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| South America & Caribbean:Pedro Iof Brazil abdicates and will be replaced by his first son in 1841. A drop in sugar prices is making slavery unprofitable in Jamaica where Samuel Sharp leads a bloodless rebellion in which his followers force slave owners to free their workers. | |||||||||||
| North America:Since Indian tribes are not foreign nations they can not sue in Federal court says Supreme Court of U. S. Chief Black Hawk moves his tribes to the west of the Mississippi. Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion in Virginia. Locomotives first manufactured by Baldwin.Railroads in New York and New Jersey. Canals in Pensylvania and Ohio. Steamboat on the upper Missouri. Malleable cast iron by U. S. inventor Seth Boyden. New York University, University of Alabama and Wesleyan University have beginnings. Essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes. Verse by Edgar Allen Poe and John Greenleaf Whittier. Cyrus McCormick demonstrates reaper. U. S. has 13 million people. | |||||||||||
| Europe: The revolution in Paris inspires unrest in Italy. French Foreign Legion is created to hire Swiss and German mercenaries. Belgium gets its first king, is invaded by Dutch Army and is saved by French troops sent by Louis Philippe. James Clark Ross determines the magnetic north pole. Faraday generates electromagnetic current. Charles Darwin and the H. M. S. Beagle begin their famous voyage.Fiction by Victor Hugo and Benjamin D'Israeli, Pushkin. Painting by Delacroix, Barbizon School in Paris; music by Bellini, Mendelssohn. | |||||||||||
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Pontchartrain Railroad opens in April 1831. It extends 5.18 miles from the river, where its beginning replaces the sawmill canal (now Elysian Fields) of the Marigny plantation out to the lake where Spanish Fort, Milneburg and other resorts will be built. The early locomotive is dubbed Smokin’ Mary with a 37 1/2 cent fare one way, 75¢ for two ways. The New Orleans Ponchartrain and Lake Railroad is perhaps the third to have been built in the U. S. |
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| New Orleans’ reputation as a home of yellow fever epidemics grows as it strikes four times in the 1830s, killing at least 5,000. Andre Bienvenu Roman becomes Governor of Louisiana. |
A company of infantry from N. O. participates in the Texas Revolution. N.O. serves as storage for large amount of supplies and munitions being shipped to the new Texas Republic. The College of Jefferson is chartered by the Louisiana legislature in 1831 and built on 65 acres entirely by subscription. Now known as the Manresa Retreat House, operated by the Jesuits it holds retreats for men throughout the year. As a minister in Louisiana and Mississippi in the 1830s Leonidas Polk travels by boat, mail coach, horseback spreading the word of God. |
The town of Independence in Tangipahoa Parish is known as Uncle Sam when settled in the 1830’s. Italian families began to arrive early in the 1880s. Because of its heritage, the town has come to be known as Little Italy. Downtown historic district created by city in 1982. | The West Feliciana Railroad is one of the South’s earliest railroads. It ran from St. Francisville, LA to Woodville, Miss. The idea is conceived in 1828 as a means of transporting cotton to the Mississippi River. Chartered in 1831. Completed in 1842. In use in Illinois Central System until it is abandoned in 1978. | Virginians build and name Tally-Ho Plantation house which was once one of the largest on the Mississippi River. The original manor house on the West bank burned in 1945 and the owners moved into the overseer’s house. |
A Spanish land grant is made to Pierre Déclouet around 1776 that is purchased by Hypolite Crétien in 1800 to raise cotton. He is said to be an extremely good friend of privateers and smugglers Jean and Pierre Lafitte. His son Hypolite II marries a very headstrong and unconventional woman, the daughter of the Spanish plantation owner next door. Félicité Neda and her husband create the Crétien Point Plantation House from 1831 to 1835. Soon after Hypolite dies from Yellow fever and Félicité takes over management of the plantation and its 500 slaves. She also won often at cards, smoked and once shot off the head of an attacker. Her son took over the plantation and although sick and crippled, saved the house during the Civil War by his knowledge of a Masonic sign. His son Jules was ill trained for running the plantation, or for any work for that matter and ended up selling kitchen utensils door to door. But he held on to the Plantation and his beloved library.
James Pitot William Pitt Kellogg |
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