The State of Maine
On March 15, 1820 the State of Maine was admitted to the union of the United States as its 23rd State. The first European settlement in Maine was in 1604 by a French party that included Samuel de Champlain. The first English settlement in Maine was established by the Plymouth Company at Popham in 1607. [...]
Utah
On January 4, 1896 Utah was admitted as the 45th State of the United States. This was after its seventh attempt. The first was in 1849. The lands of Utah is thought to have been inhabited by man for 12,000 years, but it wasn’t until around 1776 that the first Spanish explorers arrived. Next came [...]
Oklahoma
The State of Oklahoma became the 46th State to join the United States when they were admitted to the union on November 16, 1907. The name Oklahoma comes from the Choctaw phrase okla homma, red people. The name was suggested by Choctaw Chief Allen Wright in 1866 when the area was considered part of the [...]
A National Park in Delaware
On this 93rd anniversary of President Woodrow Wilson signing the National Park Service Organic Act that created the National Park Service it may be time to wonder why there is not a National Park in the State of Delaware. Delaware is the only State that does not have a National Park Unit within it. A [...]
Vermont – An Independent State
A little over one half of a year after the United States declared themselves as an Independent county through the Declaration of Independence, at a meeting in Westminster on January 18, 1777, Vermont declared themselves Independent. They provided their own postal service and minted money originally under the name New Connecticut. On June 4, 1777 [...]
A Witch in Time
A strange period of history occurred in New England a hundred years before the American Revolution. During much of the last half of the 17th century many, mostly women, were accused of Witchcraft. While the most famous of these witch trials occurred in Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex counties of Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May [...]
Six Flags of Texas
Over its history Texas has been part of 6 different nations and therefore flew 6 National flags. The first was Spain’s. Spain took claim of the area in 1519 when Cortez established Spain’s presence in Mexico. Although it was claimed by Spain, there wasn’t any Spanish in Texas when in 1685 France laid claim to [...]
Washington Resigns
It was more than two years after the British defeat at Yorktown. The Treaty of Paris had been signed on September 3rd and the last British ship had departed New York on December 3rd when General George Washington journeyed to Maryland’s State Capital in Annapolis. Congress was meeting in the Maryland Senate Chamber when George [...]
Virginia’s Eastern Shore
The Eastern Shore of Virginia is a 70 miles long strip of land between the Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay. It’s a small portion of Virginia with a population of a little over 50 thousand and sits at the southern tip of the Delmarva Peninsula. The land border between Virginia and Maryland starts on [...]
The State of Delaware
Delaware is named after the Delaware Bay and River, which were named for Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, who lived from 1577 to 1618 and was the second Royal Governor of Virginia. The Delaware Bay and River was first explored by Henry Hudson. At one time Delaware was part of the claim of [...]
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