The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, September 29, 1921, Image 3
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.4 Our States -
Ay JONATHAN BRACE
A ' SAS
was nam
ed after the
river which
flows diagon
ally through
this state and
is one of the
chief tributaries of the M1issis
sippi. It is said that the early
settlers found in this territory,
an Indian tribe named Arkansas,
but the actual meaning of the
word Is not known. It probably
has some relation to the word
Kansas. There has been much
confusion as to the correct pro
.nunciation of Arkansas. To re
move this as far as possible a
resolution was passed by the
state senate in 1881 which specl
Red that the true pronunciation
was "Ar-kan-saw."
.Originally Arkansas was a
part of the Louisiana Purchase.
Its first settlement was made by
the French about 1685. Except
for the few years during which
by secret treaty it was ceded to
Spain, it remained under French
rule, until purchased by the Uni
ted States in 1803. For nearly
ten years after this, it was a
part of Louisiana territory. With
the admission of the State of
Louifana In 1812 this northern
section was formed into the Mis
souri territory. In 1819 there
was another partition and Ar
kansas territory was created,
which included the present state
and what later was called Indian
territory.
Due to the reports of an early
explorer named Pike, who visited
this region in 1806, the in, -r
rect idea-was generally accer I
that most of the expanse of
plains e'ast of the Rockies was
a vast desert. This idea per
sisted to such an extent that as
late as 1850 the western plains
were called in the school geog
4 raphies "The Great American
Desert." Adventurous settlers,
especially from the South, found
conditions in Arkansas quite 'oth
erwise, however, and by 1838
Arkansas was admitted as the
twenty-fifth state' of the Union
with an area of 53,335 square
iles.
The natural resources of the
state are considerable. There
are ,the mineral springs of me
dicinal value, which, have been
placed under governmental con
trol at Hot Springs.
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The Story of
Our States
By JONATHAN BRACE
XX.--MISSISSIPPI
THJ! State
ofMissis
- sippe drives
its name from
which formIs
b oun da ry.4
Trhe wvord itself comes from the
Algonquin mnissi-sepe whieh
means "great river." It is popu
larly supposed to mean "Father'
Sof the Waters" hut this interpre
t ation is incorrect. Thle st ate is
also known as the Bayou State
from the many bayous whieh are
formed by the shifting river. In
this connection it is interesting
to note the uneven course of the
Miississippi river. Though thet
e'xt remei length of the st ate fr'om
Sthe Gulf to Trennressee' is 0
Smiles, the western bordler, due
St a the winding of the Mississipi
T river, extends for nearly 500t
iles.
S The r'ivers play an iimportanit
t m'rt in tiuis state.. TIhey. are so
niur, eronis a ml the (ountruy so
4subl ject to 0 lo)od 1hlat th rn iver
botmscve early on if
oif the a reai of thle ('ntire slat.
4 The early hist ory of Missi.
sippi is yoke'd ill wvith that of
L.ouisiana ofI wvhih it or'igzimnally
formned a parI . 1) -f((roere by
' Te Soto In 1530t, it was: n'tot iI
La Salle sailed down~v thea .-iver
and1( claimed t his: tritory. w~hich
he named '*" honori~ If his 1'enc
SkIng, Louis XIlV, t hat a perem
4nent se'ttleme'nt was est abished.
In 1763 the Ieritorlmy ''a't of
the Mississiplpi wa's r"ededI by th
French to th 10Englisn. i.'r a
while the lowver por'toni oIf thle
present state was called Westi
Floridla. After being captured(
by the Sptmish and interr
ttlrnedl to the United States, the
Territory of MIssissippi was ex.
tendled to its present size of 406,
805 square miles and in 1817 It
was admitted ats the twventieth
Sstate of the Union. At the time
of the Mexican war, although
called upon to supply one regi
mont of v'olunateers, Mississippi
respondled with enough metn for
two. One of these regiments
was commanded by Jefferson
Davis, wvho' later was the presi
dent of the Confederate states.
Since its readtmittance to the Un
ion in 1870 Mississippii In na
tio'nal elbetions has been aDm
cratic st ate except In 187'., wvhen
it votd fot- 0Grant.
