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Steam City: Railroads, Urban Space, and Corporate Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore (University of Chicago Press, 2020) 352pp. Shea, John Gilmary. Life and times of the Most Rev. John Carroll, bishop and first archbishop of Baltimore: Embracing the history of the Catholic Church in the United States. 1763-1815 (1888) 695pp online edition
The Genesis of Missouri: From Wilderness Outpost to Statehood (University of Missouri Press, 1989) Gardner, James A. "The Business Career of Moses Austin in Missouri, 1798-1821." Missouri Historical Review (1956) 50#3 pp 235–47. Gitlin, Jay. The bourgeois frontier: French towns, French traders, and American expansion (Yale University Press, 2009)
Oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement in the contiguous U.S. San Agustín/St. Augustine was founded by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. 1566 Saint Marys: Georgia United States Second-oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement in the contiguous U.S.; on the St. Mary's River 1573: San Germán: Puerto Rico ...
As a result of the efforts of Colman, Sanborn, and others at the University of Missouri, the number of Missouri farms experienced significant growth during the 1870s. At the beginning of the decade, the state had slightly less than 150,000 farms and 9.1 million acres of farmland; by 1880, there were more than 215,000 farms and 16.7 million ...
Between 1492 and 1640, approximately 446,000 Europeans immigrated to the Americas. At that stage, immigration was dominated by Portuguese and Spaniards, who accounted for 87% of the settlers who left Europe. In the late 15th and early 16th centuries, the decision by Spanish and Portuguese monarchs to take possession of the New World and ...
Zion on the Mississippi: The Settlement of the Saxon Lutherans in Missouri 1839–1841. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House. Graebner, Theodore (1919). Our pilgrim fathers : the story of the Saxon emigration of 1838 ; retold mainly in the words of the emigrants, and illustrated from original documents related to the emigration. St.
Around 10,000 of these Jews, many of them Bohemian, passed through Fell's Point and settled in Baltimore. [ 19 ] In 1853, Temple Oheb Shalom was founded by Jewish immigrants from Central Europe, including Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Hungary. [ 20 ]
On November 22, 1633, Lord Baltimore sent the first settlers to the new colony, and after a long voyage with a stopover to resupply in Barbados, the Ark and the Dove landed on March 25, 1634 (thereafter celebrated as "Maryland Day"), at Blackistone Island, thereafter known as St. Clement's Island, off the northern shore of the Potomac River ...