranian government into an Islamic republic.
When tornadoes do form; such places as the National Weather Service (2014) classify tornadoes into three categories. These categories are weak, strong, and violent. “
President Lincoln proclaimed a blockade of all confederate ports in an effort to cut confederate trade with the world. Also the blockade became increasingly effective as the war dragged on, Union vessels the South used to smuggle goods past the blockade, usually at night. By using blockade runners, the south could ship at least some of its cotton to Europe in exchange for shoes, rifles, and other
the winds picked up the once fertile strong topsoil and turned it into what people then called a
Government policies in America come from a variety of sources. But the philosophers who made the most impact are Cesare Beccaria and Baron de Montesquieu. Beccaria believed in a competent justice system. His philosophy is the basis for the US justice system. Beccaria lived in Italy from 1738 to 1794. Baron de Montesquieu believed in the separation of power and checks and balances. His real name is Charles-Louis de Secondat and he lived in France from 1689 to 1755. These philosophers shaped the future in front of them. Another example of someone shaping the literary universe is William Golding. He wrote the Lord of the Flies in 1954. Lord of the Flies showed people the true extent of their nature if they followed the path they were on. The boys
In 1953, the Waco tornado was part of a tornado outbreak sequence with a series of at least 33 tornadoes occurring in 10 different U.S. between May 9-11, 1953. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) a research
On the afternoon of April 14, 1886, the city of Sauk Rapids in Minnesota was nearly wiped out after a tornado had struck the city. The whole city was left in complete devastation. Natural disasters have always interested me, specifically tornadoes. Something about tornadoes, whether it’d be how they form or how they acquire their power to cause great destruction, interests me to learn more about tornadoes. This led me to research about tornadoes in Minnesota. As I began surfing the internet about tornadoes that occurred in Minnesota, I came across the effects that each tornado had caused to the areas that it had struck. This is where I discovered the effects of one particular tornado called the Sauk Rapids Tornado. As I looked at the
An Ef-5 tornado is one that causes “Incredible damage. Strong frame houses leveled off foundations and swept away; automobile-sized missiles fly through the air in excess of 100 meters (109 yds); trees debarked; incredible phenomena will occur” (NOAA, 2011).
May 3rd, 1999 is day that bore witness to one of the strongest spectacles of weather that mankind has ever seen. The storm is one of the largest, and deadliest, tornados in history. The definition of a tornado is "a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system". A tornado is rated on a Fujita-Pearson scale which takes into account, overall damage reports, ground swirl patterns, as well as eyewitness and media accounts of the
When people think of democracy the first thing that comes to mind is normally the democracy of today. However, democracy was different during the ancient times. The textbook states that “The Athenian democracy was a direct democracy in which the citizens made the laws” (Perry 60). Despite the flaws of today’s democracy, I think that democracy is the best form of ancient government because the people were able to vote on the issues.
Experts once thought tornado winds exceeded 500 miles per hour. Research in recent years, however, has shown that winds rarely exceed 250 miles per hour and most tornadoes have winds of less 112 miles per hour. An average tornado will be 400 to 500 feet wide and travel four and five miles on the ground, lasting only a few minutes. A mile-wide tornado is extremely large, and tornadoes like these are very rare. Many tornadoes are small, less than 100 feet wide, and last only a few minutes. A few monster tornadoes are a mile wide or larger, and can last for an hour or more. Tornadoes are measured by the Fujita-Pearson Tornado Scale. They range anywhere from a F-0, being the weakest to a F-5 being the strongest.
There are many types of tornadoes. The average tornado is usually split up into categories based on the