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The SoryLf
ur State
ay JONATHAN BRACE
XX U--FLORIDA
' gLOR1DA
Ke hA awasj con.
sidered Amer.
ea's first
health resort.
It was the
search for
a mythical
Founta n of Perpetual Youth
th'at led Ponce de Leon,' the
Spanish explorer, to .land near
the present site of St. Augustine.
His rediscovery of Florida in
1518 was on Eastet' Sunday,
hence the name, which Is from
Pascua Florida or Flowery Pass.
over, which Is the Spanish for
Easter Sunday.
The French were the next set
tiers, founding a colony on the
St. John's river. Spain promptly
took action to maintain her own
ership of this region and sent
over an expedition which erected
a fort under the leadership of
Menendez at St. Augustine in
1505 and exterminated the Huge
not colony. St. Augustine is the
oldest city in the United States.
There followed a period of hos
tility between the English col
onists in the Carolinas and the
Spanish in Florida. By the trea
ty of 1763 Spain ceded Florida
to Hngland in exchange for Ha
vana, which England had cap
tured a few years previous. It
remained an English colony un
til the last years of the Ievolu
tion when Spain recaptured it.
There were two provinces,
East and West Florida. As the
Spanish ruled Florida with a
very loose form of government,
this region became the refuge of
pirates, smugglers and lawless
characters. Sucli an element to.
gether with the unruly Seminole
Indians naturally c'aused a great
deal of trouble. To overcome
this, President Monroe pur
chased Florida from Spain in
1819 for $5,000,000. or about
eleven cents an acre. It was
organized into a territory and
in 1845 was admitted to the Un
Ion. -
Florida is sometimes called
the Everglade State on account
of the vast swamp-land in its
southern part. It is also known 4
as the Peninsula State and is the
southernmost State of the Union.
Its area is 58,660 square miles.
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The Story. of
Our States
By JONATHAN BRACE
XXX.-WISCONSIN
T HE many
cities i n
W-isconsin
with French
~names show
t h e Frencht
influence in
its early st
themnent. T1he first white man
to penetrate thuis region was
Jean Nicollet, who was sent out
in 16314 by Champlain to open
trade~i with the Indiians. HeC
lhmded at Green Bay and1( prob
ably t raversed the country to
Chicago. Fur traders and mis- ~
sloonaries followed and the latter
built a mfissin where Ashlaid
n~ow stand~s. Tihis wa the iirst
church erected In the state antd
around it sprang up the first
permanen~it S elent. Jollet
and1( Vather Ma[rquett e deseekd4
the WVisconsin river, and1( Ll
Salle explored a great (deal of
Wisconsini before lhe took his
Jfamnous trip down the Mississip
pl'Among t he fur t rad(ers to
comell to Wisconsin shores was
Daniel diu Lhut, after whom the
ety o (f D)uith, Minn., was
lj1uring the Reovolut ion WXis'on
+i remaPPWIinedi loiyal to til)he I rit
clime ai par't of thle Uitedi
ISt atecs by3 4he Trieaty of I 'aris in
178F4, It was not unt il 181(1 t'hal
federal troops really 11stablished11,1
auithmority there. InidiIn upris
Ings contiiinuied for sonme time
Ie(nding onhly with the( lilaik
HaIwk war in 1 8:2. Thelmn fol
iowed1 extensIve 1mm igraion)
from the New Eingland States.4
I W isconisin had1( formed a pa1rt
of the Northwest territory until
1800, when it became a Part of
Michigan territory, under whieb
j urisdictiont it remiainied uilI4
1830o, wvith tihe exception of nine
Syears, when it was coinsidiered1
a part of Illinois territory. WVith
tihe admission of Michigan as a
4state, tile Wisconsin territory
*waLs creauted, wlitl includled al
so the present states of Iowa
and1( Minnesota and portions of
North and South Dakota.
In 1814 Wisconsin was taken
into tihe Union as the thirtieth
state. Its area is 56,066 square
miles and it has thlrteen eee
toral votes for president.
The state is named after the
WVisconsin river. This is an
Ojih~wa phrase which means
"gathering waters." It is some
times called tihe Badger State.
