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Gov Longino house MS25
GOV. A.H Longino House 1/2 blk. N. built 1884. restored by Lawrence Co. Hist. Soc. Longino was Gov. of Miss., 1901-1904. During this term New Capitol Built: Dept. of Archives hist. and state Penal Farm estab. public school system improved.
United States Flag Raised over Alabama Capitol AL338
Apr. 12, 1865 MG J. H. Wilson’s Cavalry Corps raised U. S. Flag over Alabama’s and the Confederacy’s first capitol on 4/17/65, three days after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. Wilson had defeated LTG N. B. Forrest’s depleted and vastly outnumbered troops at the Confederate Arsenal city of Selma. Before fleeing Montgomery, BG D. W. Adams, CSA ordered 85,000 bales of cotton and 40,000 bushels of corn set afire to deny them to the Federals. But for the wind’s change and the heroic Montgomery firefighters, the city would have burned. Wilson left Montgomery for Columbus, GA on Friday, 4/14/65, the day Lincoln was shot by Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington.
National Trail IL529
U.S. 40, which parallels I-70 across Illinois, was originally designated the "National Trail." The National Trail, or Cumberland Trail as it was first named, was laid out from Cumberland, Maryland to the left bank of the Mississippi River in St. Louis. It was the first interstate road to be built with Federal funds. The Act of Congress establishing it as a national highway was signed by Thomas Jefferson in 1806. The highway reached Vandalia, then the Capitol of Illinois in 1830.
Blanchette Creek and the Spanish Commandant MO618
Louis Blanchette, a French Canadian fur trader and hunter, first came to this very spot, where the creek forms a small waterfall, in 1764. Nearby he found a salt spring. He was so delighted with the location and with the excellent hunting and fishing that when he returned to his home in St. Louis de Lauzon, a small town near the capitol city of Quebec, Canada, he gathered supplies and a few followers, who were also fur traders, and returned here in April 1769, to establish a settlement. He called the settlement "Les Petites Côtes" (The Little Hills). In the immediate vicinity of this creek and under Blanchette's leadership the settlers erected three log houses, a log church (the first Catholic Church in the St. Charles area) and a grist mill to provide for the souls and bodies of the settlers. The Spanish Governor of the Upper Louisiana gave Blanchette authority to establish a post here and appointed him to be the first Civil and Military Spanish Commandant. Blanchette operated a successful fur trading business ans served as Commandant until his death in 1793. The first Catholic Church which had been built by Louis Blanchette in 1769 was replaced in 1791 and the new church was dedicated on Nov. 7, 1791 by Don Manuel DePerez, Lt Governor of Upper Louisiana Territory, under the invocation of San Carlos Borromeo, 16th Century Archbishop of Milan. On the same day the name of the settlement was changed from "Les Petites Côtes" to "San Carlos". A census taken in December, 1791 and signed by Manuel DePerez, shows the population was 225 persons. Blanchette's successor as Commandant was Don Carlos Tayon, who remained in command until 1801. It was Don Carlos Tayon, in 1799, as Spanish Commandant for the area, who denied Daniel Boone the right to take possession of the Land Grant he had been carrying issued by the Governor of the Territory. Don Carlos Taylon was of the opinion, Daniel Boone was not physically able to farm and/or protect his property. Daniel Boone was 65 years old. All other grant holders brought here by Daniel Morgan Boone (Daniel's son) were granted leave to take possession of their grants. In 1801, James Mackay took office and served as Commandant until March 9, 1804. In 1800 Napoleon forced and cajoled the King of Spain to give back the Louisiana Territory to France by secret treaty. However, since no formal transfer was made here, the French officials did not take charge and the Spanish officials remained. On April 10, 1803, James Monroe was sent to Paris as an "Envoy Extraordinary" in conjunction with Robert R. Livingston, the American Minister to France, with instructions to purchase the Louisiana Territory, or if not, to "insure ourselves a course of perpetual peace and friendship with all nations." On April 30, 1803, a Treat of Cession was signed by representatives of the United States and France. This is the largest single real estate transaction ever made in the world, comprising the present states of Arkansas, Missouri, North and South Dakota, and the greater part of the states of Kansas, Colorado, Montana, Minnesota, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. The purchase price was $15,000,000. On March 9, 1804, the formal transfer of Upper Louisiana from France to the United States was made at St. Louis and at San Carlos. On that historic day the people living here were summoned to the Commandants Headquarters on what is now Main Street near Blanchette Creek. They were told that they were now living in the United States. The Spanish flag was lowered from the flag pole, the French flag was raised and lowered, then the Stars and Stripes were raised. This was followed by a celebration. Also in 1804, shortly after the Louisiana purchase, the name of the tiny settlement was changed from the Spanish "San Carlos" to its English equivalent, "Saint Charles".
