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| South America & Caribbean:Uruguay declares independence. | |||||||||||
| North America:Andrew Jackson is elected president over John Quincy Adams, with John Calhoun re-elected as vice president. Calhoun and the South Carolina legislature draft the South Carolina Exposition and Protest in reaction to the Tariff of Abominations. B&O railroad financed by Charles Carroll, Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad also started. An American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster. | |||||||||||
| Europe: Chocolate candy invented by Dutchman. Sir Walter Scott, Delacroix, Rossini. Schubert dies. | |||||||||||
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July 7 The state Legislature confirms P A C Bourguignon Derbigny election as governor versus 3 opponents. |
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December 1828
P A C Bourguignon Derbigny’s inauguration speech urges internal improvements which the legislature supports including: incorporation of a gas light company for New Orleans, several navigation companies for New Orleans and important bayous in the state, and the construction and repair of levees. |
A plan is drawn of the city which shows a canal that its promoters hope to build to connect the river with Lake Ponchartrain. Instead Elysian Fields will be the river terminus of a railroad three years later. |
Russellville, located near Athens, La. is the site of the parish seat of Claiborne Parish from soon after the parish’s creation in 1828 until 1836. Named for Samuel Russell, who donated the land. | The state legislature prohibits exhibition of blacks for sale in prominent parts of the city. John Holland is sheriff. Adventures of Bras Coupe - fugitive slave. | The state legislature creates Claiborne Parish from part of Natchitoches County. The first parish seat is the home of John Murrell, but is soon moved to the site of Russellville, near present-day Athens until 1836. | Fort Pike completed near Slidell
to defend Rigolets Pass, approach through Lake Pontchartrain to New Orleans.
Named after Brigadier General Zebulon Montgomery Pike.
Beau Pre, built this year and originally known as Pine Grove Plantation, is bought in 1830 by John W. Jeanerette, the first Postmaster between New Iberia and Charenton, and for whom Jeanerette is named. This historic home escaped the destruction of military operations in the area during the Civil War. |
Thomas Bolling Robertson Claiborne Parish |
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