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The-Story of
Our States
By JONATHAN ItACE
XIV.-VERMONT
T Ederiva
-'t Ion o f
the name Ver
mont comes
from the
French "verts
monts," o r
green moun
tains, and it was likewise the
-French who were probably the
first white men to see those lofty
landmarks which so appropri
ately give this state its name.
This was in July,. 109, when
Champlain made his memorable
voyage up the lake now called
after him.
The first permanent settle
ment was made in 1724 at Brat
tleboro, where the Massachusetts
colony established a fort as a
buffer against invasion from the
north. The territory used was
part of what was known as the
"Equivalent Lands," which were
sold at public auction in Hart
ford for about a 'furthing an
acre,, the proceeds being donated
to Yale college. Shortly after
this, settlers pushed eastward
from New York across Lake
Champlain. and westward from
New Hampshire. This led to dis
putes between these two colo
nies as to their boundaries. Un
der the leadership of Ethan Al
len New York's claims were re
sisted by a local military force,
which proudly called themselves
"the Green Mountain Boys." It
was these same men who played
such a brilliant part during the
Revolution.
In 1777 a formal Constitution
for the state was adopted and
Vermonters are proud of the fact
that theirs was the first of the
states to prohibit slavery by
constitutional provision. For a
number of years Vermont re
mained as a separate republic,
but in 1791 it was admitted to
the Union as the first addition to
the original thirteen states. -
In size Vermont has 9,564
square miles, aid its congres
slonal delegation numbers four.
It thus casts four votes for the
president.
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The Story of
Our States I
By JONATHAN BRACE
XXI.-ILLINOIS
KA SK11A 1S
oldest iown in
t Illinois, is Oil 4
the site of an 4
Indian village 0
- and it was
here that
Father Marquette, after his first
discovery of the lllnofs rIver,
estabilihed a .lasul t rnissIon in
11 75.iour yeamrs later Lai~: alie,
through thle (Greait 1Lakes, luandedl
a1t t he (Chiengao'V1 rive andi pulshed'
afn to the liliniois river, whlich he
named a14 1lftr th Ile Ilaiiuan tribes
'..."...in thai~t regimi. .ia-re he*
hi011n. a t andit senit huis baoat
Itelak to Mnh lt ral for furit her sill
pilies. Whenot his vessei dil t
retur h~'ile starited' hiaine~ iln fot
11:4nd0 asu't..adeda in fininig his wayi
a1lhered (t ogether1I anol~ther' exjae
dion (alnd1 i.-iiurnied to thle fort,
whlih he l had3:4 left ini ehtl'ge o
i a -' :::lain Tonalty. Tihe for't
ihe faun. .n rulins, but tinulily "ue
TIty 'li who hadila'ui driivena uni.
I'l- ilah Irioquol~is Indians 11.
Th is- i verwaVy to thet .Mis issip
(pi aena 01' ae of thie h-ading
?1\ , ue 1j ol'l~ :o iniia io ' e
tu'e'' th laa( ench( iin the11 ."1orth
n'40'i li' Illiiaua. artnch si tib.*
a SO-n i localet.l her t aa nd l a
.laN~l I it t 1111:1 SalIn fa1t,
hauc - th Il lii enuntry w;.s
"shal by( Frni toV 1-li hmid in
I fro . thi Preht ieo thi liii
hti e cthatco itl ws teveralityea
thesr te't'rrior but he oCI
I t ing'a44 1 theleolutienai w. -
4'-rg ilogers htr and h 77 ias 4
foredoninto the Ntritor norh
kior3. ht an tractexthedd f-:ogis
frnn tisi provinhe. Viaisi a
s'arlews hedntual dveito ptso
thio- territor, Illinoise ereh
eranen an4 n187i a
fomes t the Northweist ewTer
reatofry.0 Thsqr exee frhom 4
Ptaensvna o the Mi'ssevissipp
th otyand Isntal diied cinto +
athe twiret-i state w'ith an
tIllinois Is the --most important 4
state in the Union next to New
4York and~ Pennsylvanla as it has *
Itwenty-nine electoral votes for
president .
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