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1823 Melish map of the United States and portions of Mexico from the Atlantic Ocean to the area west of the Rocky Mountains. John Melish (June 13, 1771 – December 30, 1822) was a Scottish mapmaker who published some of the earliest maps of the United States (US). In 1816, he created the first map of the United States extending to the Pacific ...
Fort Scott was built in 1816 on the west bank of the Flint River, where it joins the Chattahoochee River to form the Apalachicola, in the southwest corner of Georgia. [2]: 16 It was named for Lieutenant Richard W. Scott, who was killed in the Scott Massacre of 1817 and never known to have visited the fort. [3]: 53 (The fort replaced a much ...
The treaty stated that the boundary between the French claims on the north and the Spanish claims on the south was Rio Roxo de Natchitoches (Red River) until it reached the 100th meridian, as noted on the John Melish map of 1818. But, the 100th meridian on the Melish map was marked some 90 miles (140 km) east of the true 100th meridian, and the ...
Savannah founded in British Colony of Georgia by James Oglethorpe. Ellis, Johnson, Percival, and St. James Squares laid out per Oglethorpe Plan. 1734. Reynolds Square laid out. Solomon's Lodge (Masonic lodge) founded. 1735 – Congregation Mickve Israel formed. [1][2] 1739 – October 5: Creek leader Tomochichi died. He is buried in Percival ...
2nd: November 16, 1818 – March 3, 1819. The 15th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in the Old Brick Capitol in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1817, to March 4, 1819, during the ...
October 20 – The Treaty of 1818 between the U.S. and the United Kingdom establishes the northern boundary of the U.S. as the 49th parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, also creating the Northwest Angle. December 3 – Illinois is admitted as the 21st U.S. state (see History of Illinois). The Osage Nation cedes ...
Henry Schenck Tanner. Part of Tanner's 1822 map of North America, depicting the Pacific coast with fictive rivers that were assumed to exist at that time. Henry Schenck Tanner (c. 1786–1858), was an American cartographer, born in New York City. He produced A Geographical and Statistical Account of the Epidemic Cholera from its Commencement in ...
Thompson then sold the Arlington property, including the house built by Evans, to Mrs. Jane Surget White in December 1818. Jane White was the daughter of Pierre Surget, a French emigrant at the head of one of Natchez's leading families. [4] John Hampton White died on October 15, 1819, during a yellow fever epidemic. Jane White died on July 1 ...