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Gadsden had become the president of the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company in 1839; about a decade later, the company had laid 136 miles (219 km) of track extending west from Charleston, South Carolina, and was $3 million (equivalent to $85 million in 2023 [4]) in debt.
The following 18 pages use this file: 1853 in the United States; 33rd United States Congress; Antonio López de Santa Anna; Arizona Territory; Gadsden Purchase
James Gadsden (May 15, 1788 – December 26, 1858) [1] was an American diplomat, soldier and businessman after whom the Gadsden Purchase is named, pertaining to land which the United States bought from Mexico, and which became the southern portions of Arizona and New Mexico.
December 30 – Gadsden Purchase: U.S. Ambassador James Gadsden signs a treaty to buy approximately 29,600 sq mi (77,000 km 2) of land south of the Gila River and west of the Rio Grande from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
Gadsden's Wharf is a wharf located in Charleston, South Carolina. It was the first destination for an estimated 100,000 enslaved Africans during the peak of the international slave trade. [ 1 ] Some researchers have estimated that 40% of the enslaved Africans in the United States landed at Gadsden's Wharf. [ 2 ]
James Gadsden (1788–1858), American statesman and namesake of the Gadsden Purchase, grandson of Christopher James I. Gadsden (born 1948), American diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Iceland John Gadsden (1787–1831), American politician in South Carolina, grandson of Christopher
A map of the lands ceded by Mexico in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the 1853 Gadsden Purchase. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, an advocate of a southern transcontinental railroad route, persuaded President Pierce to send rail magnate James Gadsden to Mexico to buy land for a potential railroad
Christopher Gadsden (February 16, 1724 – August 28, 1805) was an American politician who was the principal leader of the South Carolina Patriot movement during the American Revolution. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress , a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War , Lieutenant Governor of ...