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The Pearl incident was the largest recorded nonviolent escape attempt by enslaved people in United States history. On April 15, 1848, seventy-seven slaves attempted to escape Washington, D.C. by sailing away on a schooner called The Pearl .
She married Henry Hansborough in 1866, and died in 1885. In 1895, Edmund Cash Pechin Pennsylvania lawyer and mining expert associated with various railroads and the Virginia Development Company in Roanoke acquired the property from Ann Sisson Gorgas Hansborough's estate and developed it as an estate home. His wife Mary Cash Shelly Pechin headed ...
Barry Clifford (born May 30, 1945) is an American underwater archaeological explorer.. Around 1982, Clifford began discovering the remains of the Whydah Gally, [1] a former slave ship captured by pirate Samuel Bellamy which sunk in 1717, during the Golden Age of Piracy.
Dorie Miller Galley, the main galley for Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti [60] Doris Miller Dining Hall, Naval Air Station Chase Field, Beeville, Texas [61] Doris Miller Park, a housing community for military personnel in Honolulu [62] USS Doris Miller (CVN-81), a future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, announced on January 19, 2020.
A square-rigged three-masted galley ship, she measured 110 feet (34 m) in length, with a tonnage rating at 300 tuns burthen, and could travel at speeds up to 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph). [ 4 ] Christened Whydah Gally after the West African slave-trading Kingdom of Whydah , the vessel was configured as a heavily armed trading and transport ship ...
Mount Airy, near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia, is the first neo-Palladian villa mid-Georgian plantation house built in the United States. It was constructed in 1764 for Colonel John Tayloe II, perhaps the richest Virginia planter of his generation, upon the burning of his family's older house.
Adventure Galley, also known as Adventure, was an English merchant ship captained by Scottish sea captain William Kidd. She was a type of hybrid ship that combined square rigged sails with oars to give her manoeuvrability in both windy and calm conditions.
Sully Historic Site, is both a Virginia landmark and nationally registered historic place in Chantilly, Virginia. [4] The earliest recorded claim to the land was made by the Doeg. Later the Lee family of Virginia owned the land from 1725 to 1839. Richard Bland Lee [5] did not build the main house until 1794. [6]