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"Slave Trader, Sold to Tennessee" depicting a coffle from Virginia in 1850 (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum) Poindexter & Little, like many interstate slave-trading firms, had a buy-side in the upper south and a sell-side in the lower south [13] (Southern Confederacy, January 12, 1862, page 1, via Digital Library of Georgia) Slave ...
Joseph Erwin was born in 1762 in North Carolina and served as an officer in the American Revolutionary War, ending as a captain. [1] He was an early settler of Middle Tennessee, dating to the Fort Nashborough days. [1] After he arrived in the Nashville area in the 1790s he began growing cotton on what was called Peach Blossom plantation. [2]
The Carolina Marsh Tacky or Marsh Tacky is a critically endangered breed of horse, [1] native to South Carolina. It is a member of the Colonial Spanish group of horse breeds, which also include the Florida Cracker Horse and the Banker horse of North Carolina. It is a small horse, well-adapted for use in the lowland swamps of its native South ...
Llangollen Farm is an historic American horse and cattle farm located in western Loudoun County, Virginia on Trappe Rd. near Upperville at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Eight miles (13 km) from the town of Middleburg, the area is home to a number of prominent Thoroughbred-breeding farms and a large country estates. [1]
Sir Archy was one of the first few horses inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1955. [6] Sir Archy's burial location is disputed between two locations: [9] Claimed site one: Sir Archy is buried, along with his groom and canine companion, at Ben Lomond Farm in Goochland, Virginia where he was born. A historical marker ...
The home of one of North Carolina’s oldest barbecue restaurants is for sale. The owners of Raleigh’s famed Clyde Cooper’s Barbecue have put the restaurant space at 327 S. Wilmington St. up ...
The Banker horse is a breed of feral horse (Equus ferus caballus) living on barrier islands in North Carolina's Outer Banks.It is small, hardy, and has a docile temperament. Descended from domesticated Spanish horses and possibly brought to the Americas in the 16th century, the ancestral foundation bloodstock may have become feral after surviving shipwrecks or being abandoned on the islands by ...
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