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The city has a privately funded Freedom Trail of historic sites of the civil rights movement, [130] and a museum at the Fort Mose site, the location of the 1738 free black community. [ 131 ] [ 132 ] Historic Excelsior School, built in 1925 as the first public high school for blacks in St. Augustine, [ 133 ] has been adapted as the city's first ...
The following notable deaths in the United States occurred in 2024.Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order as set out in WP:NAMESORT.A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth and subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, year of birth (if known), and reference.
Each congregation moved into the city and built churches by the early 19th century. [108] Twice slave rebellions broke out in Virginia: Gabriel's Rebellion in 1800, and Nat Turner's Rebellion in 1831. White reaction was swift and harsh, and militias killed many innocent free blacks and black slaves as well as those directly involved in the ...
The University of Pennsylvania moved to West Philadelphia and reorganized to its modern form; and Temple University, Drexel University and the Free Library were founded. [68] The city's major project was organizing and staging the Centennial Exposition, the first World's Fair in the United States, which celebrated the nation's Centennial.
Thomas Jefferson, the university's founder, by Charles Willson Peale (1791) The Rotunda, as pictured from the South Lawn. In 1802, while serving as president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson wrote to artist Charles Willson Peale that his concept of the new university would be "on the most extensive and liberal scale that our circumstances would call for and our faculties meet," and it ...
In 1796, the state of Pennsylvania gave Cornplanter, [4] chief of the Wolf Band of the Seneca nation, 1,500 acres (6.1 km 2) of land along the west bank of the Allegheny River in Warren County, Pennsylvania, [4] as well as a small tract on both sides of the mouth of Oil Creek, [5] in compensation for his services during the American Revolutionary War. [4]
The name Vatican City was first used in the Lateran Treaty, signed on 11 February 1929, which established the modern city-state named after Vatican Hill, the geographic location of the state within the city of Rome.
Groundhog Day (Pennsylvania German: Grund'sau dåk, Grundsaudaag, Grundsow Dawg, Murmeltiertag; Nova Scotia: Daks Day [1] [2] [3]) is a tradition observed regionally in the United States and Canada on February 2 of every year.