Deep in the thick swamps and woods of Northern Gulf County, amidst the buzz and sting of mosquitoes, chirps of squirrels, and swirls of the Apalachicola, is a long-lost story. One hundred and eighty years ago the town of Iola sprang out of the cypress swamp of what is now north east Gulf County. That small community, was, and still is an enigma in the wilderness of territorial Florida and has all but faded from the memory of Gulf County and is nothing but a boat ramp now. You cannot discuss Iola without first discussing Saint Joseph. Saint Joseph began its short life in the mid 1830’s after a Supreme Court decision on the Forbes land grants in nearby Apalachicola. Forbes & Co. was formerly the Panton & Leslie Co, located in Pensacola. …show more content…
Of all those affected, the cotton producers received the worst blow. In Virginia, and the Carolinas, the panic caused an increase in the diversifying of crops. New Orleans slipped into a business depression, and its money market stayed in bad condition until after 1843. Several planters in Mississippi spent much of their money in advance, leading to the complete bankruptcy of many planters. By 1839, many of the plantations were out of cultivation. Florida and Georgia did not feel the effects as early as Louisiana, Alabama, or Mississippi. In 1837, Georgia had sufficient reserves to carry on everyday purchases. Until 1839, citizens of Florida were able to boast about the punctuality of their payments. It was in the 1840s when Georgia and Florida began to feel the real negative effects of the …show more content…
A price war broke out. Both groups were trying to underbid each other. The Saints were not in a financial position to continue with the price war, so they backed off and started the pursuit of other means to have money. They needed another reason for people to want to travel to Saint Joseph. They noticed how visitors enjoyed the area, especially Saint Joseph Bay. Saint Joseph was (soon) to become a summer resort. Around 1840, a new worry began to disturb the residents Apalachicola and Saint Joseph. A railroad to connect the western Georgia cotton plantations to the Atlantic sea ports was becoming a reality. That railroad, combined with the increasing danger of navigating the Chattahoochee River, had many shippers rethink shipping to the Gulf. The livelihood of both cities was in
.... farmers were unable to make loan payments to banks. Banks then foreclosed on properties and were unable to sell. Land prices decreased, farmers went bankrupt, banks failed. The Napoleonic War fueled America’s agriculture growth and expansion; however, the end of the wars contributed to The Panic of 1819.
The impact of the Panic was profound. The whole nation was affected by the Panic, especially in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Delaware, which experienced the most stress in their mercantile districts. New York alone reported nearly $100,000,000 loss within two months. However, the South suffered even more than the East. The Panic caused an increase in interest in varying crops in Virginia, North Carolina, and South ...
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Willoughby’s writing is that so much change has occurred in the past hundred years. His setting, though the very Everglades we travel through today, is an Everglades where saw grass was ten feet tall, and trails were no where to be found. His Florida, though located exactly where he left it, now has too many hotels, tourists, and residents to count. The change that has taken place in Florida was one that Willoughby foreshadowed, and one that we would not be able to fully comprehend without the writings of people like Willoughby. He captured the moment on paper for the future to see and gave us a means of comparison. He wrote about change in Florida over the course of a year since his previous visit. He mentioned that a big hotel and bustling tourists destroyed the picturesque and that Florida’s “wilderness has been rudely marred by the hand of civilization” (62). I wonder what he would say today. The mere two thousand individuals he wrote about was a number no where near to the number of people who have since marred Florida. Like Willoughby, I regret change. An...
Ever since Joseph Brant was a teenager he was involved in war. Brant took part in a number of French and Indian War expeditions. As Brant got older he started to use In the year 1772 Brant moved to Fort Hunter to live with
In fact during this time the economy was not at its greatest. The Panic of 1819 was an economic depression caused by over speculation in the western lands.
The Panic of 1893 was one of the most grim and profound problems that plagued America at the end of the 19th century. The financial catastrophe began in May of 1893 when two companies – The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and The Cordage Company declared bankruptcy after failing to fulfill payments on their loans. The joint financial failures of the companies sparked a crash in the stock market. This served as a catalyst for a surge of bank failures because many New York banks were big investors in the Stock Market. The financial disaster began in New York and soon permeated its way throughout the country. Over a six-month period, over 8,000 businesses, 156 railroads, 400 banks failed, and 20% of Americans were unemployed By July of 1893, there was massive unemployment in factories and extensive wage cuts....