MISSISSIPPI STATE HISTORICAL MUSEUM (Old Capitol Restoration) MS17
Served 1839-1903 as the state capitol; restored 1959-61 as the State Historical Museum, a division of the Miss. Department of Archives and History.
Fort Orleans MO540
Fort Orleans Fort Orleans, first European post in the Missouri Valley, was built by the French explorer Etienne Véniard De Bourgmond on the Missouri River close by, a few miles above the mouth of the Grand, 1723-24. The exact location of the fort is not known. De Bourgmond, friend of the Indian and author of the first navigation report on the Missouri River, 1714, was chosen to build the fort by a French trading concern, The Company of the Indies. The fort was to serve as a check to any advance by the Spanish from the southwest and as a base for New Mexican and Indian trade. Some 40 men came with De Bourgmond on the fort building mission. Made Commandant on the Missouri, he was also in charge of making peace with the Comanche Indians. A village of Missouri Indians was across the river from the fort. These Indians, of Souian stock, at one time called themselves Niutachis. They were probably first called Missouris, Algonquin for "he of the big canoe" by the Illinois Indians. The last of the Missouris died on the Oto Reservation in Oklahoma 1907. Westernmost outpost of France in what is now Missouri, the establishment of Fort Orleans included a chapel, first Catholic church in the Missouri Valley. The first resident priest was Abbé Mercier. When the fort was built, De Bourgmond traveled into what is now central Kansas, 1724, where he fulfilled his commission to make peace with the Comanches. In 1725 he returned to France taking several Indian chiefs and a young Missouri maiden along for a visit. The whole party delighted the French who called the girl "Princess of the Missouri," saw her baptized in Notre Dame, and married to a sergeant. De Bourgmond was made a noble and had for his coat of arms an Indian against a silver mountain. De Bourgmond stayed in France, and in 1728 the fort was closed. Fort Orleans was built in territory claimed for France, 1682, and named Louisiana after Louis XIV by La Salle. France held the greater part of this claim for 80 years, then ceded it, 1762, to Spain which held it 38 years, returning it to France, 1800, which sold it to the United States, 1803.
Gethsemane Church TX11971
The first Lutheran church in Travis County. Organized Dec. 12, 1868, by Swedish pioneers under leadership of Swante Palm. Site of first church building was 11 blocks SW; this structure was erected in 1883. It contains stone hauled in wheelbarrows from Texas capitol that burned 1881. The present ornate, paneled doors came (1934) from old main building at University of Texas. Architecture is typical of many rural Swedish churches.
Swedish Central Methodist Church TX11959
Organized in 1873 by the Rev. Carl Charnquist, the Swedish Methodist Church built a sanctuary at Red River and 15th Street. Led by the Rev. O. E. Olander, the congregation moved to this site in 1898 and occupied buildings of disbanded Central Methodist Church. The fellowship added "Central" to its name and later dropped "Swedish". Church property, then across from the capitol grounds at Colorado and 13th Street, was sold in 1956 for expansion of state offices. Renamed Memorial Methodist Church, the historic congregation moved to northeast Austin.
The Radkey House TX11951
A typical post-civil war Austin dwelling, built about 1870 two blocks from the state capitol for merchant and metalsmith Bernard Radkey (1846-83) and his wife, Mary Cummings Radkey (1851-96). Structure is of cypress wood. Radkey served as a city alderman (councilman) until just prior to his early death. Heirs enlarged and occupied the home until 1973. It was moved here and restored in 1974 by the Franklin Savings and Loan Association.
TMI Castle TX11829
Founded in 1868 in Bastrop, the Texas Military Institute moved to Austin in 1870. The same year, this Victorian "castle" was built to serve as headquarters for the young men's preparatory school. Prominently sited on top of a hill in view of the capitol, the structure was owned by the Texas Military Institute until the school formally closed in 1880. From 1884 until 1887, the TMI castle was the site of Jacob Bickler's Texas German and English Academy. Display # 1 - 10 of 205 |