Throughout the history of Richmond Hill, the city has experienced everything from failure to success and tragedies to victories. Today, Richmond Hill is a peaceful suburb located in southern Bryan County. Positioned within a 30-minute radius of Savannah, Richmond Hill offers a wonderful convenience to the nearby metropolitan city. This coastal town is home to more than 10,000 people. Richmond Hill’s community has an excellent reputation with great schools and education opportunities and a low crime
In 1935 the lands of Richmond Hill became home to the world’s second largest telescope. Jessie Donald Dunlap funded the David Dunlap observatory, DDO, in the memory of her husband Alexander Dunlap. These 189 acres of land were given as a gift to the University of Toronto. For years it has been a helping hand leading towards solar and lunar discoveries. July 2008, The University sold this to a company called Metrus. The DDO has been apart of the community for 76 years and without a doubt should be
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Douglass corroborated a story about John Parker, one of the black Confederates at Manassas. A Virginia slave, John was sent to Richmond to build batteries and breastworks. After completing this job, he, and his fellow slaves were ordered to Manassas “to fight,” as he said. He was put in an artillery unit with three other black men. On Sunday, July 21, “we opened fire about 10:00
in the Southern portion of the United States. It was created by Southerners from all walks of life, ranging from the gentry to the "good ol' boys." They loved their culture so much that they created a country. It was a country of blue skies, green hills, beautiful meadows and forests, and old-fashioned Southern hospitality. There were large plantations that grew some of the finest crops in the world. Though this country seemed Utopian, its creation soon instituted the bloodiest war in American history
husband John Allan, an exporter from Richmond, Virginia. He became very attached to his stepmother and then she passed away of tuberculosis. As a youth, Poe attended the finest academies in Richmond, his stepfather overseeing his education. He entered the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1825. He distinguished himself academically at the University but was forced to leave due to inadequate financial support from his stepfather. Poe returned to Richmond in 1827 but soon left for Boston. There
-CORE stands for Congress on Racial Equality. -They were the group that formed the Freedom Rides of 1961 -CORE was formed in 1942 as a civil rights organization by students of the University of Chicago. -CORE was based on the ideas of non-violent protest, and civil disobedience. -It was created in the 1940s to act against the Jim Crow Laws. -In the 1950s it organized sit-ins. -In 1961 it was responsible for the Freedom Rides. -Later in the 70s and 80s, it helped with “self-determination” and “equal
abolished (Benson). The people of the Southern states considered slaves to be part of their property, and they were adamant to retain slavery. During the war, eleven states seceded from the United States: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee. The southern states that chose to secede from the nation formed the Confederate States of America. The Northern states still considered themselves as the United States and strove
shall go to Richmond, if it has to go on crutches,’ which (as over 10,000 cripples were made the other day) seems likely to occur before long.” For Meade’s efforts he would be promoted to Major General. Meade’s leadership at Fredericksburg would serve the Union well during the remaining years of the war. Though Fredericksburg was arguably the biggest blow to both the morale of the Union Army and the leaders in Washington, the leadership and courage demonstrated on Prospect Hill would find its
For some the man Robert E. Lee is an almost god like figure. For others he is a paradox. Robert E. Lee was born on January 19, 1807 at Stratford, Virginia. Robert was the fourth child of a Revolutionary War hero Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee and Ann Hill Carter Lee. Young Robert, the son, was raised mostly by his mother. From her he learned patience, control, and discipline. As a young man he was exposed to Christianity and accepted its faith. In contrast to the strong example of his mother Robert
In Pre-K, I was getting seated onto the “big kid” slide, when an older kid, pushed me. I tumbled, and descended onto rocks. I had bit through the skin just under my lower lip, and punctured a hole. I was rushed to the ER, and my mother couldn’t dare to look at the horror. The horror of pain and fear crawling out of my face. The hospital wasn’t capable of bringing in enough doctors and nurses in to hold me down. My squirming was so unbearable that, my cut grew in size. Finally, they managed to stitch
