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Stereophoto from the 1871 expedition. Photo of Maiman, a Mohave Indian interpreter and guide, by Timothy H. O'Sullivan. The Wheeler Survey, carried out in 1872-1879, was one of the "Four Great Surveys" conducted by the United States government after the Civil War primarily to document the geology and natural resources of the American West.
Windsor Historic District is a national historic district located at Windsor, Bertie County, North Carolina.It encompasses 78 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, 7 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object in the town of Windsor.
Richard Windsor (dates unknown) served the Lewis and Clark Expedition and Corps of Discovery as a hunter, scout, and woodsman. Windsor was recruited at Kaskaskia in 1803, joining the party as a Private at Camp Dubois, January 1, 1804. Windsor was a great hunter and woodsmen and he was very beneficial to the expedition.
On 9 December, an expedition, which included the gunboat USS Wyalusing, moved further up the Roanoke to capture Rainbow Bluff and a Confederate ram, rumored to be under construction at Halifax, North Carolina. While anchoring near Jamesville, North Carolina, Otsego, another gunboat, struck two torpedoes (mines) and sank up to her gun deck.
Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler (September 10, 1836 – January 25, 1906) was a military commander and politician of the Confederate States of America.He was a cavalry general in the Confederate States Army in the 1860s during the American Civil War, and then a general in the United States Army during both the Spanish-American and Philippine–American Wars near the turn of the twentieth century.
The county and town are named for Griffith Rutherford, leader of an expedition against the Cherokee in 1776 and a general in the American Revolutionary War. [5] In 1791 parts of Rutherford County and Burke County were combined to form Buncombe County. [6] In 1841 parts of Rutherford and Lincoln counties were combined to form Cleveland County. [7]
Rosefield is a historic plantation house located at Windsor, Bertie County, North Carolina. It was built in three sections, with the oldest built about 1786–1791. It is a two-story, five-bay, L-plan frame dwelling with Georgian, Federal, and Greek Revival style design elements. It has a two-story, two-bay addition and a two-story rear ...
They killed the Cherokee at a camp when the French Broad and Swannanoa Rivers join (now along the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina). They also attacked the Cherokee Village in Swannanoa. [14] In 1796, the Inferior Court Minutes of Burke County still referred to the site as "Samuel Davidson's Fort". [3]