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Albion was a sugar plantation in Saint David Parish, Jamaica. Created during or before the 18th century, it had at least 451 slaves when slavery was abolished in most of the British Empire in 1833. By the end of the 19th-century it was the most productive plantation in Jamaica due to the advanced refining technology it used.
A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929 (2009) excerpt and text search; Dahlstrom, Neil. Tractor Wars - John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the Birth of Modern Agriculture (2022) Dean, Virgil W. An Opportunity Lost: The Truman Administration and the Farm Policy Debate.
Sheep were the most common farm animal in England during the period, their numbers doubling by the 14th century. [27] Sheep became increasingly widely used for wool, particularly in the Welsh borders, Lincolnshire and the Pennines. [27] Pigs remained popular on holdings because of their ability to scavenge for food. [3]
The Hussey–Littlefield Farm is a historic farmstead at 63 Hussey Road in Albion, Maine. Developed between about 1838 and 1905, the farm's connected homestead exhibits the evolutionary changes of rural agricultural architecture in 19th-century Maine. The farmstead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. [1]
Edinburg (Hidalgo County): "About 1850 near present Hidalgo, John Young, a Brownsville merchant, laid out Edinburgh, named after his birthplace, Edinburgh, Scotland," write Callary and Callary ...
Most during the later half of the seventeenth century regarded the Baltic trade as a regrettable, but necessary expenditure for the defence of the land. Some consolation was, however, provided to the mercantilists by the employment of the timber in the merchant fleet that would later assist in bringing bullion into the land. Also of concern was ...
Among the most famous merchants participating in the English wool trade were Jean Boinebroke of Douai (d. 1286) on the Continental side, [18] and William de la Pole (d. 1366) on the English. During the 14th and 15th century, English merchants brought woollen cloth and other goods to Iceland, trading it mainly for dried fish , but also for ...
The Byzantine economy was among the most robust economies in the Mediterranean for many centuries. [1] Constantinople was a prime hub in a trading network that at various times extended across nearly all of Eurasia and North Africa.