Genius of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. Print. Martinez, J. Michael. Life and Death in Civil War Prisons: The Parallel Torments of Corporal John Wesley Minnich, C.S.A. and Sergeant Warren Lee Goss, U.S.A. Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill, 2004. Print. Ransom, John. "Prisoner at Andersonville, 1864." DISCovering U.S. History. Detroit: Gale, 2003.Student Resources in Context. Web. 30 Apr. 2014. Speer, Lonnie R. Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole
As news of the Battle of Lexington and Concord spread through the colonies, irregular military units began assuming control over much of the countryside, and a state of rebellion materialized. On the night of May 10, 1775, a Vermont militia called the Green Mountain Boys under the command of Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen seized the strategic outpost of Fort Ticonderoga in New York. The fait accompli of hostility was recognized by the Second Continental Congress, which convened at Philadelphia on
lived by, it was meant for the time when she was married and didn’t take her husbands last name. Mary Edwards Walker was born in the rural part of Oswego, New York on November 26, 1832. There is a historical marker placed at her birthplace on Bunker Hill. She was a sibling to four sisters, Aurora, Luna, Vesta, Cynthia and one brother, Alvah Junior. Her parents were Alvah and Vesta Walker. Mary’s family was an abolitionist family. Her family
Confederacy’s bitter end at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia. James Longstreet was born January 8, 1821 in Edgefield, South Carolina. However, he spent most of his childhood at the home of his Uncle Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, who resided in Augusta, Georgia. It was from his time with his uncle that he gained his strong belief in states rights (Civil 1). General Longstreet attended West Point Military
each and every they were in and got many of them out safely. Robert E. Lee was born on January 19, 1807 at Stratford in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He was the youngest son of Major-General Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee and his second wife, Ann Hill (Carter) Lee. His siblings from his father’s first wife are Philip Ludwell Lee, Lucy Grymes Lee, Henry Lee, and Nathaniel Greene Lee. His siblings from his father's second wife are Algernon Sidney Lee, Charles Carter Lee, Anne Kinloch Lee, Sydney Smith
The Infamous Civil War Prison Andersonville The Confederacy established Andersonville, that most infamous of Civil War prisons, in late February, 1864. It built a stockade in west central Georgia to accommodate approximately 10,000 prisoners of war. As the fighting moved ever deeper into the South in the last year of the war, the expanded stockade at one point held nearly 33,000 Union soldiers. The termination by the North of the prisoner of war exchanges which had existed previously and the
The Slave Trade in Colonial America The first blacks in the American Colonies were brought in, like many lower-class whites, as indentured servants. Most indentured servants had a contract to work without wages for a master for four to seven years, after which they became free. Blacks brought in as slaves, however, had no right to eventual freedom. The first black indentured servants arrived in Jamestown in the colony of Virginia in 1619. They had been captured in Africa and were sold at
Pennines run through the north of the country from the east of the Cumbrian Mountains down to the south of the country just outside Manchester. In the rest of England there are smaller peaks of hills/mountains which are:- * Cumbrian Mountains * North York Moors * Cotswald Hills * Chiltern Hills * Salisbury Plain * North Downs In Wales we have the Cambrian Mountains as there is a great deal of high ground in the country. As Wales is dominated by a mountains they also have a high number
Trash is not something we think about every day, but managing waste has long-term environmental and economic consequences that can’t be ignored. Since 1960, the amount of waste generated in America has nearly tripled. Our society, including consumers, corporations and governments, must think proactively about reducing our impact on the environment. Although recycling has been embraced by much of the American population, many changes need to be made in the near future to keep up with the increased
Introduction Many African Americans believed that it is their divine mission to take Christianity to Africa. There have been many African Americans in late 1700s and early 1800s, which traveled to Africa with the sole purposes of evangelizing and establishing churches. Men such as David George, Lott Carey and Colin Teague, where some of the first African Americans who went to Africa to promote Christianity. Their efforts to spread Christianity presented a justification for the inhuman bondage suffered