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A history of Schaumburg. Nov. 12, 2012 Once known as Sarah's Grove, the Schaumburg area has transformed into a major commercial hub for the Chicago area, thanks to Woodfield Mall and large companies that like to call the village home. Over the decades, Chicago Tribune photographers have been there to document the transformation.
After 1830 the pattern of sectional conflict continued to change, ever reducing the geographical area in Virginia that was seriously at odds with the conservative, slaveholding east. By 1861 Northwestern Virginia had little more in common with the Valley and Southwestern counties included in the new state than a cobra and a mongoose.
The first English settlers in Jamestown, Virginia, who arrived in 1607, were eager to find gold and silver. Instead they found sickness and disease. Eventually, these colonists learned how to survive in their new environment, and by the middle of the seventeenth century they discovered that their fortunes lay in growing tobacco.
Our Nation’s Fourth President (1809-1817) Birthplace: Belle Grove Plantation in King George on March 16, 1751. Home: Montpelier. Died: June 28, 1836 in Montpelier Station, VA. Burial: Montpelier. Married: Dolley Payne Todd. Father of the Constitution. Wrote the Bill of Rights. Last living signer of the Constitution.
Jul 31, 2023 · SUMMARY. The Jamestown settlement, established in 1607, was the seat of England’s first permanent colony in North America. After the failure of the Roanoke colonies, investors in the Virginia Company of London were anxious to find profit farther to the north, and in April 1607 three ships of settlers arrived at the Chesapeake Bay.
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May 3, 2024 · SUMMARY. The backcountry frontier of colonial Virginia reached westward from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the farthest extent of Virginia settlement in the eighteenth century. By royal charter, the extreme western boundaries of Virginia at this time extended to the Pacific Ocean, but the terms “backcountry” or “back settlements ...
