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| South America & Caribbean:The Central American federation breaks up after 14 years when cholera and a Guatemalan uprising stir up the region. | |||||||||||
| North America:The underground railroad begins service, but a mob of Irish immigrants riots and burns down Philadelphia Hall when incited to believe that an end to slavery will take away their jobs. 14,000 Cherokees from Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee take the Trail of Tears west of the Mississippi. Troops under Gen. Winnfield Scott escort them along the Tennessee, Ohio, Mississippi and Arkansas rivers before they reach Oklahoma Indian territory. St. Paul, Minn. and Kansas City Mo. beginnings. Dry goods store of William Marsh Rice opens in Houston in the Texas Republic. Two British steamers arrive in New York after the first trans-Atlantic crossing powered entirely by steam. Edger Allan Poe. | |||||||||||
| Europe:Famine in northern Ireland Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens is written to expose evils of Poor Laws; George Sand and Chopin; painting by Delacroix; Victor Hugo; Berlioz. Word protein coined, understanding of hemoglobin's importance in blood. | |||||||||||
| January 1838
Caddo Parish is created from Natchitoches County by an act of the state legislature. |
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March 1838
Thibodaux is incorporated as a town on March 10, 1838. Early records show settlement existed in late 1790s as an important trading post for the Lafourche country. Named for Henry Schuyler Thibodeaux (1769-1827), who gave the first land for the early village. |
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August 1838
Mayor Genois informs the council of the first municipality of New Orleans that the city owes banks at least $1,100,000 with no ability to pay. The banks refuse further loans. Two raise money to meet routinne expenses city land is mortgaged to the banks. Denis Prieur is sent to New York to raise funds for the city. |
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Washington Artillery organized. Zachary Taylor leads troops in the Seminole War in the Florida Territory. Alexander Milne dies and wills much of his estate to set up asylums in New Orleans for orphaned boys and girls. |
Metairie Race Course opens on Metairie Ridge. First New Orleans Mardi Gras Parade. | The Texas Navy uses New Orleans as a jumping-off point for its Gulf cruise in the summer of 1840. | In 1838 Leonidas
Polk is named missionary bishop of the southwest and the next year
he held the first religious service in Shreveport. Caddo Parish is created by the Louisiana legislature in 1838, the house of Thomas Wallace located on the south shore of Wallace Lake, is designated the first seat of justice or courthouse. |
First called Colvin’s Post Office, Vienna, La. will be incorporated in 1848. It is an overnight stop on the Trenton-Shreveport Stage Road, later called the Wire Road when the telegraph line was strung along it. Springfield is the oldest town in Livingston Parish. Incorporated in 1838. and named for the abundant ground water springs, it is connected to old Natchez Trace. Site of a Spanish fort about 1800. Parish seat from 1835-1872. |
Three magnificent buildings are constructed at 900 Royal Street for Mrs Aimee Marie Mercier widow of Dr. Louis Christian Miltenberger. The Miltenberger building will stay in the family until 1877 and is the birthplace of Alice Heine the first American princess of Monaco. Alphonse and Aristides Miltenberger are commission merchants for Philadelphia iron foundries that supply much of the lacy iron work that is applied to French Quarter buildings during this period. The Greek Revival cottage at 2340 Prytania St. is one of the earliest houses in the Garden District, built when all lots were sold as one-fourth of a block to discourage anyone but the wealthy from building in the area. The original owner Thomas Toby arrived from Philadelphia, made a fortune, and lost it financing the Texas Revolution. Alexander Milne Caddo Parish |
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