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1888: A Year in the Collections. Learn about the Great Blizzard of 1888, one of the fiercest East Coast storms ever recorded. As railroads drove western expansion, Buffalo Bill brought Wild West shows back east, hiring displaced Native people. The new science of archaeology engaged people’s imaginations with the deep past, in the midst of a ...
Summarize this article for a 10 year old. SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. Events from the year 1888 in the United States. Eisenhower Executive Office Building, built in 1888 in Washington, DC. Barthrop House in Port Townsend, Washington, built in 1888.
March 11 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400. March 13 – The summit of Ritter Island collapsed resulting in a tsunami and the deaths of an estimated 500 to 3,500 people.
Eastern Seaboard. United States. Great Blizzard of 1888, winter storm that pummeled the Atlantic coast of the United States, from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine, in March 1888. The blizzard caused more than $20 million in property damage in New York City alone and killed more than 400 people, including about 100 sailors, across the Eastern Seaboard.
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Apr 5, 2024 · United States presidential election of 1888 was an American presidential election held on November 6, 1888, in which Republican Benjamin Harrison defeated Democratic incumbent Grover Cleveland.
The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor from France, in July 1885. Poet Emily Dickinson dies in Amherst, MA, on May 15, 1886. On March 11-14, 1888, the "Great Blizzard of 1888" blankets parts of New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut with up to 50 inches of snow. At noon on April 22, 1889, a starting gun announced the ...
