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| South America & Caribbean:Republic of Ecuador breaks away from Gran Colombia. Liberators Antonio Jose de Sucre and Simon Bolivar are both dead. Slaves rescued from the schooner Comet enroute from Virginia to New Orleans are freed by British authorities in the Bahamas. |
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| North America:South Carolina threatens secession over the Tariff of Abominations and other state’s rights. President Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act and names a commissioner of Indian affairs. The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek takes all Choctaw lands east of the Mississippi for the U. S. Government. Cincinnati, with a population of 25,000, is second city in size to New Orleans in the west. Chicago is laid out on lake Michigan. Louisville Kentucky begins growth on a canal that circumnavigates falls on the Ohio River. Money is appropriated to extend the Cumberland Road. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Sains (Mormons) is founded. The Philadephia Inquirer begins as the Pennsylvania Inquirer Mexico moves to ban further colonization by Anglo-Americans and importation of slaves. Oliver Wendell Holmes publishes Old Ironsides. Birds of America by John James Audubon.. |
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| Europe: Charles X of France is deposed in favor of Louis Philippe, duc c'Orleans, even though other factions wished to form a republic with the marquis de Lafayette as president. The Whigs take over in England and William IV becomes king. Charles X is deposed and after a brief flirtation with another republic, France proclaims Louis Philippe king. Belgium is independent from the Netherlands. Polish revolution against Romanov Russia. Alfred Tennyson, Delacroix, Victor Hugo, Chopin. | |||||||||||
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January 1830
January 14 - The State Senate holds elections and Armand Beauvais is replaced as president of the Senate by Jacques Dupre. Since Beauvais has been running the state from the governor’s office Dupre now becomes the ranking official in the state and will finish out P A C Bourguignon Derbigny’s term as governor |
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November 1830
November 15 Dominique You dies. He lives at the corner Mandeville and Love Streets. He is buried in St. Louis Cemetery No. 2 |
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Population of New Orleans is 40,000. There are 16,710 free black men and women of color. As many as 701 in the New Orleans area own slaves themselves. Permanent French Market structures built. New Basin Canal begins construction along a course that follows West End Boulevard and the Pontchartrain Expressway all the way to the downtown area. Newly arrived Irish immigrants are used to dig the canal and transport sand, gravel and shells. Drainage of the swampy land once owned by Don Almonester and the Capuchin Fathers was initiated by Charles Louque. |
Old Fenner Road in Ouachita Parish is surveyed about 1830 by John, Richard, and Sherod, sons of William Fenner. In 1837 Mt. Vernon Church will be built on this road , which runs from junction of Cheneire Creek and Ouachita River west of Okaloosa over Indian trails. | Donaldsonville will be the Capital of Louisiana from January 4 to March 16 and will reconvene there in 1831. The legislature upon meeting for a second time in the small town decided it had little attraction as the seat of state government. In 1848 the old State House was razed, and its bricks used to prevent wave-wash at the bayou s mouth. |
Evergreen Plantation house is a well preserved Greek Revival mansion with guest houses flanking the formal garden in the rear, and a double row of slave cabins and an avenue of oaks well behind the house. The Brou family from France and the Becnel family from England are both probably responsible for its construction, but not even the date of its construction is really known. Mrs. Pierre Becnel II owned the property in 1812, indicating that a previous structure existed. A Pierre Becnel married a Desirée Brou in 1830 and the property remained in the two families until the 1890s, when it Songy Brothers began planting cane. For many years it belonged to banks until 1946 when it was restored by Matilda Gray of New Orleans and Lake Charles. with the help of New Orleans Architect Richard Koch. Three lines of trees line the borders of each side of the plantation, oaks, magnolias and dwarf cedars in descending order toward the house. The house is mostly Louisiana Classic style with hipped roof, one room deep and three rooms wide and wide galleries surrounding the structure except for two small wing rooms on each floor that were added later. Unusual is the front portico with a prominent pediment that received curved stairs to the second level which disappeared long ago. The stairs have. while the typical rear stair case rises under the gallery. Unattached garçonniers and pigeonniers flank the main structure. Jacques Philippe Roi de Villere Stephen Henderson Michael Hahn |
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