After those heartbreaking years of deaths, Simeon heard of the mormons and became very interested. He named his son Mosiah after the Book of Mormon and it’s people was born on February 19, 1837. The same day, his twin Anariah was born that day but died a few hours after birth. Betsy, who was a healthy child was born March 22,1838. At the time, Simeon’s brother James came to Simeon’s home as a missionary of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints. He preached them and Simeon and his wife was baptized by him on April 15,1839. But that wasn’t enough for Simeon. He wanted to see the prophet Joseph in person, and maybe even offer his services to the church. In June 1840, he set off to Nauvoo on foot which was a 500 mile trip. There he saw the prophet Joseph Smith. Simeon was set ap...
The 2006 film The Nativity Story, is a retelling of the birth of Jesus and the events surrounding it. The film takes pieces both from the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke in order to create its narrative. The film takes some of its key scenes as well as aspects of both Mary and Joseph from the Bible. The advantage of using both gospels as a basis for the film is that it allows for the dual perspective of Mary and Joseph instead of being limited to one or the other, and allows for a more complete feeling narrative. It then builds upon how the characters of Mary and Joseph are described in both gospels by giving the audience the chance to connect with them at a human level.
The Seminoles are close with the land. They used to, and sometimes still do, fish and hunt in the Everglades and in marshy areas. To grow food, they farm small gardens on hammocks, which are little islands in the swamp. Since the 1920’s they’ve been wrestling alligators for visiting tourists. They’ve seemed to make do with the swampy conditions extremely well.
After fifteen miles of pedaling by bicycle through the Everglades, watching the birds, and counting the numerous alligators, it is difficult to believe that anyone cannot appreciate the environment of Florida . Reading novels about the settings that need to be conserved adds to the actual experience of that environment. But when a visit to the environment is not possible, authors like Carl Hiaasen offer readers important information about the Everglades without the fifteen mile bike trip. Only a dummy would pass up on the message.
Travel by land and water was both tedious and expensive. Transporting one ton of goods across states would cost around 100 dollars or 1,265 dollars in today’s money. In the 1790s, land routes connecting the east coast and the farther western regions of the United States were undeveloped. Along with this, when weather conditions were poor land routes could not support any sort of dependable shipping by wagon, or even travel by horseback. Natural waterways provided the most dependable method of transport west of Albany. Even travel by waterway in this time period was inconvenient because these water routes were unreliable due to shallow water and raging rapids.
Most people point out the crash of the "Stock Market" as the major cause but, there was also a drought known as "The Dust Bowl", that caused crops in that day to not grow resulting in farmers having to sell the items at higher prices that most people could not afford.
Great innovations in productive techniques during and after the war raised the output of industry beyond the purchasing capacity of U.S. farmers and working force. As a result of this, unemployment skyrocketed during the years of the Depression, reaching levels as high as one third of the population. Almost half of the commercial banks of the United States failed during the Depression. Crop prices fell by over fifty percent. People went hungry because so much food was produced that production became unprofitable. Others were unemployed because they had produced more than could be sold. Hundreds of thousands roamed the country in search of food, work, and shelter.
Chief Joseph was part of the tribe called the Nez Perce, which was a hierarchal religion (a religion which exercises authority). He was born in Wallowa Valley, on March 3, 1840. The esteemed chief was originally named Hin-mah-too-lat-kekt, which translates to Thunder Rolling Down a Mountain (“Chief Joseph Biography” A&E). He was baptized at the Lapwai Mission where he took the Christian name Joseph, after his father, Joseph The Elder (“Chief Joseph Biography” N.p). The Nez Perce were hunters and gatherers, until they settled down in 1855, when Joseph the Elder signed a treaty with the US government. Joseph the Elder died in 1871, and Joseph was appointed Chief. Their tribe called themselves the Nimipu, which means “The Real People” while the Americans labeled them the Nez Perce. (Sutclifffe 6). His tribe had always gotten along relatively well with the Americans and they even aided the American Military in the Yakima War. In 1877, six years after Joseph the Elder died, General Oliver Otis Howard threatened to attack and force Chief Joseph and his band out of their reservation.
There are several economic issues that I see, first, I understand economic justice to be the fairness governed by laws to ensure all people are treated equal (Business Dictionary /definition/economic-justice.html, 2015) Economic justice determines how each person makes a living to provide for their family. “The ultimate purpose of economic justice is to free each person to take part in the work beyond economics, which is that of the mind and the spirit.” (Center for Economic and Social Justice, 2015) The problems that I see are unemployment, alcohol addiction, no driver’s license, DUI and problems with authority. Since Carol and Joseph are both unemployed, and having a DUI on her driving record will