Situated on about 1,000 acres of land and about 2500 acres of water, Portage Lakes State Park in Ohio is a wonderful park for fishing, camping, or to just get away from it all. Featuring a number of lakes for boating, fishing, and wildlife watching, Portage Lakes is a unique state park offering something for everyone in the family to enjoy. Portage Lakes State Park touches both Akron and Canton making it an ideal place to escape the hustle and bustle of city life in this serene area. Portage…
New Hampshire is an enjoyable state to either live in or visit. It features many mesmerizing landmarks which contain mountains and vast green land. New Hampshire is known for many achievments. Whether it is natural beauty or man-made, New Hampshire has a lot to offer. Many visitors become stunned with its beauty and enjoy its natural resorts. New Hampshire , abbreviated NH, has a capital of Concord, and was originally named North Virginia and New England. It was established in 1788. New…
Mary Elizabeth Wieting Johnson Born on February 12, 1843, Mary Elizabeth Wieting Johnson was from English ancestry, whose granddaughter Col. William Coley, came to America as a boy and served with distinction in the Revolutionary War. She was the youngest daughter of a lawyer, New York State legislator, and Pitcher, NY Postmaster Samuel, and his wife Mary Ann Coley Plumb. The Plumb family moved to Homer when Mrs. Johnson was a girl and she was graduated from the Homer Academy with highest honors…
A windshield survey of the City of Charleston was performed beginning at one of the main streets, Calhoun Street. The first quarter mile includes three different hospitals along with numerous medical offices. To the south of Calhoun there are multi-million dollar historic homes along a seawall called The Battery, most of them dating back to the 18th or 19th century. There is an elevated walk way on The Battery where locals and visitors take walks, enjoying the sounds of the waves and sea…
industry of the Northern states, but it angered the South which economy was based on agriculture. South Carolina voted to nullify the tariffs of 1828. This led to the Nullification crisis of 1832. The Nullification theory of John Calhoun, which is a concept about invalidation of federal law within the orders of a state, initiated a secession as well. When a compromise Tariff of 1832 only slightly modified the existing taxes, the South Carolina legislature called a state convention and adopted…
Vice President, John C. Calhoun wrote “South Carolina Exposition and Protest” a document that greatly provoke the Nullification Crisis and also led to the Southern secession. The Crisis began in 1832 when the series of protective tariffs, tariffs are taxes placed on goods imported from foreign countries that prepared a nation to raise money ( "1832 Nullification Crisis"). The Nullification Crisis began when Congress passed the Tariffs of 1828, which was the third protective tariffs and taxes…
A dventure, fun, relaxation…you’ll find it all on Alabama’s white-sand beaches. For years, Gulf Shores and Orange Beach remained a little-known vacation treasure, but more and more families are discovering the 32 miles of soft sand and clear waters that lace the edges of Alabama--situated between Mobile, Ala. and Pensacola, Fla., and bordered by the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Mobile Bay to the west, and Perdido Bay to the east. There’s no better way to unwind from everyday life than spending…
John C. Calhoun was (1782 – 1850) was known as the greatest south Carolinian in the united states history. john c. Calhoun was an American stateman he also was a political leader. He was known as the greatest south Carolinian in united states history because of what he accomplished and what he was known for doing. One accomplishments led him to be a part of the court of united states and vice president. He was the first American to ever sever all 3 terms in the united states court of…
Calhoun was a U.S. statesman and a spokesman for the slave plantation system in the South. As a young congressman from South Carolina, he helped guide the U.S. into a war with Great Britain. He also established the Second Bank of the United States. He became the U.S. secretary of war, vice president, and even achieved secretary of state. As nationalist in his political career, Calhoun was one of the leading War Hawks who managed to send the unprepared United States into war with Great Britain in…
I was born and raised in the suburbs of Columbia, South Carolina. It was a very nice area to grow up in, the part of Columbia that I grew up in is only a short 20 minute drive from the downtown Columbia area. So it was the perfect combination of growing up in the city as well as in a suburban area. One of Columbia's many claims to fame is that the University of South Carolina's campus is located right in the middle of the downtown area. So some of the most popular things to do in Columbia is to…